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  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Football finally arrives on the Discworld, as well as the Discworld's first super-model; both of these things provide a back-drop to a classic Romeo and Juliet love story.

    January 2010 2010

  • Guess Obama thinks that back-drop of West Point is going to help him.

    Obama tweaking Afghanistan speech 2009

  • While 9/11 thrust the American Muslim community into the center of public attention nearly a decade ago, misinformation regarding this group persists against an alarming back-drop of rising Islamophobia.

    Engy Abdelkader: 5 Myths About American Muslims 10 Years After 9/11 Engy Abdelkader 2011

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Football finally arrives on the Discworld, as well as the Discworld's first super-model; both of these things provide a back-drop to a classic Romeo and Juliet love story.

    REVIEW: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett 2010

  • While 9/11 thrust the American Muslim community into the center of public attention nearly a decade ago, misinformation regarding this group persists against an alarming back-drop of rising Islamophobia.

    Engy Abdelkader: 5 Myths About American Muslims 10 Years After 9/11 Engy Abdelkader 2011

  • We then decided to cover the language even though it was very disturbing to do so and we did this reluctantly, understanding the profound irony against the back-drop of the Kiefer exhibition which embodies a life's work supposedly concerned with the horrors of state-sponsored repression, the brutality of occupation, racism, abuse of power, fascism and the consequences of forgetting history, not allowing for keen reflection in regard to current strains of unchecked power.

    Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010

  • We then decided to cover the language even though it was very disturbing to do so and we did this reluctantly, understanding the profound irony against the back-drop of the Kiefer exhibition which embodies a life's work supposedly concerned with the horrors of state-sponsored repression, the brutality of occupation, racism, abuse of power, fascism and the consequences of forgetting history, not allowing for keen reflection in regard to current strains of unchecked power.

    Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010

  • Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal.

    Get Your First Look at Redford’s Lincoln Assassination Film The Conspirator 2010

  • I give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you were just taken by the HRC wave, but reality is reality, it's important that every analysis is done against the back-drop of existing reality.

    Blitzer: Court ruling could have huge impact at the polls 2008

  • We then decided to cover the language even though it was very disturbing to do so and we did this reluctantly, understanding the profound irony against the back-drop of the Kiefer exhibition which embodies a life's work supposedly concerned with the horrors of state-sponsored repression, the brutality of occupation, racism, abuse of power, fascism and the consequences of forgetting history, not allowing for keen reflection in regard to current strains of unchecked power.

    Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010

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