But on the question of the Ethiopians being in Somalia, give us the backgrounder on that.

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Only Franz Kafka could do a write-up of this suit justice, but the SCOTUSblog has a nice backgrounder.

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In addition, Dr Matthews gave the students a backgrounder on the work of the National Commission before award ceremony at Government House.

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And today, because no story is complete with the follow-on backgrounder from the paper of record, comes the news that the White House is literally teeming with flies.

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It could be that the administration wanted to circulate a backgrounder for government officials and they recognized that circulating an OLC opinion could be risky because such an opinion might leak.

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We seem to have mislaid our copy, and we couldn't find it online, but we did track down a 1990 Backgrounder and a 1991 lecture by Butler that outline the plan.

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Distribute the Backgrounder: Understanding Public Opinion Polls.

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But as a new study conducted by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and distilled in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder demonstrates, these rules have not kept up with technology.

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Legal Backgrounder by Dr. Joshua D.

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Distribute copies of Backgrounder: The Electoral College. (Depending on the reading level of your students, you may want to choose the short or the long version.) Allow students ample time to read the information presented in the Backgrounder.

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