Word: chosen
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...remain at Harvard on a tenured basis. Among other questionable practices that marked the events leading to the rejection of his nomination, Isaac notes that not one member of the ad hoc committee established to consider his application "knew anything" about his specialization, although the committee members were chosen with the full knowledge of Isaac's field of academic research...
...most of the 20th century, there have been only three reasons that American scholars have chosen to study East Asia. The first was that they were the children of missionaries and wanted to grapple with the cultures that their parents, living as members of a tiny white community among Asians, had never understood. The second reason was that the scholars had been in the Far East, as it was then called, during the war, either in Japan for the American occupation or even, in rare cases, in China. The third reason was John King Fairbank...
...only requirement for an honorary degree is that the chosen recipient come to the Commencement exercises to receive the degree in person...
Ramamurthi Swaminathan, a native of India finishing a one-year economics program at the Kennedy School, was chosen to give the graduate student oration at Commencement, but then the committee changed its mind because it decided Swaminathan's accent was too thick for an American audience to understand. They don't understand Jimmy Carter's speeches, either...
...novel revolves around two ill-concealed politicians closely drawn from a recent Virginia campaign: MacIlwain Evans, a 26-year-old political operative whose family is deeply entrenched in the Virginia aristocracy, and his chosen boss and candidate, Thomas Jefferson Shadwell. Shadwell is a fiery populist state senator from the Virginia backwoods who first fought the conservative regular Democrats and is now waging his campaign for governor with a rhetoric that rings just short of a call to revolution...