Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Krenz replaced hard-liner Erich Honecker as party chief in October, 10 full members of the ruling 21-member Politburo have lost their positions. There also has been pressure for the 163-member policy-setting Central Committee, chosen under Honecker, to resign...
...this simply a literary conceit, the wishful thinking of someone who has chosen to write in a world that no longer seems to require his labor? With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves this question through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas, the former comrade who may have gone backward in time, toward prehistory, to achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder...
Cleary is part of the reason why MacDonald, and so many other Harvard hockey players, have chosen to play hockey in Europe. The style of play taught at Harvard is an international one; one much more reflective of Olympic, rather than NHL, hockey...
...really like to see the guys play," he says, "but I must admit that, if I had picked it, I couldn't have chosen a better time to graduate...
...member Cabinet normally is chosen by theCommunist-dominated Parliament. Krusche said hedidn't believe the 500-member legislature "in itspresent form" could choose a Cabinet that would betrusted by the people...