Word: chosen
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TEACHING FELLOWS are not chosen because of their brilliance or stellar teaching ability. Rather, they're selected because (1) Harvard graduate schools are expensive and teaching a section is a mutually beneficial form of financial aid, and (2) professors teaching large courses need a hefty number of section leaders quickly and are consequently unable to be as selective as they would otherwise want...
...glimpse into the outraged soul that conceived All My Sons, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Price and The American Clock. Yet for all the cut and thrust of action and emotion, there is something ruminative, at times woolly, about Timebends. The title seems to have been chosen to reflect its nonlinear, outwardly random structure, which in turn is apparently meant to evoke "time's fade-outs and fade-ins and cross-fades." His first words describe watching his mother's feet and ankles as he lay in infancy on the floor. Colorfully sketched relations come...
...stopped going for the home run and tried for the political equivalent of a clean single. Rather than again choosing a hard-line ideologue to replace the moderate Lewis Powell, the President last week selected the kind of jurist many of his pragmatic supporters felt he should have chosen at the start. Indeed, he picked the very man they had been urging from the beginning: Anthony Kennedy, a thoroughly experienced appeals-court judge noted both for his mainstream conservative principles and for the open-minded way he applies those principles on a case-by-case basis...
Maybe he did. True, as an infant Pu Yi was chosen to bestride the history books, yet his destiny was to be that of a man endlessly free-falling through most of this century's horror. But it must have been a relief for him to come to rest as a footnote, a curiosity, at the bottom of a rarely opened page. Perhaps having accepted this fate, he would have savored another irony: that he would earn posthumous eminence as the focus of a big-budget movie -- one conceived and financed by Westerners. Once again Pu Yi is the shadow...
...Finnish study shows that raising HDL levels also leads to a decreased risk of heart disease. Each of the participants, while otherwise healthy, was chosen for his high overall cholesterol level. Starting in 1981, doctors gave half the test group gemfibrozil, which, among other effects, increases HDL while moderately lowering LDL. The other half received a placebo. More than 82,000 visits to the clinic and 500,000 blood tests later, the LDL levels of the men given gemfibrozil had dropped 8% and their HDL levels had risen more than...