Word: chosen
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...About 400 contestants are chosen from about 25,000 people who audition each year...
Bailyn was chosen as the first speaker in the series because he is highly respected internationally and has expertise in early American history, according to Vogelsinger. She said that Bailyn will provide an appropriate starting point for the series...
...usual early-morning breakfast companion is The Crimson, which I very much enjoy reading. The Crimson has it all: interesting news articles, good sports coverage, much-needed information on the real world, well-chosen comics, and...a pathetic crossword. I don't know whether it's a result of the significant layout changes from the beginning of this year, but the fact remains that the crossword is different (read: worse) than it was in the 1996-97 school year. It's much easier (certainly able to be completed in less than half a lecture) and often poorly formatted, as Friday...
...staged a notable rebellion against her coach, Frank Carroll, when she was just 11 and competing at the junior level (she had made a respectable but not stellar debut: ninth at the junior nationals). Carroll did not think she was ready for the seniors, from whose ranks Olympians were chosen. But she knew that was her only way to get to the 1994 Games in Lillehammer in time. So when Carroll left to attend a coaches' conference, Kwan persuaded her father to drive her to the qualifying tests. "It was important to me to qualify," she explains without any regret...
DIED. JOSEPH ALIOTO, 81, charismatic San Francisco mayor; in the city whose skyline he altered with such projects as the Embarcadero Center. Tapped for mayor after the chosen Democratic candidate died in 1967, Alioto met his political demise because of unproven allegations of Mob ties and federal charges of bribery (he was acquitted...