Word: chosen
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These questions are not just a strained effort to wrap Amistad'stiny intellectual core around the big problem of race. The President's Race Advisory Board, charged with orchestrating the national dialogue, has chosen to follow the same fuzzy, emotion-driven path. Thankfully, the idea of an apology for the misdeeds of people long-dead has been apparently squashed by those bright enough to recognize that such a move would accomplish nothing. The push for a slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually...
...baby. Anytime someone has a headache, he's saying, 'Oh, it's cancer.' But this time it really was cancer. He was tough." A third doctor, a third opinion: the best solution is to watch and wait. Grove listened to them all and then picked the course he's chosen for years. "I bet on my own charts...
Before the Sunday sun lights the horizon, a handful of chosen men will enter the holiest sanctuary to hear Mass from priests hidden behind a wall of vivid icons. The rest are content just to be among people who believe as they believe. Soon, they say, the Patriarch will appear with the Ark to pronounce his blessing. Calmly, serenely, the pilgrims wait. By noon, the Patriarch has come and gone in a brisk flourish of gilded robes. There is no Ark, and the blessing is delivered swiftly amid a crush of baton-swinging soldiers and security guards. But the pilgrims...
...father of her child, John Lewis, 21, who, like the rest of Drexler's friends, claims he was not aware of her pregnancy. In a recent appearance on the TV newsmagazine show Extra, Lewis said, "I was mad, but what happened, happened." Monmouth County prosecutors, though less understanding, have chosen not to seek the death penalty; local defendants in other, far less publicized infanticide cases have generally accepted plea bargains with prison terms shorter than the murder sentence of 30 years to life, and have sometimes been released early...
...Anne Sofie von Otter Schubert: Lieder (Deutsche Grammophon) The cool radiance of Von Otter's mezzo-soprano voice lights up this cannily chosen, passionately sung program of 18 Schubert songs, stylishly accompanied by pianist Bengt Forsberg. Some are obscure, some ultrafamiliar, but either way they are irresistible; even the age-old Ave Maria sounds brand...