Word: chosen
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Kidd was one of four finalists for the position, and was chosen over the strong objections of all the students on the search committee, who preferred incumbent PBH executive director Greg Johnson...
...they would have been good things to learn. The first year isn't particularly easy. A large book of choices arrives in the mail and suddenly classes must be chosen, a direction picked. As the President's Report of 1888-1889 states, first-years may be bewildered perhaps by the sudden freedom of College life, the multiplicity of fresh interests. If it was true then it certainly still stands true now. However, proctors rarely seemed to have much more of a clue than their advisees...
Although some think that early out-of-conference walkovers are the way to start a successful campaign, Harvard has chosen the other option--taking on quality competition from...
...novelist and occasional Dole speechwriter, maintains he's no babe magnet. That, however, hasn't stopped a love-hungry soul from posing as him in personal ads, according to the New York Observer. Helprin, who's married (and something of a practical joker), can't understand why he was chosen. "If he looks like me," he says, "I understand why he's having trouble...
While the same cannot be said for Galway Kinnell's poetry--it's full of flights of fancy and elaborate metaphors--it nevertheless shares with Hall's a quality of being designed for performance. The title of the volume, Imperfect Thirst, comes from the book's aptly chosen epigram: "If your eyes are not deceived by the mirage/Do not be proud of the sharpness of your understanding;/It may be your freedom from this optical illusion/Is due to the imperfection of your thirst." In other words, skepticism is the sign of spiritual deformity, rather than a necessary sign...