Word: chosen
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...Chosen for the 15-member board in elections held Sunday and Wednesday were twelve juniors, two sophomores and President Andrew J. Ehrlich '96, a senior who will remain at Harvard next fall in order to steer the organization toward its goal of hiring its own staff...
Ehrlich was chosen Sunday in the first half of PBHA's annual elections. PBHA executives said Ehrlich was chosen despite the fact that he is a senior because they wanted to make sure the new president has the experience and political know-how to guide the organization through the tough times it faces in dealing with the College administration...
...mandates of our cultural beliefs and our religions. No matter how severely some among us may condemn the parents of the poor, it has been an axiom of faith in the U.S. that once a child is born, all condemnations are to be set aside. If we now have chosen to betray this faith, what consequences will this have for our collective spirit, for our soul as a society...
...communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were enraged, and soon thereafter, Nyima disappeared from his home village along with his parents, prompting accusations of a Chinese kidnapping. The communist government declared the Dalai Lama's choice invalid and proceeded with its own selection...
...50th anniversary today by calling attention to the devastation that children are suffering in the regional wars underway around the world. TIME's Bonnie Angelo reports, "The strength of UNICEF is that it has never lost its focus on children. Because the leadership has been hands on and carefully chosen, it has a clearly defined sense of its parameters, unlike many other United Nations organizations, which are diffuse and disorganized." UNICEF's new ten-point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic...