Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much as Caroline loved her aunts and uncles and cousins, she had chosen last weekend to go rafting out West with her husband and three children. It's hard to picture her bucking herself up in the Kennedy way, throwing herself into games of touch football, sailing off the Cape. She will instead fall back on what her mother so carefully passed along--her normalcy and wholeness--and something her mother never thought she would have needed: the strength to bury someone you love way too soon...
Politics, as the saying goes, is Hollywood for ugly people, and that was one reason Jack Kennedy gleamed so in his chosen field. Youth, wealth and that Kennedy brio helped, no doubt, but in this nation, which always loved its movie stars more than its leaders, dashing good looks, a beautiful wife and an untimely death make a sure ticket to immortality. John Kennedy Jr. was not in politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John...
...Internet, you probably get spam - unsolicited e-mail containing advertising and other unwanted dreck. According to a recent Gartner Group survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like bad weather or mosquitoes. But some people have chosen to make fighting spam their crusade, and this week they're launching a campaign against it, both on your hard drive, and in the courts...
...know that 30 to 35 schools are over-chosen each year. Why does the school committee not replicate those schools elsewhere?" he said...
...know, is an operating system for the PC that was invented in 1991 by the Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds while he was still a student. Since then it's developed a cult following, partly because of its reputation for speed, flexibility and stability, and partly because Torvalds has chosen to give it away for free. This latter is the major reason why EBIZ chose Linux for the Pia. By choosing not to use Windows, says EBIZ CEO Jeffrey Rassas, "we're taking away the computer's single most expensive component." MORE...