Word: chosen
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Bourgeois, who is 87, was chosen to receive a Doctorate of Arts from Harvard, but said she was "too old" and frail to come to the ceremony...
Bush matched this effort by appearing as a guest star at carefully chosen fund raisers in key states. It was an old-fashioned way to do favors--and broaden his financial network. He and his father campaigned for Jim Gilmore in Virginia in 1997; the $500,000 take stunned even Gilmore's aides. There was a growing curiosity about this popular Governor with the big halo; organizers and activists and consultants wanted to see for themselves whether he had the right moves. In May 1998 he went to Ohio fund raisers for gubernatorial candidate Bob Taft and helped raise...
...your article "A Surge of Teen Spirit" [SPECIAL REPORT, May 31], you focused on evangelical teens, a group with the ultimate superiority complex. They believe that they are God's chosen and that those who disagree with them are doomed to hell. Evangelism and the feelings of inferiority it breeds in people of different faiths are hardly the way to prevent school carnage. Religion in public schools can only polarize a community that needs, now more than ever, to be held together. RAMAN KHANNA Springfield, Ohio...
...silenced even in banishment added to his legend. And then came the rousing finale: his release and hero's return to Moscow in 1986; his relentless prodding of Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue democratization; and his election to the Congress of People's Deputies, the Soviet Union's first democratically chosen body. At the time of his death, a tidal wave of democracy that he had helped create was about to engulf the communist world...
...emotion," and to articulate our "general mess of imprecision of feeling" we turn to heroes and icons--the nearly sacred modules of humanity with which we parse and model our lives. As the fifth installment in our selection of the 100 most important people of the century, TIME has chosen a score who articulate the longings of the time they lived in. There are the extraordinary tales: of Charles Lindbergh's courage, Mother Teresa's selflessness, Marilyn Monroe's exuberance, Pele's superhuman skills, Anne Frank's immortality. And the parables: the Kennedy melodrama, the latter-day silence of Muhammad...