Word: chosen
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...FIFTEEN MINUTES" IS A RELIC OF THE early '90s. The magazine title--chosen because it was "pop culturey"--was meant to say goodbye to The Crimson's old magazine, "What Is To Be Done" and hello to something different, something new, something Andy Warhol might approve...
This year, though, simply making history will not be enough. A challenge from the trade school down the river has been issued, and it is up to you answer it. This year MIT has chosen Thomas L. Magliozzi and Raymond F. Magliozzi to speak at its graduation, two men you've probably never heard of. Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham...
...choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because both of them are something you, with all due respect, are not reputed to be: funny...
Many are adding on-line sales to compete with Web-based vendors, while emphasizing what sets them apart from these vendors--physical space, carefully chosen selections and knowledgeable staff...
Dunn will be integral in choosing her permanentreplacement, assisting Harvard President Neil L.Rudenstine and an advisory committee whose memberswill be chosen by both Harvard and Radcliffe...