Word: chosen
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...face of continuing disappointments. All the same, in the probable event that the world does not come undone next year, academics like Richard Landes, director of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies, expect that alarmists "will be totally discredited. Millennialism will fade rapidly." His group has a theme chosen for the 2002 edition of the International Conference on Millennialism: "Millennial Disappointment...
...visible to the camera when you drank from it. But last week DEBBIE MATENOPOULOS lost her regular cushion on the couch of The View, the ABC talk show hosted by Barbara Walters and four other women of varying ages. As an unknown MTV production assistant, Matenopoulos was chosen for the show to represent youth, a task she accomplished all too well with callow contributions that often left her colleagues dumbfounded. Matenopoulos is now pursuing other projects, including a TV sitcom, a realm in which her ability to be blond and look good in clothes may be more esteemed...
...final word, presumably to ensure that no Department can pack the committee to ensure success." Harvard's own tenure review procedures require that the president, so far from relying on the objectivity of tenured faculty, must consult with scholars from other departments and from outside the university who are "chosen for their objectivity and competence to judge whether the proposed appointment represents the best direction of development for the department, as well as for their ability to appraise the qualifications of the nominee." And after declaring their votes on a candidate's tenure in front of their colleagues...
Clinton told advisers, "I want to get on with the business of my presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel...But there are questions about the special counsel. Who will be chosen? Reno's only answer was someone "ruggedly independent"... How broad or narrow will the probe be? Said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern: "We are not going to tell the special counsel what to investigate. He or she is going to tell us." The difference could be crucial. An inquiry focused narrowly on Whitewater...might be concluded speedily but be open to charges of inadequacy...
...polling on that one--three adults, chosen at random toward the end of Christmas dinner...