Word: chosen
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Annemette Sorensen, an associate professor of sociology at Boston University, has been chosen as the new director of Radcliffe College's Murray Research Center...
...favorite commandments are the easy ones. I don't covet anyone's spouse; I don't want to kill anybody. A day of rest? No problem. But I'm in a constant struggle with the commandment Republicans have chosen as the one needing the full force of government sanction: Thou shalt not lie. I know honesty is the best policy, but I've been known to try the second-best policy when I have to justify the fact that the Christmas tree isn't up or that I haven't watched every minute of the historic debate TIME magazine pays...
...applauding one adulterer just before condemning another was not calculated to help them take the high ground. "The word that comes to mind is hypocrite," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat. That was the setting for the impeachment debate that began Friday morning. Ray LaHood, the Illinois Congressman chosen by Livingston to preside over the debate, felt compelled to open with the warning to House members that they could not make personally disparaging remarks. For the most part, the debate never veered into that territory, though little was said that was likely to change many minds, in the House...
Mary Bono, the committee's newest member, has chosen the role of designated Everymom to show how decent folk live. The nonlawyer, as she repeatedly describes herself, cuts through the Capitol's moral sophistry in her attempt to convince Americans why they should be in favor of impeachment. Heck, she even managed to work Furby dolls into her questioning. But interviews outside the committee show she has been miscast. In TV Guide she gratuitously criticized her late husband, saying how insecure and difficult he actually was and that she's happily dating a country-music star who has "centered...
Giving away a lot of money isn't that easy. "Every one of us is going to give the money away at some point," says Bill Davidow, a venerable Silicon Valley philanthropist and multimillionaire, "but some of us just haven't chosen to part with it yet." Some charitable foundations and organizations, he says, haven't learned ways to make folks feel good about giving away their money: "My wife and I, for example, contribute to a wonderful organization that has one of the most disorganized development groups I have ever seen...