Word: chosen
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...April 1997, stripped for parts and repaired at a cost of more than $20,000. Though the Mercedes passed a police inspection on July 7, 1997, Lafaye's testimony indicates that there were still some doubts about its roadworthiness. Thus the question arises: Why was that particular car chosen to take Dodi Fayed and the Princess of Wales on a high-speed drive...
...office. Intelligence experts believe the operation had to be "professionally" planned to get two powerful car bombs into both cities and parked near the embassies, and to explode them almost in tandem. They think it would probably have taken "several months" to organize. They suspect the two embassies were chosen because they were "soft": easily accessible buildings in wide-open countries that offered easy entry to people and explosives...
...first, Glenn accepted this with a shrug, but as time went by and more and more of his astronaut brothers were chosen for the Gemini and Apollo programs that followed Mercury, he grew increasingly frustrated. Finally, in 1964, he resigned from NASA. "It was only years later that I read in a book that Kennedy had passed the word that he didn't want me to go back up," Glenn says. "I don't know if he was afraid of the political fallout if I got killed, but by the time I found out, he had been dead for some...
Buffett didn't serve in Vietnam, thanks to a college deferment and a flunked physical. He and his father used to fight about his chosen occupation--J.D. wanted him to be a naval officer. "By the time he was diagnosed," he says, "we'd made our peace." In 1996 he wrote one of his finest songs, False Echoes, about J.D., a sober lyric without fancy wordplay about a man who "fades like a flare...
Additionally, Allison S. Feaster '98 was chosen as the New England College Athletic Conference/Robbins Sports Surfaces Athlete of the Year in Division...