Word: chosen
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...bishops that rule the dioceses have driven out any plain talkers. That was all done with the iron hand of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger behind the scenes as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He wants a church made up of Ave Maria University zealots - the chosen few who will preserve Catholicism as the Pope envisions it in all its medieval splendor. To think that the church has gone from John XXIII to this Pope in just over 40 years. William Tunney, Grantsville, Maryland...
...answers on the course Web site. Questions range from course specific: “How much do you make off of each textbook?” (“4.5 percent of the purchase price... but all royalties on sales to my own students are donated to a charity chosen by the student(s) who achieve the highest score in the class.”) to far more personal: “Have you ever used drugs?” (“Tobacco and nicotine and alcohol are drugs, so the answer is yes. If you mean illegal drugs...
...homemade purple label reading “Karim’s Palace of Discount Research” adorns the door adjacent to Gilbert’s office. Karim S. Kassam, Gilbert’s fourth-year grad student, sits inside, frustrated about the constant misunderstanding of his chosen field...
Huaou Yan ’10, who is one of Hawley’s roommates in Mather House, said he was not surprised when Hawley was chosen to appear on the show...
...been ratcheting up pressure on airlines since March, when it launched "phase one" of a probe that required its inspectors to make sure each carrier was complying with 10 randomly chosen "airworthiness directives," the agency's written safety bulletins. (About 200 are issued annually.) The FAA followed that with what it calls "phase two," where its inspectors are reviewing 10% of all airworthiness directives per fleet to determine compliance. Initial results show the airlines have been complying with about 99% of the directives. But that remaining 1% was enough to cause hundreds of flight cancellations...