Word: choses
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...council chose the three recipients from among 32 candidates nominated by students who wrote essays commending their instructors. Members of the council selected the recipients on the basis of those essays, CUE Guide reviews, and interviews with students, Lee said...
Last year, 60 percent of minority admittees chose to attend Harvard, compared to a 72 percent yield overall, said Carey...
...their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this. He is old enough to be a witness to that time. Mother History chose him. After this, it will be impossible to have the same history books in our libraries and schools...
...Mother History chose is a vigorous 76-year-old with the stature and stubbornness of a fireplug, but by no means a political dissident. He is a decorated war veteran, a believer in Communism and a well-established Soviet writer. His best-known previous book was Heavy Sand, a story about the sufferings of Jews in a Nazi-occupied Ukrainian village...
...statement from the front porch of his log-and-stone house in the Colorado mountains, 25 miles from Denver. His handlers preferred something more dramatic and expansive, with, of course, more room for reporters and TV crews. Caught between a rock and a hard place, the former Colorado Senator chose the rock, a picturesque stone slab in nearby Red Rocks Park...