Word: choses
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...we’re learning in law school,” said Zucker, a “diehard” Sox fan. “[Owning a baseball team] is not the path most people take as lawyers, so it’s interesting to see what people who chose that path...
...preserve the long-term purchasing power of the endowment, we chose not to transfer funds from the endowment to the operating budget last spring,” wrote Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman in a letter to the community on Tuesday, noting that utilizing the endowment would have required selling equities at unattractive prices. “That has proved to be a wise and prudent decision, given the recent recovery in the markets...
...action, and he was thrilled and inspired by the experience of combat. Bin Laden built mosques and schools on both sides of the border with Pakistan, but he was a warrior at heart. So he decided to attract his own army and construct a fortress for the jihad. He chose a site near the tribal village of Jaji. Using bulldozers and explosives, bin Laden connected some 500 mountain caves into a network of underground rooms. He called the place al-Masada, or the Lion's Den - and he was the lion. There, in the spring of 1987, the mujahedin repelled...
...federal income-tax code, under which all interest was deductible, since pretty much all interest was a business expense. There weren't really loans to buy houses back then. In other words, a massive and costly cornerstone of American housing policy isn't even something we chose...
...those challenges are converging, tightening the squeeze on the regime. Over the weekend, Iran's new opposition chose sides in the nuclear debate - and sided with the world. "The Iranian Green Movement does not want a nuclear bomb, but instead desires peace for the world and democracy for Iran," said a statement issued by filmmaker and opposition spokesman Mohsen Makhmalbouf. "The Green Movement in Iran furthermore understands the world's concerns and in fact has similar concerns itself...