Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withholding a tape recording that would show that no one had coerced the members of the Peoples Temple colony in Guyana into killing themselves. On the contrary, contended Michael Prokes, 32, who had been one of Jim Jones's top aides, the tape would prove that "they chose to die because it was an act of courage and a commitment to their beliefs...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Ph.D., bestselling author (Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream), ex-Harvard professor, baseball nut-and lady. Thus when Kearns' favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, took the unprecedented step of inviting her into their training-camp dressing room, Kearns chose the middle way. She went, but only after the team was on the field. "It was neater than most women's locker rooms I've seen," she reported. "The players' clothes were all neatly hung." Admits Kearns: "I'm willing to let someone else be the first woman in there...
...SCEOC is also empowered to pay outstanding bills, loan space heaters, or help out people who are under financial hardship because they chose to pay their heating or utility bills...
With no faculty of its own, Radcliffe was from the start a slightly anomalous appendage to Harvard, a few rented classrooms that offered extra dollars to Crimson faculty members who chose to come and lecture to the ladies. The school was chartered to offer women "equal access" to a Harvard education, but not until 1943 did Harvard, its enrollment reduced by the war, let most Radcliffe women into its classes. Harvard's undergraduate library remained closed to Cliffies until 1967; the first joint commencement of men and women was held in 1970. Declaring that "there is not enough trust...
...should Harvard, and if so under what circumstances, be in the position of initiating shareholder resolutions? And it was in that context, and I feel that it is important for me to some extent to defend my colleagues on the ACSR, it was in that context that we chose to go back and consult the historical documents and the evolution of the thinking on the University's appropriate role in a number of contexts, but I would ask that that report not be read simply as another set of remarks on Harvard policy with respect to South Africa...