Word: chosing
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...October 28, 1636, with a grant of 400 pounds from the Massachusetts legislature, but its governing boards did not take their present form until 14 year later. A year after, the College's founding the first Board of Overseers was appointed with six magistrates and six ministers, and they chose Nathaniel Eaton of Trinity College. Cambridge, and the University of Frankener in the Netherlands, as Harvard's first Master (President). But Eaton did not survive his second year, after he was indicted for assault for nearly bludgeoning his assistant to death with a walnut club. The board fired...
...English with equal ease. Mulroney's wife Mila, 31, turned out to be the election's second-best campaigner; pretty and vivacious, she charmed even jaded journalists. The Tory candidate shone in the three televised debates, especially when he attacked Turner for the Trudeau patronage plums. "You chose to say yes to old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party," he charged. When the Prime Minister held up his hands, ostensibly to silence Mulroney, many viewers interpreted it as a sign of surrender. It might as well have been: one month before the election, Turner found...
...themselves. Despite Jackson's success in the primaries, many black voters and office holders have mixed feelings about accepting him as their pre-eminent powerbroker. This division was apparent during the nomination race, when some black leaders felt obligated or eager to join his historic quest, while others chose to support Mondale. The eventual lineups left recriminations on both sides, especially in the South. In South Carolina, for example, black State Senate Candidate McKinley Washington Jr., a Mondale supporter, has complained that Jackson backers in his district, which is 54% black, threatened to sit out his race, possibly tipping...
...astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with God." Forman says he chose these two off Broadway journeymen over stars, or over actors who had performed in the play, because "I wanted to believe that this person is Mozart, is Salieri, not just an actor playing a part." Believe who will. The fact remains that Hulce and Abraham move assuredly to the center...
...nationwide elections last week, colored citizens chose from among 207 candidates to fill the 80 elective seats in a new, all-colored chamber of the South African legislature. The government called the election "satisfactory," but the modest turnout-only 30% of registered voters-led opponents to declare it a failure and many coloreds to wonder whether their votes would speed the eventual dismantling of apartheid or ensure its survival...