Word: chosing
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...vice-chair of the student activities committee, who sits on the CHL. But Nelson said that House masters, not liaison offices, should have precedence in hiring decisions. “The person to whom [specialty tutors] report is their House master. It’s their job to chose their tutors just as it’s my responsibility to hire and train my staff,” she said. Some committee members said that the communication problems may be exacerbated among the freshmen proctors, at least in part because they lack the structure of the House system. But Nelson...
...girl with a condition that's hard to explain), is no great shakes as an auteur. She dawdles in sketching Bella's high school chums, and her direction of the dialogue will often bore those who aren't mouthing it from memory as the actors speak it. But she chose her leads wisely: the pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here.) Yet waiting...
...opposition, in order to resolve the political crisis resulting from the ruling party's refusal to accept the results of the March 28 elections, in which it finished second. And Mugabe appeared to move closer to getting his way when Zimbabwe's Southern African neighbors two weeks ago chose not to pressure the 84-year-old President over his intransigence, but instead urged the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to accept a greatly diluted share of government. Still, as limited as its leverage may be, the opposition has one key factor working in its favor: the collapse of Zimbabwe...
...idea that the whole world should have a say in the U.S. Presidential election, presumably because the American President’s decisions have such a huge impact across the globe.3 It is a far-fetched proposal but an interesting thought. Take this, for example: In 1968, America chose Richard Nixon as president. In 1971, despite Congressional objections, Nixon actively provided arms, ammunition, and political cover to the Pakistani Government while it carried out what an American official in Dhaka described as “genocide” in present-day Bangladesh. Even according to Henry Kissinger, the President?...
...mixed feelings about throwing his weight around before he takes office. In that respect, the stalemate is a bit reminiscent of the economic crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes in his book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, "Roosevelt wanted to make...