Word: chosing
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...founders of the Blue Man Group, the long-running theatrical hit that features three mute guys with earless, sticky blue heads, homemade instruments and a lot of crepe paper, chose a wholly original second act. They started a school. The Blue School, as it's known, opened its doors in September to 61 New York City kids kindergarten age or younger. It plans to offer first grade next year and grow all the way to fifth grade. (Watch TIME's Blue School video...
...which I cheer. I made my way around the little shindig, becoming “introduced” to each of the inhabitants, one of whom I recognized instantly for the rather nice reception he’d made a few games prior. Instead of commending him, however, I chose to mispronounce his name, acting as if I hadn’t heard correctly. The rest of my time there was likewise spent on guard.Whether or not you are used to being bitten by the awkward turtle, unwittingly revealing one’s inner creeper is never pleasant...
...what he says that I wasn’t sure how to interpret all this down-home-boy stuff. It felt a little performative. I knew he was from Texas; he didn’t have to remind me every five minutes. When I asked Caleb why Karl Rove chose him, he retreated into self-deprecation. “I figure he made a mistake and thought I was somebody else,” he said. Humility was one thing, I told him later, but come on. Before I had flown to Washington, I sat down with Andrea R. Flores...
Soetoro-Ng could have accepted her brother's invitation to be by his side on election night in Chicago. But, as she had for much of the past eight years, she chose to stay in the apartment on Beretania Street where Dunham raised Obama as a boy and where Soetoro-Ng later cared for her. In the post-election e-mail, Soetoro-Ng writes of the sometimes conflicting emotions surrounding her grandmother's death and brother's success - and of the need to unplug for a while with her husband Konrad and their 4-year-old daughter Suhaila on Oahu...
...They should be flattened and ground into dust," he says. "Why should we glorify terrorism and people who chose to kill themselves...