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Ilagan said the members of the teams had yet to be chosen, but the house committee chairs would select the contestants. Tapes of the first show will be distributed to house common rooms for viewing...
Letting market forces rule satisfies the cost cutters in the state, but it also helps the patients. The Arizona program does not permit would-be providers to select only the healthiest patients, a practice called cherry picking in the health-care business. If providers want a contract, they must be prepared to take on the care of the disabled, the elderly, and women and children...
Among the changes proposed by the undergraduates were allowing the Undergraduate Council to select the three student members of the committee...
...WEAK LIGHT OF DAWN ONE morning last week, hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu...
...handshake, he became a central figure in what promises to be a long and bitter war between Tibet and a communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were enraged, and soon thereafter, Nyima disappeared from his home village along with his parents, prompting accusations...