Of the aftermath of that massacre, he wrote, "... selected a little girl with the intention of civilising and one of my friends thought he would select a boy for the same purpose".
But the young lama then fled to India in 1999, at age 14, upsetting the Chinese and also inflaming a rivalry between lamas in exile: another powerful lama had already selected a different boy in India as the 17th Karmapa Lama.
It should have been me, a 48-year-old man recently traveling alone to San Francisco with a sarcastic attitude and a bulky backpack, pulled aside for further screening, but security instead selected a young boy and a frail, elderly woman, which made no sense.
On 14 May 1796 he selected "a healthy boy, about eight years old for the purpose of inoculation for the Cow Pox".
For comparison, we randomly selected a group of boys (n = 599) from the remaining eligible boys without a diagnosis of cryptorchidism and/or hypospadias.
In July , 1920 when Pender selected a group of eight boys for an engagement in New York City, the sixteen-year-old Archie was among them.
Then we went to the local dollar store where the boys each selected a plastic jar and colorful glass stones to match.
We had been selected, along with a boy named Jason from another school, to learn more about classical liberalism (not to be confused with plain-old liberalism, we were cautioned).
Wisconsin: Romney had a bit of a bounce here after he selected local boy Paul Ryan as his running mate, but it didn't last.
Beijing announced that a search committee had selected another boy, who is now Panchen Lama.
