Word: afar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seen simplistically and from afar, Saddam Hussein comes across as a figure seldom found outside the pages of comic books or pulp fiction: the villain who will stop at nothing, an Arab Dr. No alive and menacing in the Middle East. Some are content to leave it at that. The demonizing of Saddam has escalated along with the war and seems omnipresent in the West. Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee...
...just never acted on these opinions as an individual, or let them drive my writing as a journalist. I was perfectly content to let other people fight it out while I recorded the story from afar. I figured I was doing my duty. I patted myself on the back for being "open-minded...
...Western-educated Kuwaiti struggles for his homeland from afar, he finds himself engaged in activities far different from the school newspaper he edited in high school last year...
...that I am here I can see everything happening in my country from afar," Merkushev said in an interview last week. "I can get a better perspective, looking at the Soviet Union with the eyes of an American...
...current condition of our politics, of course, it's hard to make judgments from afar even about personality, let alone about character. Everything is so contrived. If that charming business a while back about hating broccoli wasn't the result of extensive focus-group testing, it might as well have been. Bush is smart enough to know it would play well. And we do know that he exaggerates things, like his love of country music. (The Bushes actually also listen to classical in the White House.) Ironically, Bush wins points for genuineness, even with cynics like me, for the hints...