Word: afar
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...stories are so weighty. Although Harvard scholars are stereotyped these days as unhappy and overly serious, the University’s history certainly debunks that myth. Schlesinger describes Commencement in the early 1700s as a drunken affair that attracted visitors from afar, including Natick Indians, “the singing dwarfs, the dancing bears,” “cripples, [and] lunatics.…” In 1818, a fight in the Commons between the freshman and sophomore class led to the throwing of “cups, saucers, and dishes,” resulting...
...During Milosevic's 12-year rule in Serbia, I had often seen pictures of him in newspapers and on television. I even saw him two or three times in person, from afar, during his rare public appearances. But it was still something of a shock to meet him face to face-this man who shaped so much of my life as a journalist as well as the lives of thousands of others in my homeland. He was always a reclusive guy who seldom gave interviews...
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...protégé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds…for war, billions more, but no more for the poor...
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