Word: afar
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...tracked developments from afar, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson had a much closer seat as the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing correspondent. In “Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China,” Johnson tells the stories of three Chinese citizens who have challenged the government. Ma Wenlin, a law clerk, helped overtaxed farmers file a class-action suit against the government. Fang Ke, an architecture student, wrote an influential underground book detailing the destruction of old Beijing. Chen Zixiu, a retiree and a member of the Falun Gong sect, refused...
...their professors in office hours, to invite them to a house dinner, and so forth,” she wrote in an e-mail. “We all need to work together to create a culture that encourages face-to-face intellectual interaction rather than mutual admiration from afar...
There are glimpses of touching authenticity in Clare, such as Anne’s reaction to a revelation about her past and John Joe’s relationship with Maisie, a woman he has long loved from afar. These characters are ordinary people, inherently flawed but attempting to get by as best they can. Ultimately however, isolated insightfulness and a great score cannot add up to much of a salvation to writing this unoriginal. Clare can’t offer the younger set much more than a glance at Woodstock’s (much) tamer Irish equivalent...
...There is anger at President Bush's attempts to unilaterally impose reform from afar, but it is followed by grudging acknowledgment of the problem. "We know we have to change," a businessman said in one of our meetings. "Please keep pushing...
...agony of the lites appears to be real, even if it is usually accompanied by the reflexive blaming of Israel for everything, including the recent assassination of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri. There is anger at President Bush's attempts to unilaterally impose reform from afar, but it is followed by grudging acknowledgment of the problem. "We know we have to change," a businessman said in one of our meetings. "Please keep pushing...