Word: afar
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...Garage—a guilty pleasure. Which is, I suspect, exactly what this alleged instance is for most of the College. Forget Shakespeare in Love. Think Shakespeare in College: whatever happens, it reads as a tragedy of ludicrous and tabloidesque grandeur. We’re usually watching from afar, not with ringside seats. And here’s the secret: Harvard College students are involved in a scandal and you like it. Your classmates are falling from grace and some part of you likes it. Some part of me certainly does. The Long Strange Trip of Randy and Suzanne reveals...
...Marc Overmars and the ice-cool defending of Frank de Boer. Other missing names from the Korea/Japan roll call were more predictable?but not any less disappointing. Classy Ghanaian defender Sammy Kuffour, scorer of the only goal in last week's Inter-Continental Cup tie, can only watch from afar as most of his Bayern Munich colleagues represent their respective countries in the World Cup. And old George Best will sympathize with another Man U winger who won't be there: Welshman Ryan Giggs. "I find it hard to put into words the disappointment I felt," he wrote to fans...
...found the courage of New Yorkers and others who had to face directly the events of Sept. 11 heartening and laudable. As for the rest of the world, those fortunate enough to view these events from afar, I am not so sure. Although many tangibles, from blood to money, were readily forthcoming, it seems many people have demonstrated a distinct lack of courage on two fronts--their financial security and personal safety. The stock-market plunge and the huge decline in air travel were another victory for the terrorists and well beyond the carnage and human misery of the actual...
...among them—and America’s turn inward at home. Halberstam convincingly argues that, because of a variety of far-reaching changes in the past three decades—the collapse of the Soviet Union, new weapons which allow the U.S. to conduct military actions from afar, the abandonment of serious foreign news coverage by network television and the rise of a new generation who came of age in a time of peace and prosperity—the country has focused internally once more, shying away from major international conflicts...
...planes may have struck New York and D.C., but the impact of the destruction and tragedy on September 11 instantly jarred the entire nation. Like so many other Americans, Jason E. Whitlow 99, watched the terrible events unfold on television from afar, helpless to stop the fires or hold up the towers. And as reporters on every station endlessly reported the facts of what had happened and cycled through the chronology of the morning events in excruciating detail, the one question that pounded in peoples brains remained unanswered. Who survived? With cell phone connections down and landlines a scarce commodity...