Word: afar
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...Admiring her from afar the Church pews, Robert McPhie had a hunch that Megan M. Anderson '02 might just be the right...
Well, after five semesters in this spot, I’ve run out of type. I’ve enjoyed it; I hope you have as well. And make those changes, and more; I’ll be keeping tabs on fair Harvard from afar...
...Ashcroft interview had an ad for the Southern Heritage Association, asking, "Is the war over? Perhaps, but the cause lives on." Another ad, for a book about Lincoln, began, "If you think Bill Clinton has a character problem, take a look at...Lincoln." But rather than judge it from afar, I decide to drop by Southern Partisan, based in downtown Columbia, to find out who these people...
...beautiful valley around 230 km northwest of Kabul. It was an important stop on the fabled Silk Road, and the two majestic Buddha statues were scooped out of the Hindu Kush mountains in such a way that anyone - merchants, soldiers, pilgrims - moving along the highway could view them from afar and pay homage. The ceilings above the Buddhas had beautiful painted images of the bodhisattvas and the Sun God, representing the Buddha as the source of light. The iconography was a mixture of Greek and Indian, and the murals were very much like what we see in the Ajanta Caves...
There are few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen lounging in rural Appalachia, and perched proudly on piers along eastern seaboard. He has hunted for grubs in the marshlands of Nova Scotia; he has cavorted with royal seagulls from afar; he has flown atop the Great Wall; he has been tete-a-tete with distinguished journalists at Washington Post's Beijing Bureau; and, most recently, he has been seen circling Tiananmen Square...