Word: apartness
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...seat boxing venue in the Athens neighborhood of Peristeri. With a slick blue-and-red ring capped by a colossal TV screen and a snazzy digital scoreboard, it's a dazzling place to watch a fight. But step outside the main hall and the polished illusion falls apart: there are few signs telling people how to get where they're going, a lack of parking spaces and mismatched carpets. Across town, the historic marathon course will also make for stirring TV, with 25 camera crews and two helicopters covering the 42-km race. The only thing missing along several portions...
...announce, "Call for you, Pedro!" Today, La Gomera remains home to about 18,000 residents, and tourism is helping to stanch emigration by those no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing. Ferries make the 40-minute trip from Tenerife, and one of the attractions, apart from a rich flora in the cloud-shrouded peaks, the highest of which is just under 1,500 m above sea level, is the chance to hear whistle-speak. When Eugenio Darias was born in 1950, phones were still a novelty. "I learned the Silbo playing in the street," he recalls...
...Okada has a difficult task ahead of him. Many critics say the DPJ has not distinguished itself from the LDP on many key issues. And they say that the DPJ, an alliance of several previously feuding parties, is divided by ideological differences and factional infighting and could break apart as easily as it came together...
...Harvard has been shaped by these opportunities to be part of the dynamic, diverse and fascinating Eliot House community, and the role of dedicated faculty and staff is inestimable to the creation of that environment,” she wrote. “The House communities set Harvard apart from other undergraduate experiences, and as someone who really loves and cares about my House, I think it’s money well spent...
...begun to care less and less about the Yankees, which is a hard thing to admit. And even worse, despite being home in New York and getting the chance to rekindle my old summer romance with the Yankees, I’m afraid we have grown too far apart...