Word: apartness
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...from around the world save up for years to take their children to Disney World or send them to Harvard. Both groups are unable to leave with purchasing souvenirs—from either the Coop or from one of the hundreds of Disney gift shops placed approximately 50 feet apart. Tourists at Disney eagerly snap photos of Cinderella’s Castle and chipmunks Chip and Dale. Tourists at Harvard eagerly snap photos of Widener Library and feisty squirrels that seem to have pranced right out of Snow White’s woodland home. Autograph books are toted here...
...claims rightly tend to focus on the harm that would be done to the defendant’s family, not to the world of academia. The scientific consequences of a person’s incarceration pale in comparison to the damage that can be done by, for example, splitting apart a family...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn.—Down only seven points at the half, the Crimson defense fell apart in the second half to Penn, losing 78-51. After holding the Quakers to just 36 percent shooting in the first half, the Quakers lit up the Crimson at a 64-percent clip in the second half...
...conservative Roman Catholic when asked about his extramarital affair. But Hanssen is also suspected of being less than candid about other aspects of his 21-year career as a Russian mole, according to senior U.S. officials. If he is shown to have been untruthful, his plea arrangement could fall apart and he could wind up going to trial. His attorney, Plato Cacheris, acknowledges that he and Hanssen met with prosecutors to discuss the polygraphers' concerns but insists the matter was resolved and that Hanssen "doesn't have any credibility problem." However, government sources say some FBI officials will...
...Turkey, a country that has long prided itself on being a bridge between East and West, the clash of civilizations begins at home. Two gatherings in Istanbul last week, held about a kilometer apart, again brought into sharp juxtaposition the external role that Turkey craves and the internal realities of a country struggling to improve the quality of its democracy. Both meetings, in their own way, emphasized the duality of a nation that desperately wants to be accepted into Europe, yet finds itself rebuffed time and again - in large measure because of its notoriously poor human-rights record...