Word: detachedness
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(3 of 4) Paging Bipartisan Patriots In his column on Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut primary [Aug. 21], Joe Klein implies that all Democrats want to return to MoveOn.org's "extremist" vision of the Democratic Party. The vote against Lieberman was neither extreme nor an assault on bipartisanship...
You asked, "What will it take to make us feel safe?" I would feel safe if Britain detached itself from U.S. foreign policy; if the West and Israel stopped bombing and humiliating the Arab states; if the Palestinians were given their own state and it was supported by the West...
Inheritance tax used to make the news only when it forced once super-rich dynasties to flog their heirlooms after the head of the family died. But suddenly, death is getting expensive for a much larger number of Europeans, and that's starting to attract the attention of politicians and...
Then suddenly there was Karr, saying he was the one. Or sort of saying it. At the press conference in Bangkok at which Thai officials announced his arrest, he described his role in the crime with an odd circumlocution. "I was with JonBenet when she died," he said. Detached, tentative...
But Derek C. Bok’s presidency, which began in 1971, would bring significant changes to the fellows’ workload. “As both Harvard and its bureaucracy grew,” the Kellers note, “the Corporation became more detached from the mundane realities...