Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three long years. Six straight losses. It's all a distant memory...
WASHINGTON: They're not talking anymore. Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr are through trying to make a deal, according to her attorney William Ginsburg. That means legal immunity is a distant prospect for the former intern. "Judge Starr knows our telephone number; we are here if he wants to call us," said Ginsburg. That's not likely, says the Washington Post -- Starr is furious because Lewinsky made a muddled proffer. Yes, she did have a sexual relationship with Clinton; no, she was not told to lie about it, but was "told to tell a certain version of events that...
...tenor of campus politics this fall revealed a pervasive ignorance and selfishness among undergraduates. We have forgotten, it seems, the battles of our not-too-distant past and have lost entirely our ability to think of anything other than muddling our way through this conduit to medical school or Wall Street. I have difficulty deciding which bothered me more, the outcome of the grape debate or the Undergraduate Council election this December, but both highlighted our ready willingness to abandon integrity in the moment of choice for the easy comfort of shallow goals...
...days are short, sunlight and warmth distant and the muddy, slippery streets of Cambridge have never seemed more dreary. Cambridge is currently the type of climate that experts say often exacerbates feelings of loneliness and depression...
...game "analysis," our urban centers with stadiums and our brains with forgettable factoids about Terrell Davis' shoulder and Brett Favre's third-down conversions. Once there were two seasons and two sports, with a decent interval between, during which courtships occurred and family members became reacquainted. In that distant era, bars were appropriately morose settings for the serious contemplation of fate and its ironies, not frenetic assemblages of monitors bringing us football in August and iron-man competitions from the antipodes. Guys who liked sports didn't just kibitz from the sofa, they went out and played softball or bowled...