Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amdo, its members were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant, by the name of his temple in distant Lhasa. The mischievous toddler, who slept in the kitchen of a mud-and-stone house, would become the 14th Dalai Lama...
When I left Dharamsala at dawn, the Dalai Lama was leading his monks in a three-hour ceremony while the sun came up behind the distant snowcaps. It struck me that the man has lived out a kind of archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos...
...friend's reply was a subtle comment on the degree to which American attitudes toward sex and the institution of marriage have changed. At one point in the not-too-distant past, sex was seen as an outcome of marriage and not as its precondition. For many, the traditional chronology has become inverted. I am not so naive as to think that pre-marital sex never existed before the advent of the "sexual revolution," but if we are to believe the statistics, the incidence of pre-marital relations in earlier times was at least the exception and not the general...
With the recent discussion on the state of Harvard undergraduate diplomas, a discrepancy which has long bothered me came again to my mind. When we receive our degrees on a hopefully pleasant June day in the not-so-distant future, not only will the inscriptions on them differ according to the various fields of study of the recipients, but they will also differ according to the gender of the recipients. For, while undergraduate women at this University attend Harvard College classes, live in Harvard College dormitories, take their meals in common dining halls and in every other conceivable way share...
Despite the passionate pleas of campus leaders, however, many students say they were unmoved by debate over an issue they consider important but distant from daily life at Harvard...