Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class at Yale. He mixed easily with the rich and the well bred, but, according to classmates, he developed an intense dislike for the class of Yalie he deemed "intellectual snobs." To Bush, the epitome of the type was Strobe Talbott, the current Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott (a distant relative of Bush) was one of the class of 1968's most ambitious brains--editor of the Daily News, Rhodes scholar roommate at Oxford to Bill Clinton, and before joining the Clinton Administration, career journalist for TIME magazine, specializing in defense and foreign policies. "Strobe was the kind of person...
...CityStep Ball and all its promotion has come again this fall. "Oh-Aahs" ring through the dining halls and some friend, no matter how distant, has already made you promise to come. CityStep is one of the first excuses to rent a tux or slap on a dress for an evening away from Cambridge, but for most Harvard students, when the music stops and the pictures are back from CVS, CityStep becomes just a faded memory...
...Nigerian economy's addiction to petroleum has led to a series of unfortunate compromises in the not-too-distant past, including environmental degradation, rampant human rights abuses and urban degeneration. These are not problems unique to Nigeria, but the world is watching how Nigeria handles a renewed voucher for democracy...
Younger women who want to move through the faculty ranks into administration should talk to the older women who have already done it, she says. A woman may lead Harvard in the not-so-distant future, she adds...
Thirty years ago, military satellites first noticed flashbulb-like gamma bursts going off throughout the cosmos. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, opened in 1991, discovered that the bursts were surprisingly common--300 or so occur each year--and remarkably distant. "They are more than halfway to the edge of the visible universe," says NASA astrophysicist Neil Gehrels...