Word: distantly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even though Summers’ most vehement critics began suggesting in interviews last night that Summers might have to resign, the prospect of his stepping down still seemed just a distant possibility...
While the loss was disheartening, the close final score was encouraging for a team that started the season ranked a distant No. 4 to Yale’s No. 1. Saturday, the Bulldogs lost more matches (four) than it had cumulatively all season (three...
...days. Writer-director Richard Kelly populates his suburban Middlesex with nearly as many strange creatures and daunting tasks as Tolkien did his Middle-earth. With an extra 20 minutes and a probing chat track with Kelly and fellow director Kevin Smith, this beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry," she replies, "No, that was a compliment." From us too. --By Richard Corliss...
Ideally, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would ban teaching in one of the lunchtime hours, so no class could be scheduled then. Instead, faculty would spend time with students. There’s plenty each professor can do before that distant day comes: to start, make it a priority to eat lunch once a week in a House. There is a reason Harvard has “Houses” and not “dormitories.” If professors start breaking the odd distance that currently subsists between them and their students, it will be a tiny...
...days when America gathered around the TV set to watch celebrities like O.J. Simpson on trial now seem as distant as Father Knows Best. The Michael Jackson case is the latest in a long string of recent high-profile cases--Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake, Bernie Ebbers and more--in which cameras have been banned or severely restricted. So desperate is TV for at least a semblance of in-court coverage that the E! cable channel is planning to air daily re-enactments, with actors playing Jackson, the lawyers and the witnesses...