Word: distantly
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...most difficult decision?" He emits a slightly frustrated snort and slowly sets the gears in motion. To enlist in the Navy? No, Vietnam was just a distant cloud on his horizon when he did that. To oppose the war when he came home? No, he had seen too much. Two weeks after he left Vietnam, his close friend Don (Dinky) Droz was killed--Kerry still has a photo in his Senate office of the tangled mess of Droz's exploded swift boat--and Kerry felt compelled to speak out. "There have been so many tough decisions." He sighed, then conceded...
...former head of Arafat's Preventive Security Service there. He is taking advantage of a long-simmering perception among Fatah chiefs that Arafat has no intention of getting the Palestinians out of their present diplomatic dead end, even as the prospects for a Palestinian state seem ever more distant. "We warned Arafat two years ago to clean his house," says a senior Fatah official. The official says Arafat is in no immediate danger of being ousted, but the escalating campaign against him could be laying the foundation for someone to edge him aside. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...with-kids-today rant, to wonder why they should be any more tolerant of the music I loved than I am of the music they love. Then I put aside doubt and snarl: because mine?s better! And if I remind myself that songs of the 60s are as distant from today?s kids as songs of the teens and 20s were to me... well, I have an answer for that, too. I liked those old songs! It?s simple courtesy for them to give a tolerant listen to the music of my youth. They might even learn to like...
...student, Deena S. Shakir ’08, was at first disappointed to discover that she may end up living in Pennypacker Hall because of its distant location, but became increasingly excited as she learned more about her housing situation...
...second rang out from the one in eight delegates who had stumbled into the arena by that point, with no objections halting Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s order of events. Moments later, several members of the rules committee bounded on stage, advancing steadily on the mahogany podium more distant from where I had just been sitting, ready for their moment in the spotlight—if appearing on C-SPAN to enthusiastically announce the unanimous endorsement of the convention’s rules even qualifies...