Word: distantly
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...Radcliffe Quadrangle (or “Quad,” to all) has never escaped its legacy of marginality. Historically it provided a distant home for fringe groups on campus : first women, then eccentrics, then racial minorities. Today, the Quad is as distant and divisive as ever, but the roll of the dice determines which students are exiled there. Although Quad residents no longer have to walk miles to play tennis at six in the morning, as they did in the early days of Radcliffe, College administrators continue to struggle with the inequalities that characterize a limb of Harvard that...
...said in an e-mail yesterday that he made the omission because “the possibility of undergraduate housing in Allston is in the rather more distant future...
Picture the typical Harvardian’s winter—snow blanketing the Yard, holiday cheer permeating the Cambridge streets, two-and-a-half weeks of vacation looming in the not-so-distant future and Birkenstocks with socks. Just because temperatures drop to unquestionably uncomfortable lows doesn’t mean your fashion sense should feel an excuse to hibernate. According to Teen Vogue fashion writer Eviana Hartman, staying warm and looking stylish need not be mutually exclusive...
Stolid and resolute, but noticeably more distant from the public than first ladies from years past, most notably Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan, Mrs. Bush seems to embody the cold, corporate feel of the Bush administration. The Clinton era of relative glitz and glamour, with frequent trips to Hollywood and European capitals, have been replaced with sojourns to that earthy ranch in Texas, and frequent trips to electoral battleground states such as Florida and Pennsylvania. Sexy controversies like sex scandals, lying about sex and allegations of sexual misconduct have been replaced by more sober controversies like corporate scandals, lying about...
Shepard would have loved the sense of change in the air. "Matt used to say to me, 'Why can't I find anything happy about gay people?'" says Judy Shepard. Happiness may still be a distant goal for all Wyoming gays, but five years after Shepard was murdered, you can feel the ground moving under your feet. Says de Vries: "In a place where we never talked about it, we talked about it after Matt died. And thankfully, we're still talking...