Word: distantly
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...change will continue. That is why Darfur matters. There is the simple humanitarian imperative - helping refugees - which alone might seem cause enough for action. There is also a moral imperative. If climate change is a root cause of these wars, and the West has caused climate change, then these distant wars become our indirect responsibility. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose economy depends on hydropower from a reservoir that is now depleted by drought, is explicit in this regard, describing climate change as "an act of aggression by the rich against the poor...
...cold by University Hall. Harvard’s delayed commencement date—in 2009, graduating seniors will receive their diplomas on June 4—is more than two months after the deadline for entering the lottery for the much-coveted H-1B visas. In the not-too-distant past, graduates of the College were able to leap this bureaucratic hurdle by submitting a letter from the Dean of Harvard College to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in lieu of an actual diploma. This allowed many graduating seniors with job offers to effectively compete in the visa lottery. This...
...networking. Some would say that this goal is incompatible with an interest in the humanities. If I wanted to learn things that are useful or applicable, perhaps I should have studied biochemical engineering. Perhaps it is too much to ask courses on obscure Chinese dynasties or distant literary movements to provide a student with essential life skills. But I expect more of the humanities precisely because I reject the notion that they are useless. The problem is not that the humanities are inherently valueless, but rather that our approach to them renders them valueless...
...Ibrahim cautioned that radical change is still a distant goal...
...Like many men who project an easy intimacy over the airwaves, and are adopted by the public as a surrogate uncle or next-door neighbor, Cooke could be distant from his own domestic life. His 1934 marriage to Ruth Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grand-niece, ended in divorce, and he showed little interest in their son John. The Unseen Alistair Cooke shows a home movie the father shot of his six-year-old son's train set, but the footage is all about the toy trains; young John's role was excised before shooting. When his stepdaughters from...