Word: distantly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ocean waves dance around Little Lin's toes before the water is pulled back out by a distant force. That faraway energy is tugging at him, too, drawing him away from this muddy beach in China's eastern Fujian province toward Europe, to a better life he is sure will one day be his. Last year, the 29-year-old told a snakehead, as traffickers who help smuggle Chinese abroad are known, that he was ready. Many of his friends and family members have already gone. Now it is his turn. He wants to follow his older brother to England...
...breaks brief and harried with the stress of looming finals and papers and an unreasonably short length (two or more weeks shorter than most schools). Furthermore, our strangely short winter break and awkwardly situated intersession typically mean that it is too difficult, brief, and expensive for many students from distant states and, ever increasingly distant countries, to fly home. Even those who return do not have enough time for both friends and family during winter break, and our calendar’s uniqueness means friends are not even home during intersession. Time off from schoolwork would have helped to connect...
...economics faculty thought their time had finally come. A full renovation was planned that would greatly expand Littauer’s classroom space—now limited to a few tiny classrooms primarily used for department seminars—and closet-like meeting rooms. Instead of being a distant faculty office building, Littauer would have become a hub for undergraduate economics concentrators. But instead of a long-awaited overhaul, Littauer is getting some unwelcome houseguests. Recently, economics professors were informed that the Fogg’s Fine Arts Library would take over the under-used stacks in Littauer?...
...college students, these small budgetary issues may seem like distant details that belong on the desk of some University Hall administrator. They could, however, mean the difference between small improvements that make a big difference to the student experience and the stagnation in student life that marked the 1990s, when Harvard’s student satisfaction scores plummeted. Faust must keep that sad memory firmly in the past by ensuring that the new dean cares deeply about the experiences of students at the College...
...them while allowing Beah to bring the story into focus. And that intimate focus, ultimately, is what makes Beah’s book so important. Beah is no longer a number in newsprint, but a name with a face that forces us to confront the horrifying realities of distant conflicts we’d like to ignore...