Word: faraway
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...notoriety is international, but until recently its undergraduates mostly stayed shoreside during the year. With the expansion of Study Abroad programs as mandated by University President Lawrence H. Summers, this is changing, and more Harvard undergrads are choosing to leave for at least a semester of classes in a faraway land. The consequences of this shift on Harvard’s reputation throughout the world will be tough to predict. But it is in all of our interests for Harvard’s new international emissaries to nurture the mystique surrounding Harvard from which I have so often unknowingly benefited...
...decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold his car and bought a plane ticket to be part of this great experiment. It didn't take Meldrum long to fall in love with Zimbabwe. Initially he idolized Mugabe as the hero of the liberation struggle, but that...
...dissipated. Dr. Susan Whitfield, curator of the British Library's new exhibition, "The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith," is aware of the beguiling quality of her subject and seeks to ground it. "I want people to leave with a knowledge that the Silk Road is not a faraway, exotic place," she says, "but full of everyday lives and everyday people which have relevance to us today...
Only India's movie moguls might have imagined the saga of a beautiful Italian girl who follows her prince to a faraway land, finding love, tragedy and heartbreak before finally triumphing as a leader of her adopted people. Last week the story came true. TV pundits who for months had predicted Sonia Gandhi's disastrous election defeat found themselves explaining a sensational victory instead. Outgoing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee grudgingly praised the "strong and diverse" democracy that rejected him. But most dazed of all, it seemed, was Sonia...
...filling formerly half-empty pews, but I am concerned about one of his five "guiding purposes"--that a person must "act as God's missionary in the world." That purpose absolves people of meeting the needs of their families and church congregations. Instead, they focus on saving the faraway poor and oppressed. Ministering to strangers is often easier and more exciting than helping those we know personally, but many people, especially the elderly, are denied the nurturing love they desperately need because charity no longer begins in the home or local church. BETTE DEWING New York City...