Word: faraway
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...Colombia, the United States, and analysts the world over? Overwhelming military force? Where do the bodies to fill the body bags come from? Certainly not Colombia, which is already pressed to fill its army as it is. Certainly not the United States, which is always wary of wars in faraway places with tenuous connections to American interests, particularly in tropical jungles. Surely, he isn’t suggesting Europe will do the job, given his disdain for their peacenik agenda. Who then? Perhaps Lee should volunteer to found the Harvard American Division for the Liberation of Colombia...
...Faruq's story is a particularly useful keyhole through which to peer into the world of modern terrorism. Above all, his tale reveals the global nature of the al-Qaeda threat, as disparate groups and individuals form coalitions to fight a common, faraway foe. Islamic terrorist groups are not new; in one form or another and in countries from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, they have existed for decades. But until recently, the groups conducted local campaigns against local targets. Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), for example, focused their operations on the hated, secular Algerian government...
...French orphans search for their faraway home. Doesn't sound like much, but this story of preteen love, devotion and possession was the find of the festival--a work of seamless art and broken heart--and a tonic to movie lovers bummed out by a tragic anniversary...
...Anakin of Clones is an attractive fellow, full of a young man's roiling contradictions. He respects the Jedi ethic while squirming to elude its strictures; he loves both his faraway mother and the royal temptation at his side; he does engage in a revenge massacre but feels remorse for it; he is disarming and, finally, literally disarmed. By the end of Clones, Anakin is still a decent, stalwart gent, light-years removed from the malefic Vader...
...Bachelors predominate: there is the entrepreneur known as The Shah, who resolutely refuses marriage; Patrick Ryan, a gruff builder; Bill Evans, a survivor of Ireland’s horrific orphanages, who made it into old age quiet and strangely asexual. Gentle, blithe Jamesie and his wife Mary have grandchildren faraway in Dublin, while their friends Ruttledge and Kate, transplants from London, are childless. Because of the absence of children, the days carry a bittersweet sense of life living itself out rather than skipping hurriedly on to the next generation. Neighbors show each other a regard unknown in places where nuclear...