Word: nearer
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...Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...
...have a hunch that the cost will be nearer to $20 million," said Paul, who is also professor of medicine, emeritus...
...there are other forces besides the empty nest compelling Hillary to move on to the next project. Unlike those of her most recent predecessors, who were nearer retirement age when they left the White House, Hillary's chance to make a mark doesn't end when the helicopter rises from the South Lawn for the last time. A few months ago, she mused to her friend actress Mary Steenburgen that she and Bill might be itinerant college professors for a while, taking stints at various campuses as they sort out their future. On the other hand, says Steenburgen, the idea...
...Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming down the White House hall. As she came nearer, I could not help it: I bowed. "Mother," I said, "I just want to touch your hand." She looked up at me--it may have been one of God's subtle jokes that his exalted child spent her life looking up to everyone else--and said only two words. Later...
PARIS: There was confusion today over the number of casualties in Algeria's latest bloody massacre. The country's national radio reported 98 dead, while locals claimed the figure was nearer 300. According to these sources, victims had their throats slit and several were decapitated, with their heads left on the doorsteps of their homes...