Distant events, perhaps, but not as far as Khosla, 38, has already come.

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At the same time we have connected the world through cyberspace, allowing distant events, ideas and social phenomena to influence us instantly.

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GRBs are distant events has probably also been settled.

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For the most part, these people are more concerned with just getting by than with events in a distant province.

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The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.

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For the United States Armed Services, these events are not a distant memory.

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Events in Somalia are not so distant.

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But for all Wahid's maneuvering skills, the presidency would have remained a distant possibility had it not been for the dramatic events that caused Habibie to drop out of the race barely hours before the vote.

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The case has brought increased scrutiny to the X Games, the combination of quirky, hair-raising events that were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports but have in recent years been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates.

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The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.

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