For the first time in history, the rest of the world turned to watch this distant little country.

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There are distant little ducks, and the rear end of a stag.

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But contrary to his previous film where the Holocaust played a leading role, in "The Tiger and the Snow, " the war in Iraq seems little more than a distant backdrop.

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It would make a nice present for a friend in a distant country who knows little about Hong Kong and whose regular reading includes society magazines.

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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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In the old days, before the ubiquity of television, tales of distant fighting would have raised little fuss.

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At best, the argument is out of date, stemming from the distant days when the government had huge majorities and little idea what to do with them.

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Mr. Issa lives with distant, better-off relatives, does occasional electronics-repair work and gets a little money from an older brother, who after a 12-year job hunt, finally found work as an electrical engineer earlier this year.

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And, oh yeah, then wait a little more -- just until you get to the point where the by-then-dated phone is a distant memory in your mind and you couldn't possibly care less about its release (much to Palm's chagrin, undoubtedly).

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