For some years, Thomas L. Friedman had enjoyed what he understandably calls "the best job in the world" as The Times's roaming foreign affairs columnist, traveling wherever he likes and writing whatever he likes with total freedom -- privileges that not many journalists enjoy, and that gave him a most unusual vantage point from which to come to terms with those shattering events.
Finally, abandon the twin illusions that American well-being depends on shaping the affairs of other places wherever something may happen that discomforts us; and that people in those places want us to take custody of their well-being.
But over the years, it has also become an apt description of the state of affairs that seems to prevail wherever plentiful natural resources are found.
Life here is a two-wheeled affair; cycle tracks take you wherever you need to go.
Quarrelsome, erratic and libidinous, Pushkin had affairs, fought duels and challenged authority wherever he went.
They alone seek nuclear weapons and other tools of mass destruction not to defend themselves or to enhance their prestige or to give them a stronger hand in world affairs but to use against us wherever and whenever they can.
Not that Henry himself objected to this state of affairs; Henry Whittaker enjoyed looking at his image wherever he might encounter it".
Socrates is described as having neglected his own affairs, instead spending his time discussing virtue, justice, and piety wherever his fellow citizens congregated, seeking wisdom about right conduct so that he might guide the moral and intellectual improvement of Athens.
For Edward, although such affairs could be discussed between friends, scandal was to be avoided wherever possible.
"We're getting it from wherever we can find it," said Michael R. Abendhoff, a director of government and public affairs for BP.
