Above all, did the president of the United States and the British prime minister lie?So far, the answer seems to be no.
The choices Kerrey faced that night lie so far beyond ordinary experience that his actions, while painful to contemplate, are difficult to judge.
She grew up in the coal-mining city of Jixi, which lies so far northeast — north of Vladivostok — that its inhabitants take a steely pride in being the first Chinese to see the sunrise.
Still, on a day when the subways are a crowd of umbrellas, and the cars themselves a compressed pack of rainwet passengers, the idea of these geographical footnotes, which often "lie so far from their mother countries that they no longer fit on the maps of that country," appeals.
One of the peculiarities of Beijing's longstanding claim over the two South China Sea island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys, is that they lie so far from the country that it has been effectively impossible for the Chinese military to patrol the area from its existing bases hundreds of nautical miles away.
Now the outliers aren't lying so far out.
Discovered at the world's largest telescope, the 10-meter Keck on Mauna Kea, the galaxy lies so far out in the expanding universe that the wavelengths of its light have been stretched more than sixfold.
One such dust-encircled star, Wolf-Rayet 104 (WR104), lies so far away--some 17 million billion kilometers--that not even the vaunted 10-meter Keck I on Mauna Kea in Hawaii can discern any fainter stars in the vicinity of WR104.
This may be because it lies so far from the continental shelf, which means very few nutrients drift down into the trench, which is nearly 11km deep, making food extremely scarce.
For most of us the contention that peace can arise on this war-torn planet in the foreseeable future lies so far beyond our ideas of what is possible that we would not even give it a second thought.
