DiDonato, many of whose closest friends are gay, was in her element.
Many tools found were of obsidian, whose closest source was a 60-mile trek away.
Mr. Tanner is a slim, boyish-looking, twice-divorced Englishman whose closest companion had been his worldwide cellphone.
Nilekani, whose closest equivalent in America is probably Michael Bloomberg, said, "Scale, speed, cost-effectiveness, quality, innovation capability — these were our goals.
It centers on Edie Middlestein, whose closest relationship is with food, a bond that grows as she does, even as her body suffers from diabetes.
Volchok, whose closest previous brush with the world of sports was his brief ownership of a roller derby team several years earlier, could not have been more surprised.
In the process, farmers share a glimpse of their lives with those whose closest encounter with agriculture is usually the dairy counter at the supermarket.
The other is a blustering, combustible society that's been tinkering with a nuclear program for decades and whose closest regional ally, Syria, is on the brink.
Others wondered how Father Greeley knew, being a man of the cloth, whose closest encounter with women was presumably hugging his mother.
The result is warfare in both Afghanistan and Iraq whose closest approximation to success is not victory over the insurgency, but rather the persistence of a US presence.
He brings an esoteric humor to a game whose closest brush with the world of physics has been the spiral of a touchdown pass.
