In 1985 Wayne Dumond was convicted of raping a teenager, a distant cousin of Mr Clinton's.

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He was also a distant cousin of former Vice President Al Gore.

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The drug is a synthetic version of interferon gamma-1b, a distant cousin of the more famous virus fighter used against hepatitis and cancer.

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The results were more of a distant cousin to the Manhattan, with his version of a Trilby having a distinct smoky flavour from Islay scotch and the Tipperary being slightly more herbal, thanks to chartreuse.

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The sum of it was a too distant cousin of the German biergarten ideal I sought.

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Even with our potentially top player on injured reserve (the Atlantic sturgeon is currently under a commercial fishing ban), companies like Sterling, Tsar Nicoulai and Seattle Caviar are offering subtle, very caviary-tasting roe from the Pacific Coast white sturgeon, the lake sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and even from the oddly abundant paddlefish, a distant sturgeon cousin.

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His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

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This weekend I was visiting with family, including a cousin who recalled his not-so-distant high-school football days.

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This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.

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But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp than I look like my cousin the shrimp or my distant kin the lichens or the snowy egret or the moss.

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