Word: doorstep
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...have to understand that I've waited my whole life for this, me and a couple of billion other Asian football fans: the World Cup at our doorstep. I've watched every televised Cup game played since Spain '82, and around here that makes me not one bit unusual. Every four years, my father and I would take a month off work and school and advance our body clocks by 12 hours so we would be up when the matches, invariably scheduled for European prime time, kicked off. Recorded replays were for wusses. Still, when I heard that Korea...
...minutes away from their daughter, son-in-law and four-year-old granddaughter, whom they see almost every day. "Who needs Florida or Arizona?" says Norma, 71, a retired accounting assistant. "We can see our daughter any time we want, and we have every possible activity at our doorstep all year long...
...meat loaves and pasta from the neighbors arrive on Nicole's doorstep just once a week now. A month ago, she spent--and slept through--her first night without either her brother or her mother camped out on the futon in the computer room. Nicole stopped praying that the rescuers would turn up a wisp of Greg's DNA; on Sept. 22 she buried him without a body or a casket...
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...clubs could make the Harvard social scene even more fragmented and insular. Instead of inviting all campus women for parties, the final clubs might simply have events for their own members, further restricting the number of students who ever make it past a final club’s doorstep. The problem with final clubs is not solely their policies on admitting women but their exclusion of anyone who does not meet their narrow list of qualifications...