Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Ko enjoys working in Cambridge, the urban environment and tight-knit neighborhoods make it difficult to expand business...
Keating now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...
...banished the holidays nearly two years ago, after a few failed years of trying. During the first year of college, eager to create a holiday home away from home, I tracked down some hand-knit stockings to leave out for Santa, while another roommate whipped up some egg nog. My third roommate added the crowning glory, and made us probably the first room in Greenough to ever have a six foot live tree in the middle of our common room...
...refugees arrive home, thousands more will be denounced as suspected murderers. For the moment, say government officials, only the most notorious will be arrested. As for the rest, investigators will be under orders to move as slowly as possible so as not to cause panic; in this tightly knit society the slaughter was so intimate--neighbors killing neighbors--that it will be impossible to hide. So far, men like Jonasi Ruziga seem content to let loved ones go unavenged a while longer, hoping their restless ghosts are willing to wait as Rwanda struggles to rebuild from the ashes of genocide...
Fortunately, the rest of the evidence tampering was pretty routine. Planting hairs on the knit cap and the victim's shirt; planting fibers on the glove, the socks and the shirt; planting carpet fibers on the cap--as a racist cop, Yamauchi had done these sorts of things a thousand times before. Even his boss, Michele Kestler, didn't deem it necessary to oversee Yamauchi's work, preferring to focus on the ongoing cover...