Word: neighbor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flynn--who has battled a scandal involving campaign finance improprieties in the last months--admitted the difficulties of the past "beggar thy neighbor policy" among the 15 EU member states...
...draws 1,700 students annually to serve over 12,000 community members. Harvard does better than the rest of America: Of the 93 million volunteers nationwide, most do what pastor Eugene F. Rivers III scorns as "recreational community service"--baking cookies for girl scouts or baby-sitting for a neighbor. Only eight percent work in "human services" --in soup kitchens, shelters, camps and inner-city schools. Virtually all Harvard students fall into this latter category of real community service. Harvard students certainly care for and about the poor...
...Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamozov, Ivan tells his brother that he loves his neighbor, but only from a distance. "For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone... Beggars should never show themselves, but ask for charity through the newspapers... Children can be loved even at close quarters, even when they are dirty, even when they are ugly...
...scratched himself in public, we could watch it. Maybe he was undercharged for a pack of hair curlers once and neglected to tell the clerk about it. Interview everyone who has a grudge against him--old secretaries who had to correct his grammar on the letters they typed, the neighbor who had to deal with the leaves from the Hatch maple tree. Search his home. Maybe he has a secret fondness for donning embroidered platform shoes and elephant bells and lip synching to Barry Manilow. Why shouldn't the nation know about this...
...vineyard. (A restaurant would come later.) The homes came in all types and sizes: traditional, modern, even four with sod roofs. There was virtually no restriction on style, but all had to use solar heating. And there was one iron commandment: Thou shalt not block thy neighbor...