Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marshall waited until late last Tuesday night, when the media army had abandoned its post outside Wen Ho Lee's house, to visit his neighbor. He found Lee, the suspected nuclear spy for the Chinese, bewildered but stoical. "He said he was going to leave it in God's hands," Marshall recalls. "He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and doesn't understand why he's been singled out. It's as if whatever the Fates decree, that's what has to happen...
...Marshalls describe him, Lee has lived a life of middle-class bliss in White Rock, 10 miles east of Los Alamos. He likes to fish, cook and tend his backyard garden, according to the Marshalls. He has been, they say, an ideal neighbor--outgoing and never happier than when working in the sun. Says Jean: "He's the sort of person who, when he paints his house, will say, 'Do you want me to come over and paint yours?'" Most of all, the Marshalls say, Lee has been committed to the education and welfare of his two children...
...scholastically bright, incredibly strong 15-year-old who narrates her own story with a colorful, spirited voice that refuses to falter or halt regardless of all that she faces: the ever-increasing violence and crime in her inner-city Buffalo neighborhood, the blatant drug-dealing of her next-door neighbor, the fact that her child, Imani, is both daughter and granddaughter of single mothers...
...Concord Museum, a natural first stop, provides a cram course in transcendentalism--the belief that the beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of divinity--as well as exhibits about transcendentalist writers Emerson, Thoreau and Bronson Alcott. They were all friends and neighbors, and the galleries reflect their coziness. A room replicating Emerson's study contains his circular writing table and books often borrowed by Louisa May Alcott. Next door is the Thoreau gallery, with the desk, bed and chair from that famous rustic cabin Thoreau built on Emerson's land at Walden Pond, as well as Thoreau...
Flynn--who has battled a scandal involving campaign finance improprieties in the last months--admitted the difficulties caused by the past "beggar thy neighbor policy" among the 15 EU member states...