Word: neighbored
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...suppose that there's an opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone...
...taking a holiday break. Trie, 48, has played a small but supporting role in Clinton's life for more than a decade. The two men met when Trie ran a Chinese restaurant located near the Capitol in Little Rock named Fu Lin (in Chinese, it can mean "enrich your neighbor"). Clinton became a regular at Fu Lin, which hosted an unusually generous luncheon buffet. A friendship sprouted, and Clinton named Trie to the Arkansas State fire extinguisher board...
...Harris used to be on welfare and now works at the Carter Center, where her two children are in day-care programs. "If I didn't work here, I would still want my children here," she says. "[Otherwise] your child could sit at home all day or at the neighbor's home watching TV. That would be my worry--that my child's not learning enough...
Perhaps no people have suffered so tragically in as much obscurity as the people of East Timor. For more than 20 years since the tiny former Portugese colony was brutally annexed by its neighbor Indonesia, the genocide and error that the East Timorese have endured has been completely ignored by the West. Only recently has the terrible story of this former nation been acknowledged, most notably when two Timorese activists were awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize...
...government has not yet admitted the extent of its involvement in allowing Indonesia to ravage its neighbor nor issued a coherent policy for moving East Timor back to self-determination. In fact, Indonesia is an even closer ally to the U.S. today because of its thriving economy and open markets than it was under Ford's tenure. The U.S. should be one of the leaders in exerting world pressure on Indonesia, even if only for moral reasons...