Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clearly as, I don't want to say your landlord, but as your neighbor, it's in our interest to have Harvard be an active neighbor and not to turn inward," graves says...
Local people call their country "the Burundi cocktail." Its volatile ethnic mixture seems ready to explode at any time. Rwanda's next-door neighbor to the south is virtually a mirror image of that devastated country, threatened by the same passionate hatreds. As in Rwanda, Burundi's dense population is divided between two tribes, 85% Hutu and 15% Tutsi. As in Rwanda, Belgian colonialization hoisted the status of the Tutsi, who after independence slowly lost power to the majority Hutu. And as in Rwanda, the potential for ethnic violence has risen to the surface in the political vacuum left...
Though he is a Hutu, the former government's militia came to kill him in May because, Munyanziza says, he was not a member of the ruling party. The hit squad dumped him into a pit and threw rocks on him, but a friend rescued him. His next-door neighbor, Albert Rurangirwa, also a Hutu, is back in his house too, after fleeing in May. He learned that his father had been killed by militia, and "I don't even know where to look for my brothers and sisters." But since they all returned last month, says Munyanziza, "there have...
Strewn amongst the walkways that encircled the stage were vendors and activists hawking their wares. By far and away the most popular table was the Rainforest Action Network's neighbor, the Cannabis Action Network. Among petitions for the legalization of marijuana was an assortment of hemp products: shoes, rope, soap--everything but the dope itself...
...Corrina, Corrina" is generally entertaining, it seems a bit farfetched. Cross-racial relationships have become much more acceptable now than they would have been in the '50's. The film shows the irritation of Corrina's family with her ultimate choice to be involved with Manny, and his nosy neighbor makes it clear that she does not approve. But I could not help but think that while cross-racial relationships must have occurred then, this film is a bit of revisionist history. Or perhaps it's merely the hopes and wishes of a little girl who loves her maid...