Word: neighborhood
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...conspicuous, and anchored deeply in their personal histories. Clinton is at his best and most passionate talking about education, which gave him such a resume, and civil rights, having grown up in a segregated town where his grandfather owned a grocery store on the edge of the black neighborhood. Dole's maiden speech in the Senate was about the disabled. He will support any bill remotely related to Armenia: it was an Armenian doctor, Hampar Kelikian, who repaid his debt to his adopted country by rebuilding broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims...
WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
...there someone you wouldn't want to bring home?" Larson said. "Is there someone you wouldn't want to marry? Is there someone you wouldn't want in your neighborhood? If there is, you repent...
...Sometimes you can't win with this city," said Butscher, who complained about about Cambridge's notorious dearth of neighborhood parking...
...embryos and eggs. Yet it is not entirely clear what outcome the Jorges seek. Last month Loretta told the Register that if only her eggs were involved, she would press for joint custody; then the twins could shuttle between the two couples, who live in the same middle-class neighborhood. "If this is embryos," she added, meaning if Basilio's sperm were also involved, "definitely 100% I'm going to take those children." But when those remarks provoked public outrage and angry phone calls, Loretta stepped back. "I don't want to take them out of their home," she told...