Word: neighborism
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...People don?t know much about Saudi Arabia. My neighbor, who is a graduate student, he asked, 'Are you riding camels at home?' Someone said, 'Did you bring your own oil with...
...That is a fundamental change from the situation before. For three years Iraq has been attacked by terrorists and insurgents. What happened after Samarra for the first time, in my view, was that neighbor attacked neighbor. With provocation and with the help of militias, perhaps, but basically neighbors attacked neighbors...
...Well, what you are pointing to - and I'm not confirming what you said that this is what happened, that neighbors pointed to another neighbor - is the ugly thing about civil war. That's precisely what happens: Neighbors fighting neighbors, and it's the worst kind of war. And this is a neighborhood where civil wars have taken place recently - look at Lebanon, Afghanistan. And in the discussions that we've had with the Iraqi leaders, we have pointed this out to them, that we see a certain trend in terms of polarization and that it needs to be reversed...
...welcome has been warm--"Everyone is so friendly," al-Dehaim says--but Marshall's Saudis marvel at their American schoolmates' near total lack of knowledge about their country. "My neighbor, he asked, 'Are you riding camels at home?' Someone said, 'Did you bring your own oil with you?'" says Ahoud Alqahtani, 20, one of the few Saudi women at Marshall. "We don't know a lot about their country," admits Justin Carpenter, 21, a student senator. "But I bet we're not as different as we thought we were...
...Season 1 (out on DVD), hairdresser Jill Tyrrell (Julia Davis) pursued the husband of her wheelchair-bound neighbor, murdered her own hubby and framed a man for his death. Other than that, she's a delight to be around. In Season 2 of this BBC sitcom, writer-actress Davis brings her antiheroine back to feral, scheming life. She's greedy, cunning and sociopathic, but for fans of dark comedy, Jill will kill...