Word: neighborism
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...It’s hard to fault the police,” he said. “Under 95 percent of the circumstances, they did what was appropriate.” Kennedy left his house around 1 a.m. the night of the incident when fellow history professor and neighbor John L. Gaddis called asking him to check up on his wife, Gaddis told the Yale Daily News (YDN). “I was out of town, the phone at my house wasn’t working, and professor Kennedy, a very good neighbor, got up in the middle...
...goodwill. Indeed, since 1947, when India won its independence from Great Britain, relations between the United States and world?s most populopus democracy have often been rocky. India enjoyed close relations with the Soviet Union during most of the Cold War, while the U.S. often sided with its bitter neighbor Pakistan. India's nuclear program - the country detonated its first atomic weapon in 1974 - also made for tension over the years...
...Congress and to India?s parliament won?t be simple. Many in the U.S. fear that the agreement undermines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which India has not signed. And in India, where the nuclear program is a deep source of national pride and the ultimate defense against nuclear neighbor Pakistan, there is considerable unease about international inspectors scrutinizing India?s prized program...
...passport to also get an identity card passed the House comfortably. Two days later, so did an equally contested plan to establish a criminal offense of "glorifying terrorism." At the end of the week, Blair was still in 10 Downing Street, Brown was still his next-door neighbor, and London's journalists were left wondering how they would keep their readers' interest in the longest-running soap opera in politics. And yet, and yet ? Though the Prime Minister may again have emulated Mark Twain and disappointed those who have announced his demise, the Blair era is indeed slowly coming...
...These tantalizing riches risk falling into the same chasm, however, as the unpaid billions owed to Russia by Saddam Hussein's regime, and other Moscow-backed rogue regimes. Russia risks ending up unpaid, friendless - and facing a volatile nuclear neighbor, connected to terrorist groups and armed with Russian weapons, right on her unstable southern border. Some return to glory, indeed...