Word: neighborism
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...Theresa Raycroft isn't buying it. Her apartment has a bird's-eye view of Blommer's, where walk-ins can sample free chocolate. A neighbor for nearly 20 years, Raycroft says she's puzzled why anyone would complain about a little cocoa dust in one of the last heavily industrialized sections of downtown, where trucks, traffic, construction and noise are much more offensive...
...very simply: it was not, and would never become, Nepal. "Women who will have sex with anyone. Pot, marijuana. People sleeping in the street"-I can still remember a Bhutanese official's voice shaking as he described the "low-class" foreigners his nation had watched streaming into its Himalayan neighbor. Nepalmed by what had come in through its open doors, a Kathmandu that had, up till 1955, barely seen a road was cluttered with Nirvana Tours agencies, 50-cents-a-night flophouses and restaurants promiscuously serving "lasagna, tacos, chow mein, borscht and mousaka a La Greece...
Like it or not, everyone has a take on Harvard.Your neighbor seems impressed that you go here, for one. You personally think that the classes are just “amazing.” And your parents are generally uncertain why they pay 40,000 dollars a year for you to learn about Dinosaurs, their relatives, and the Fountains of Central Italy.Last year, though, the Harvard name got so big that even baseball’s brightest stars began expressing opinions about our humble institution.Shortly after future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux recorded his 3,000th strikeout, current Cooperstown tenant...
...Evangelical Call for Action," exhorts Christians to battle global warming, "which will hit the poor the hardest because those areas likely to be significantly affected first are the poorest regions of the world." And it draws a parallel with ongoing Evangelical concerns: "With the same love of God and neighbor that compels us to preach salvation through Jesus Christ, protect unborn life, preserve the family and the sanctity of marriage, defend religious freedom and human dignity, and take the whole gospel to a hurting world, we the undersigned evangelical leaders resolve to come together with others of like mind...
...producers like Venezuela - but says the Citgo program does give Chavez a chance to showcase "one of our revolution?s most important principles: the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor." He adds it also reflects "the kind of cooperation mechanism we?re using with our neighbor countries in Latin America." Many of them - especially Cuba, whose communist leader Fidel Castro is one of Chavez?s closest allies - get cheaper access to Venezuelan crude as part of Chavez?s campaign to forge greater Latin American integration and less economic reliance on the U.S. Last Friday, in a move that...