Word: neighborism
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...Duvalier's] eight years of power, the onetime country doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly...
During this period Massino forged an alliance with a Howard Beach neighbor and natural rival, John Gotti, then a rising enforcer in the Gambino clan. "They were running in the same area of Queens," says Colgan, "doing the same things, hijacking trucks, selling stolen goods." Twenty years later, Gotti's recommendation helped make Massino the Bonanno boss...
...nosy neighbor in all of us, FUNDRACE.ORG lets you peek at the political donations of the folks on your block. Just plug in a name or an address (or browse the interactive maps), and you'll see who has given to which presidential candidates. The residents of 770 Park Avenue in Manhattan, for example, went big in 2003 for Kerry, Dean and Edwards, giving $38,000 total to the trio. At 300 Crescent Court in Dallas, Bush was the big winner, bagging $31,000. A word of warning: searching for friends and neighbors is addictive. --By Joshua Macht
...Trading Spaces, the golden rule keeps things friendly. But in a new TLC spin-off, Home Free, viewers decide which couple best redesigns a neighbor's home. The winners get their mortgage paid...
...housecleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman. If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... Spotted through her day are blessed moments of relief or dark thoughts of escape...