Word: neighborism
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...knows who was responsible for the attack. Some of the bystanders surmised it may be payback for Jordan's offer of asylum for Saddam's daughters. Others though it was just deserts for their neighbor's alliance with the U.S. A bearded old man said he didn't care why, though he firmly believed it was pro-Saddam guerrillas. "Look at what they've done, why did they do it here?" he lamented. "The mujahedeen could have done it somewhere else. The only dead are Iraqis...
...supposedly setting off the next week to visit a dying brother in Yugoslavia—was actually going away to serve a prison sentence. Some searching on the Department of Justice’s website revealed he was expected to arrive at a Pennsylvania prison. Google work by a neighbor showed more—that he was in fact a member of the Genovese crime family ring and had been convicted of trying to extort money from the New York Times’ printing facility...
...What's changed? Leaders in both countries have realized that the political advantage of stoking anger against their neighbor is diminishing. So India and Pakistan remain in a tentative rapprochement, and Kashmir savors its best tourism season in years. Alas, the violence won't stop: many other militants, fearing abandonment by their Pakistani handlers, are hardening their stances. But Kashmir has seen rivers of blood before. Judging by last week, it is now witnessing a rarer outbreak of hope...
Only 17 years ago, the court upheld Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick; but last week the court dumped its own precedent, voting 6 to 3 to throw out a Texas law prohibiting private homosexual conduct. The Texas case arose in 1998 when a neighbor with a grudge called the Houston police to investigate what he claimed was a disturbance next door; the cops arrived to find John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner in bed together and arrested them under Texas' antisodomy laws. The men were each fined $200 and spent the night in jail. Once the Supreme...
...family values and declining morality among today's youth. But anyone steeped in Christian code words recognizes that the show is little more than a thinly veiled religious sermon?and the authorities either haven't caught on or think the program is too innocuous to shut down. "Loving your neighbor is very important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide its religiosity, spirituality is still only reluctantly covered by the print media and television. "Most TV stations are too conservative," says Ulil...