Word: neighborism
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...Time is our ally. Certainly America needs to address the threat posed by North Korea, but the U.S. should deal with it through diplomacy, not immediate military action. Surely some may think that North Korea is a bigger threat than Iraq. But the threat is bigger only for its neighbor South Korea. Thomas Chang New City...
...It’s a friendly competition,” Oliveri said of the contest against his neighbor. “No hard feelings either...
Nguyen Gia Thieu's neighbors rarely saw him, except when they glimpsed his silver Mercedes gliding through the gates of his three-story villa in Ho Chi Minh City. His lifestyle?the house, the servants, the beauty-queen wife?befitted one of Vietnam's top entrepreneurs, but it infuriated the community. One neighbor snarls, "They are too rich to even look at ordinary people." So there was no sympathy on Jan. 7 when police arrested Thieu, 38, then raided his house, hauling off reams of documents and more than $250,000 in cash. The charge: his Dong Nam Telecom Trade...
...Vietnam, says Thai, that he's been called a "sucker" for bothering to pay them. In Thieu's neighborhood, people don't much care whether he's guilty or not. As one gleeful local puts it: "Everyone hopes police will seize all their property." So much for loving thy neighbor...
...With a war looming, there's not much point in dreaming about such luxuries, anyway. Nadam remembers the last war, when he drove a Land Rover for the military officers in Baghdad. His most vivid memory is having to bring home the body of a neighbor who had been killed by a bomb in the city center. "I carried him in my hands, and he was covered in blood," he recalls, with a shudder. "I pray to God I never have to do something like that again...