Word: neighborism
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...hear his neighbors tell it, Daniel Boyd is one of the most upstanding citizens of Willow Springs, North Carolina. "If he's a terrorist, he's the nicest terrorist I ever met in my life," one resident told reporters after Boyd, a 39-year-old drywall contractor, was arrested on July 27 - along with six others, including his twenty-something sons, Dylan and Zakariya - for allegedly plotting "violent jihad" overseas. According to the indictment, Boyd has spent the past three years stockpiling weapons in his rural home, recruiting and training would-be suicide bombers and orchestrating trips to Gaza, Israel...
Other winemakers are becoming intrigued. After Marionnet created a cuvée from the abandoned Gamay de Bouze, young neighbor Julien Courtois of Clos de la Bruyère created his Elément-Terre of pure Gamay de Chaudenay. The two are undoubtedly the only cuvées of their kind. And using the traditional oxidative vin de voile method - in which casks are only partially filled, allowing yeast to grow on the wine's exposed surface - Courtois has transformed ancient Loire varietal Menu Pineau into an ethereal wine with a bouquet of hazelnut and mouth of caramelized apple...
...congressionally appointed committee overseeing the Treasury's bailout efforts. In a 2007 article in the journal Democracy, Warren argued for what she called a Financial Product Safety Commission. But the idea isn't exclusive to her. Canada, which did not suffer the subprime woes of its southern neighbor, created a consumer financial agency in 2001. Australia and the Netherlands have taken the more ambitious step of consolidating all consumer and market oversight under one financial regulator while leaving soundness to another. Last year when he was still Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson endorsed this approach in his blueprint for regulatory reform...
...someone's house, they've been barging in,'" Whalen said to the dispatcher. "And she interrupted me, and that's when I had noticed, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all, to be honest with you. So I was just calling because she was a concerned neighbor, I guess...
...Forum and Association of Black Harvard Women barbeque in the Quad following a heated discussion on the Cabot House email list in which many expressed skepticism that the picnickers were actually Harvard students—the same sort of skepticism that may have compelled Gates's neighbor to phone in a burglary when she saw a black man attempting to force open a door...