Word: neighborism
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...from Oklahoma; Vidal's father was FDR's director of air commerce. His stepsister was Jackie Kennedy, and through her he became a friend of Jack Kennedy. Vidal himself was an unsuccessful candidate for a congressional seat in 1960, a race in which he was endorsed by friend and neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of "The Best Man" came straight out of this background. "I showed the play to Jack [Kennedy] and he gave me a couple of lines," Vidal recalls. "There's one I have Senator Carlin say :'I just want you to know I'm a hundred percent behind...
...thing Japan was always happy to admit was best made in America. But a teen killing spree is starting to give the lie to the idea that Japan is preternaturally immune from violence. Last week a 15-year-old boy on southern Japan's Kyushu Island slipped into a neighbor's house after dark and attacked six slumbering family members with a knife one by one, killing three. "Oh, no, not again," said Mikiko Takahashi, 46, the mother of two boys. "Our society must be out of order...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE Does the U.S. have to worry about its nearest neighbor's ability to protect itself? Some recent actions of the Canadian military are cause for concern...
...floor, just when the delegates and the dozen or so TV viewers least expect it, Joseph Lieberman will surprise everyone by introducing Al Gore's real running mate and Malibu's best-kept secret: Elvis Presley, alive and well and surprisingly trim due to daily tennis matches with his neighbor, Johnny Carson...
...grew a little more worried about him, and he knew it. It all famously came to a head at Christmas 1972, when he was home visiting and took his little brother Marvin, then 16, to a friend's house. They rolled home late and well oiled, banged into a neighbor's garbage can and roused Bush's father, who was reading in the den. He sent...