Word: neighborism
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...subjects as accounting and leadership skills) as well as the launch of the two-year program. "Part of our thinking was to be competitive and open up a whole new market of applicants," says David Van Zandt, dean of Northwestern Law, which is vying for students with its prestigious neighbor, the University of Chicago School...
...Romania's southern neighbor is a different matter. Already the E.U.'s poorest member state, Bulgaria has been counting on substantial E.U. help, including $11 billion of structural assistance over the next five years, to maintain economic growth and encourage foreign investment. "These reports are a reality check," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said today. "The institutions and systems are now in place but tangible results need to be achieved in investigating, prosecuting and judging cases of high-level corruption and organized crime...
Kojak, TV series ... fatal shooting and robbery of elderly neighbor...
...grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Ames' last screen role. In all, he appeared in more than 100 films. His television work also had a fatherly bent, as in the short-lived series Life with Father and Father of the Bride. His best- known TV role was the neighbor Gordon Kirkwood on Mr. Ed. A founder of the Screen Actors Guild at a clandestine 1933 meeting, Ames served in a variety of union posts, including national president...
...gossip blog that I will probably (no, definitely) be made to regret mentioning, can be incredibly mean, but they're also often funnier and cleverer than the posts they comment on. Last August Gawker ran an item about the rapper Foxy Brown, who was accused of hitting a neighbor with her BlackBerry. The commenters spontaneously generated an entire mini-subculture consisting of variations on this single item: "This is like the time Spinderella stabbed me with her Treo." "MC Lite [sic] beat me about the head and upper shoulder with a stack of faxes." By October, the Foxy Brown post...