Word: neighborism
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...that truly loving this country means more than just professing love or expressing pride. It means showing your love through deeds and earning your pride by leaving the country healthier than you found it - whether at the scale of public policy or in the smallest moments of being a neighbor or a parent...
...oxcart. Both his legs and his back were broken, and his spinal cord was partly severed; he is now paralyzed below the waist. Local observers have little doubt that pro-government militias are to blame. "Moyo is a well-known MDC activist, a strong organizer, very popular," says a neighbor, Simon. "They knew that crippling him would also cripple...
...withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, Pakistan backed the Taliban by offering training, funding and weapons. In 2001 President General Pervez Musharraf severed the ties, but many observers believe that some elements within the military have retained links, either for ideological reasons or in order to keep control over their neighbor. "I do not believe it is centrally directed or accepted," says a Western military official in Pakistan who was not authorized to speak on the record, "but I do believe there are individuals at the lower field levels who are maintaining ties with extremists, Taliban and maybe even al-Qaeda...
...relatively high-and-dry there's a strange disconnect between what we see out our windows and what we know is going on just a few miles away. As I type from my Des Moines home on the afternoon of Friday the 13th, I see my neighbor mowing the lawn, dogs barking, kids playing, normal life. It's sunny and dry. But I've just received an e-mail that in downtown Des Moines, about 10 minutes away, a voluntary evacuation is underway as water levels on the Des Moines River fast approach the top of the levee. Worried friends...
...government of South Africa, Zimbabwe's neighbor to the south and the nation most directly affected, averts its gaze. But with the runoff presidential election between Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai due on June 27, why aren't the U.S. and other democracies making an attempt either to get Zimbabwe to hold genuinely free elections (admittedly, something that by now may be impossible) or to delegitimize in advance what will certainly be undemocratic results? It may be true, as Madeleine Albright has noted in the New York Times, that the idea of national sovereignty as inviolable has regained luster. Yet what...