Word: neighborly
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It’s not unusual for Harvard’s science programs to best MIT’s. And last week’s announcement that preeminent neuroscientist Steven Pinker would leave our neighbor down the river for our ivied halls reinforces Harvard’s dominant position...
...least in theory, not because we are warmongers, or even because we harbor resentment from the Persian Gulf War. Almost paradoxically, it is because we consciously feel our proximity to Iraq—because we are aware of the risks to safety inherent in having Saddam Hussein as a neighbor...
Abbas, 30, a carpenter and father of two, says his whole family was mowed down at once. His story: fedayeen in civilian clothes rolled an antiaircraft gun into his backyard. Abbas, having seen his neighbor protest and get a bullet in the head in front of his children, didn't say a word. "They started firing at American helicopters," he says. "The Americans started returning fire ... We had to leave...
...conducive to spreading the killer virus. Sammy Mak, a 31-year-old clerk, spent her first morning in the holiday village disinfecting her cabin's toilet with bleach. She was told that relatives of afflicted residents would be separated from the rest of the quarantined citizens, but a neighbor whose mother contracted SARS has been assigned a cabin nearby. "It feels like being in prison," Mak says...
...political party, you know." I wandered off, but later dropped by again to see how they were doing. With the help of a passing translator I asked them what they thought of Ansar's approach to Islam. One of them stuck his bottom out, and his neighbor exploded with laughter...