Word: neighborly
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...Harvard isn’t currently interested in purchasing the property,” said Mary H. Power, a senior director of community relations for Harvard, who was not at the yesterday’s meeting. “But as a neighbor, Harvard has an interest in ensuring that the future of the property is compatible with the campus...
...South African team during the wilderness years, "would not just be a bad day for cricket, it would be a bad day for international sport." Others argue that it would be a bad day for cricket if any World Cup matches are played in Zimbabwe, South Africa's neighbor to the northeast; playing there, they say, would be a tacit endorsement of Robert Mugabe's repressive regime. Though South Africa is the tournament's principal host, a few matches are set to be played in Kenya and Zimbabwe. And since Christmas, a succession of British ministers have called...
Still, Newman, 77, projects a relaxed authority that downplays the drama's sentimentality and stiffens its philosophical spine. His now wispy body and white hair make him more grandfatherly than ever. But he comes across less as a sage or authorial god than as a matter-of-fact neighbor who just happens to have stuck around long enough to tell the story. It's in keeping with Wilder's paean to those mundane details of life that we take for granted--and that pass away all too fleetingly. "You know how it is," Newman says, leaping at the line...
...external military threats - its topography alone makes it a difficult country to contemplate invading. Its primary security concern is the domestic threat of Islamist terrorism, and obviously the SCUDs have little use in that battle. Despite recent rapprochement, Yemen has long had a tense relations with its northern neighbor, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh will share Washington's dismay at the news that the government in Yemen is trying to import medium-range missiles from North Korea...
...want a sure-fire conversation killer in Shanghai, mention the 2008 Olympics being hosted by Beijing. Shanghai residents are so sick of hearing about their northern neighbor's success that local officials had to be reminded to put up signs congratulating Beijing after it nabbed the Games last year. Now, Shanghai has a marquee event of its own to celebrate. Last week, the city won the right to host the 2010 World Expo?adding another bauble to its gaudy and growing list of tourist attractions. Already under construction is the world's first commercial magnetically-levitated train line. Shanghai also...