Word: neighborly
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Officials are on high alert for the anniversary of the attacks on America after revealing last week that they had received credible threats of Sept. 11 strikes on foreign and domestic targets within Pakistan. The warning was not a surprise, given the number of terrorist attacks that Afghanistan's neighbor has suffered this year. In February, U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered; in March, five people including two Americans were killed in an Islamabad church; in April, President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped assassination; in May, 11 French citizens died in a bus bombing; in June, an attack outside...
...find an escape hatch from the corporate scandals that stalked him this summer in the spirit of higher callings and new priorities. He addressed the attack of the robber barons by saying, "You know, the bottom line and this corporate-America stuff, is that important? Or is serving your neighbor, loving your neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself?" But people who do not live in New York and Washington have been hit more directly by the attacks on the markets than by the attacks of last fall. Enron's collapse turned its hometown of Houston inside...
...anemic quality and have often been halting or confusing. When he tried to take the volume up, he compared the CEOs to the terrorists, which wasn't quite right either. At one point he implied the corporate problems were not as important as the simple matter of loving your neighbor. "We can't pass a law that says you'll love your neighbor like yourself," Bush said. "And we can't pass a law that says you will be honest." This has struck his oldest allies as odd. "The whole corporate-finance scandal plays to his sense of right...
CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of the February kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam; in San Diego. He faces a death sentence or life in prison without parole...
...SENTENCED. MICHAEL SKAKEL, 41, to 20 years to life in prison for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel, nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel, testified for the first time on the day of sentencing, tearfully saying he was innocent. During the trial, a prosecution witness testified that Skakel had told him: "I'm going to get away with murder, because I'm a Kennedy...