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...Neighbors in Irvine describe Hadayet as a quiet man who was married to an outgoing and friendly woman. "I saw about 80% more of her than I did of him," says Dan Danielewicz. "He seemed friendly, but maybe a little awkward because he wasn't as proficient at the language or not as acclimatized as the wife and kids." But Hadayet had also recently complained to the management of his apartment complex about his upstairs neighbor. After Sept. 11 the neighbor had hung a U.S. flag and a Marine Corps flag from the balcony of his apartment, above Hadayet...
...fact, most snobbery is local. We're amused by the excesses of rock-star taste on MTV's Cribs, but we get genuinely snippy about our neighbor's tacky lawn ornament. Snobbery, Epstein suggests, is all about asserting our superiority, and we do that mostly with those around...
When I get to Bozeman, I meet Holland, her husband and eight other Lewis-and-Clarkheads at a neighbor's property, where we put up an American flag and set up a campfire right beside the East Gallatin River. R.G. Montgomery, a retired biology teacher who gives lessons on Lewis and Clark and does the occasional bit of re-enacting, shows up in period dress--moccasins, a red kerchief over his head--carrying a box of reproduction supplies. Since the Corps of Discovery is the ultimate Boy Scout story, most of these guys, all of whom are grandparents, are only...
...explode. Part coming-of-age tale, part mystery, part ghost story, Alice Sebold's first novel (she's also the author of a memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing - a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill - and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops it. What happens...
...phone in the other room, I moved down the couch - he could see me from where he stood - and tried to pee on top of Lindsey in her carrier. This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted to hear, and to everyone who ever said "Susie has a lot of spunk...