Word: neighborly
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...bungled hit has had consequences far beyond those envisioned by its planners. Relations between Israel and Jordan, the Jewish state's friendliest neighbor, were nearly severed by an enraged King Hussein. The U.S., similarly, was angered by Israel's foray just as Washington was delicately trying to restart negotiations with the Palestinians. What's more, the Israelis, to repair the damage they'd caused, were compelled not only to provide an antidote to save the life of the man they had meant to kill but also to release from one of their prisons Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual...
Nevertheless, Durant, a Central Square resident and an almost-lifelong Cantabrigian who bought buttons and big, plastic storage bins with his family from Woolworth, expressed sadness over the loss of a long-time and much-beloved neighbor...
...Promise Keeper, augur a refreshing, selfless transformation. Promise No. 7 commits members to obey the great commandment in the Gospel of Mark: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength...and Love your neighbor as yourself." It is a sentiment both innocuous and bracing...
Emotional intimacy came late to Carson as well. Lear's account delicately suggests that Carson discovered great passion only at 46, and with a married woman at that. Carson poured a lifetime's pent-up feelings into her letters and encounters with Dorothy Freeman, an amateur naturalist and Maine neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson...
...advice to his son on masturbation ("Don't do it in the shower"). Yet the film's lesson is that, God help us and them, we are our parents. The kids and their folks share all kinds of little sins, from shoplifting to casual sex to peeking in a neighbor's medicine cabinet. Home, the film says, is a school where we mostly learn bad habits...