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...refused. "My mom would get mad at me," he said. With a little encouragement from Klaric, the boy finally climbed out of his temporary fortress and sneaked out of the house through a side door, whispering all the while on a cordless phone. Did he know a neighbor who might be willing to walk through the house and check for an intruder? Klaric asked as the boy hugged the phone outside. He thought of a retired man. "Would you like to ask him?" Klaric coaxed gently, adding, "Call back and tell me what happened." A few minutes later...
...almost a routine night for native constable Simeon Tsnakapesh as he patrolled the streets of Davis Inlet, a ramshackle village of about 500 Innu Indians on Labrador's north-east coast. Alerted by a neighbor's complaint, he tracked a group of noisy youths to an abandoned wooden shack near the ice- locked government wharf. Prying open the door, the cop found a horrifying scene: six youths, ages 12 to 14, sniffing deadly gasoline fumes from green garbage bags on the floor of the unheated building. "You couldn't hear nothing but the wheeze from the bags," relates Tsnakapesh...
...underground economy. For the wealthy, that may mean employing a live-in nanny, but not withholding taxes or asking to see a green card. For the less well- off, it may come down to paying a teenager to baby-sit in the afternoons or slipping cash to a neighbor who watches the kids. Anyone lucky enough to have found someone caring, trustworthy and affordable is not going to let a few tax laws wreck the arrangement that makes family life possible...
Well, The Crimson found this lard idea a little hard to swallow, and my mom suggested that maybe when I came home for Thanksgiving she'd invite our neighbor, the psychiatrist, over for dinner. I got the hint, so I gave up on the idea...
...Boston Housing Authority is considering whether to ask the Department of Housing and Urban Development for $50 million to renovate the Mission Hill housing development, a neighbor of the Medical School...