Word: neighborly
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...Americans can live with any of these options. The main lesson we should take from our neighbor's troubles is not to import them here. Multiculturalism and bilingualism, once planted, grow like kudzu. Our struggles over our racist problem have lasted 200 years and included a Civil War. Let's not add problems that have made even Canada interesting...
...pick Canada. That is a tribute to Canadians. For decades, Canada has heeded the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" and done the opposite. Given a choice between the headlines and a decent life, Canadians cede the headlines to Haiti. Americans should start thinking about their dull neighbor though, because there is an even chance that this year or the next, Canada will join the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia on the list of former countries and become two neighbors...
...arrogance deserted me one rainy evening in my junior year. A few weeks before I'd written of finding a neighbor bludgeoned on the sidewalk near my home a year earlier. As the mist distorted the light on Mt. Auburn Street, I met a friend of mine from freshman year, walking with her father...
Whether the spotted owl qualifies for such exceptions is a matter that rests with the laws, whether we like it or not. Such a question would never arise if your neighbor was burying toxic waste next door on his "private property...
...then has the power to act to the detriment of the "less worthy" group. So the Concerned Christians at Harvard can have their opinions, but don't expect to be welcomed into my dining hall when you come to campaign for power to act. Whatever happened to "love the neighbor as thyself," anyway? Beth Raina Trilling...