Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thompson '88 tells a similar story. Thompson came to Harvard from Kenai, Alaska, where his nearest neighbor was more than two miles away. After a "horrible" freshman year, he transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara. But, like Pananen, Thompson reconsidered his original decision to leave Cambridge. The anthropology major will graduate in June, having written his thesis on a small group of commercial fishermen in southwestern Alaska...
...there is always one more thing to learn about the soul next door that not only renders that soul more distinctive, but also more worthy of our consideration. To paraphrase a certain cautious novelist: "Actually, with a little perspicacity, one might learn many curious things about [one's neighbors], things that made them so different from one another that [the generalized Neighbor], except as a cartoonist's transient character, could not be said to exist... No, the average vessels are not as simple as they appear: it is a conjuror's set and nobody, not even the enchanter himself, really...
...1/2- year-old war with fellow OPEC member Iraq, heartily endorsed the 5% solution. But Hisham Nazer, the influential Saudi Arabian minister, was cool to the proposal. His country's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran last week after years of conflict with its Persian Gulf neighbor did not help matters...
...strike, but fans of Hooperman and L.A. Law can hardly say they didn't get their money's worth. Police Detective Harry Hooperman talked a couple of potential suicides down from building ledges, negotiated a clutch of hostage crises and got his on-again, off-again girlfriend (and downstairs neighbor) pregnant. Over at L.A. Law, a mob boss was gunned down across a restaurant table from Attorney Grace Van Owen; Michael Kuzak, a partner in the firm of McKenzie, Brackman, watched a client get shot to death outside the courtroom after being acquitted of murder; and Senior Partner Douglas Brackman...
THERE is a Chinese story by Lu Hsun about a philosopher who is telling a parable to his acolyte. Three men are admiring their neighbor's newborn son. The first man complimented the boy, saying "One day, this boy will be rich." The second said, "One day, this boy will be a high official." The third, a bit more realistic, said "One day, this boy will die," whereupon the others beat him senseless...