Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University seems regretful but not repentant: President Neil L. Rudenstine would not make any promises that Harvard will change the way it conducts real estate purchases in the future. Nor should he. But becoming part of a community demands responsibility and sensitivity. Harvard can and should be a good neighbor and make a positive contribution to the community of Allston...
...major part of their argument--that white racism has largely disappeared--rests on the answers that whites give pollsters when queried about intolerance. It's an axiom of the business that people give pollsters answers they believe to be socially acceptable. "Even Jesse Helms wants a black neighbor--as long as it's Colin Powell," says political scientist Andrew Hacker...
...charred and hollowed from the 1967 riots. But a fledgling enterprise zone has sparked hope that new housing, businesses and jobs will flow into the area. Thus Guyton's suggestion that the street be turned into an artists' colony has generated little enthusiasm. "It is an embarrassing eyesore," fumes neighbor Anthony Dicus. "Nobody will want to invest here...
...Lovely is the tale of two souls who are "mentally and emotionally retarded," Nick Cassavetes says. "They have one talent: they can love each other really good." Eddie, a small-time punk, is away when the pregnant Maureen is assaulted by a neighbor. Driven nuts by the news of her beating, he shoots a paramedic and is hospitalized for 10 years. In the interim, Maureen has married Joey (John Travolta), but that doesn't matter to Eddie when he gets out. He just wants his honey back...
...toughest part is yet to come. Governing is more difficult than protesting. How the next few years play out in Mexico will be of immense importance to the U.S., since this neighbor is one of our largest trading partners. We can best help by supporting Mexico's own efforts toward economic, social and political reform and by rejecting the attempts of some of our politicians and media to cast this largely admirable and complex country in one-dimensional terms. JOHN J. ST. JOHN Fairfax...