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...GOOD OR ILL? Not for good. I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake. It sets an example for every little nation in the world, when offended by the next-door little nation, to go to war with them. All they've got to do is point to the United States and say, "Well, the great power of the U.S. says that's what we ought...
...novice in the top office and radical forces still playing on the xenophobic resurgence, such as Indian Leader Felipe Quispe, who has assembled his own “Indigenous Congress” outside the Bolivian capitol, the situation is far from settled. With far left Hugo Chavez leading next-door Venezuela into financial ruin, Bolivia stands particularly vulnerable; rumors of Chavez’s involvement in this latest uprising should be enough to rouse U.S. attention to this region’s fragility. If America learned nothing else from the last Brazilian economic crisis and its extraordinary domino effect...
...beginning Oct. 30) is more complex than its root-of-all-evil premise in a way that suits an economy in which there's plenty of anxiety for everyone. The dirty secret in most rich-people soaps is corruption. In The O.C., it's insecurity--from the next-door neighbor, who has defrauded his investment clients to maintain his family's lifestyle, to the Cohens' charming but nerdy son Seth, who is proof that money doesn't equal social acceptance. Creator Josh Schwartz says the show "wasn't an attempt to cash in on the political zeitgeist," but, he adds...
...packed up to return to Cambridge this September, the prospect of these first impressions coincided with the image of my next-door neighbor’s house, the exterior of which is notoriously run-down. The more I thought about these two things, the more I resolved to keep that image in my mind this fall. My neighbor’s house illuminates an important aspect of first impressions: our opinion of others tends to rest heavily on how well these people seem to match their surroundings...
...hometown lies on the dense outskirts of Philadelphia. The houses on my block are closely packed, and our backyards are about the size of my single in Pfoho. Which is fine. My family grows potted plants on the porch, and we keep our backyard tree trimmed. My next-door neighbor, however, has not made the same aesthetic decision, and for this she creates and suffers under a variety of problems...