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...miles down the road from the border guards' shack where Lieut. Colonel Reso Chachua wards off the winter winds of the Caucasus, a thick rope stretches across a boundary that neatly illustrates what it means to have Russia as a next-door neighbor. On Chachua's side of the rope lies Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union that declared its independence in 1991. Less than 200 yards on the other side lies Abkhazia, a former part of Georgia, which won its as yet unrecognized independence last year by breaking a Moscow- mediated cease-fire and, with the help...
Membership is limited to professors andofficers of the University, plus some retirees."We're not here for the public," say Heinrich A.Lutjens, general manager of The Faculty Club. Forcomparison's sake, Lutjens likens The Faculty Clubto its next-door neighbor, the Freshman Union, aswell as to house dining halls. "[The Club] is justlike Harvard Dining Services--it's not open to thepublic, it's for the students...
...pledge -- not only to keep the North Koreans from producing nuclear weapons but also to take away any they might have built and hidden. The solutions are neither easy nor obvious. Proposals for U.N. economic sanctions probably would be blocked in the Security Council by China, Korea's next-door neighbor, which considers such pressure unacceptable. Clinton might be tempted to use American military power as a last resort, but air strikes, for example, could trigger another full-scale Korean war, and if the North has a bomb, it is probably hidden. That leaves direct, bilateral diplomacy, the course Washington...
...these e-mail James Bonds'? They might be your next-door computer science concentrator. Or your Cheshire Cat English teaching fellow. They could even be your most beloved one who just wants to make sure you actually are who you claim...
This is not just a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, defense advocate in action. This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, George Mitchell of next-door Maine. In rows of seats in the auditorium behind him are the entire congressional delegations of Maine and New Hampshire, the Governors of both states and 12 busloads of Portsmouth shipyard workers and their families. His real audience, however, is the group of people sitting at the long table across from him. They are members of the presidential commission that is deciding which of the country's military bases to close or cut back...