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...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...
...front yard contains half a dozen spindly trees. The shade chokes out the lawn, leaving just mud and weeds. My neighbor??s dogs, which number between three and five at any given time and are always of the larger variety, wander around the front yard, growling at passersby. The entire mess is barely contained by an old chain-link fence, over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around...
Over last summer, the Planning Board reviewed the neighbor??s zoning recommendations and decided they were too “punitive,” according to planning board member Hugh Russell ’64. The planning board moved to amend the neighborhood zoning, to allow Harvard to build up to 45 feet on the Mahoney’s site—and leaving room for negotiations over taller buildings...
...From the neighbor??s point of view, the only thing worse than lawyers is rats,” she quips...
...neighbors will be able to freely encourage its economic growth in good conscience. Stringent economic sanctions have been externally applied to discourage and deter arms programs, but these would be obsolete if Kim abandoned these pursuits. Burgeoning prosperity in Japan and South Korea could enhance their neighbor??s weak economy, encouraging interdependence and creating greater incentives for regional peace. Moreover, the North’s promising recent market-based reforms would continue to pay off, potentially creating openness to further reforms that would combat the nation’s destitute poverty...