1.   But focusing on electoral politics and economic development distracts us from the truly ugly side of our southern neighbor.

2.   And they are being successful enough to make opponents fear that caring, consensual Canada might become a clone of its southern neighbor.

3.   A sad but common reality of American school life has trickled to its southern neighbor.

4.   But hurricanes do hit the Bahamas, if not as frequently or with the same fury as they usually batter its southern neighbors.

5.   But in the same breath, Nigerians, famous for their fighting spirit, declare they will soon catch up to and surpass their southern neighbor.

6.   Even so, the American president was careful to say that the old rules -- of U.S. dominance over its southern neighbors -- no longer applied.

7.   Every time our southern neighbor has gotten in financial trouble, the U.S. has bailed it out with a big wad of dough.

8.   Fox, speaking to a joint session of the Legislature in Sacramento, touched on the economic, social and cultural ties that bind California and its southern neighbor.

9.   For years, the American relationship with its southern neighbor has been a partnership of unequals, with Mexico the prickly, reluctant supplicant, America the condescending benefactor.

10.   How did a Jewish priestly male chromosome come to be found in a black, Bantu-speaking people that looks very much like its southern African neighbors?