When Stewart Hartshorn, a fortune in hand from the sales of spring-roller window shades, bought land in Millburn Township in the 1870s, he envisioned "a harmonious community for people who appreciated nature".
LIKE many other Chinese companies, PetroChina makes much of its eagerness to promote "harmonious communities".
The Institute of Community Cohesion, set up in 2005 to promote multiculturalism and diversity, also believes that education is essential for harmonious communities.
On Friday, anyone exhausted by the effort of avoiding political conversations with that one uncle should consider a visit to Stars Hollow, Conn., the impossibly quaint and harmonious community at the center of "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life". .
"It's always been a harmonious community and I think some of what we've seen came as quite a shock really to the people of Heywood themselves.
It offers all key stakeholders an opportunity to repair the harm suffered as a result of the criminal offense and creates a social contract to build a harmonious community and strengthen the social fabric of the community.
Consider that the advantages of a close knit and harmonious community is far likely to last through natural disasters and other problems by helping each other through that similar faith identity or the values that the religion instills.
The wish for a harmonious community... is a wish to transform the roughness of utilitarian dealings in the marketplace, the courts and government administration into a neighborly conciliation.
But the tragedy of the Rahami family, which has been unfolding in the public eye since Ahmad's arrest Monday, underscores the limits of tolerance in even the most harmonious community.
Still, except for elections and other municipal affairs, the 11,866 people who live in Pelham generally consider themselves to be part of a single tightly knit and mostly harmonious community.
