In this pleasant coastal community, a place of lush golf resorts and second homes, there is little to evoke Rwanda, a densely populated East African nation, the site of a devastating ethnic conflict in 1994.
For many residents of Goose Creek, a pleasant bedroom community north of Charleston, it was particularly disturbing that though blacks make up less than a quarter of the 2,700 students at the high school, two-thirds of the 107 students caught up in the sweep were black.
We have great neighbors and live in a pleasant established community that is in a convenient location for the family, with only an eleven-mile commute to downtown for my husband.
At the same time, in stark contrast to that image of Tak fighting the Chinese, I could see him as his neighbors saw him, a pillar of a pleasant genteel community, always to be depended on during local fund-raisers; an exceptional family man; and a successful executive at a major company.
So why then, is this pleasant little community so prone to drink driving?
I'm just back from a family reunion with 14 of my 18 cousins and siblings who are still living, in this pleasant resort community surrounded by lush cornfields and giant wind turbines that march Don Quixote-like across the flat landscape of northeastern Iowa.
Mr. Sockabasin lives in another Indian community, Pleasant Point, on the Bay of Fundy about 25 miles from the Canadian border.
Prospective buyers have learned that such prices are just about par for the course here in Roslyn Heights, a pleasant though unremarkable community where much of the housing stock is postwar Colonials and split-levels.
After driving to Los Angeles from Washington State in a van filled with weapons, ammunition and even hand grenades, Mr. Furrow parked a block away from the North Valley Jewish Community Center in the Granada Hills neighborhood, a pleasant middle-class community in the San Fernando Valley, and calmly walked into an area where there were summer camps and opened fire.
"Sometimes we were asked to deal with things that weren't very pleasant but the community needed help and that's what you are there to do.
