Word: nomad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baikal. His father Yesugei was poisoned by enemies and his widowed mother Hoelun chased away from their tribe with her brood, including her eldest, nine-year-old Temujin. The outcasts ate field mice and marmots even as they fought off thieves out for their horses, the most precious of nomad property. Bitterness cultivated a heart of iron. After a half-brother grabbed a fish he had hooked, Temujin would kill the offending sibling in a hail of arrows. He never showed remorse. His mother was furious at the waste of a potential soldier in the revenge she envisioned. "We have...
...Session, Saafir's been busy. Between teaming up with Ras Kass and Xzibit (who'll headline the Lyricist Lounge show in Boston on the 18th) to form the Golden State Warriors crew and recording Trigonometry, his second album, under the pseudonym Mr. No-No, one wonders where the Saucee Nomad has had time to come up with the tight lyrical flow and musicality a worthy hip-hop album necessitates. The short answer: He didn't. The Oaktown native's third effort is flat and largely uninspired, quite the disappointment after his much lauded freestyle battle with Casual...
After the speedy shutdown of an August 7 riot, Cambridge police step up their late-night drug arrests and confiscations in the Square. Needless to say, store owners look forward to the return of the Harvard student--rather than a nomad--population in September...
Owned and staffed by Tibetans, the cozy restaurant has a menu displaying Tibetan specialties such astsamthuk(nomad's soup) andkishu changkul(Tibetan apple cider sprinkled with cottage cheese...
...nights giving way to three months of absolute dark. That seasons affect our sense of order is reflected in the fact that doctors speak of seasonal affective disorder. And though the pattern of the skies is still felt on the pulse and in the bones of every farmer and nomad, those of us immured in 14-story office blocks, under fluorescent lighting, need Easter eggs to remind us of the day: if we can't go back to nature, we have to let nature come back...