Word: northeast
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Suddenly the students were receiving support from deaf people across the U.S. The reason is that this 100-acre campus, only a mile northeast of Capitol Hill, is a Mecca for the hearing impaired. Since it was founded by an Act of Congress in 1864, Gallaudet has become one of the world's foremost training centers for the deaf. And yet it has never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf...
Police are not the only ones striking against the dealers. Last month two overzealous Northeast residents were charged with arson after burning down a crack house in their area. Both men confessed, saying that several neighbors had chipped in to buy the gasoline used to start the blaze...
...breed of D.C. drug dealer does not always kill his enemies. Consider the case of Patrick Monfiston, 20, who last Christmas Eve was found "badly burned" in a motel room in the northeast sector. "They put him in a bathtub and turned on scalding water," says an agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "As his skin was peeling off, they took turns urinating...
...light of the "Animal House" reputation of many college Greek houses, this weekend's annual Northeast Panhellenic and Intrafraternity Conference in Baltimore has made the changing role of fraternities and sororities on campus the main topic of debate...
...There is certainly a lot of coversation about getting back to the basics of what we originally were meant to do, like education and leadership, as opposed to being just a social center," says Patrick Farley, executive director of the Northeast Intrafraternity conference...