Word: northeastern
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...their responsibilities. Yet they themselves face threats too. "Street vendors are also using violence to fight against chengguan," He says. "Some have even formed mafia-like societies." On April 8 a city-management officer in the southern city of Shenzhen was stabbed to death by a vendor from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Witnesses told reporters that the chengguan officer and a partner had smashed a spicy-skewers stand where the man worked...
...Southeast Asia. By the end, he was reduced to his core group of about 250 loyalists. The body of Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony was recovered first and displayed on television within hours of his death. Prabhakaran's life ended in Mullivaikal, a strip of land on the northeastern coast, a place not much different from where he began...
...fast crews and that it was going to take an extraordinary race even to medal,” senior co-captain Anna Kendrick said. “To be less than a second behind a national champion crew was really exciting for us.”Brown, Dartmouth and Northeastern rounded out the finishers in the Grand Final. By beating Brown, the No. 4-ranked school in the nation and the No. 1-seeded school going into this event, the Black and White has a strong chance of being in the top 16 to qualify for the NCAA championships taking...
...square-kilometer area still controlled by the Tamil Tigers, which have been fighting for a separate ethnic Tamil homeland since 1983. The Sri Lankan government says there are no more than 15,000 to 20,000. The LTTE holds only this small strip of territory on Sri Lanka's northeastern coast within an area designated by the Army as a so-called safe zone. Over the weekend, the Army announced that it had re-demarcated the safe zone, chopping it down to just 2.5 km long. The Army did not specify how it informed civilians that their safe area...
...women, after a grueling 15-13 loss to the eventual champion Northeastern in the semis, the Quasars came back Sunday with a vengeance, topping Brown and Middlebury to stay alive in the tournament. The victory over the Lady Pranksters proved to be one of the most thrilling matches of the weekend for Harvard, as the squad opened the contest on fire to grab a 7-2 lead. Although Middlebury fought back the Quasars held on for a 15-13 win, pitting the Harvard women against host Dartmouth with a plane ticket to nationals at stake...