Word: northeasterner
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...Almost 80% of Iraqis are Arab, while some 15-20% are Kurds - a distinct ethnic group with its own language, history and culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled...
...Harvard community is striking, almost maddening.BROOKLYN TO BURRITOSLast Thursday, Blanks. were a bit out of their element at a four-school “Battle of the Bands,” held at Paradise. A Tex-Mex fast food chain brought them to face off against representatives from Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College. The chain’s PR team christened the event “The Rice and Beanpot,” and a burrito-eating contest was staged between the bands’ sets.A pair of radio shock jocks bleated out phallus/burrito jokes to the crowd...
...matter the outcome, yesterday would be a historic night as Boston College and Harvard each sought victory. A win for the Eagles would mark their first ever women’s Beanpot championship, whereas the Crimson would tie Northeastern for the greatest number of consecutive championships with eight straight wins. At the end of regulation, when all was said and done, BC shut out Harvard to win its first ever Beanpot, 2-0. The Eagles (16-9-4) came out early with a desire to etch their names in the record books. “My hat?...
...evening’s early game, as further fodder for subscribers to the notion of newfound neutrality, Boston University, a first-year varsity program, dominated Northeastern, the all-time leader in female Beanpot crowns with...
...gusts of wind and dumped over a foot of snow in Harvard Yard, essentially locked down the entirety of Massachusetts for five days, Gomes said. It may provide some comfort to Harvard students that most other colleges in the Boston and Cambridge area have similar snow policies. Officials at Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College said that closure due to snow is very rare. However, unlike Harvard—which appears to have been devoid of snow days except for the three days in 1978—officials at these schools said their universities on average close down...