Word: northern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...northern city of Jaffna, 300 miles away, Jayamani Marianayagam ricochets between grief and anxiety as she recounts the fate of her son Jude Chandrakumar. Three weeks ago, the 17-year-old boy was practicing You Are My Rock, O Jesus on the organ in St. Mary's Cathedral when a street battle between two militant Tamil factions spilled through the doors and into the sanctuary. Mistaking young Chandrakumar for a wounded rival, guerrillas grabbed him. The boy's body was found that night outside the church, his legs broken, his fingernails missing, his head half blown away. "No mother should...
Despite that setback, Mitchell still travels to Scandinavia as often as he can to do field research, the aim of which is to analyze folklore theory and the history of that genre in Northern Europe, he says. "My life is split in two halves, but there is a synergism between them," says Mitchell, who just received tenure from Harvard after eight years of teaching here...
...Harvard, Mitchell teaches a Core course entitled "The Heroic Tradition in Northern Europe," nicknamed "Sub-zero Heroes" by students, and several undergraduate-level courses in the Departments of Scandinavian and Folklore and Mythology, where he is head tutor. Last fall, he taught a course about Strindberg and Ibsen, and in the past he has taught a course on the Scandinavian novel from 1865 to World...
Rank School Record 1. Michigan State 17-1-0 2. HARVARD 11-0-0 3. Minnesota 14-4-0 4. St. Lawrence Univ. 11-0-0 5. Northern Michigan 12-6-1 6. Maine 13-3-0 7. Boston 10-3-0 8. Lake Superior State 10-5-3 9. Univ. of Ill-Chicago 11-6-2 10. Denver 11-8-1 11. Cornell 6-2-0 12. Michigan Teach 10-9-0 13. RPI 7-3-2 14. Wisconsin 8-7-4 15. Michigan...
...Mississippi, who are never referred to by their first names, is not to typify realistically an institution, but to represent two basic, conflicting human responses to being cast by chance in a tragic historical drama. Anderson and Ward are investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers, two Northern college students and a local black -- a fictional case obviously inspired by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, workers in the 1964 drive to register black voters in the Deep South...