Word: northerner
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Radcliffe rugby attracted its largest crowd in memory for last fall's championship match of the Northern Rugby tournament, a 3-0 win over Yale that clinched a place in this summer's four-team national tournament...
...Usually we have about 30 people, a lot of the fan support is our team, but at the Northern Rugby finals, it was amazing, it was this thick band of people," Maggie S. Hatcher '98 says. "I was running down the field going "I know that person, I know that person,' and then I realized I had better not look over...
...accumulated ice and snow. In California alone, 95,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers throughout the state wash out bridges and turn suburban streets into canals. The entire towns of Yuba City and Marysville, located on either side of the Feather River in northern California, had to be cleared out, as a levee broke five miles south of the two towns, sending a wall of water tumbling toward them. Numerous highways, many providing the only links between populated areas, have been all but washed away. In Northern California, Interstate...
HALF MOON BAY, California: He was a Northern California resident in his 40s who had been a science student in the Midwest. And he was always sending packages wired up with batteries. In short, Tickle Me Elmo designer Mark Johnson-Williams was exactly the sort of guy the FBI was looking for in the Unabomber case. Johnson-Williams says the Federal agents looking for the Unabomber investigated him for six months. "I was always sending batteries and headless dolls in the mail. I think that's what caught their attention." No word on whether agents confiscated any of the popular...
...Irish troubles, as the English call the battle between Protestants and Catholics for control of Northern Ireland, are at heart a fratricidal family squabble. So maybe a few steely mothers can stanch the blood sport. Some Mother's Son, which Terry George directed from his and Jim Sheridan's script, documents the 1981 hunger strike led by IRA soldier Bobby Sands (John Lynch) and the attempt by mothers of Sands' jailed cohorts to keep their boys from dying. Despite her natural caution, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), an apolitical teacher, is persuaded, by an IRA sympathizer (Fionnula Flanagan) and by loyalty...