Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia, Lindy Chamberlain reported seeing her nine-week-old baby Azaria taken by a dingo, a wild Australian dog. The baby's body was never recovered. Based upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie...
...billion deal that would form the nation's third-largest freight company. The new company will control some 29,645 miles of track serving most of the eastern U.S. The deal was cut as part of a push by CSX to stay competitive with rivals Burlington Northern and Union Pacific, both of which merged with rail systems in the past two years. Burlington Northern bought Santa Fe in 1995, while Union Pacific merged with Southern Pacific earlier this year. Each control over 30,000 miles of track. The news pushed CSX stock down four percent in early trading...
...breathlessly called the find evidence that Europeans had reached the Americas more than 80 centuries earlier than anyone had thought. The truth, say scientists, is that Caucasoid features, while rare, are not unheard of in the remains of prehistoric Americans. They can also be seen in ancient bones from northern Asia. There's no reason, say experts, to conclude this was some sort of Neolithic Christopher Columbus. As one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Pacific Northwest, however, it could tell anthropologists an enormous amount about the lives and ethnic background of the people...
Nice, no. Soulfully conflicted, surely. Neeson grew up Catholic in a small, rural hamlet in Northern Ireland. As a teenager he was torn between a passion for boxing and a love of theater. The world of Chekhov won out in the early '70s, when Neeson joined Belfast's repertory Lyric Players and then graduated to the renowned Abbey Theater in Dublin. There he first tackled drama that dealt with his country's fractious history--in his words, "a lot of Sean O'Casey." (The apolitical Neeson, however, still knew almost nothing about Collins when he came to the role...
Dole doesn't like the course of Haiti's shaky democracy, the fragility of what passes for peace in Northern Ireland, or whatever it is that North Korea and Cuba are up to. But neither does anyone else, including Clinton, and Dole is again unsatisfying when one seeks coherent alternatives to the President's approaches. The pattern is obvious: Dole opposes Clinton's policies because they are Clinton's policies--and offers virtually nothing realistic in the way of responsible options...