Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northern Div. Tournament...
...only made matters worse. During the bloody 8-year conflict, Iraq supported the Iranian Kurds opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran, in turn, supported the Iraqi Kurds opposed to Saddam Hussein. Throughout, Saddam's regime waged a merciless war on Kurds, including the notorious chemical weapons attack on the northern Iraqi city of Halabiya in 1988. The Kurds united in rebellion against the Iraqi regime in 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, when the Western powers established an enclave where 4 million Kurds would be protected from Saddam. But even as the allied forces protected the Kurdish...
...Chicago police, those masters of irony, rioted. They left their vehicles, marked WE SERVE AND PROTECT, and lumbered out to beat the demonstrators into Jell-O. Hard by the northern limits of their depredation we found and find a statue of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, famous 17th century hophead and remittance man. La Salle thought he had discovered China on that spot, and wrote to tell the folks at home...
...woman who had been accepted to the school but could not afford the $16,000 it would cost for the first year, they jumped in. The woman, like the fourth new female cadet, has not released her name to the press. But this foreign-born student living in northern Virginia came so highly recommended that Langhorne Anthony Motley, class of '60, who had contributed to the school's legal defense fund during what has come to be known as the Faulkner Debacle, shot off E-mail to some 120 members of the Washington area alumni club. When the woman enters...
...that the collapse of any semblance of democracy in Bosnia threatens to cement the ethnic division that sparked the war in the first place. The group's opinion carries significant weight, as its chairman is highly-regarded former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, now President Clinton's adviser for Northern Ireland. "In all parts of Bosnia, there is no freedom of expression, no free press, little or no voter education, and indicted war criminals remain at large," reports TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Some opposition parties, notably one led by Bosnia's staunchly multi-ethnic wartime prime minister Haris...