Word: northerner
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...battle of his own against what he calls the "cancer" of a tactical lawsuit. His company had drawn the attention of Dr. Malik M. Hasan, founder and chief executive officer of QualMed, a Pueblo, Colorado, managed-care company that owned an HMO that competed against Health Net in Northern California. To best grasp Hasan's delight in bold business maneuvers, one need only know that as a young medical student in Pakistan in the late 1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights of way of new highways revealed to him by a patient who happened...
...search for precedent, Harvard has been very clear and consistent in its evaluation of this troubled period in our national past. It was Harvard President Edward Everett who, along with President Lincoln, eulogized the fallen Union soldiers at Gettysburg. Memorial Hall was built not simply to commemorate the Northern dead but to honor all those who fought for the cause of the Union. Indeed, in his welcome to the returning Harvard men who fought for the Union, Professor James Russell Lowell declared...
...form in the Confederacy. My ancestors were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and the efforts of the Union Army, and we have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental brief for Robert E. Lee or for his kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with her husband a local clergyman, and doubtless she walked within...
...Though they say it is reconciliation, the hidden agenda is to legitimize retroactively a cause for which Harvard alumni fought against. The University associated with the Northern cause, including Oliver Wendell Homes Jr., and it is an insult to the memory of these people to memorialize the men against whom they fought," he adds...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Was it the wise protecting the wise? Asked to overturn Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's decision to protect the northern spotted owl, the Supreme Court denied the case without comment. At issue was whether some 6.8 million acres of federal lands in Oregon, Washington, and California could be classified as "critical habitat" by Secretary Babbitt under the Endangered Species Act without first filing environmental impact statements required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior...