Word: northerner
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...translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. He closed the afternoon with a reading of ‘Postscript,’ from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship to a Catholic grammar school in 1951, leaving the farm for good. He began teaching...
...first step on American soil, and when the Dallas restaurant owner returned to Thailand, Kordsomboon relied on his connections to move to Boston to continue his career as a chef. “He specializes in everything. He has been working in all areas of Thai food—northern, southern, eastern, and western. He is skilled in Chinese food as well,” said Nuanchan Jitijaruek, a partner who currently helps run Spice and who translated Kordsomboon’s interview. “Ask him to cook Korean food and he will cook bulgogi...
...hundreds of thousands of people who live in and around the many small towns throughout northern Ohio might be shocked to learn that ?suburbanites and city dwellers do the fighting and hourly-wage work now.? Klein insults our intelligence, our work ethic and our values when he suggests that we live in a place where ?myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities.? Oh, I ?forgot-like our brethren in Pennsylvania, we embrace guns and religion to escape the harsh realties of our existence. Steve Mohr, Bucyrus, Ohio...
...hundreds of thousands of people who live in and around the many small towns throughout northern Ohio might be shocked to learn that "suburbanites and city dwellers do the fighting and hourly-wage work now." Klein insults our intelligence, our work ethic and our values when he suggests that we live in a place where "myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities." Oh, I forgot--like our brethren in Pennsylvania, we embrace guns and religion to escape the harsh realties of our existence. Steve Mohr, BUCYRUS, OHIO...
Most spas have names that conjure up an atmosphere of bliss and tranquillity. So I am a little taken aback by the sign outside the spa in the orange groves of northern Israel. It reads, ADA BARAK'S CARNIVOROUS PLANT FARM. Barak makes most of her income by showing off her plants, which eat everything from insects and reptiles to small mammals and schnitzel. She started grabbing one of the little snakes slithering in and out of the hungry plants' jaws and passing it around to visitors at the end of her act. And that...