Word: northerner
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...trip’s itinerary has been changed, however, so that the students will avoid the northern parts of the country near the Lebanese border...
...anything, and to let our friends know that we were okay. While at the Internet cafe, I got a call from the [Harvard] Study Abroad office. [The woman on the phone] told us that to get out of the country we had to get to a hotel in the northern suburbs of Beirut in an hour...
...real reason to believe that an Israeli warship plying the Mediterranean to enforce the Israeli Defense Force's naval blockade of Lebanon was in danger. Hizballah may have been busy shooting rockets - primarily 122mm Kaytushas with an estimated range of 12 to 17 miles - at towns in northern Israel, but Israel's intelligence agencies had no indication that the militant Shi'ite group had anything in its arsenal that could hit a ship at sea. That all changed when an Iranian-supplied C802 missile slammed into the deck and killed four soldiers. "This was a huge intelligence failure," says...
...sheer normality of the scene. Young people hanging out and flirting? Check. Bad American pop music on the loudspeakers? Yeah, got that. Families playing peek-a-boo with their kids over menus? That, too. It was a typical Lebanese scene and one that would be instantly recognizable in, say, northern California. It was easy to forget that just a few miles down the mountain roads, people could suffer an Israeli air strike at any minute - in fact, if there had been any bombings, we would have had a great view...
...well as outsourcing! We can't get a break. Joseph Michael Simasek Morganton, North Carolina, U.S. Your reporting got bogged down in Bombay and Bangalore, but no description of booming India could be complete without a look at such cities as Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Jaipur. After all, northern India encompasses the wonders of the Taj Mahal, a growing software industry and the country's first shopping malls for the average consumer. Jayanti Jha Chandigarh, India You did not mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken...