Word: northerner
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Stanford’s rah-rah style tempted Kendrick, but ultimately Harvard pulled rank. Sometimes the best brand in the business just can’t be beat. Come September, Kendrick found herself moving into Canaday Hall on the northern tip of Harvard Yard, a newly minted member of the Class...
Breaking with tradition hasn't bothered Magid. Born 40 years ago in the northern Sudanese village of Alrakabih along the Nile River, he studied Islam under African Sunni scholars, who included his father. Magid immigrated to the U.S. in 1987, when his ailing father came seeking medical treatment. Unlike many foreign imams, who find America's open society too jolting and withdraw to their mosques, he reveled in the cultural diversity. "I never had a Jewish friend until I came to the U.S.," says the gregarious imam. "And the questioning of all religions here helped me strengthen my own beliefs...
...Harvard hockey teams we’ve been in the past,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “It’s just a matter of getting some games under us, and getting used to what’s going on.”THE NORTHERN INVADERSSaturday seemed to provide the answer to the big question in the ECAC this season—has the balance of power shifted north?While Clarkson upset Harvard in Cambridge, fellow northerner St. Lawrence dominated Dartmouth for a 3-0 victory in Hanover.The Saints not only shut down...
...degrades. Shown by a digital projector, every movie, whether it's a grainy, black-and-white indie drama or a blockbuster killer-thriller, looks exactly as the filmmaker intended. Every time. The digital system at the Curzon is one of 238 being installed in movie theaters across Britain and Northern Ireland over the next two years by the government-backed U.K. Film Council (ukfc). It's the start of the world's first large-scale rollout of digital cinema systems, and leads the way for similar changeovers in the rest of Europe, Asia and the U.S. The goal: to bring...
...enthralls and sucks in the audience. His shark’s grin is as present as ever, and he wields it recklessly, bringing credibility to a character that would surely appear flat and lifeless in less talented hands. David Locke is a journalist covering a conflict in an unnamed Northern African nation. Bored with his work as he is with his life, he finds an unexpected boon in the death of his neighbor at his tiny hotel. Banking on his striking resemblance to the late Brit, he swaps passport pictures and sets off into his new life. Unfortunately...