Word: northerner
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...adult life. "It was so wonderful getting together again that I think the same enthusiasm shines through," says De France. Yet her own tastes lie elsewhere: "American and French cinema are wonderfully creative and entertaining, but they lack the hard-edged, at times brutal messages, themes and humor of northern cinema culture." She says she'd love to make such films for directors like Denmark's Lars von Trier, Britain's Ken Loach or fellow Belgians (and brothers) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - a move that could extend the appeal of De France well beyond la France. - By Bruce Crumley/Paris...
...political wing - indicated a willingness to talk to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government. In January Otegi had offered the group's support if Zapatero opted to become "the Spanish Tony Blair," a reference to the British PM's efforts to secure a Northern Ireland peace deal. Zapatero said he was willing to listen to Batasuna, but only once "the noise of guns and bombs comes to an end." And then boom - first in Gexto near Bilbao on Jan. 18, then in a hotel near Alicante on Jan. 30, then last week. "It looks...
...army has launched a fraud investigation into the mysterious disappearance of an American contractor in Iraq and the killing of a co-worker shortly afterward, Defense officials tell TIME. On Oct. 9, 2003, Kirk von Ackermann, 37, was driving alone in northern Iraq when he pulled off the road with a flat tire and phoned the Kirkuk office of his employer--Ultra Services, based in Winters, Calif.--for help. A colleague arrived and found the car but not Von Ackermann. There were no bloodstains or bullet holes in the vehicle. And Von Ackermann didn't seem to be the victim...
Low’s music, which bears similarities to Elliott Smith, the Red House Painters and Radiohead, is a perfect mirror to the sheltered angst and icy beauty of the town from which they emerged. Duluth is a small city in northern Minnesota, packed on a hill overlooking the western tip of Lake Superior. Its population has dwindled as the iron mines have dried up, and young people move on in search of the metropolitan lifestyle Duluth fights to insulate itself from. Buried in the snows of long winters, residents hole up in the bitter cold with wool and addiction...
...then there is that one thing that Grumet-Morris and his teammates—be they southern or northern or Midwestern or Canadian—all understand perfectly clearly: Harvard has not won the Beanpot Trophy since...