Word: northerner
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...start of the 2004-2005 slate, 13 retained that distinction entering December. Only then-No. 11 Dartmouth (4-4-1, 3-3-0 ECAC) and then-No. 15 Miami (5-8-1, 3-6-1 CCHA), each a clear underachiever, have been toppled, replaced by Colgate and Northern Michigan...
...Northern Michigan, currently ranked No. 15, began the season ahead of the Crimson within the “also receiving votes” category, then slid into the top 15 when Dartmouth and Miami plummeted. The Wildcats’ record, 6-4-2, isn’t nearly so solid as Harvard’s 5-3-1, though. Only one of their wins has come against a team with a winning record, while this nationally ranked school has twice lost to and twice tied a sub-.500 team...
...course, the Crimson will have several opportunities to rectify all these oversights in the weeks to come. Five of Harvard’s next eight matchups pit the squad against opponents currently ranked—No. 11 Vermont, No. 10 Maine and No. 15 Northern Michigan, No. 13 Colgate and No. 12 Cornell—with a possible showdown with No. 1 Minnesota on Dec. 23 in the final round of the Dodge Holiday Classic thrown in as an added bonus...
...flooding into the country from China, according to North Korean defectors. In May, Kim took another big step back from greater openness when he shut down North Korea's new cell-phone system. That order came a month after a train mysteriously exploded in Ryongchon station, near the northern border, within hours of Kim's expected passage through the town on his way back from a trip to China. "Kim is still in control," said Peter Beck, head of the Seoul office of the International Crisis Group, a nongovernmental organization that studies security issues. "But he is under pressure...
When the shooting ended, one white man was dead, another wounded, and Sweet, his wife and their nine friends were facing murder charges. Their trial was a window on forces that were exploding across the U.S., including the migration of Southern blacks to Northern cities and the rise of the N.A.A.C.P., which saw Sweet's case as an ideal rallying point and brought in Clarence Darrow for the defense. Though the story ends with freedom for the accused, it was a dreadful episode and one nearly forgotten. Boyle brings it back to life brilliantly. --By Richard Lacayo