Word: northerner
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...India's highest religious leaders; on charges of abetting, conspiracy and suppressing evidence in the contract killing of temple official Sankararaman in September; in Mahbubnager, India. Saraswathi is the leader of a Hindu monastery in the pilgrim town of Kanchipuram and a mediator in the Hindu-Muslim dispute over northern India's holy site of Ayodhya. His lawyer calls the charges baseless...
When Amar C. Bakshi ’06 founded an arts program for disadvantaged children in northern India last year, he had to organize most of the logistics for the program, which sent 11 Harvard students to the country, himself...
...more than once in his arrest and imprisonment. After the outbreak of civil war in Nigeria in 1967, Soyinka tried to negotiate a cease-fire with the Ibo secessionists. The government accused him of conspiring with the rebels and detained him, without trial, at the notorious Kaduna prison in northern Nigeria where he spent two years in solitary confinement...
Before the Northern Division Championships, Eric Byrd was more familiar with the bench than with the net. While the sophomore had played in a handful of games, he normally entered the game when the men’s water polo team had a sizable lead and was able to play without the enormous weight of a must-win situation on his shoulders...
After Hill Street came a string of dramas that broke with the procedural format to tell complex stories with deeply developed characters: St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, Wiseguy, thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, NYPD Blue, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, Ally McBeal, The West Wing. This is not to say that the '80s and '90s were some kind of Renaissance--we have not forgotten Models Inc. But these shows believed that drama was first about character--fleshing out a set of people, week after week--and that human behavior was ultimately a more engaging mystery than any murder...