Word: northerner
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...Karzai won a comfortable victory in the October presidential polls, with 55% of the vote, but the process opened dangerous ethnic fault lines. Karzai was the overwhelming winner among his fellow Pashtuns, but he received less than 1% in the northern, Tajik-majority province of Panjshir. Washington can assist Karzai by speeding up the flow of foreign aid and by ensuring that it reaches the far corners of a country that has been ravaged by a six-year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into...
Rick Offsay, co-captain of the Harvard men’s water polo team, was one of the most powerful weapons the Crimson had in the water at the Northern Championships...
Later, I found out that the Bush administration wanted to pave forest roads through the Northern and Central Rockies that until this point have been lined with trees and untrammeled by the world. This includes areas that former president Bill Clinton banned from development. The forest that would be damaged includes 100,000 acres of the scenic Wyoming Range in Greater Yellowstone...
After an emotional, sudden-death victory over bitter rival Brown in the semifinals of the Northern Championships this weekend, the Harvard men’s water polo team fell to St. Francis in the program’s first ever Northerns finals, 16-5, yesterday...
Viva Bush! Unidos con Kerry! More than 42% of New Mexicans are Hispanic, and both candidates are furiously courting them. Bush won 32% of the Hispanic vote last time and is aiming to get to 40%. But Governor Bill Richardson is a strong Kerry ally. Kerry will win the northern third of the state, while Bush will take the southeastern third, known as "Little Texas." Both will try to take Albuquerque...