Word: northerner
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...watches with bemusement as showers of fragrant rose petals rain into his lap. It's a scene that has been repeated about 20 times in the past hour, and has at times threatened to bring the Congress Party election campaign to a complete halt as it crawls across the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, from Rahul's constituency of Amethi into Sonia's neighboring seat of Rae Bareli. Sonia has abandoned her own car after marigolds clogged the fan belt, and Rahul has lost a signet ring and some skin off his carelessly outstretched right hand. "This is chaos...
...Sonia Maino never wanted anything to do with politics. She was born in the small village of Orbassano in northern Italy, and at 19 met 21-year-old Rajiv Gandhi in 1965 at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England, where they both were undergraduates. "For him, there was never anybody else," says a family friend. "For her, too." The couple married in 1968 in New Delhi. Rajiv became a pilot for Indian Airlines and Sonia threw herself into running the house for her Prime Minister mother-in-law Indira, managing the servants and organizing receptions under the lemon trees behind...
...official puts it, Greek Cypriots may be facing de facto permanent partition of their island, barring them from one of the most fertile and picturesque parts of their beloved homeland. Cyprus has been keeping international negotiators busy since an Athens-backed coup triggered the invasion of the northern part of the island by Turkish troops in 1974. Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort to find a solution...
...long post-turkey trek to the North Country will be challenging, as will an appearance at the Mariucci Classic (commercially known as the Dodge Caravan Classic) against Northern Michigan and either Minnesota or Merrimack...
...aides. Sources tell TIME that Rice plans a 20minute opening statement to make the case for the Bush team. She's likely to stress the Administration's efforts to overthrow the Taliban before 9/11. She told TIME last month the Bush team was out not only to "arm the Northern Alliance in an important way but also to find and develop relationships with southern tribes so that you could get the Taliban where it hurts." She is said to be galled by Clarke's critical comments because, say Rice associates, she went out of her way to keep the career...