Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bostonians, the Northern invaders, left Russellville with their tails between their legs. We'd stopped in Russellville because we were looking for quaint details, for contact with real people. But we found a Pizza Hut, not a down-home diner. And even though we found a true Southerner under that red roof, we couldn't stomach what her question told...
Nannies From Utah, says President Judi M. Rogers, "places full-time nannies mostly on the east coast." Rogers advertises in the yellow pages of Manhattan, New Jersey, Washington D.C., northern Virginia, Baltimore and Boston phone books to target families which might need an 18 to 22 years-old nanny...
These programs range form lecture-visits and student-discussion/meetings with such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
Israeli authorities have long feared that the intifadeh, the Palestinian uprising in the territories, would spread to the country's 710,000 Arab citizens, who make up 14% of the population. Now they are wondering if the February murders, near the northern kibbutz of Galed, were just an opening act. Leaders of the Arab community are at pains to stress that the attack was an aberration, that their people remain loyal citizens of the state. But no amount of oath swearing can dispel the truth that the Arabs of Israel have + become increasingly radicalized, both by the spirit...
...battle began in January as the Khmer Rouge moved to seize more territory before the U.N. begins disarming rival forces. Khmer Rouge units under the ruthless leader Ta Mok cut Highway 12, severing the major link to the northern province of Preah Vihear. The Khmer Rouge, whose 1975-79 reign of terror resulted in more than 1 million deaths, spurned repeated U.N. mediation efforts, as did the Phnom Penh regime. A midweek parley seemed to break the ice -- for now -- and a U.N. squad was dispatched to the disputed turf. But the U.N. cannot impose peace in Kompong Thom...