Word: northerners
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Rudenstine's family background is unusual for a Harvard president, most of whom have been of Northern European, Protestant origin. His father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Russia, and his mother is an Italian-American Roman Catholic...
...this novel could have shared some of the uproar that has descended on Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Here is a wealthy, morally rudderless white male stalking through a city, in this case Chicago, looking for trouble. Parker Jagoda, a successful real estate developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker wants more. He puts personal ads in local papers, and bears an odd grudge against the women who respond...
...figure has yet surfaced around whom the competing factions can easily rally. Among the secularists, the most popular is General Hassan Naqib, 62, a former army deputy chief of staff who broke with Saddam in 1978 and three years later led a failed revolt of Kurds and Muslims in northern Iraq. Like other exiles who have spent many years outside Iraq, however, he may not have a large enough following at home to produce a stable regime...
While it does not rain much at the Disney parks in California and Florida, it certainly does in northern France. Euro Disneyland's designers are building special covered waiting areas for the comfort of visitors standing in line to buy tickets, and will provide a variety of audiovisual entertainment to help them pass the time...
Last Wednesday, this regionally oppressed resident of northern Virginia lashed out at all those insensitive people. People like President Derek C. Bok, Kirkland Master Donald Pfister and me. Our crime? We had the gall to criticize Kerrigan's actions. We had the nerve to point out the flaws in her disingenuous arguments. We made her feel marginalized...