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...photos. As he boards the bus on Jan. 26, he looks out the window at the small group of friends and relatives who have come to wish him luck. "I registered that moment like a photograph," he recalls. Abdi Salan spends the first five days of his journey heading northwest by bus to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. A Somali friend of the family offers him a place to stay, and he begins asking around about how to make his next move. He knows Sudan...
Harvard will need play like Corriero’s when it faces No. 8 New Hampshire tonight at home and travels northwest for a two-day doubleheader against No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth Friday and Saturday. The Crimson’s last game against the Bulldogs was a battle for the ages, in which Duluth shattered Harvard’s dreams of the national championship with a 3-2 double-overtime...
Upon graduating from high school in 1999, Davey was awarded a Washington Promise Scholarship, given by the state to high-achieving low income students planning to study at approved in-state institutions. However, he received word he could not use the money a month into his first year at Northwest College, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God church, due to his choice to major in theology in the hopes of becoming a minister...
...Arkansas, that excitement emanates primarily from one company: Wal-Mart. State officials say Wal-Mart alone was responsible for bringing 3,000 jobs to northwest Arkansas in 2002--in part because its biggest vendors maintain a presence near its Bentonville headquarters. A study by the University of Arkansas projects the population of Benton and Washington counties (which include Fayetteville and Bentonville) will nearly double by 2025, to 680,000. Unemployment in the region is about 2.5%, less than half the national average...
...campus violence appears to have been tinged with a peculiar admixture of nationalist pride and developing-nation shame. Chinese students at Northwest live eight to a room in nonair-conditioned dorms. Their foreign classmates are sequestered in far cushier private digs with hot showers. Chinese students described their Japanese peers as aloof, but none interviewed by TIME had ever talked with one. "I see them in the cafeteria," says an economics student. "They always wipe their tables after they eat. Chinese don't do that so I think they must look down...