Word: northwesterner
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Bosnia's cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value...
...paragraph "statement of principles" providing for a group national presidency, a parliament, a constitutional court and "free, democratic elections." But the critical issue for any Bosnian peace, the disposition of territory, was not addressed. Even as the diplomats talked, the Bosnian army continued its offensive to retake sections of northwestern Bosnia captured by the Serbs...
Whitacre had also been dogged lately by suspicions that he may have lied about his education. When Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, elected Whitacre a trustee in May, the school said he held a master's degree in business from Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School. In fact, Whitacre earned his M.B.A. last year through mail-order courses from Kensington University in Glendale, California. A Millikin spokesman said the information about Kellogg came from "Whitacre's office" at ADM headquarters in Decatur; that left open the possibility that the company, rather than Whitacre, had pumped up his resume...
...effort geared up, the Army was eventually cajoled into establishing one flight-training school for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. Hundreds of applications flooded in. The blacks who entered the program were a stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman...
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Hamilton was professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University. During her tenure at Northwestern, Hamilton established herself as a research pathologist and bacteriologist...