Word: northwesterner
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Ressner, 37, has sharpened his skills during a dozen years of covering show business. Raised in Springsteen country -- Lakewood, New Jersey -- he majored in film at Northwestern University, then caught the first flight to Los Angeles. From a starting job at L.A. Weekly, he rose to positions as senior writer at Rolling Stone and West Coast bureau chief at US magazine. Since he joined TIME a year and a half ago, his assignments have included the Paramount-Viacom deal, the O.J. Simpson case and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction...
Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready...
...much harsher criticism of CIA officers came from Nicholas Daniloff, director of the Northwestern School of Journalism and former Moscow Bureau Chief for U.S. News and World Report...
...find people, frustrated with the failures of the system, coming to absurdly simple solutions," said Bernadine Dohrn, director of Northwestern University's Children and Family Justice Center...
Rolling back most of the gains made by the Bosnian army in recent weeks, Bosnian Serbs pressed into the northwestern enclave of Bihac. The Serbs launched assaults from the north, east and west, prompting Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic to appeal to the United Nations and NATO for help. Key to the assault were Serbian jets from Croatia that bombed Bihac itself and another town, Cazin...