For an east coast northerner, the anxiety that occurs during an LA shower is almost comedic.

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As General Bozize is a northerner, like Mr Patasse, he could split the president's support.

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Yet Mr Kohl, whose party also seems to have winked at tax dodges, is a thorough-going northerner.

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Mr Malloum, too, failed to end the war, and in 1979 he was replaced by a Libyan-backed northerner, Goukouki Oueddei.

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And when the Southern Republican sees a non-Westerner, he sees a Northerner.

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She must have guessed that, as a Northerner, I would prefer wheat.

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When it comes to reserving activities to holders of professional qualifications, Germany acts more like a stodgy southerner than a nimble northerner.

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The current kabaka's predecessor was driven into exile in 1966, when Milton Obote, a northerner and at that time the prime minister, ordered the army to attack his palace.

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