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...grand opening on the weekend of January 25, New England Patriot Irving Friar, Celtic Robert Parish and a handful of other sports celebrities signed autographs. A staff member said that the Galleria was mobbed by throngs of fans...

Author: By Helen L. Limm, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Sports Museum Reopens in Cambridge | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

Uustal took a throw-in from midfield, and faked out three defenders on her way to the goal. At close range, she arced a shot past Friar goaltending phenom Jen Mead for the deciding tally with 30:44 gone in the first half...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Upset 20th-Ranked Providence, 1-0 | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

These performers are British; they were steeped from birth in high style and the seductive melody of theatrical rhetoric. But the leads -- Costner, Mastrantonio, Christian Slater as Will Scarlet, Micheal McShane as Friar Tuck, Morgan Freeman as a Moor displaced in Nottingham -- are all American, intoning flat varieties of American English. They sound like tourists stranded in Sherwood Forest. And they inadvertently give a new meaning to the story: now Robin and his band are vagrant colonials who save England from those who can actually speak the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stranded In Sherwood Forest | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Providence, a team which the Crimson defeated twice in a twin-bill at the Friar's home field earlier this season, is Harvard's opponent this afternoon. The Crimson (10-11-1 overall) will have to play a sharp game to complete the three-peat over this perennially strong Providence squad...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Batswomen Hope For Brown Tourney Crown | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...ignoring evidence that the Aztec and Inca empires were also based on forced servitude. The resolution virtually ignores a reality highlighted by the Catholic bishops' pastoral: that the evils condemned by the council were first noted, in angry detail, by early Spanish defenders of Indian rights like the Dominican friar Bartoleme de Las Casas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Good Guy or Dirty Word? | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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