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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UMass has only one six-footer on its roster, junior forward Jenny Moran. From there the size of the team dips considerably...

Author: By Peggy L. Yeh, | Title: Can You Say Rebounding? | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...airstrip not to capture the smugglers -- both of whom escaped -- but to protect them. Last week an investigation by Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights, aided by videotapes of the scene taken by U.S. Customs agents flying overhead, concluded that the local regional commander, General Alfredo Moran Acevedo, bore the major responsibility for the deaths. Arriving at the scene with reinforcements, after receiving at least two telephone warnings that his men were shooting at drug agents, he continued the attack. Although the report charged that Moran, his four top assistants and 14 soldiers had violated both military and civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Why Did They Open Fire? | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Harvard's new president, though himself an Earthling, should tear down the offending banner and forcibly enroll the culprits in Introductory Astronomy. Let's put the "universe" back into "University." Jeff Moran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Put The Universe Back Into The University | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...think [making Dudley House a graduate center] is bad," says Jeff P. Moran, a graduate student in American History. "It's bad, in part, because the persistent belief among undergraduates is that graduate students are bathed in leopard spit, especially when they are teaching...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: A Shot in the Arm | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

Among the painters of this myth were George Catlin, friend of the explorer William Clark and indefatigable painter of native tribes; George Caleb Bingham, that vigorous orderer of American genre scenes; the landscapists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; and a host of lesser figures, who also played their part in the creation of a heroic imagery of national conquest. And here the difficulty rises, for Americans still wish to believe in the "historical" truth of their icons, which is what such pictures have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How The West Was Spun | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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