Word: moran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That was the case with the high school student represented by Micki Moran, a family-law attorney in the Chicago suburbs. In 1999, nine days after Columbine, the student, a ninth-grade boy from Wheeling, Ill., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, though the police considered more serious charges, including mayhem. Classmates thought of him as an "unpopular nerd," Moran says, and made fun of his black clothes. One day at lunch, a group of kids approached him; one said, "You're like those kids at Columbine." The boy responded, "I could be." On the strength of those three...
...fellow Performing Arts student, Meagan Moran, 16, was also won over last summer, after she had taken a dance class while attending a program at Duke University. There, she reported, "swing was the hottest thing, and kids from all over the country were learning from the counselors." Dancing with her was Stephanie Skupien, 17, who had noticed that in her high school, "swing is so popular that there's a lot of peer pressure to learn the right steps...
...Palo Alto, Calif., board member Tomas Moran, it's operating more like a totalitarian government. Moran is among six dissenters who insist they're being locked out. Matthew Lasar, a professor at the University of California at Riverside who wrote a book about Pacifica, says the longtime advocate for openness and democracy is running itself "in a way that could be described as secrecy and fiat...
Both "ecstasy" and "Sammy the Bull" Gravano came to Phoenix the same way: by stealth. But when they met, in the darker corners of this sprawling, newly built city, the result was explosive. Gravano arrived under the pseudonym Jimmy Moran, placed in secrecy by the federal witness-protection program. The former underboss of New York City's Gambino crime family and a hit man responsible for 19 murders, Gravano became the government's most important witness against the Mob. His testimony put 37 top-level mobsters behind bars and earned him a $1 million price on his head. Flush with...
Harvard swung their bats aggressively against Big 12 pitcher Lana Moran, but the Crimson managed just two hits. Springer's bunt single to lead off the fourth and McKendry's double deep off of the left-center fence were the only hits Harvard could manage...