Word: moseses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday morning, somewhere up above, the Hoop God was presiding over the Great Basketball Court In the Sky, receiving reports from his earthly representatives. The angel responsible for the Ivy League, Angel Isiah Moses, came to the throne.
"Excellent!" the Hoop God exulted. "My brother, Pete Carril, will enjoy another trip to the NCAA tournament. But Isiah Moses, you do not appear pleased. What troubles you?"
Moses pulled a no-show on the Harvard wrestling team, and the Crimson could conjure no miracles to part the Red sea--Cornell swamped the Crimson, 34-5, at the MAC Saturday.
MIT Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach attempted to put some of Sakharov's accomplishments in perspective. He compared Sakharov to the biblical Moses and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sakharov was "unique in world history as a great scientist, humanitarian, developer of the atom bomb, and human being," Fesbach said.