Letting the "Air" out of the NBA by Michael Morrison We all knew this day would eventually come, but that certainly makes the pill no easier to swallow. On January 13, Chicago Bulls…
PAPPAS, Michael James, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, N.J., December 29, 1960; graduated, Alma Preparatory School, Zarephath, N.J.; attended Seton…
business executiveBorn: 1957Birthplace: New York She grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. When Whitman entered Princeton University, she planned a career in medicine, but she became an…
(Encyclopedia) Drayton, Michael, 1563–1631, English poet. The son of a prosperous tradesman, he received his educational training in the house of Sir Henry Goodere, where he served as page. There he…
(Encyclopedia) Cresap, MichaelCresap, Michaelkrēˈsăp [key], 1742–75, American frontiersman and soldier, b. Allegany co., Md. A Native American fighter, he was accused by Thomas Jefferson and others…
(Encyclopedia) Crichton, MichaelCrichton, Michaelkrīˈtən [key], 1942–2008, American novelist, screenwriter, and director, b. Chicago, grad. Harvard Medical School (1969). He wrote several thrillers…
(Encyclopedia) Cudahy, MichaelCudahy, Michaelkŭdˈəhēˌ [key], 1841–1910, American meat packer, b. Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. He went (1849) to Milwaukee and after 1856 worked for meatpacking firms. In the…
(Encyclopedia) Davitt, MichaelDavitt, Michaeldăvˈĭt [key], 1846–1906, Irish revolutionary and land reformer. He joined the Fenian movement in 1865 and was imprisoned three times by the English for…
(Encyclopedia) Dahl, MichaelDahl, Michaeldäl [key], 1656–1743, Swedish portrait painter. In 1688, after traveling on the Continent, he settled in England. After the death of Kneller in 1723, Dahl…
