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With these results, Harvard must sweep its opponents next weekend at Part II of the Ivies in order to share the Ivy League title. Facing a very strong Princeton team, Harvard will need an extraordinary performance from every fencer...
...Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, Scott Brown's stunning capture of Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, a spate of Democratic congressional retirements, the stalling of health care, consistently nerve-wracking economic news and steadily falling national and state presidential poll numbers, finding some political or policy victories to sweep aside the clammy shroud of failure is not going to be easy...
...admission that the movie lacked either Oscar gravitas or box-office clout. In vain did Paramount point out that mid-February was when The Silence of the Lambs opened in 1991, and all that film did was earn $273 million worldwide, back when that was real money, and sweep the Academy Awards. No, industry solons proclaimed, the Scorsese picture would all but shutter before it opened. Bring out the dead. (Read a review of Shutter Island...
...outlook is surprisingly bright for tonight’s contest. The Crimson is riding a wave of good karma after its first road sweep in 10 years, due mostly to the freshmen getting over their winter swoon: Casey won Ivy Player of the Week, Brandyn Curry carried Harvard on his back late in the Yale game, and both Christian Webster and Dee Giger found their stroke...
...players are not the only ones receiving distinctions this week. Coach Stone is poised to break the all-time NCAA career wins record. She needs one win this weekend to tie Laura Halldorson’s record of 337 wins and a clean sweep to surpass...