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Winners of 13 straight Ivy league contests, including a 38-7 massacre of Harvard last year, the Penn Quakers were looking Saturday to clinch their fourth consecutive Ancient Eight crown...
Penn (6-1-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy) needs to win only one of its remaining two contests to clinch a share of the title, but the Quakers stand to clinch their second consecutive outright championship if they can get by Harvard today...
...video conglomerate to be called Fox Inc. The company will have three divisions: the 20th Century-Fox film studio, a Fox station group comprising Murdoch's own six outlets and a Fox television network to sell programming to independent operators not affiliated with ABC, CBS or NBC. To clinch the deal Murdoch still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission for his purchase of the TV stations. The agency's vote, scheduled for last week, was postponed because of protests from public interest groups that have asked questions about Murdoch's financial condition and his programming plans...
...Cardinals defeated the Dodgers, 7-5, yesterday to clinch the N.L. pennant. In the A.L., the Royals shot an all-bird Series by trouncing the Blue Jays...
...that Streep and co-stars Sting and Tracey Ullman are able to break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very well clinch the third Oscar of her career as the little--lost--activist. Once again, her most appealing characteristic is her chameleon-like control of facial expression. In one of the film's most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing...