Word: sweep
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...Harvard baseball team rode strong outings from a quartet of starting pitchers en route to a four-game sweep at last-place Brown--losers of 18 straight...
Well, we told you so. Last year Marsalis was one of TIME's 25 Most Influential People. For many of the rest, the past 12 months also bore out all expectations. For some others, what a difference a year makes. Before we sweep them all offstage--to keep the Influentials game intriguing, none were eligible for the '97 list--we wanted to look at the fate...
...moment is right, say leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.), the rebels' civilian arm, the N.L.A. will roll across the border in support of a general uprising against the fundamentalist Iranian government. "We intend to combine the army with the rising of social unrest to sweep away the mullahs," N.C.R. president Maryam Rajavi told Time. "The mullahs are a regime that doesn't understand any language other than force and power." N.C.R. leaders believe, perhaps too optimistically, that burgeoning discontent with Iran's faltering economy, which has led to open protests and riots in recent months...
...this point, I am sure Joe Harvard has broken out in that skeptical grin he reserves for late night poker games and Grille drinking contests. So these guys took a few lessons. So what? Maybe the average Harvard guy can't sweep a woman off her feet unless he's running her down with his iron-plated Cannondale. But are formals that much easier for the dancing pros...
Tomorrow Harvard will face Princeton in a doubleheader rematch of last year's Ivy championship series, which the Tigers captured in a two-game sweep...