Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back from an injury that prevented him from playing last year, sophomore Brandon Bethea won the C flight. Freshman Mike Rich completed the Harvard sweep with his capture of the D flight...
Sophomore Tom Blake's victory over Yale's Mark Warnken spearheaded Harvard's sweep in the Yale Invitational this weekend...
...junior varsity followed suit, easily defeating a weak Yale squad by a five-length lead. The freshman crew failed to complete the sweep, however, falling by more than 12 seconds to the Yale rookie crew...
...radical Islamist group Hamas, who they suspected was planning a suicide bombing in Israel. Later that night, the Israelis captured 10 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank, including, they believed, the mastermind of a bus bombing in the city of Ramat Gan on July 24. The sweep also led to the seizure of three ready-to-go bombs, a car fixed to explode and assorted bomb-making materials. Thus, the counterterrorists reckoned, they were one up on Hamas...
...irony behind the diehard "Western Civ" crowd's opposition to ethnic studies is their neglect of the fact that the very tradition which they extol culminates in a modern conception of identity which makes ethnic studies a worthwhile aim. From Augustine to Nietzsche, and from Shakespeare to Rilke, the sweep of Western philosophy and literature calls us to a goal of self-realization through authenticity...