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Rutgers (5-8) kept the pressure on throughout the match, posting a .405 hitting percentage en route to a 3-0 (30-27, 30-22, 30-18) sweep of Harvard yesterday afternoon...
...Sunday, September 11, 2005 U.S. and Iraqi troops conduct a sweep of guerrilla-held towns...
Trimble, hitting .416 on the weekend, led Harvard to the championship with 43 kills and only six errors. Finishing the tournament with 12 blocks, she also had six aces in the Crimson’s three-game sweep of Holy Cross...
Their music exploded irrepressibly from the forced integration of these castes to sweep the world as the definitive American art form. New Orleans, the Crescent City, the Big Easy--home of Mardi Gras, the second-line parade, the po' boy sandwich, the shotgun house--is so many people's favorite city. But not favorite enough to embrace the integrated superiority of its culture as a national objective. Not favorite enough to digest the gift of supersized soul internationally embodied by the great Louis Armstrong. Over time, New Orleans became known as the national center for frat-party-type decadence...
...more respectable Wall Street circles, brokers winced at yet another black eye for the beleaguered stock-trading industry but applauded the sweep. Top officials at better-known brokerages claimed that the undercover action came partly as a result of their complaints about drug dealing in Wall Street's plazas and office corridors. Said one top stock market executive of the busted brokers: "They are the dregs of the industry...