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...Harvard (8-14, 7-5 Ivy) suffered a heartbreaking 3-1 (21-30, 30-20, 30-22, 30-28) loss to the Bulldogs (14-8, 6-5), a result that came on the heels of a three-game sweep of Brown on Friday night...
...Crimson had a nose for victory in its three-game sweep of the Bears, taking each game of the match (30-28, 31-29, 31-29) by a two-point margin...
...transformation of the region away from a political dynamic of authoritarian autocracy vs. extremism and terror. Democracy, however, requires a leap of faith not only on the part of Arab autocrats, but also by the powers that be in Washington. Because as much as a wave of democracy would sweep away the mullahs in Tehran and the neo-Stalinists in Damascus and the deranged dictator in Tripoli who swears he holds no power and is simply a guy in a tent, it would also almost certainly sweep away America's allies in Cairo, Amman and Riyadh. And in both sets...
...prize-giving season again in the land of literature: the Nobel and the Booker both dropped this month, and the National Book Award finalists have been announced. (With neither Jhumpa Lahiri nor Jonathan Lethem in the mix, Edward Jones' magisterial The Known World is the favorite to sweep a weak field.) Which reminds us that there are only two living Americans who own a Nobel Prize for Literature. One is Saul Bellow, and the other is Toni Morrison, whose first novel in five years is called Love (Knopf; 202 pages). With a title like that, you'd better have...
...Crimson then secured the weekend road sweep by defeating Brown 3-1 (22-30, 30-27, 30-23, 30-24) on Saturday...