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...told, the weekend sweep extended Harvard's win streak to ten games...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Crushes Yale and Dartmouth | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...empirical evidence. The Cardinals thoroughly destroyed the vaunted Atlanta Braves and their even more vaunted pitching staff in a three-game sweep last week in which St. Louis won by a combined 24-10 score. Cardinal hitters shelled Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Kevin Millwood, who combined for a 13.09 earned run average...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Accept the Impending Mets' Defeat | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...Closing statements? Bush's finish was the better, I think. More vision, more sweep. Gore's I'm-really-honest riff underscored his problem - too much distancing from Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush vs. Gore III: A Round-by-Round Analysis | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

Yale took seven of the top eight finishes with only Princeton's Emily Kroshus' third place marring an Eli sweep...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cross Country Teams Fall at Franklin Park | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

...heart of the rain forest. As far as the eye could see, transparent plastic tents covered the forest floor, which was crisscrossed by a complicated network of trenches and pits. I lowered myself to the bottom of one of the holes and discovered that despite the intermittent downpours that sweep the region, the earth was relatively dry. The plastic tarps and the trenches were designed to carry almost all rainfall out of this patch of forest. As a result?and according to plan?the Brazil nut, tropical cedar and other great trees of the affected zone were beginning to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Disaster | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

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