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However, I find this seemingly dismal fate much more preferable than the other alternative for a Red Sox playoff team: getting swept. They are the only team to suffer a four-game sweep in the League Championship Series when it was the only barrier between the regular season and the World Series...
...exhibits, Basma's group teaches the Jordanian public how to use the sea without damaging it. Boaters are told not to drop anchors that can break the reef, and divers are discouraged from snatching souvenir corals or feeding the fish. JREDS also organizes cleanup dives and recruits schoolchildren to sweep trash off the beaches...
...three resulting man-up situations translated into three MIT goals, and with 45 seconds to go before the half, the Engineers had cut the lead to 6-5 and were threatening to tie the game. Only a gorgeous sweep shot by Zimmerman from the 2-meter position salvaged a 7-5 lead going into the half...
...romance, it left something to be desired. there was none of the mythic sweep of Tristan and Isolde, not a glimmer of the mystical intensity of Heathcliff and Catherine, nothing akin to Romeo and Juliet's tragic inevitability. But the affair between Bill and Monica--if affair is the appropriate word for an "inappropriate relationship"--has something to teach us anyway, in unexpected ways...
...World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought out its producer, Jeremy Isaacs, a prominent figure in British television. Four years and $12 million after the two first met, the collaboration has resulted in a production that is almost unique in its intelligence and sweep...