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...Crimson trampled the Big Red on Saturday, with set play of 25-21, 25-17, 25-18. The victory represented Harvard’s first season sweep of Cornell since...
This season, Harvard had it out for the New York teams and entered each contest looking to prove that it is the better squad—and did so in a weekend sweep at the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson (10-11, 6-4 Ivy) overcame Columbia (11-10, 2-6) on Friday night and shellacked Cornell (6-15, 3-7) on Saturday...
Calling it sweeps week is a bit of a misnomer; it's actually nearly a month. The current period, which starts Oct. 29, won't end until Nov. 25. It's the result of an anachronism: Nielsen developed the concept of sweeps week in 1954, when they mailed small TV ratings booklets to households across the country and asked them to record everything they watched for a week. To keep the task of receiving and recording thousands of diaries from the sample households orderly, they started a "sweep," starting on the East Coast and moving West across the country...
...Corzine, meanwhile, has been struggling with a massive corruption sweep by federal prosecutors that included the arrests of three New Jersey mayors, and the resignation of a Corzine aide after federal agents raided his home. More recently, Corzine has fended off allegations that he was buying support by donating $25,000 from his charitable foundation to the head of the state's black ministers council, Reginald Jackson, just months before Jackson endorsed the sitting governor. See 10 elections that changed America...
...also completed the Leopards’ four-game sweep of their Ivy opponents, as the team had already taken down Penn, Yale, and Columbia this fall...