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...With a sweep or at least three wins in these extremely important four games, Harvard will be right back in the Rolfe chase, but anything less may very well put the Crimson out of contention for good...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Division Title Hopes Dwindle as Harvard Falls to 0-4 in Ivies | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard’s hopes of a sweep may be dampened by uncertainty regarding which players will actually be able to make the trip to Cornell due to non-baseball factors...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Division Title Hopes Dwindle as Harvard Falls to 0-4 in Ivies | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

Since his dinner at the St. Regis, Hill has continued to have face-to-face meetings with the North, along with handling diplomatic affairs with a sweep of other East Asian and Pacific countries. As the talks have made more headway, Hill has gotten greater latitude from the Administration. With some balking, the North has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Recent talks have dangled carrots before Pyongyang like promising deliveries of heavy fuel oil in exchange for further denuclearization. The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christopher Hill | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...seniors of the Harvard men’s volleyball team are going out with a bang. In its last game of the season, the Crimson (9-10, 6-4 Hay) powered out a 3-0 (30-27, 30-18, 32-30) sweep against New Haven (9-14, 0-8 Hay) last night at the Malkin Athletic Center. “It was obviously good to win in three,” senior Jamie Crooks said. “For better or worse, we made it more exciting, considering our slow start and our slow finish.” Harvard?...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Go Out With A Shutout | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...heart of all this strategy was simple math: with a 16-to-9 split there was no way the Obama supporters could sweep all four state convention slots (two delegates and two alternates). Each side nominated several candidates for the state convention slots, then each precinct delegate had one vote. The two top winners would serve as the delegates, with the third- and fourth-place winners named as alternates if either of the delegates could not attend the June state convention. The Clintonites' goal was to nail down one of the two main delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for Every Texas Delegate | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

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