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...After gathering with close friends to sing and dance to the warm strumming of an Oud player, Al Ammari watched the bad news on Saudi TV: he lost to an Islamic conservative opponent, part of a sweep of Riyadh's seven seats by the fundamentalists. As Al Ammari saw it going down to the wire, last week's vote was a test of support for Saudi liberals who have long been overwhelmed by conservatives loosely allied with the ruling Al Saud dynasty. A conundrum in President Bush's State of the Union call for democracy in Saudi Arabia, al Ammari...
...Another sweep and Penn becomes just a blur to the rest of the pack...
...Wildcats trimmed the deficit to five, 28-23, but the Crimson took the last two points to close out the sweep...
...recent memory, a 61-57 thriller over league-nemesis Princeton, the Crimson will hit I-95 for games against Brown and Yale this weekend. In 1999, the last year Harvard beat the Tigers, the Crimson was able to convert the momentum from that overtime victory into a road sweep of Brown and Yale to finish at 7-7 in league play...
...Raiders play a home-and-home series this weekend, so a sweep by either team—coupled with a Harvard loss—would substantially broaden the gap with less than a month of the regular season remaining...