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Three, there was the powerful offensive supporting cast that led Harvard to a 2-0 sweep of eventual Ivy League champion Princeton, a 21-18-1 record against conference and non-conference opponents, and a 14-8 record against the Ivy League. Both marks were Harvard’s best in five years. The Crimson led the league in home runs, paced by league leader Farkes (14), junior Schuyler Mann (11) and Hendricks (seven...
...winning seven straight and taking a two-game lead in the Red Rolfe division. Morgalis and Hendricks earned victories in four of those seven—including Hendricks’ two-hitter against projected first-round draft pick B.J. Szymanski and Princeton, 4-1, which completed a two-game sweep of the Tigers. Szymanski, likely to be the second position player taken in the June amateur draft to Florida State’s Stephen Drew, went...
...Crimson’s two-game sweep of perennial Ivy power Princeton on April 10, she drove in three of Harvard’s five runs and scored the winning run in the bottom of the 20th inning in the now-classic duel between the two squads...
When Mao Zedong's Communist revolution completed its sweep of the mainland in 1949, the oft-asked question in Washington was who had "lost" China. Former American spy, diplomat and straight shooter James Lilley argues in his sweeping memoir China Hands that this historical puzzler is a red herring: America never had China, and the very idea is counterproductive. To influence China, America first has to respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life...
...wasn't alone. In a sweep that jolted the nation, police last week raided about 10 locations (including two homes in Nishi-Kawaguchi) and arrested five foreign men suspected to have been in contact with Lionel Dumont, a 33-year-old Frenchman believed to have ties to al-Qaeda. Dumont was arrested in Germany in December and extradited to France last month for crimes he was convicted of committing there in the 1990s while a member of a radical Islamist group known as the Roubaix gang. For now, four of the men-two from Bangladesh, one from Mali and another...