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With the victory, the Crimson--who swept Penn and Princeton just prior to the exam break--nabbed back-to-back Ivy weekend sweeps for the first time ever...
Last week's declines stunned everyone, from commodities brokers to Texas oil barons. Panic swept the New York Mercantile Exchange, the nerve center of U.S. oil trading. "There was pure chaos on the floor," said Joel Faber, president of Faber's Futures and a governor of the exchange. As the price of crude fell, shipments of heating oil for February delivery plunged to 55.75 cents per gal., the lowest level since the late 1970s. Six blocks away, on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a total of 26 points on Tuesday and Wednesday before pulling...
Strong performances from Sean Nottage and David Biespiel enabled the Terriers to stay close. Nottage swam to victories in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events and keyed a BU win in the 400 free relay, while Biespiel swept the diving with triumphs on both the 1- and 3-meter boards...
Nothing much has changed in the Ivies since the Crimson swept Penn and Princeton out of Cambridge two weekends ago. The women cagers remain atop the league standings and are assured of being there when they meet Yale in their first post-exam period Ivy match...
...Sarasota and a former naval flight surgeon, she proudly displays her simple silver wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further that "Jack and I joke that other doctors in Sarasota spend $200 a week eating out. We don't, and this is why." She swept an arm grandly back toward the gleaming old bird, and just then an aficionado approached with a world of esoteric inquiries...