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...Crimson (5-0, 5-0 Ivy) swept the Bears (2-5, 1-3 Ivy) Saturday to take a 177-66 victory in a meet where many of its swimmers were competing in events outside their specialty...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stays Undefeated, Routs Brown | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...Crimson swept the diving events as well, as junior Jenny Reese won the three-meter dive and sophomore Leslie Rea led a top-four sweep on the one-meter board...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stays Undefeated, Routs Brown | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...government's move follows a flurry of renewed interest in the crime in popular culture. In September, a blockbuster film that dramatized the murder, The Case of the Itaewon Homicide, swept South Korea. That same month, a South Korean television crew discovered Patterson was living in Sunnyvale after the U.S. government failed to locate him following a 2005 request for judicial assistance from Seoul. "After we concluded that [the television crew's] finding was true, we decided to reopen the case," says Oh Se In, a Seoul city prosecutor acting as a spokesman for the case. Lee, the other defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Reopens the Burger King Murder File | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

...Just days into the spring Diet session, Ozawa, probably the DPJ's most powerful politician, casts a shadow not only over Diet deliberations but also the competency of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's administration. While scandals come and go in Japan, some observers wonder if the young government that swept the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of more than five decades of single-party rule is resilient enough to ride this storm, with the Upper House elections slated for July. (See pictures of Japan's relationship with the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Scandal Hits Japan's Ruling Party | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

...scattered archipelago was a Spanish colony, its people stifled by ruling élites but also desperate to earn their approval. The assiduousness with which they sought it can be seen in two iconic works by Filipino artists Juan Luna and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, who together swept the top prizes at a prestigious Madrid art exposition in 1884. Neither painting bears any trace of indigenous technique; instead they demonstrate the skill with which the Filipinos absorbed the traditions of post-Renaissance Europe and, albeit timidly, began to subvert them. (Read "The Rise and Rise of Asian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Spanish to Surreal | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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