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...that a film won in at least three of the top eight categories when it wasn’t the odds-on favorite in any of them? The only year in the last twenty that I could make a case for was 1992, when The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars in a year when most were predicting victories for Bugsy, JFK, or The Prince of Tides. We shouldn’t expect numerous Oscar shockers in a single ceremony; 2003’s Oscars were something of a fluke...
Interestingly enough, this weekend marked the first time Harvard swept St. Lawrence since the championship season...
...Crimson swept the events—Li took the singles title, defeating his teammate, senior Chris Chiou, while in the doubles draw the junior-sophomore pairing of Jonathan Chu and Brandon Chiu were victorious. Thus, no money was awarded...
...christening of the new Queen Mary. A giant tent glowed with the image of a logo-laden Louis Vuitton trunk, a beacon for the handbag obsessed. On the ceiling inside, tiny stars shaped like Vuitton's LV logo twinkled above the crowd. Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rudy Giuliani swept in to congratulate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault on his spectacular four-story Fifth Avenue emporium...
...less than complete job of building the new national police force in Haiti after it intervened to restore Aristide to power in 1994, and we're seeing the results of that right now in the ease with which the rebels have swept aside central authority. But the fact that the police force is so threadbare is also a reason Haiti today is the main Caribbean transshipment point for the Colombian drug cartels...