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...first time Ottawa has beaten Detroit at home since March 24, 1994, and the first time the 7-year-old Senators have swept their two-game series from the Red Wings...
Raimondo lit up Harvard last year in Cambridge en route to a Columbia victory. But the Crimson defeated the Lions in New York and swept both games against...
Even beatification, if it comes on these terms, is a kind of punishment for a First Lady who swept into Washington wanting to put her stamp on social policy and bring government back into fashion. Instead she handed Newt control of Congress with her health-care plan and had her place in history established as the first First Lady ever to be forced to testify before a grand jury...
...ever, as they used to say in '72. Among the vast right-wing conspiracy she has attained the status of folk hero. I met up with Goldberg the other night at Manhattan's Princeton Club, where a group of New York conservatives meet monthly for drinks and palaver. She swept into the room wearing a black pants outfit and a long, charcoal gray feather boa. With her gold cigarette holder and her swampy voice, she seemed a cross between Angela Lansbury and Jimmy Cagney. She made straight for the bar, and conversational clusters parted like...
When even having a proper name is too conventional, surely having a proper marriage is out of the question. But in 1996, apparently swept up in a fleeting wave of sentimentality, THE ARTIST BORN AS PRINCE married girlfriend MAYTE GARCIA in Minneapolis, Minn., on Valentine's Day. Finally coming to his senses, the artist last week rectified the oversight and announced that he is planning to annul his marriage, not because he doesn't love his wife, but because he believes "contracts are made by man to guarantee the possibility of divorce." At a Madrid press conference, the nameless...