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Cornell lost its other Ivy game to Princeton on opening day. The Big Red has swept its non-league games besting Holy Cross 17-9 and Buffalo...
...captain Judy Collins continued the assault, tallying the first of her two goals at the 25:17 mark in spectacular fashion. Denied a forehand shot, she reverse swept the ball to her backhand in traffic, an astonishing move on such a soggy field, then smoked a backhand shot past Cornell keeper Kristi Bullard...
...anything stop the financial panic that has swept from Asia to Russia to Latin America? On Wall Street last week, jittery traders dismissed the Federal Reserve's quarter-point cut in interest rates as too puny and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging 448 points in two days. In Washington State, farmers watched helplessly as their grain piled into huge drifts for lack of Asian buyers. In slumping Brazil, Ford and General Motors, which only recently completed new plants in the country, had to cut production drastically. And the future could be grimmer still, according to the International Monetary...
Similarly, this year's playoff results do not approach the woefulness of the sweeps in 1988 and 1990. Note: I regard the 1995 season, in which the Sox were swept in three games by the Tribe, as a sacred, marvelous aberration, a magnificent stardust leap from oblivion to glory. Hence, I will generally refrain from discussing it here...
...first time in history, a Red Sox team has lost an American League postseason series without getting swept. The sheer mediocrity of this means, I think, that no Curse of the Bambino shadows this team; it has merely suffered from bad luck--80 years of it, certainly, but bad luck just the same...