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...last two months, a near-revolution in university financial aid has swept four of U.S. News & World Report's top six colleges into increased generosity...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Financial Aid Will Not Change This Semester | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson swept the Colgate Red Raiders, 5-4 and 4-2, this weekend in front of a raucous crowd at Bright Hockey Center, advancing past the quarterfinals of the ECAC Championship and heading to the "Final Five" in Lake Placid...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Takes Colgate in Two, Earns Spot in ECAC Semifinals | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...poetry and short stories, the later and less successful novels, and the great early books. The latter are often overshadowed by the subsequent notoriety of The Well. For example, Adam's Breed, Hall's remarkable fourth novel, first rocketed her to the top of the bestseller lists and swept the English literary awards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radclyffe Hall: More than a Martyr | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...wake of Scott Krueger's death, but if he has an opinion on the matter, he's not sharing it with me. He is willing to divulge that the Cambridge License Commission has been in a bunch of times this year. Still, he can't remember them having swept the bar for underage drinkers any time recently, something it is in their authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inebriation Revisited | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...month-old baby someone miraculously plucked from the mud. But as the sun rose, Lemonoff spotted a foot and forearm protruding from a pile of mud and rubble just outside his trailer. The lifeless limbs belonged to Glenn Flook, a 25-year-old man who had been swept more than 150 yards from the house where he had been staying. Another body was found a day later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A State Of Instability | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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