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With the win Harvard (10-11 overall, 7-2 Ivy) extended its winning streak to five, and maintained sole possession of second place in the Ivy League behind first-place Brown, which swept its games this weekend...
...Lowell is pretty good NCAA Division II team, but we pretty much dominated them," said Peckham. Harvard for feited one weight class and swept the rest of the matches...
...riveting television footage from Birmingham helped change America's course. Images of police dogs mauling black children and water cannons battering civil rights demonstrators touched off a wave of moral outrage that swept across the nation and led to the passage of the most comprehensive laws against racial discrimination since the Civil...
...role. But in January of an election year, a political junkie's proper place is shivering at the candidates' side. TIME's chief of correspondents John Stacks knows such coverage requires special qualities. During the early 1980s, he substituted for Barrett on the national political circuit. "Larry resists getting swept along by the fashionable opinion of the day by being skeptical, by bringing his experience to bear and by a kind of demonic reporting. He bores in and doesn't accept glibness." Of course, we wouldn't suggest that any of this year's crop of politicians tend toward glibness...
...better for Algeria's democratic aspirations: a military intervention that claims to safeguard democratic ideals by robbing fundamentalists of electoral victory, or the full play of the electoral process, which risks empowering radical fundamentalists who might prove antagonistic to the give-and-take of democracy. After the F.I.S. swept the first round of voting on Dec. 26, the military was hardly alone in its fears that the fundamentalists might wield their legislative clout to impose an Islamic republic. Nearby African and Arab states breathed a sigh of relief after the military intrusion, which the Tunisian daily As-Sabah characterized...