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Although the Saints won the ECAC title Saturday at Boston Garden, Harvard received the higher seed because it had a better winning percentage (.900) than St. Lawrence (.856) and swept the Saints in league action this season...
Greeks were exhilarated in 1981 when Andreas Papandreou and his Socialist Party swept to power. Their enthusiasm has long since turned to bitterness and disbelief as the worst financial and political scandal in four decades engulfs Greece. The press, the Bank of Greece, a magistrate and Parliament are delving into charges of corruption, seeking to uncover how more than $210 million disappeared from the Bank of Crete. Charges of embezzlement, kickbacks and bribery, of banknotes stuffed into briefcases, have been leveled against high officials...
Vermont, which was swept by Harvard in regular-season play, woke up less than two minutes after MacDonald's goal when Jeff Schulman smoked a shot from the blue line that found the left corner...
...solution appeared in 1978 in a plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...
...away from each other in North Country--Cornell at Clarkson's Walker Arena in Potsdam, N.Y., and St. Lawrence at home in Canton. The Big Red knocked off the Golden Knights in the series opener and held on for a 0-0 tie in game two, while the Saints swept Yale...