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...first match against Syracuse, the Crimson swept all three doubles, and two quick singles matches to clinch the match at 5-0. Harvard had to leave early because of its long ride to Cornell...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Bury Red, Cruise to 9-0 Triumph | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball team, dizzied by recent success in EIBL action, found its drive toward a league title unexpectedly slowed by the Penn pitching staff yesterday at Soldiers Field. The Crimson bats fell silent as the Quakers swept the doubleheader...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Crimson Bats Silenced as Penn Sweeps | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...women's team also fell to Yale, but it was a closer meet. The Crimson women swept the intermediate hurdles. Sophomore Meredith Rainey won the 200m, 400m, 400m and mile relays. In the 400m, Rainey took on the worst conditions of the meet and beat the competition by several strides...

Author: By Chris Thorne, | Title: Harriers Fall to Yale; Weather Hurts Squads | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...mishandled by the company that finally distributed it. But hand him a gold-plated statuette in front of a billion people, and he finds heroic resources of good feeling. Just ask Bernardo Bertolucci. "It's incredible," the Italian filmmaker, 47, geysered the day after his The Last Emperor swept the Oscar ceremony. "First it was one award, then two, three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine! It went beyond the individuals who won. I realized it was the movie itself. The movie was loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Love And Respect, Hollywood-Style | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

While much of East Africa is afflicted by drought and famine, the continent's northern and western regions are coping with a different tribulation: locusts. Billions of the ravenous insects have swept across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and are moving into Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. Aided by heavy rains that facilitate breeding, the swarms have grown into the worst such plague in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Day of the Locusts | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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