Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard finished a perfect 7-0 in the Ivy League--a feat accomplished only twice before in Ivy history--to capture the league championship. Along the way, the Crimson finished the season 3-0-1 in contests against top- 25 teams en route to a No. 7 ranking in the nation...
...look tough--as one aide told the Washington Post, "Mel's been stacking up bodies right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match...
...oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because "I'm fighting against the massive contributions and six-figure donations" flowing to George W. Bush. McCain didn't mention Bush's name--and didn't have to. His issues are perfect weapons against Bush, who personifies the money game McCain wants to clean up. Otherwise, the two candidates' positions are similar--each opposes gun control and abortion and styles himself as tolerant and fiscally austere--but McCain is playing the maverick grownup to Bush's Establishment child...
...like it, fine; if they don't like it, that's the way it is." As for McCain, he argued to TIME that his imperfections only improved him. "By realizing that you are a person with some weaknesses, it gives you a better appreciation that others may not be perfect," he said. It was as if he could wear his flaws like another one of his medals...
HITTING THE MARK: What turns a top-notch opera singer into a full-fledged star? The perfect part and director can't hurt. Take baritone Mark Delavan in the New York City Opera's pratfall-packed production of Verdi's Falstaff. His sly acting and fat-bottomed voice--supported by Leon Major's lickety-split staging--have opera buffs buzzing about why he's not singing at the Met. Who cares, when you can see him in the role of a lifetime right...