Word: record
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Politically, Bush was confronted with a sort of Catch-22. Had he taken the resolute route, standing by his record and refusing to grant McGinn's stay, he would have endured aggressive attacks from death penalty opponents. But by playing his "compassionate conservative" card, and granting the stay of execution, he's made himself vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy and cold-hearted political posturing. And Bush must know that regardless of McGinn's ultimate fate, the press will continue an increasingly energetic investigation into past death penalty cases in Texas, throwing an unwelcome light on any lurking skeletons...
...Callahan, who bashed Bush as being "more James Watt than Teddy Roosevelt" while Gore stood on the stage in silence (he did look a little uncomfortable). Other surrogates were unapologetic. "If the League... wants to contrast the mess in Texas with Al Gore's pro-family, pro-environment record, that's their decision," shrugged Gore spokesman Chris Lehane...
...Gator earns only $11,700, plus a rent allowance, for a six-month hockey season, there has been a spirited competition among league players to win a berth in Lafayette--and keep it. That helps explain the team's excellent play: it posted a 43-18-9 regular-season record, including nine victories against its in-state archrivals. "We've had our way with them, and our fans take a lot of pride in that," Regard says. "People are learnin' to hate Baton Rouge and New Orleans all over again...
...themselves before they allowed this dinosaur to remain as the school's basketball coach despite a well-documented history of abusing players, coaches, administrators and anyone else who just happened to be there. Oh, yeah, he's a successful coach. He deserves another chance, they say, based on his record and his promise to control his temper. But do we really expect Bob Knight to change? He is who he is: a coach whose success is based on bullying and intimidating people. His style is rooted in boorish behavior, with which he psychologically terrorizes his players for his own benefit...
...unchallenged. She claims in her book to have been abused by me, a charge that your article reported, and I refuted. She was never abused. In fact, she was the abuser. I am so incensed by her false accusations that I have established a website to put the record straight, and I hope those interested in further details will visit it. CARL FRIEDAN Sarasota...