Word: record
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This season Delaney-Smith reached several milestones, including her 250th career win Nov. 28 against Sacred Heart and her 150th victory in the Ivy League Jan. 7 against Dartmouth. She is the winningest basketball coach in Harvard history, and her all-time record now stands...
...League Coach of the Year for the 1996-97 season after guiding the Crimson to a perfect 14-0 league record, the only time it has been done in Ivy League women's basketball history...
...them, this being the music column and all, except that I feel award shows naturally tend to reward the middlebrow rather than the spectacular. (Hello, Santana!) And the behind-the-scenes politics of major labels to win Grammys just leaves an odd taste in my mouth. I wonder if record labels send "for your consideration" copies of albums to Grammy voters in the same way studios give out comp tickets to movies...
...play "20 Rhetorical Questions." Is "Believe" the best dance record of the year, or the one most people have heard of? Is Eminem a better rapper than the Roots? Is Sheryl Crow's "Sweet Child O' Mine" the best female rock vocal, or just Ms. Crow butchering one of my favorite songs? Oh well. Condolences are in order: to missed nominees (too many to name), to undeserving losers (Macy Gray, Diana Krall, Masters at Work) and to deserving winners (Tony Bennett, Chris Rock) for having to share the podium. Want an award that means something? Ladies and gentlemen, I present...
...George W. Bush, it's another story. While Bush hasn't done anything we know about that approaches illegality in fund-raising, the sheer volume of money he's raised hurts his credibility as a campaign finance reformer." McCain previewed how he'd handle Gore's record in Thursday night's GOP debate when he attacked Bush for allowing fund-raisers to stay in the Texas governor's mansion - a move he likened to the notorious transgressions of Clinton/Gore: the stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and Gore's fund-raising over White House phones...