Word: record
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Winning one game over the entire weekend, Harvard (11-12, 2-5 Ivy League) must now enter the Ivy League tournament, which it will host, with league wins only against Columbia and Dartmouth. Its 2-5 Ivy record gives it the last seed in the upcoming Ivy tournament...
...loss ended Harvard's Ivy season and gave it the last seed for the tournament. The Crimson and the Bears both finished with a 2-5 Ivy record, but since Brown won the head- to- head match-up, the last seed goes to Harvard...
Even when pressed last Friday morning on the Today show about why he wasn't talking about his Executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers to brag about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas. "This race is about the future," he stammered instead. "President Clinton is my friend... But I'm not satisfied. I'm running on who I am and on my own." Gore denies friction with his White House partner, and aides insist they're not worried about being tied...
Bush is not so shy about selling his record of governing in Texas, which he boasts has been successful because of political relationships with Republicans and Democrats that he cultivated before he was even elected. While running against former Democratic Governor Ann Richards in 1994, Bush paid a secret visit to Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, a Democrat and the most powerful person in Texas politics. "You may not think I'm going to win," Bush told him, "but when I do, I want to work with you." Even after Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock...
This sounds harmless, but in Texas it translates into trusting corporate solutions. So far, this has resulted in record-breaking dirty air in Houston and children uninsured at an alarmingly high rate. (At the federal level, in the Reagan Administration, eschewing mandatory government standards for voluntary ones led to Firestone tires flying off SUVs). This doesn't mean there's no argument for voluntary efforts over government ones, but Bush has to make it specific, not send a political mash note from his well-meaning heart...