My friend John got a new turntable for Christmas, and he's really excited about all the new records he got, too.
Though he didn't have a stellar academic record, he got into Oberlin, a college that takes chances on applicants.
"If you look at his record, he got us into the play-offs when he was here and he has won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and promotion with Chesterfield, plus he took Plymouth into the play-offs last season.
I was at this year's championship to see Takeo Sasano, a school clerk in his 30s, break his own world record: he got the correct answer when the numbers were flashed in 1.70 seconds.
In spite of his academic record, he got into the University of Iowa, in 1971; the school had a strong studio-art program, and Ray came under the influence of Roland Brener, a South African-born sculptor who accepted him into his modernist sculpture course.
They recorded a new version of "Bring the Noise" with Anthrax in 1991, toured with U2 in 1992 and recorded "He Got Game" with Stephen Stills in 1998.
"That record he got, with KD [Durant] in the league, I don't know how long it's going to last.
Lee said "Steve Lillywhite is really not a man of his word....after agreeing to do our record, he got an offer from Simple Minds, changed his mind, blew us off,... so it put us in a horrible position".
Conservatives' portrayal of Obama as a hapless Commander in Chief runs up against his record: he got bin Laden, his credible threat of force led to the removal of Syria's chemical weapons, and the nuclear sanctions he and Clinton assembled brought Iran to the negotiating table.
This morning he was talking to a man building a 30ft high puppet on site ("incredible!"), this afternoon he's meeting Billy Bragg ("Better listen to some of his records before he gets here!").
