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...Columbia on Saturday put the team's all-time win-loss percentage over .500 for the first time since the 1982-'83 season. The Crimson's record is now 169-168. The team's ninth Ivy League win also topped last year's total of eight...Chandler scored her 500th career point against Cornell Friday night...Forward Sarah Duncan pulled down her 500th career rebound in the team's 81-64 win over UMass last week. The junior is well on her way to breaking Harvard's all-time rebounding mark, currently 757 career boards snared by Elaine Holpuch...
Morrone will be looking for a win in his 500th career game as a coach. But the Crimson will be looking for a repeat trip to the quarterfinal round...
...growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and a Seville world's fair that year to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The mood in Spain is distinctly bullish...
...500th officials, like their 350th ancestors, have had to defend them-selves against charges that their party is a mere fundraiser in the guise of a more sacred event. (The white males who ran Harvard in the late 20th century went to their graves denying the much-rumored connection between the surplus from the 350th and the subsequent development and deployment of the Harvard Space Shuttle, which proved invaluable when the College opened its Lunar Extension School...
...celebrate our 500th birthday, then, let's try not to get too caught up in the inherent self-congratulatory self-aggrandizement of the event. For with a little effort and a touch of care, we can make it so that there is even more to cheer at some far off, distant date, at another anniversary celebration...