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...Popular in Europe and used in some 150 exercise and dance studios in the U.S., the machine looks like a cross between a postmodern sculpture and a medieval torture rack. There are two parts--a 7-ft. pulley tower with leather straps for hands and feet and a movable bench with two rotating disks attached to its edge. Together they work in synch to stretch, strengthen and increase range of motion. Gyrotonics combines elements of Kundalini yoga, dance and Tai Chi, but it feels closest to synchronized swimming. Instead of linear back-and-forth movements, GXS offers more than...
...animosity between Brafman and Bogdanos reached a boiling point after about an hour. Brafman was questioning Fenderson about what he saw and did when Combs and Lopez were handcuffed to a pole on a bench in a police station shortly after the shooting incident. Federson was in a nearby cell, but the lawyers strongly disagreed on just how far away he was from Lopez and Combs. At one point Brafman scolded Bogdanos: "Behave! Behave!" Judge Charles Solomon had heard enough. The jury was sent out of the room and he scolded the feuding lawyers. "You can call each other names...
Even after a series of horrendous defensive collapses in the second period, there was little doubt on the Harvard bench that it could overcome a 3-1 deficit entering the third...
...easy to be cynical about a sport in which 19 year old kids earn millions of dollars for little more than sitting on a bench and looking interested, and where news of drug busts and wife beatings are no longer shocking. But at the same time, the years of being able to look towards professional athletes as role models have long since passed...
This week the JTC will meet for a one-day hearing to consider Levin's report and make its final recommendation to the Michigan Supreme Court, which can do whatever it wishes, from exonerating Chrzanowski to removing her from the bench. If the judge manages to survive, her 2002 re-election campaign is sure to be one for the books...