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...TIME: There was a big controversy during Spurs-Phoenix Suns series, when the NBA suspended Suns star Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for a game after they left the bench during a fight. What did you think of that...
...Kevin Durant: That really hurt the series. Without them they can't win. But rules are rules-if I made a rule up that said they can't come off the bench, they can't come off the bench. They are just teaching them discipline...
...years ago, Chertoff traded in a very good job for a very hard job. An appellate judge with a lifetime appointment, he left the bench to take over a federal department with a $43 billion budget and more than 180,000 employees, corralling 22 different agencies that report to 88 different subcommittees on the Hill. Chertoff's tenure didn't start well. He had been in the job just six months when Hurricane Katrina hit. That day, says P.J. Crowley, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Chertoff "didn't understand his job. He was shocked to realize...
...Enter Tommy Amaker. Hired in April to replace Frank Sullivan, who manned the Crimson’s bench for 16 seasons, Amaker brings an All-American pedigree and impressive resume to Cambridge to try to put Harvard hoops on the map. In addition, Amaker becomes the only African-American currently filling one of the school’s 32 head coaching positions...
...like we didn’t expect to. At 4 p.m. on a Friday, we posted to our blog a video that a Yale senior had included in his investment bank applications—a ludicrous sequence that, if you believe what you see, shows off his 495-pound bench press, 120 mile per hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about the Holocaust. All that Aleksey Vayner had wanted...