Word: benching
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...Bench the Bureaucrats! Thanks to Alex Perry for his essay "An Eternally Faltering Flame," about how India performs badly at the Olympic Games [Aug. 23]. It couldn't be more timely. Innumerable Olympics have come and gone, but India remains the same as ever, with a poor showing at winning medals. The important thing is not to win, however, but to take part. The essential thing is not to win but to compete well. Jagdeep Singh Jakarta...
...Woodlock, a Reagan appointee whose dry wit is constantly evident on the bench, said he was not interested in conducting “an extended seminar on Russia-American relations over the past century...
Freshman midfielder Tamara Sobek-Rosnick came off the bench and beat Tocco to the upper-right corner of the cage...
...less familiar. Just compare the reactions: after the U.S. men's team won its first team medal--a silver--in a nonboycotted Olympics, the guys were bumping chests. Second place. Wow! At the end of their team final, the silver-medalist women sat glumly on the bench, glaring at Romania's Catalina Ponor as she shimmied for her clapping teammates, knowing the gold was a lock...
...cells, modeled on al-Qaeda, which come together for an attack and then disperse. Schultz88 is one of an estimated 50 neo-Nazi groups in Russia, 17 of them based in St. Petersburg. "Direct action [by Schultz88] has sent several hundred [people] to hospital," he says, lounging on a bench in St. Petersburg's lovely Arts Square, with two Schultz88 members sitting by his side. Members of the various neo-Nazi groups keep in touch "through the Internet and by other means, both domestically and abroad," he explains, instinctively clenching and unclenching his fists. Casting a glance at a bronze...