Word: benching
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...with Japan, is the biggest donor of food aid to North Korea, yet it remains the enemy, viewed as the unrepentant instigator of the Korean War. Walking along the banks of the Taedong, I stopped to chat with a university student studying a computer science text on a park bench. Wearing a Kim Il Sung pin on his shirt, Son Song Jin said he liked basketball, so I asked him about his favorite stars. Had he heard of Michael Jordan? He looked perplexed. No, he hadn't. So what did he think of America? Pyongyang was destroyed by American warplanes...
Lukeman was one of several Harvard players who received consistent playing time off the bench, a departure in strategy from last year’s regular season. Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton started using more substitutes in the NCAA tournament and maintained that philosophy through the current season to the delight of the team...
...made subs throughout the whole game because everyone can play,” Totman said. “It was awesome because when the forwards got tired people came off the bench and picked up the level of the game...
...Whether that strategy is legally sustainable is doubtful, but it is politically sound. And there's certainly some doubt on the typically liberal Israeli bench over the extent and nature of Israel's legal authority in recently reoccupied territories. On the same day as Barghouti's appearance, Israeli Supreme Court judge Dalia Dorner stopped the Israeli military from deporting three relatives of a Palestinian suicide terrorist from the West Bank to Gaza. She ordered a 15-day reprieve, during which she wants to hear a detailed discussion on the legal issues involved - including the legal status of Israeli authority...
...scrutiny (including surveillance, searches of their homes and offices and even, in some cases, polygraph tests). But the pool of suspects also contains hundreds more, including researchers of biopesticides, biopharmaceuticals and veterinary products. "Remember, it doesn't have to be a top scientist. It could just be a good bench technician," says a federal investigator. Beyond the anthrax labs, the feds have also looked into more than 1,000 companies that sell equipment that could be used to process the deadly spores or that could have profited in some way from the attacks. The FBI counsels patience, but that...