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...really strong all around the field, and we have a great bench," said co-captain Devon Bingham. "When people come off the bench, it doesn't change the level of play...
...that won itsthird-straight lvy title and reached thequarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament in 1997. Theexpectations are enormous entering 1998--everyoneon this team knows they came two goals shy ofhanding North Carolina its fifth loss in 12 yearslast season--but the talent is there, both withthe starters and the bench. Harvard returns anoutstanding keeper, and may have the league's twobest players in Miller and Stauffer, who showedshe was back with a goal and two assists in theseason opener. The Crimson could go deep into theNCAAs...
...greater than watching somebody get yelled at. You loved it when your mom stuck it to your brother, and you love it now, rubbernecking to see a cop pull a car over. One of the best spots for catching good, stern lectures in our authority-free culture is the bench of lower-court judges. These guys can lay into punks and deadbeats like Father Knows Best on a caffeine...
...increasingly crowded TV bench worries legal experts like University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, a talking head during the O.J. proceedings, who fears people will expect the law to act as quickly and superficially as Sheindlin and her colleagues do. "They want to present a case in 30 minutes, and it's difficult to do that without oversimplification," Chemerinsky says. "The judge in the courtroom is interested in following the law and creating fair procedures in the court of law. A judge on TV is only interested in the drama of the proceedings, in good television, and those...
Lyttle must think there's a lot of pain out there, because he's also producing Judge Joe Brown. Brown is the only TV judge who continues to sit actively on the bench (he's using some of the vacation he accumulated over eight years to tape his show). Like Sheindlin, he rolls his eyes and yells at the punks in his video court ("Don't call the court 'Dude,'" he tells one youth). Brown, 51, grew up in South Central Los Angeles and has the fervor of a missionary, spouting buzz words like "com-mun-i-ty." His producers...