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...very competitive one and more casual one. Two years ago, says Eddie F. Brown '89, who referees freshman games, "What happened was a lot of the time you had a really dominant team, and there was no `A' or `B' team, so the scrubs just sat on the bench...
Roby is also pleased with the way junior forward Kevin Collins and freshman point guard Dana Smith have played off the bench. Despite not starting a single contest this year, Collins is the squad's third leading scorer, averaging 7.4 points per game...
...been for the Supreme Court nomination, Bork might have left the bench earlier. He had not hired law clerks for the coming term, and he was obviously restless. "I don't think he finds judging all that interesting," says his D.C. circuit colleague Abner Mikva. Why, then, did Bork hang on so long after his defeat? Says Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Bruce Fein: "He didn't want this to look like the peevish decision of an upset...
...appointments or elections," says Justice Franklin Spears. Notes Lawyer McMains: "The problem with appointments is who gets to do it. If it's the Governor, you've just shifted where the politics are." In some states merit selection has scarcely contained the efforts spent to put judges on the bench and keep them there. "Judicial campaigns are getting noisier, nastier and costlier," notes Georgetown Law Professor Roy Schotland, an authority on campaign spending...
...West Bank city of Hebron, 14 teenage boys were marched into an unheated courtroom and ordered to sit on a wooden bench. Their hands were bound with strips of clear plastic. Asked by the Israeli military judge if they were guilty of the rioting charges lodged against them, all pleaded innocent. They were herded out of court and back to a makeshift detention center in the nearby village of Dahariya to await trial. In another courtroom, in the city of Nablus, an army prosecutor urged the judge to be lenient with Nasser Zuhadi Kakmeh, 16, because the youth had been...