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...integrity. His famous opposition to pornography was not based on the moral posing to which we have become inured. He simply did not believe that the First Amendment covered pornography as part of the press. The eloquence and gaudy brilliance so common in academia and so respected on the bench were not among his attributes...
Like The Times, the liberals and the conservatives miss the point. The point was the man himself. Regardless of how we felt about particular issues, it was comforting to know there was a man on the bench who could see clearly with his eyes and not rely on his ideology or his attempts at intellectual grace...
From that point on, the bench took over. Freshmen Mike Gielen and Fred Schernecker stepped in at guard and forward, and classmate David Lang soon joined them at center...
...Harvard bench had already shown that it could score, contributing 82 points over the previous four contests...
When Cornell Tri-Captain Mike Schafer shot a puck at the Crimson bench--and at Cleary--with just over two minutes left, his action was not excusable. Schafer was deliberately trying to injure the Crimson coach. He would not accidentally misdirect a blast by 90 degrees...