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With 1:29 left in the first half, and Harvard up, 50-47, Bowers went to the line for a one-and-one, which produced a bench technical against Harvard. "The Express" made three of the four shots to tie the game, Ross swished a basket seconds later, and American went to the locker room...
...beat Colgate's Terry McSweeney for a power-play marker with just over a minute remaining in the second period, the momentum--which had sustained the Red Raiders through six straight minutes of penalty killing (including almost four minutes down two men), began imperceptibly to slip toward the visitors' bench...
...emotional overtime win over Boston University, a freshman scored his first varsity goal to win the game. Last year, Dave Connors had the honors; this time Connors fed Kukulowicz for the goal. And at 19:06, the team that had allowed 31 goals in five games rushed off the bench to embrace the Yardling; 54 seconds later the squad's record stood at 3-2, and the icemen were off to the happiest locker room scene since the victory over the Terriers last November...
...consistency of the federal bench in prayer cases was demonstrated again last week when an appeals court rejected the arguments of a Guilderland, N.Y., group called Students for Voluntary Prayer. The high-schoolers had sought a classroom for informal prayer meetings before school, but had been turned down by officials. The refusal was justified, wrote Judge Irving Kaufman, in part because the students were free to say their prayers at other times and places...
Weary of fighting the courts on the prayer issue, some members of Congress have come up with a solution: bypass them. The Senate has passed a bill that would deprive the federal bench of the power to decide certain "voluntary" school-prayer cases, and backers hope that the rightward swing signaled by the Reagan victory will persuade the reluctant House to give the measure its blessing too. The latest Gallup poll indicates that 76% of Americans are willing to go even further and approve a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers...