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Perhaps the most blatant example came after B.U.'s go-ahead goal, when the refs delayed the faceoff so that Dave Silk--who forgot that both teams were still skating four-a-side--could remember to get off the ice, rather than slapping B.U. with a bench minor for too many trade-school graduates...
...second half, and by six points with 1:35 left, the Crimson pulled within two points in the final minute and seemed on the verge of sending the donnybrook into overtime. But the swarming Bentley defense picked off a pass from Harvard's Mike Stenhouse--cold off the bench after Glenn Fine fouled out breaking Bentley's freeze--with ten seconds left to ice the game...
...toward politics as usual has raised no cries of alarm, because even the bad old system managed to produce a federal judiciary of a generally high quality. Many of the U.S.'s most respected jurists, including every Chief Justice but Harlan Slone, were political activists before taking the bench. But the Democratic Congress is now completing action on a bill to expand the federal judiciary by one-third, adding 113 new district and 35 new appellate judgeships. The bill has been delayed for years, awaking a Democratic President, and legislators are rubbing their hands in anticipation of the patronage...
Then the dream turned into a nightmare. B.C. coach Tom Davis shut off Harvard's offense by switching to a zone that forced the Crimson to shoot from outside--and usually, it missed. B.C.'s deep bench, superior board strength, and suddenly regained shooting touch then took over...
...third period hadn't even started when the Quakers received a two-minute bench minor. Almost mechanically, the Harvard power play came through yet again at 1:03, as Purdy pushed the puck by Sutton after previous tries by Barney and George in front of the cage had failed...