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...ball away eight times.A tense moment came towards the end of the second game, when captain and middle hitter Suzie Trimble went down with a left ankle injury and had to be helped off the court. She did not return and watched the rest of the match from the bench with an ice pack on her ankle.Despite a solid performance by senior Lauren Las, who filled in for Trimble with four kills on .571 hitting, the Crimson dropped the second game to the Quakers, 30-20.“I was very proud—Lauren came...
...with the Crusader goalie and severely injured his shoulder. With Fucito out for the rest of the game, Harvard lost its second-leading scorer and some of its offensive spark. Junior John Stamatis and Giammanco also sustained injuries during the game. As a result, many players came off the bench to pick up the slack, with freshman Allen Padua and sophomore Adam Rousmaniere each tallying a shot. “The substitutes came off the bench and give us a big lift,” head coach John Kerr said. “That was great because we needed them...
...fact, the growing respect the Justices have for one another has led to more contact among them under Roberts, not less. "This is a place where rather than hurling aspersions, people will actually sit at lunch and chat and laugh," Thomas says. "When we have formal meetings on the bench or at conference, we have lunch. When I first got here, it was two, three people, a maximum of four. Now--today, for example--it was the entire court, all nine. It is an interesting experience...
Even soft-spoken Ginsburg belted out an aria last term. The decision to uphold a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions provoked a speculative outburst from the legendary women's rights advocate. The ban, she declared from the bench, "and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court...
...knows better than Roberts how difficult this will be. Many of these Justices seem to seek the spotlight--the hotter, the better. Thomas' headline-making memoir, thick with grievances, drowns out the substantive work of the court. Other Justices prefer to give speeches, barely disguised as questions, from the bench or to jet around the globe to conferences and panel discussions...