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James Fogel, at age 50, has earned plenty of money as a lawyer, plus a splash of prestige as a criminal-court judge in New York City. Now he feels free to step down from the bench and dive back into the subjects he loved most in college: math and physics. At the same time, he is following what he describes as "an even higher calling" than the law - to work as an inner-city high school math teacher...
...play the games. This year's team has fought its way back from multiple injuries (Carlos Boozer's broken foot, Jason Williams' badly sprained ankle), several crushing defeats (Carolina, Maryland, Stanford) and a mid-season slump at the line. This Blue Devil team has very little depth from the bench and is markedly smaller than most teams they play. Does that sound like a stacked deck...
Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
...Bears' relief was short-lived. Straight off the subsquent faceoff, Third Team All-ECAC winger Carly Haggard manuevered forcefully from the left faceoff circle and wristed the puck over Dreyer's shoulder for the game-winner. The Dartmouth bench empied again in celebration--this time for good...
Trudeau crumpled into the St. Lawrence bench in agony after the collision, and was carried into the locker room soon after. It will be a rough way for Trudeau to end her superb career if she cannot return for the NCAA tournament. She is the Saints' all-time leading goal-scorer with 77 tallies...