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Sonia Sotomayor’s Last Laugh

 

November 4, 2010
9:48 pm
By LINDA GREENHOUSE

Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law.


Justice Sonia Sotomayor is accustomed to being underestimated

and to surpassing the expectations of her doubters.

So I’ll wonder if she even took the time to ponder the leak

last week of a May 2009 letter to President Obama

from a famous Harvard law professor lobbying for

the selection of Elena Kagan to replace Justice David H. Souter,

whose retirement had recently been announced.

I’m quite sure it is the professor, Laurence H. Tribe,

rather than Justice Sotomayor, who is mortified

by the revelation that he had dissed the soon-to-be-nominee,

a graduate of Princeton and Yale Law School,

as “not as smart as she seems to think she is.”’

    Sonia Sotomayor’s Last Laugh, NYT, 4.11.2010,
    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/sonia-sotomayors-last-laugh/

 

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty on Wednesday

before a court martial to abusing prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison,

including forcing one to masturbate and photographing naked prisoners.

    U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Iraqi Prisoner Abuse, R, Wed Oct 20, 2004 08:48 AM ET,
    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WUT3YCFL3HE50CRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=6555434

 

 

 

 

 

It's the ultimate global marketplace,

raking in billions of dollars and attracting thousands of new users every day.

And now, on the eve of its fifth anniversary, eBay is opening its own stores.

So why are we so addicted to bidding for second-hand goods?

    eBay boomers, O, sub, 26.9.2004, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1312670,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

Two US marines have pleaded

guilty to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner

they were guarding at a temporary detention centre south of Baghdad,

the US military announced today.

    US marines plead guilty to prisoner abuse, G, 3.6.2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1230853,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

The reform of the Victorian law will be the first step towards

an almost total ban on smacking,

although the Government will make clear it has no desire to criminalise

parents who give their child a quick smack

at moments of frustration or to keep them out of danger.

'We are sympathetic to looking at reforming the reasonable chastisement defence

in a way that catches those who assault their children and then use this defence,'

a source close to Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, said.

    Move to curb parents' right to smack, O, 7.3.2004, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1163884,00.html       

 

 

 

 

 

Broadband machines are always connected at high speed to the internet,

making them preferable to using a slower dial-up connection.

But security flaws in the Windows operating system mean

that viruses or hackers can subvert the machines without the owner being aware. 

    Gates aims to wipe out spam as UK broadband users unwittingly help the spammers, I, 26.1.2004, http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=484787   

 

 

 

 

 

300,000 worshippers flock to St Peter's Square

to see Mother Teresa come closer to sainthood

    Sub headline, Pope beatifies 'servant of the least' , G, 20.10.2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1066691,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

Enoncé théorique de départ : the IRA came close to ...

 

Everyone knows just how close the IRA came to wiping out the British Government.

    Secret History, Channel 4, 9pm, T/T2, p. 28, 15.5.2003.

 

 

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