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...although you can't recognize me, they put so much makeup on me. [Laughs.] That film had a great message too, that you should study the history of words and foreign languages and the meaning of words more so than just memorizing them. If you're an Indiana boy with German ancestry and you get a Hawaiian word, the only way you're going to get it right is if you had studied the patterns of the language itself. Hawaiian is an amazing language because it has very few sounds and the spelling is pretty systematic...
...then age 40 and the youngest judge in the Southern District of New York, presided over a two-hour hearing in which the baseball players' association protested the owners' decision to unilaterally eliminate free-agent negotiations and salary arbitrations while both sides were negotiating a new collective-bargaining agreement. Although Sotomayor, who was raised in a housing project a few miles from Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx, admitted that "I know nothing about this, except what a common layperson reads in the New York Times," she also told the litigators that "I hope none of you assumed ... that...
...Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities...
...represent China in international sports events. Amateur sports, with little political significance, have been largely ignored. China established its first professional football league in 1994, following the example of European leagues. The system, however, never fully embraced the market values that made its European counterparts such a success. Although teams are sponsored by major companies like Samsung and Hyundai, they are still "owned" by their local football associations, which are government departments. (See pictures of China's sports schools...
...When news of the killing began to trickle into Punjab, state authorities went on alert. Although there is no specific history of Ravidasia-Sikh violence in Punjab, violence has taken place between followers of various sects across the state, mostly with support of lower castes among both the Sikhs and non-Sikhs. By Monday afternoon, large-scale rioting spread to six districts, leading Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, to issue a televised appeal. "Invoking the teachings of the Gurus, I appeal to all sections of people in Punjab to maintain peace," he said. The situation has spun...