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...Yale, Sotomayor never took her foot off the pedal. "She was something of a grind," says Stephen Carter, a classmate and friend who now teaches at Yale. "She was always in the library, always had a casebook under her arm." But unlike some of the hardest-charging young law students, says Carter, "she always had a manner that was open. She didn't put down other people." Even then, her approach to the law was meticulous and small bore, as in a piece she published in the law journal on a technical issue affecting potential Puerto Rican statehood. "She wasn...
...taught subjects that are very important, that will never be taught as well again,” Miller added. Westfall also wrote a book on family law published in 1994. A casebook and supplement to his book on estate-planning law and taxation appeared...
...their-lives portraits in 1970, 1977 and 1984, all supervised by Michael Apted (director of Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorky Park). The latest installment, 28 Up, includes generous excerpts from the three previous reports. Flipping through the dozen lives as through a family album or social worker's casebook, we find a fascinating and poignant group picture of a nation with the juice squeezed...
What is most terrifying about last week’s election is that it is a casebook lesson in why terrorism works: In their fear and anger, Spanish voters acquiesced to the terrorists’ demands. Afraid that Spanish support for the war in Iraq fueled the bombing, voters pulled their support of a man who has a history of aggressive, anti-terrorism efforts designed to make Spain safer, only to elect a man who promised to withdraw from Iraq. Immediately following the election, Zapatero announced that Spain’s 1,300 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq unless...
...grabbing comrade, a Syrian named Abu al-Hasnat, was killed, and the third, unidentified suspect was also wounded, along with three officers. Once the al-Qaeda men were all handcuffed, the Americans moved in, comparing their catch--25 foreigners in all that night--to photos kept in a casebook of known al-Qaeda members. When one of the wounded matched up with Zubaydah's photo, "the FBI agents were very happy," says Hussain. "They applauded when they found...