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...unlike the majority of Harvard-educated Supreme Court justices, Gonzales was not on the Law Review and did not clerk for a federal judge after graduation...
...will be remembered as perhaps the most powerful Supreme Court Justice in recent history. But to her clerks, Sandra Day O'Connor was most memorable for her thoughtfulness and utter lack of pretension. She wore a T shirt, for example, that proclaimed I'M SANDRA, NOT RUTH, to poke fun at advocates who would confuse the court's two female Justices. She attended her clerks' birthdays and weddings whenever she could; at one, she asked the groom's father for a ride. The car was packed, but when he tried to make her take the front seat, she insisted...
...thought I was enduring some hardship for the benefit of the poor in some other country. I thought that while my friends were making $10,000+ for the summer at large private investment firms in Manhattan, I would be slaving away in hot and humid D.C. as a lowly clerk in a poorly-ventilated basement cubicle that I would share with ten other people, at least two of whom would be from a country that didn’t believe in deodorant...
...that every computer has its own laser printer as well as a centralized color laser printer for the division). I sit in a well-padded chair in the middle of a complete wraparound desk with more office supplies than I know what to do with. And I am a clerk, the lowest possible position at the Bank...
...Lincoln works on a river flatboat, then moves to New Salem, Ill., and works as a clerk and a surveyor. Interest in politics begins...