Word: connor
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...confirmed, Roberts, who also graduated from Harvard Law School (HLS) in 1979, would become the nation’s 109th justice, replacing outgoing justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who announced her retirement from the high court earlier this month...
...outcry from social conservatives over the possible nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor is having an unintended consequence. It is winning him supporters. Some of them are not surprising. "Al Gonzales is a great friend of mine," President Bush said last week in response to the conservative assault over Gonzales' ambiguous views on abortion. "When a friend gets attacked, I don't like it." But Democrats--who blasted the former White House counsel during his Senate confirmation hearings for calling the Geneva convention "quaint," among other things...
...know, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is stepping down. She didn't want to resign--she just wants to make sure she's home so nobody can seize her house." --JAY LENO...
...never thought of him as an ideologue,” Lindsay A. Connor, who was also on Law Review with Roberts, wrote in an e-mail. But Connor said that he has not seen Roberts in more than 25 years and does not know how Roberts has changed...
...Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September 2001, for $1.2 billion. The family is the majority shareholder. Tom O'Connor, executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility it needed to address the tough reality facing the industry. "We also recognized early on where trade laws were going--that this is going to be a quota-free world--and said, Let's get our ducks...