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...speech in which Sotomayor introduced the "wise Latina" theme was delivered in Puerto Rico in 1994 and focused not on race but on gender. Sotomayor was responding to an article written by a colleague, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, a federal judge in New York. Cedarbaum, like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was an "equal treatment" feminist, who had expressed concern about the premise that women judges necessarily approach cases differently than men do. "Generalizations about the way women or men are," Ginsburg famously said, "cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals...
...Sotomayor, in her speech, takes a very different view from Ginsburg's and O'Connor's. She sympathizes with "difference feminists" and then says she is not sure she agrees with O'Connor's reputed statement that "a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion in deciding cases." Sotomayor concludes, "I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience, would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion" - and then defines "better" as a "more compassionate, and caring conclusion." She also recommends a 1993 article in Judicature, a legal journal, that...
...News was not so good for Terminator Salvation, which lost a steep 62% from last weekend's gross. This fourth episode in the John Connor saga could trace the sorry trajectory of this March's action film, Watchmen, which earned more than half its total domestic take in its first weekend. In plain English, that means the hard-core fans saw it immediately but didn't go back or convince others to buy tickets. It also suggests that certain action franchises do need a star. Given the tarnished fiscal state of the Golden State, Arnold Schwarzenegger may wish he were...
...record—the fifth-most victories in Harvard history. The standout also notched his 103rd career victory, vaulting him to fourth all-time with his senior season still ahead.“Louis has worked so hard,” junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor said. “Taking a semester off is really tough, but for him to be able to come back and jump right in at the same level and an even higher level…it’s a testament to the type of kid Louis...
...Mighty Ducks had the Bash Brothers. Harvard wrestling has its co-captains. Junior co-captain Louis Caputo concluded a stellar season with an eighth-place finish at the NCAA championships on March 21, joining junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor as one of five Crimson wrestlers to achieve All-American status twice. In a year that featured a number of team struggles for Harvard (5-12, 2-3 Ivy), its all-star captains led a three-man charge to the championships—with sophomore Corey Jantzen completing the trio—finishing 41st in the nation...