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...Conservatives who want to go after Sotomayor may find more ammunition in some of her public statements outside of court. In a panel discussion at Duke University four years ago, Sotomayor said the federal court of appeals is where "policy is made," the kind of statement that can get you tagged as an activist judge who tries to make law instead of interpret it. Sotomayor appeared to know that was the danger in the words she had just let slip, because she quickly added, "And I know that this is on tape, and I should never say that. Because...
...DAISY DUKE on the cover of Vanity Fair...
Israel’s David Duke, Avigdor Lieberman, took center stage last month as foreign minister. Americans—on the whole—rejected Duke’s rank racism. But Lieberman was frighteningly successful in February’s national election, indicating a bigoted viewpoint in Israeli society that chooses Jewish supremacy rather than equal rights for all citizens...
...Arts, Media & Entertainment”OCS Conference Center, 1414 Mass Ave10:45 a.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St11 a.m.Sunken Garden Children’s TheaterSunken Garden, Radcliffe Yard11:30 a.m.Welcoming Performance by Harvard Bhangra and the Harvard BandHarvard Yard Stage11:30 a.m.“The Duke Meets the Count” Jazz PicnicArts First Tent, Science Center11:30 a.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St12 p.m.Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, Sunken Garden, Radcliffe Yard12:15 p.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St1 p.m.South Indian Classical MusicHolden Chapel (between Lionel and Mower)1 p.m.Dunster House Opera ShowcaseDudley...
...translations of those first two lines, and this is not the one Jarmusch provided - but due to my inability to write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative, I no longer felt...