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...jurists who reach the top rungs of America's legal system. Sotomayor, 54, was raised by Puerto Rican parents in a South Bronx housing project a few miles from the old Yankee Stadium. Her father, a tool-and-die maker who died when Sotomayor was 9, had a third-grade education and spoke only Spanish; her mother worked as a nurse at a methadone clinic and bought the neighborhood's only set of encyclopedias. A fiercely devoted student, Sotomayor attended Catholic schools and then Princeton University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She later attended Yale Law School...
...exchange for a package of political, economic and diplomatic incentives. Even if the U.S. agrees to talk while Iran's centrifuges are spinning, what's less clear is whether Washington and its allies will eventually settle for less than Iran forgoing enrichment altogether, and accept some level of low-grade enrichment being conducted under an expanded inspection regime...
...purpose of seeking to deny Iran enrichment capability had been, as President Bush stressed, to prevent Iran from "mastering the technology" to create bomb-grade matériel. But Iran has clearly now mastered enrichment technology, producing a steadily growing stockpile of low-enriched uranium. While the U.S. would obviously like Tehran to dismantle its enrichment facilities, there's widespread doubt in Washington and beyond that the Iranians would agree...
...mean, I have real strong memories of great teachers that I had in grammar school, the teachers who told me that I was smart, who pushed me to skip a grade, who challenged me with tough projects. Those are really the people, those are the stories that really guide me. Those are the folks that I'm trying to make proud...
...kids that I visited at Ferebee-Hope School yesterday - they're going to remember that the First Lady came to see them, and they're going to think about that. But over the course of their elementary school experience, it's going to be that third-grade teacher and how she dealt with them over the course of that year and, you know, the hugs that she gave and the attention and the intervention. That's what's, from my experience, that's what they'll remember. That's what they'll live with - those experiences, good...