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...comment on others' lives, yet we don't know much about yours. How do you react when the gossip includes you? - Patrick Michaels, New York City I don't take myself very seriously. I'm not Zac Efron, obviously. There's not a precious image that I'm trying to protect. I can be a bitch. I can go out and get photographed drunk. I can even get arrested. I don't think people will think any differently of me. (See pictures of Perez Hilton...
Sotomayor's nomination battle began in 1997, five years after President George H.W. Bush, following the suggestion of New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, nominated her to the Southern District Court of New York. With a minimum of political fuss, she became the first Hispanic federal judge in the state. Nominated to the Appeals Court by President Bill Clinton in the summer of 1997, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee - including its then chairman, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. But Mississippi's Trent Lott, then the GOP leader, prevented the full Senate from taking...
...secret hold infuriated Democrats, especially Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who described it as cowardly: "In fact, how disturbing, how petty and how shameful: trying to disqualify an outstanding Hispanic woman judge by an anonymous hold...
Plans for a truth commission, originally proposed by Senator Patrick Leahy, had seemed doomed by Obama's initial thumb's-down. But they gained some traction in recent weeks, thanks to fresh controversies over the CIA's detention and interrogation policies under Bush. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has repeated claims that the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects helped save thousands of American lives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had to deny that she was informed about the CIA's use of waterboarding and has accused the agency of misleading Congress. (See pictures of the aftershocks of the Abu Ghraib...
...White House became as much Michelle Obama's stage as her husband's even before she colored the fountains green for St. Patrick's Day, or mixed the Truman china with the World's Fair glasses at a state dinner, or installed beehives on the South Lawn, or turned the East Room into a jazz lounge for a night or sacrificed her first sock to the First Puppy. Of all the revelations of her first 100 days, the most striking was that she made it seem natural. She did not spend decades dreaming of this destination, and maybe that...