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...Sotomayor's decisions may ring a bell. It was she who ruled in 1999 that a law-school graduate with a learning disability was entitled to extra time to take a bar exam. More recently, she forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis in antipollution enforcement (her ruling was later overturned). But the real fight over her confirmation will focus on her role in a case about tests for promotion within the New Haven, Conn., fire department. Although the tests were designed to be race-neutral, the pass rate for blacks was half that for whites...
...Lisa Heller Boragine was a graduate student at Syracuse University when she realized how much colleges throw out unnecessarily. In 1995, ?Boragine ventured into a Dumpster in search of a lost ring. "I was floored by what was in there," she says. "There were TV sets, an unopened case of ramen noodles and a cigar box full of rare stamps." She went on to found Dump & Run, a nonprofit that has advised more than 30 institutions on how to salvage what students jettison, including some truly trashy items. "Someone at one school brought in a 3-ft.-tall in?flat...
...Largely regarded as an effective, albeit abrasive, executive, Spitzer catapulted to the governorship in 2007 after having served as Attorney General from 1999 to 2006. On March 17, 2007, he resigned in disgrace on account of his connections to an elite prostitution ring...
...aquarium when she felt him carving a message on her back with his finger, writing slowly and carefully so she could understand. The letters spelled out “M-A-R-R-Y M-E.” “When I turned around, he had the ring out,” Gottlieb said. Gottlieb met Smith during their sophomore year of high school in Rochester, N.Y., but Gottlieb says “you can’t really quite classify us as high school sweethearts.” They kept in touch when Gottlieb came to Harvard...
...should be the Greyhound or the Amtrak brand ambassador,” Kumar said. This spring, with Kumar’s friends gathered at Small Plates for tea, Aggarwal proposed—though Kumar will have to wait until the official engagement ceremony on June 7 for a ring. While most undergraduates still tremble at the idea of marriage, Kumar said she never had that “phobia” and that she realized almost immediately that Aggarwal was the right man for her. She says he, on the other hand, “took a little bit more...