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For high school, Roberts applied to La Lumiere, a competitive Catholic boarding school about 12 miles away in La Porte, Ind. "I won't be content to get a good job by getting a good education," he wrote at age 13 in an application letter. "I want to get the...
Such scrutiny, however, does not rule out a surprise, either a scandal in the past --or a path in the future unknown for now even to Roberts. Some Justices, like conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have consistently played to type; some, like John Paul Stevens and David Souter, ignored...
Roberts' resume reads so perfectly that it is easy to find the little flakes of destiny littered through his storybook life. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., but raised in Long Beach, Ind., a small town sprung from the sand dunes on the southeastern edge of Lake Michigan, Roberts was in second...
Most early impressions of Roberts cast him as a nobler character: big brain, big heart. He was the kind of boy whose eighth-grade math teacher kept his birthday in her birthday book all these years, alone among her generations of students. "I like to think that was an omen...
Roberts seemed on a fast track to judicial glory in 1992, when George H.W. Bush tapped him for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals at the age of 36. But he encountered his first setback when the bid died in the Senate with Bill Clinton's victory. Then...