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...prequel to his mega-best-selling The Shadow of the Wind, a young writer in early 20th century Barcelona finds that he may have sold his talents and his soul to the worst of bidders. Pulpy, melodramatic and compulsively readable, The Angel's Game is the second of a proposed four books set in Barcelona. Ruiz Zafón spoke to TIME about his obsession with storytelling, the e-book revolution and why the media don't care about literature...
...Despondent Republican staffers privately concede that Sotomayor's long record on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; her background as a prosecutor, corporate lawyer and judge; and the political danger of attacking a Hispanic nominee make President Barack Obama's first pick for the court all but a shoo-in when confirmation hearings begin on July 13. But members of the Supreme Court bar and clerks who have worked there say the opinion in the Ricci case (named for one of the New Haven firefighters who brought the lawsuit) offers an advance look at Sotomayor's future relations with conservative...
...more powerful voice on issues of discrimination, Amar suggests. And the Ricci case provides a first exchange between Obama's nominee and her future colleagues on a discrimination issue. In the ruling on Monday, the court's five conservatives overturned the decision Sotomayor helped author while on the Second Circuit. That lower court had decided not to hear allegations of reverse discrimination brought by firefighters who claimed the city of New Haven had violated their civil rights by throwing out promotion-test results because no black candidates had passed. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...overturning Sotomayor's ruling, the high court's conservatives split in tone. In a concurring opinion joined by Justices Thomas and Scalia, Justice Samuel Alito criticized the Second Circuit, saying the claims by Ricci and the other firefighters were never sufficiently considered by the lower courts and that those courts had therefore denied them "evenhanded enforcement...
...Politicos all over Latin America will be scrutinizing those mistakes as well. The Argentine poll was a referendum on Fernández's often confrontational leadership style - which voters and financial markets alike decided isn't all that well suited to rescuing South America's second-largest economy from the ravages of a global recession. The Fernández-Kirchner comeuppance may well be taken as a first sign that the economic downturn is reining in the region's increasingly powerful Presidents, especially the leftists who this decade have become a popular counter to U.S. political and economic hegemony...