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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...monitor her blood sugar and inject herself regularly with insulin. After that, her mother Celina raised Sotomayor and her younger brother Juan on a nurse's salary but still managed to send them to Catholic schools that prepared them for bigger things. Today Juan is a doctor. His sister, who spent a lot of time as a kid watching Perry Mason on television, had other plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: A Justice Like No Other | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...President has said to you that I bring my family. In the audience is my brother Juan Sotomayor - he's a physician in Syracuse, New York; my sister-in-law, Tracy (ph); my niece Kiley - she looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Text: Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Speech | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...Judge Muhammadi Qunsuwa announced the case will be referred to Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the nation's highest religious official, who will rule on Moustafa's death sentence on June 25. Upon hearing the verdict, Moustafa's sister reportedly fainted in the courtroom just a few feet from the cage where her brother stood imprisoned during the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hisham Talaat Moustafa: Egypt's Condemned Tycoon | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

Just over three years and two months ago, Steven Green raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and murdered her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in the family's isolated farmhouse 20 miles south of Baghdad. On May 21, after deliberating about a death sentence for 10 hours over two days, a jury of nine women and three men in the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Ky., declared they could not come to a unanimous decision. As a result, Green will receive an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Soldier Murders: Steven Green Gets Life | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...what wasn't. She began talking less about the country's problems and more about its promise. By the time the New Yorker parodied the parody of her as a machine-gun-toting revolutionary, she was reintroducing herself at the Democratic Convention as a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter, listing why she loved her country and why her husband was the man to lead it. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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