Word: sotomayor
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...YORK, N.Y.—Last week, as Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor testified before the Senate and President Barack H. Obama visited New York to commemorate the centennial of the NAACP, I sat on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that has been home to immigrants for generations. I work at Henry Street Settlement, founded by Lillian Wald, an early supporter of the NAACP. She hosted the informal reception that kicked off the 1909 National Negro Conference that helped launch the century-old organization. In a stuffy office across from housing projects, I read drafts of college essays written...
...Educational Opportunity Program or its siblings at CUNY and New York’s private colleges. These programs ask students like P to write about the hardships they have endured. Their difficult experiences become their qualifications for acceptance. The implication is that these resilient students, perhaps like Judge Sotomayor, have something important to share—because of race, poverty, and even plain adversity. I wonder: How can one compare the wisdom granted by different kinds of hardships? I also wonder about the opportunities available to poor high school students who live outside of New York City. Do they have...
Beck, Glenn • outrage of that, "as our country burns to the ground," no questions were asked of Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings on Monday (since, despite the howling ignorance of, questioning was scheduled to - and, indeed, did - begin on Tuesday) • phone call from listener to unleashes shrieking lunacy...
...Sotomayor, Sonia • pretense of there actually being anything at stake - as if the confirmation of was not a foregone conclusion - results in hostile questions being obligatorily asked of by Republicans and answered by in as unrevealing a manner as possible with endless blather about "fidelity to the law," while Senators find themselves endlessly repeating umpiring metaphor to, and surely you think that's already way more than you want to hear about this, but wait, here's Jon Stewart's take...
Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...