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...What about her sleeveless dresses? A lot has been written about all of her sleeveless looks, her sleeveless sheaths, which is definitely a hallmark of her, with her very well-toned arms. Was that statement-making in its own right? Maybe. She wasn't the first First Lady to wear sleeveless looks. Jackie Kennedy did, and Nancy Reagan did. But she's got a terrific well-toned physique, and so I think hers was more statement-making. (See photos: "Behind the Scenes with Michelle Obama...
...What would you consider her trademark looks? I think there are a couple. I think sleeveless sheaths are one. Cardigans are another. I think she does a lot of belted looks. I think she does a lot of statement jewelry ... one or two pieces, well-chosen, bold, big. I think the empire waistline is probably one of her favorite silhouettes. I think those are the biggest. There are other things that she has done consistently. She wears a lot of pearls, double-stranded pearls. She certainly did for her official White House portrait...
...confirmation hearings she displayed some aspects of her judicial philosophy - but perhaps not all of them. Adopting a trope more often associated with conservatives than liberals, she said repeatedly that judges should simply apply the law, not legislate from the bench. "My judicial philosophy," she declared in her opening statement, is simple: "fidelity to the law. The task of a judge is not to make law. It is to apply the law." And as if to dispel any impression that this was rhetorical boilerplate, Sotomayor returned to the same theme throughout the hearings. (See pictures from Sotomayor's hearings...
Skeptics have long sniffed at the official Franco-Algerian version of how the monks were abducted and murdered. But Buchwalter's statement - given to investigating magistrate Marc Trévidic, who also happens to be overseeing the Pakistan case - blows the biggest hole yet in the idea that the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) killed the seven men. According to Buchwalter, an army intelligence official serving as military attaché to France's embassy in Algiers at the time of the killings, he was told by Algerian colleagues that the monks had died when an Algerian army helicopter patrolling an area...
Sessions remained unconvinced. "I just am very concerned that what you're saying today is quite inconsistent with your statement that you willingly accept that your sympathies, opinions and prejudices may influence your decision-making," he concluded...