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A few of Sotomayor's decisions may ring a bell. It was she who ruled in 1999 that a law-school graduate with a learning disability was entitled to extra time to take a bar exam. More recently, she forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Empathy for Sonia Sotomayor | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Militant violence returned to the Pakistani capital on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the courtyard of a police rapid response center, killing two people and injuring six others. The attack came just hours after militants ambushed a military convoy near the Swat Valley, where the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears Escalate Over Violence in Islamabad | 6/6/2009 | See Source »

Striking a balance between humor and substance, Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today Show addressed the Class of 2009 during yesterday’s Class Day Exercises.

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Takes a Humorous Tone | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Recently, I spoke with some friends in Gaza, and the conversations were profoundly disturbing. My friends spoke of the deeply felt absence of any source of protection—personal, communal or institutional. There is little in society that possesses legitimacy and there is a fading consensus on rules and...

Author: By Sara Roy | Title: The Peril of Forgetting Gaza | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Recently, I spoke with some friends in Gaza and the conversations were profoundly disturbing. My friends spoke of the deeply felt absence of any source of protection—personal, communal or institutional. There is little in society that possesses legitimacy and there is a fading consensus on rules and...

Author: By Sara Roy | Title: The Peril of Forgetting Gaza | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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