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...grilled both sides, and it took her only 15 minutes to rule in favor of the players. "She obviously had done her homework well before the case was argued," says Donald Fehr, the head lawyer for the players' union. "She was in control of her courtroom." Sotomayor issued an injunction against the owners that ordered them to restore free agency and arbitration. With the injunction in place, the players agreed to return to work while a new labor agreement was hammered...
...time, the GOP tried to block Sotomayor's nomination to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals because they feared she was being lined up for a spot on the Supreme Court. It took a piece of congressional sleight of hand to hold up that nomination for over a year, but in the end, the Republicans had to cave, and Sotomayor was approved. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...Lott took the action primarily because of rumors - entirely unfounded, it turned out - that Clinton was trying to fast-track Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, a tactic his predecessor had used to elevate Clarence Thomas. The rumors were in turn based on speculation that liberal Justice John Paul Stevens was about to retire; he remains on the court to date. Rush Limbaugh at the time warned that Sotomayor was being put on a "rocket ship" to the Supreme Court. (See the top 10 Supreme Court nomination battles...
Even since before the mystifying Kim Jong Il took power in 1995, the outside world has tried mightily to figure out how the North Korean regime works. Spy satellites are trained on suspected nuclear sites 24 hours a day. The U.S.'s "Big Ear" - the National Security Agency - eavesdrops on communications. Defectors from the North have been thoroughly scrubbed and spies have been recruited. During the presidency of George W. Bush, diplomats from the U.S. and four other countries talked, on and off, for years with their counterparts from Pyongyang...
...does is meant simply to up the ante in negotiations and get the U.S. and its negotiating partners to sweeten their offerings. This conviction is widely shared among career diplomats in Seoul as well, and they joined their State Department colleagues in outrage when the Bush Administration at first took a confrontational approach with the DPRK. Bush's hard-line stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear-weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe that North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush's time...