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...Sotomayor's involvement in an affirmative-action case last year will probably attract the most attention in weeks to come. The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, involves a group of white firefighters, including one Hispanic. The group filed a discrimination suit against the city of New Haven, Conn., after the city decided not to certify the results of a job-promotion exam because no African Americans had scored high enough to be promoted. A lower court decided in favor of the city. In February 2008, Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel that upheld the lower court's decision. Four...
...case, Sotomayor wrote, "The Supreme Court has made clear that the government is free to favor the anti-abortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds." But that case didn't require Sotomayor to comment on the fundamental premise of Roe v. Wade, that the Constitution provides a right to abortion...
...past few decades, the easiest call in economics was to predict a V-shaped recession--one that bottoms and rebounds quickly. It's basically all we've had. Only two of the 11 recessions since the end of World War II have lasted more than a year, and nearly all wound up with a boomlet. Consumers stocked up. Companies upgraded their computers. We piled into real estate. And predicting a V may be the right call again. With the government spending billions on economic stimulus--trillions, if you include the bank fix--a quick pullout is entirely possible. In that...
...economy before the bust. With less shopping, Roubini says, there is little chance for a quick rebound. "If we do everything right, we can avoid an L-shaped near depression, which you don't recover from," he says. "But you still don't get to a V...
...modeling bookings began taking off the summer before senior year, when she was slotted for a photoshoot for V magazine alongside some of the top models at Elite New York, including Alessandra Ambrosio and Coco Rocha...