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...dissents rather than in majority opinions that appellate judges often reveal their true feelings. Of Sotomayor's 19 published dissents, only three dealt clearly with racial issues, and they pointed in different directions. In a 1999 case, Gant v. Wallingford Board of Education, Sotomayor would have allowed a 6-year-old African-American student to challenge as racial discrimination his school's decision to demote him from first grade to kindergarten. In Pappas v. Giuliani (2002), Sotomayor would have held that the New York City police department may have violated the First Amendment when it fired a police officer...
...William P. Purcell III was raised in Wallingford, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. His mother, a native of Louisiana, moved to Philadelphia after getting a job as a speech teacher and women’s debate team coach at Temple University. His father, who was also raised in Wallingford, was a food broker who sold everything from tuna fish to frozen waffles to dog food...
Russell and Rena Knisely, a retired couple from Wallingford, Pa., who started full-timing four years ago, spend the colder months at a lot they own in Hilton Head. Every Saturday morning at the resort park, they gather with a group of friends, cook a full breakfast for everyone staying at the park and trade stories about their road adventures over the shared meal. "Our happiness and health are much better in this lifestyle," says Russell, 64. "We have no worries here." "The only downside is that we don't have a church anymore," says his neighbor Wyn Hull...
...Sarah Vaillancourt and the Carson Duggan of the Saints. Chu leads the ECAC with 48 assists and Harbec is second with 42. Still, for all their similarities, the two come from completely disparate backgrounds. Chu honed her skills at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Wallingford, CT. After graduating in 2002, she became the first player of Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Team at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, where her team took home the silver. She then went on to star at Harvard, until the national squad called again for its bronze medal...
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