Sonia Sotomayor

Rock star chosen by online NEA poll WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bono, U2's legendary front man and voice for the poor, would also rule the classroom say thousands of voters in the National Education Association's third annual Substitute Educator's Day poll. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081015/NEALOGO ) Given the choice among Bono, journalist Katie Couric, former South Africa President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, Supreme ...  

We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be able to garner his political party's nomination for the presidency in today's Democrat Party. An examination of his political platform and the principles he embraced would today place him on the right side of the aisle. So, why is it that in just under fifty years the political ideology of the most revered Democrat to hold office in modern times is shunned by the party he served?  

I had the pleasure of meeting the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Randall Shepard, during his visit to ISU's campus this past Wednesday. The Chief Justice came to campus to speak about the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunities, a program designed to help disadvantaged and/or minority students to pay for their legal education in one of the four Indiana law schools. Justice Shepard's diversity initiative reminded me of the controversy surrounding the historical nomination of the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court of the United States: Sonia Sotomayor.  

The ostensible topic of a recent argument before the Supreme Court was lawyering, but the real subject turned out to be judging. An exchange between Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and one of the lawyers was illuminating. The lawyer, Paul D. Clement, was representing the legal team that had won improvements in Georgia's foster care system on behalf of thousands of foster children.  

When the U.S. House admonished Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during a health care speech to Congress, it not only lit up talk show lines, but also sent many people scurrying to the Internet in search of a definition. Admonish, a verb dating to the 14th century meaning "to express warning or disapproval in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner," generated enough curiosity to crown it Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2009. It beat out several other ...  

Democratic senators are slow-waking President Obama's judicial nominations, something that our constitutional law professor chief executive is said to be frustrated about. The Washington Independent's chronicler of the conservative movement, David Weigel, has a theory : the White House itself is to blame because it's failed the zone with nominees and hasn't gone to the mat for all of them. Republicans, he notes, were quite aggressive in squeezing their nominees through a tighter Senate vise.  

These are current special events for area churches and religious organizations. For a list of houses of worship, go to http://www.carynews.com/community/story/12307.html. Send news from your religious group to carynews@nando.com or FAX to 460-6034. Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.  

To cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin. Michael Jackson was described in some news reports as emaciated at the time of his death. - Empathy (noun): The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this.  

The Supreme Court debated Monday whether the fees charged by mutual funds are too high, and if so, whether investors should be allowed to sue the boards that approved them. The case put a spotlight on the often-cozy relationship between mutual funds and their advisers. It is the advisers who sponsor the fund and choose members of its board, who in turn decide on fees that go to the advisers.