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My Birthday With Sonia
Peter Kougasian, a bureau chief in the Office of Special Narcotics, went to Princeton and Yale with Sotomayor, and they worked together during her five years at the DA's office.
"At Princeton, she carried herself like a person who was headed for greatness,” he says. “She was deliberate, formal and diplomatic, not loose and spontaneous. Proust said 'some people live their life as though every word uttered was to be published in a book.' Sonia was like that, she had a sense of the weight of her words, as though they had significance.”
Yet she was also involved in third-world politics, talking about America’s role in developing countries and the war in Vietnam. "Part of this was her own heritage," Kougasian says.
"The criticism of her at the office was that she was obsessed with details, a nitpicker, missing the forest sometimes for the trees,” he recalls. “I remember at arraignment court, reading a complaint file she had prepared and I only had about 30 seconds to get the gist of the case. It was a theft from a public bar and her opening paragraph described the denominations of the money stolen—two fives, five twenties and on and on.”
That night, we went to Cityzen, the restaurant started by the chef of The French Laundry in the Napa Valley. The staff all signed a birthday card, presented us with an endless array of amuse bouches, concocted a special chocolate chip cookie dough souffle, and sent me home with a half dozen of pastry chef Amanda Cooke's miniature cupcakes. The Washington Post picked Bob as the best and most consistently entertaining witness of the day, refreshingly devoid of bombast. I had watched my husband, at nearly ninety years of age, display the qualities I had married him for more than 30 years ago. It had been a perfect birthday.
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BasPos
It's important to see matters from the inside. If anyone here knows the emails of Sessions, Cornyn, and the others who so opposed Sotomayor's nomination, send them this link.
rahrah
This mightily puts the political grand-standing of televised confirmation hearings into perspective.
larry278
Putting a CIA lapel on your husband's jacket is a husband's grounds for divorce. It's as annoying as playing with your man in public. Obsessive, fussy, grooming of your man's clothes is obnoxious; you're his woman, not his mom.
crashtestDummy
i tried to read this
i did
the "fresh crab" finally pulled the plug
this noisy "my life as it is" padding around interesting
news buried the news for me...
crashtestDummy
i wouldn't have seen this if it was where it belongs
woman's day magazine...
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