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  • But this does not mean that Judge Sotomayor is a right-wing zealot who tosses minority victims of race discrimination out of court anymore than her now-famous vote in Ricci v. DeStefano proves that she bears some kind of animus against white people.

    Wonk Room 2009

  • Sometimes, as in the case of the now-famous Karen Owen at Duke, they can be as explicitly raunchy as men, and evaluate men's bodies in exactly the way that men evaluate women's bodies.

    Michael Kimmel: Men -- and Women -- at Yale Michael Kimmel 2010

  • In reading the now-famous Three Cups of Tea, all of us instantly recognized the immense hospitality offered to Greg Mortenson, a tall white American Christian, by his host Haji Ali, an old Muslim villager who would become his teacher and friend, because it was the kind of universal hospitality that was ingrained in all of us as an integral part of Pakistani culture.

    Taha Gaya: The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective Taha Gaya 2011

  • White Firefighters: In her now-famous Ricci decision, Judge Sotomayor held that an employer could decide not to certify the results of a promotion test that had an adverse impact on minorities.

    Wonk Room » Washington Times Demands More Activism From Sotomayor 2009

  • By "we," he means that much of the legwork for his now-famous article in the March 1982 issue of the Atlantic Monthly was done by his co-author, George Kelling, then the research director of the Police Foundation.

    The Man Who Defined Deviancy Up Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • In reading the now-famous Three Cups of Tea, all of us instantly recognized the immense hospitality offered to Greg Mortenson, a tall white American Christian, by his host Haji Ali, an old Muslim villager who would become his teacher and friend, because it was the kind of universal hospitality that was ingrained in all of us as an integral part of Pakistani culture.

    Taha Gaya: The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective Taha Gaya 2011

  • In the Ninth Circuit, Judge Alex Kozinski ruled against the now-famous Winklevoss twins, who sued founder Mark Zuckerberg, saying he stole the idea, and they didn't like the settlement they made with him in which they got what's now valued at $200 million.

    Tax Attacks 2011

  • This includes two in a now-famous swimming pool in Belgrade.

    The Next King of the Court? Tom Perrotta 2011

  • Last week Rigby & Peller, the now-famous lingerie business founded by the nimble-fingered Bertha Rigby and Gita Peller, was sold in a deal that valued the company at nearly £10m.

    From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011

  • In 1962, with the help of the now-famous Lewis, Swaggart recorded the gospel album God Took Away My Yesterdays.

    Five People Born on March 15 | myFiveBest 2010

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