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Albany, NY – Sonia Sotomayor became a household name in a matter of hours. Her nomination to the Supreme Court revved up the right wing to near-hysteria. There was even a right wing blogger who said she should stop trying to get us to pronounce her name correctly - she was just being ethnic. Really. I read it.
In search of a rational reaction to the nomination, I spoke with legendary workers' rights advocate Dolores Huerta, founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
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Dolores Huerta is co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association and head of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
But what about the Sotomayor's legal qualifications? For answers on that, we turn to Professor Susan Low Bloch, who teaches constitutional law and a seminar on the Supreme Court at Georgetown University.
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Susan Low Bloch is professor of law at Georgetown University and the author of "Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedures" from West Publishing Company.
Most of us learn about men from our dads. We're either Daddy's girl, the apple of his eye, or we're constantly trying to get there. Just as no mothers are perfect, neither are the men who become our fathers. But once we grow up, it's possible that they've given us strengths we never imagined. Carol Ascher is a Connecticut author and anthropologist who finally wrote about her own father as a way to come to terms with their troubled relationship. He was a refugee of the Holocaust...and he was never really free. But Ascher says it's not really a Holocaust story.
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The book is called "Afterimages: A Family Memoir" by Carol Ascher. It is published by Holmes and Meier.
And finally, Rachel Stein with a commentary on the moments that break your heart.
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Rachel Stein is a professor at Siena College. She's working on a memoir on love and loss.