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'Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as "a product of affirmative action" who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to "cultural biases" that are "built into testing."

On another occasion, she aligned with conservatives who take a limited view of when international law can be enforced in U.S. courts. But she criticized conservative objections to recent Supreme Court rulings that mention foreign law as being based on a "misunderstanding."

Those comments were among a trove of videos dating back nearly 25 years that shed new light on Sotomayor's views. She provided the videos to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as it prepares for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing next month.

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'A nursery school worker was jeered and spat at when she appeared in court today, charged with sexual assault and making and distributing child abuse images.

Vanessa George, 39, who worked at the Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth, was remanded in custody amid angry scenes in and outside the city's magistrates court. George, of Plymouth, faces three counts of sexual assault on girls and one on a boy. She is also accused of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

The charges relate to offences alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2007 and June this year. The first charge relates to an assault in Plymouth of a girl aged around one. In the second, she is alleged to have touched an "infant girl". The third is a serious sexual assault on an "infant boy". Another involved an alleged serious sexual assault on an "infant girl".
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The other three charges were that she took, possessed and distributed indecent images of children.'

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'Great conversation and debate going on at Lylah and Barbara's Child Caring blog about moms who get the creeps leaving their children with male caregivers.

This drives hard-working male teachers, not to mention devoted dads, understandably crazy with outrage over society's sexist double standard. (For the record, I adore the two men teachers at our preschool -- I think they are great role models for the little boys, and all the kids see that teachers of either gender can teach and comfort them.)
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Several months ago, I interviewed male nursing students studying at Bunker Hill Community College's state-of-the-art nursing program who hoped to enter the labor & delivery field.

These were really nice 20-something guys, but during their student-training rounds at big city hospitals, they were regularly ordered by laboring women to get lost.

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'The Indiana State Department of Health recently cut gay white men as an HIV/AIDS funding priority. African-American and Hispanic men who have sex with men are still included as priority populations. The decision was made by the department's advisory Community Planning Group (CPG).

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'Young heterosexual men are falling prey to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia just as much as women and gay men - and their numbers are increasing, a leading specialist has warned.
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To be a young man is our society is a difficult thing. What you do and who you are is less straightforward. Women were challenged decades ago to consider which of the many different social roles they adopted. Now men are having to respond to the choices that society gives them.

"Suddenly younger straight men have similar pressures to gay men and women. There is a crisis of masculinity in our society. They are given all these roles and to simply decide to manipulate your body is a nice easy solution to all the complexities of life."'

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'Very few men call police on these women, but when they do many women get charged with domestic violence and battery. Terry Owen with the Port St. Lucie Police Department, says, "We have always seen the men as the abusers, but that is not the case now." Owen says in April, 28 woman were arrested for domestic violence. Owen says, "Woman are just more aggressive than they used to be, they are not laid back or passive." She says that coupled with the poor economy and the higher use of alcohol and drugs is pushing women over the edge. This is another 911 call, "Me and my boyfriend just got in to it and I am trying to get my stuff to leave and he won't let me get my stuff and I don't have time to argue with him." That was Lakeshia Tumblin. She was just arrested for throwing a knife at her boyfriend. The crimes continue and rarely do men report it..."

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'In a gang and want to get out? Hooked on drugs? Mean to your parents? Afraid you have AIDS? Barred from visiting your child?

"You need to come to the Boys 2 Men Conference," said the Rev. Willie D. Brown, host and producer of the Saturday event designed to help young males face their problems and find answers. "We have a generation of young men on life support. We're coming in with the shocking paddles to give them their lives back."

Brown expects 300 to 500 young men, ages 12 and up, to attend. How does he plan to get them?
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The conference will offer counseling, confidential AIDS testing, and prevention and intervention in areas from drugs to child custody.
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"We'll find out each guy's issues. We'll break them to different groups. We'll show them how other people have handled their problems."'

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'Four days after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction that barred Quinnipiac University from cutting the women's volleyball team, the school changed course Tuesday and reinstated the program.

But while keeping the program in the face of a Title IX lawsuit, Quinnipiac said that it was cutting the men's indoor track team. The school had previously eliminated men's outdoor track and golf because of budgetary concerns.
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Andrew Schneider, the ACLU's executive director, said testimony showed that Quinnipiac could have achieved its budget cuts without eliminating programs, so he was critical of the decision to cut men's indoor track.

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'NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who's sometimes perceived as cold and unfriendly, sought to warm up his image at an event with women voters on Monday.
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The Bloomberg campaign, which just released new television ads featuring testimonials from prominent women supporters focusing on issues such as reproductive health access, domestic abuse and schools, insisted the event was not invite-only. Invited people were allowed to bring guests, spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said.'

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'A woman scorned is a dangerous thing. Hell hath no fury to match her menace.What hope for Gordon escaping the poisoned darts shot by women who have abandoned him? None whatsoever.

A woman overlooked, scorned and set adrift is a loose canon fully loaded and fizzing. At some stage she’ll go off with an almighty bang. Then she’ll reload and fire again.

Gordon Brown should be digging an underground shelter right now. He’s surrounded by dangerous women – and they all have his soft, tender bits in their sights. They want his career and his reputation. And boy, are they on course to claim them.
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Worse still, they are armed to the teeth with the kind of secrets that can cause the most pain. As any woman knows, the definition of a secret is something that should be kept closely confidential until it becomes irresistibly useful. These ladies have oodles of them.

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'While members of the psychiatric community were quick to point out that each case is different, they were just as fast in identifying a common thread: “a desperate longing for a child combined with either psychopathic tendencies or a psychotic break, which creates a delusional belief that an infant must be claimed, at any cost, to be ‘returned’ to its ‘rightful’ mother.

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'JENNINGS, La. (AP) - A Lake Arthur woman has been booked with filing false police reports and theft after she admitted to making up separate rape and armed robbery claims.
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Cassidy said the charges resulted from Thibodeaux alleged false complaint of a rape at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Jennings last November and an alleged false complaint of armed robbery at the Dollar General store in Lake Arthur in January.'

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'The University of Florida might want to rename its traditional game-day pep song "We Are the Girls From Old Florida."

Since 1998, female students have outnumbered males on the UF campus. Next year's incoming freshman class is expected to be 60 percent female - the highest level ever.

Nationally, women have long outnumbered men in college classrooms. In fact, UF is actually behind the trend and ranks last among state universities in the percentage of female students.
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The growing gender imbalance is "not a healthy situation," he said. He links the trend to a growing incarceration rate in the U.S. and an increasing number of men committing suicide.

He calls for changing the way in which boys are educated. Boys learn through a more active, hands-on learning style than girls, he said. Mischief-making boys are treated as criminals or sent to special education classes, he said.

"Boys aren't allowed to be boys today," he said. "They're treated as defective girls."'

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'Plymouth, UK: A nursery school worker was today charged with seven offences, including sexual assault and distributing indecent images of children.

Vanessa George, 39, from Plymouth, is accused of four offences of sexual assault and one count each of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children. George is in custody at Charles Cross police station, where she will be detained until she appears before Plymouth magistrates court tomorrow.
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Police were continuing to speak to staff at the Little Teds nursery in Plymouth and the parents of children who attend the centre. Police have not said whether the allegations relate to children at the nursery.
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George is understood to have worked at the unit for around two to three years as a member of the 15-strong staff.'