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Because two men in that office came up to me and said we think you could do more than type and file. Do you want to know what we do . They mentored me, took a chance on me, gave me a helping hand. In all my career, all my life people have taken a chance for me. Its also true that its still different for women in some ways. Women in positions of authorities are caricatured differently, scrutinized differently, because its different, its new. Ask that and that sometimes makes it very hard. The way we should think about this is to recognize that Human Potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world. Its also the only resource we need to solve every problem we have and attack every opportunity in a successful way. Women are half the potential of this nation. Women are the majority of voters. If you look around, womens potential hasnt been fully tapped. So that means something for all of us. We ought to be tapping everyones potential and make sure that regardless of what some
Duke rape case. I am talking about the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. It happened in 2006, march 2006. To april 2007. By the way, it is still ongoing. That is another topic. At the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. Everybody was focused. When i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. There was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. I was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. How few people were very happy with the outcome that had been resolved by the attorney general of North Carolina who declared these boys innocent which is a very unusual legal term usually in a court of law, somebody is declared not guilty or guilty. The concept of innocence is foreign to the legal profession. I wanted to know what happened here. I was shocked at how difficult it was to get people to talk to me, including people at duke. When i spoke to Dick Brodhead
Publicity about this and received a tax bill from the irs which was written about in a detroit paper. If you do the arithmetic, you can get the idea he was taxed based on Something Like a 20 million payment and this has since been confirmed to me. And that was of course, that is 60 million. There was a settlement with coach pressler who was fired. The lacrosse coach. They had to resettle with him because he brought a libel suit against the university when they paid 20 million to each of the players. The rest of the players on the team, the nonindicted players also sued duke. It was resolved in february of last year. They got cash and settlements. One lawsuit still remains among three of the players. One including Ryan Mcfadden who wrote the horrible email that caused a huge controversy at the time. Between legal fees and settlement fees and pr spin and legal investigation, basically 100 million. Give us i know you do not want to quote specific words. Ryan mcfaddens email said what . He
Justice. All youths feel a connection with her. Struggle every day, often people of color, feel that their dreams can be realized because of her. And respect given to my friend is palpable. Regardless of what is going on in her life, is always friendly, takes a photo with the to her. Ho comes up she gives it her all to everyone 24 7, 365 days a year. Who is she . Sotomayor . A i remember Sonia Sotomayor in law school. Out for a number of reasons. , principled,iant hardworking, determined, caring others, generous and full of life. School we lived in different cities had different jobs. And this being before email and internet lost touch. But our paths crossed again when considered for judicial appointment to the Southern District of new york by clinton and senator moynihan. I can well remember saying to said,r moynihan when he who is Sonia Sotomayor . , and i said, well, shes brilliant, principled, caringrking, determined, about others, generous, full of life, and will make an outstandi