Just a glass?!? Amateur.
Posted on 12/22/2005 11:24:49 AM PST by JZelle
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., 55, embraced a reclusive lifestyle at Yale Law School during the early 1970s. For fun, recalls Mark Dwyer, who roomed with Judge Alito for three years at Yale, "Sam would go back to the room and study." Judge Alito, a Catholic, arrived at law school during tumultuous times on the heels of widespread student protests against the Vietnam War and soon after the controversial murder trial in New Haven of Black Panther party chairman Robert G. "Bobby" Seale. But his focus was turned inward -- to the Ivy League world of wood-paneled classrooms and intense study at one of the nation's most prestigious law schools. "Sam never went to crazy parties," Mr. Dwyer said. "At the end of the day, he would occasionally pull out his bottle of scotch and pour a glass ... to wind down before going to bed. "He was hard-core. He definitely wanted to get everything he could from law school." The two had matriculated to Yale together along with five other graduates from the Princeton University class of 1972. For Judge Alito, the challenge wasn't making top grades. It was how best to use Yale to prepare for a career that would bring him to the highest rungs of power in the conservative legal world and later see him shine as a federal prosecutor and judge.
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There were a lot of us in school like that. We're called nerds.
haha, its going to be a total slug fest... the liberals will be going absolutly freakin crazy- more so than they usually are... kick back and enjoy the show!
Alito's planning a future at Yale? What about the Supreme Court?
"I wonder how ugly these hearings will be?"
Picture Bork. Now picture Bork twice as worse. That is a good start.
Just a glass?!? Amateur.
Wow, why don't we go back and look at what Senator Specter was doing in college? Or Hillary Clinton?
Why don't we examine their "permanent record" from grade school?
I'm sure it would all be relevant. . .
It stands to reason he'd settled down a little by the time he went to Yale. What was he like at Princeton, when he was an undergrad?
It was a better use of time at Yale to protest the war or help the Black Panthers????
Do you really think Alito was a hell raiser at Princeton, either? lol
Probably not, but it's fun to imagine.
So how is this unusual?
I remember my three years in law school as being the equivalent of three years in prison. Get up, study, go to class, study, eat dinner, study until the library closes, go to bed, get up . . . l.
Is that Helen Thomas?
You should have seen Ann Marie Tallman of http://www.maldef.org/ (Mexican American Legal Defense Fund) and the NAACP's President Bruce S. Gordon for the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (see http://www.naacpldf.org/ for details) going after Alito on CSPAN earlier this week.
They're sure we're going to roll back American ethnic attitudes to those of our colonial days if Alito is elected.
Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Kennedy, I thought you ordered the # 4 value meal, not four meals.
Right. Alito was a conservative nerd, and I love him for it.
Amazing that a piece like that is news. Former classmate says Alito was a normal student, studied hard etc. Big FN deal!!!
And just out of curiosity, anyone have a clue as to why the author throws in the fact that Alito is Catholic? It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of article, not that there was a point to it in the first place.
"Hillary Clinton was at Yale almost at the same time. She just sort of stood out in a crowded room, not because she was beautiful, but as the kind of bubbling, effervescent kind of personality, where Sam was quiet."
Lord help us. I can't help but marvel at the depth of this quote...
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