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OFF THE BAHAMAS (CNN) -- As the lights come up, Third Day lead singer Mac Powell is a little stumped. He's asked the packed house for requests, but the band can't do the two of the most popular suggestions.

Third Day has earned praise from mainstream publications but is still pigeonholed as "Christian rock."

The first is a song by another popular Christian music group, and the band has never performed it live.

The other suggestion is "Born Again," a ballad on their latest album. They have never played it live, either, and have not practiced it as a group in a long time. The album version also includes vocals by Flyleaf's Lacey Mosley, and she's not here.

After a people shout out a few more suggestions, Powell looks at the band and changes plans. It's karaoke time. One by one, they bring up fans to sing some of the oldies but goodies. The fans love it, even though the vocals are, well, not concert-worthy.

It's moments like this that make Third Day one of the most popular contemporary Christian music bands and the headliner for the 3,000 fans on this Christian-music-themed voyage, the K-Love Friends and Family Cruise.

"It's always fun for the audience and for us," drummer David Carr said. "Every now and then, we are really surprised by what we hear. Both pleasantly -- and not."

The members of Third Day, which has won three Grammy Awards and an American Music Award, are having as much fun on the ship as any of the fans, who are getting a chance to vacation side-by-side with the rockers and 12 other bands. They have brought their families along and -- aside from playing two one-hour gigs -- have been able to be music fans, too.

It's a needed break between tours -- the next one begins March 5 -- but the band is intrigued by the fact that at both shows on the cruise, fans have demanded "Born Again," which is scheduled to be the next single from their 10th studio album, "Revelation."

"That's going to go into our set list now," bassist Tai Anderson said.

The band is also enjoying an increase in fame. In June, they became the first Christian band to make the cover of Billboard magazine. " 'Revelation' should appeal to Third Day's core Christian music audience while expanding its fan base in the mainstream rock arena," the magazine said.

The crossover success hasn't materialized, but that hasn't disappointed the Atlanta, Georgia-based band. They plan to continue to focus on Christian-music fans even while their new management company looks at other opportunities.

"Getting to lead people in a worship or just even entertaining them is always a reward," Carr said. "I hope that Third Day continues to explore new territories as a band and still keep our core sense of who we are."

They say they were more focused on giving their fans an album with the Southern rock sound that has made the band famous in Christian music while trying to be a little more creative.

For "Revelation," Third Day worked with mainstream producer Howard Benson (Daughtry, Hoobastank) in Los Angeles, California, rather than a studio in Atlanta.

Anderson says the band pushed itself harder than ever, and even when the record company wanted a finished product, the group pushed back and continued to work and write songs, including the title track.

The result, the band believes, is a collection of songs that is lyrically among their best tunes and musically more than what fans were expecting.

Carr acknowledges that it sounds clichÃ©d for a band member to tout their latest work as their best. Still, he says, this album is as good as any Third Day has produced.

"Having been a band as long as we have [since 1991] and having put out as many albums as we have, it seemed really apparent that this album had to be great," he said. "If you take time out of the equation and just stacked all of our albums together and set them out there and really compared them, I really feel like this is the best one."

It's also important to give a great concert, the band members say. In this economy, Anderson says, it's extremely important to make fans feel like they aren't seeing or hearing the same old thing.

"No one's gonna feel sorry for musicians, but we have to plan budgets. We're very aware of the production," Anderson said. "We're trying to make sure we give people a good value."

On the K-Love cruise, an annual event that has grown exponentially in popularity, the band gave fans a chance to see their new music DVD, a 75-minute production stuffed with concert footage and backstage scenes.

There was a little hitch: It wasn't the final edit. The band thought it had the most recent version but brought along an earlier copy and had to reburn it to get it to play on the ship's video board. Still, the Lido Deck was packed with fans eager to get a closer look at the life of the band.

Third Day also added scenes with their families to the DVD.

"Since our fans are so cool and respectful, we'll give them that," Anderson said.

Anderson says the band is "antsy" to produce new music but wants to be careful about what songs they include in their 75-minute concerts. He thinks it's important to listen to the audience suggestions during the request periods and what the karaoke singers want to sing, as well as talking to cruisers about what tunes inspire them.

He knows there are still unreleased singles from "Revelation" that fans coming to the arena shows are expecting to hear, and it's now obvious that "Born Again" is one of them. There are other ballads he expects to click with radio audiences.

"I think we have a lot of life left in this record," he said. "We came out [with singles that were] rocking. It's when there start to be 'heart moments' that Christian records really take off."

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question: when is the new tour beguinning?

answer: March 5

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question: who is  determined to give fans "a good value"?

answer: Anderson

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question: What are the musicians determined to give fans?

answer: an album with the Southern rock sound that has made the band famous in Christian music

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question: Who is first Christian rock band to make cover of Billboard?

answer: Third Day

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question: When does their new tour begin?

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question: What will be on the cover of Billboard?

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(CNN) -- A Dutch-operated container ship outran pirates off the coast of Tanzania this weekend, an official with the International Maritime Bureau said Sunday.

French soldiers, who have joined British, Indian, Russian and American patrols off Somalia, during an exercise.

The incident took place "very far out to sea," showing that Somali-based pirates are extending their reach further and further, Noel Choong of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center told CNN.

"Earlier attacks were on ships off the coast of Somalia, then off the coast of Kenya, and now this was 450 nautical miles off Dar es Salaam," he said, tracing the southward expansion of the pirates' area of operations.

The ship, which Choong declined to name, came under attack from rocket-propelled grenades, starting a fire on board, he said. The crew was able to put out the fire and escape by increasing speed.

The ship and crew are now out of danger, he said, following the incident at 11:42 GMT Saturday.

Piracy has become increasingly common in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean this year. So far, pirates have attacked almost 100 vessels off Somalia's coast and successfully hijacked nearly 40, according to the center.  Watch how NATO is combating piracy ÃÂ»

Those hijacked vessels include an enormous oil tanker, a chemical tanker, and a ship laden with Soviet-era arms including tanks. The pirates normally hold the ships for ransom.

A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 passengers and crew successfully outran pirates off the coast of Yemen last weekend.

The IMB has tracked at least 11 incidents of actual or attempted piracy near the Tanzanian coast this year.

A multinational fleet, including vessels from the U.S., NATO member states, Russia and India, has been patrolling the Indian Ocean waters near the Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. Around 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route each year.  Watch anti-piracy vessels patrol the region. ÃÂ»

In a recent interview provided to CNN, a pirate leader claimed attacks on shipping would continue as long as life in Somalia remained desperate.

"The pirates are living between life and death," said the pirate leader, identified by only one name, Boyah. "Who can stop them? Americans and British all put together cannot do anything."

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(CNN) -- While all eyes seem to be on "Slumdog Millionaire" for the Oscars, one very courageous little girl will be focused on another India-based film at the ceremony.

Pinki, like millions in developing countries, had to live with her deformity and suffer the social consequences.

It's called "Smile Pinki," and it's up for an Oscar, too -- nominated for best short documentary, which it won on Sunday.

The little girl watching it from inside the Oscar ceremony has traveled all the way to Los Angeles, California, from her small Indian village with her dad -- and it has been an incredible journey for Pinki Sonkar.

"Smile Pinki" tells the story of her transformation from a sad outcast to a vibrant 8-year-old with plenty of spunk.

Pinki was born with a cleft lip, and her impoverished family did not have the money for corrective surgery.

Like millions of other children born with the lip deformity in developing countries, Pinki simply had to live with it and suffer the social consequences.

Her father Rajendra Sonkar says: "She used to go to school and the kids would not befriend her. She would say, 'I don't want to go to school.'"  Watch how Pinki was transformed by the operation Â»

"Pinki was a depressed, sad, lonely, shy, young little girl, growing up on the periphery of the society in a little village," said Satish Kalra, director of Smile Train's South Asian region, after meeting with Pinki.

The little girl's own family was ashamed of her, Kalra says.

But all of that has changed. Pinki is now a real pistol, full of energy and confidence, and she has a fantastic smile too -- thanks to the Smile Train charity.

Smile Train teaches doctors in their own countries to operate on cleft lips, a deformity afflicting up to four million children across the world. iReport: Share your Oscar predictions

Pinki just happened to be one of the chosen candidates for surgery and was also chosen to be the subject of the documentary.

The film chronicles her transformation, following her from her village to the hospital and home again.

"She has absolutely and totally changed," said Pinki's surgeon, Dr. Subodh Kumar.

The film's director is Megan Mylan. She has won several awards but not an Oscar -- until now.

For Pinki and her dad, being able to see the film's director win an Oscar would be a thrill.

But they know they already have the greatest prize: Pinki's new smile.

"I am so happy that my daughter's lips have been repaired," her dad Rajendra said with a smile, expressing hope that the movie will inspire people to help children whose families can't afford the surgery.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Seven emergency medics in England have been suspended from work for playing an Internet game that involves being photographed lying down in unusual places.

The lying down should be as public as possible and as many people as possible should be involved.

Bosses at a hospital in Swindon, western England, were angered after photographs of the doctors and nurses lying face down on resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and an air ambulance helipad were posted on social networking site Facebook.

The photographs have been removed from the site and the members of the hospital's accident and emergency staff now face a disciplinary hearing.

Partipants in the "lying down game" must lie face down with the palms of their hands against their sides and the tips of their toes touching the ground. Should the medics have been suspended? Send us your views

There are two aims to the challenge: that the lying down should be as public as possible and that as many people as possible should be involved.

But Dr. Alf Troughton, medical director of Great Western Hospital NHS Trust, was unamused by the alleged incident, which he said took place during a night shift last month.

"This did not involve patients and we are satisfied that at no time was patient care compromised," Dr. Troughton said in a statement.

"The Great Western Hospital sets high standards for staff behaviour at all times and therefore takes any such breaches extremely seriously. It is important to reassure patients and our workforce that this was an isolated incident and staff cover was maintained at all times.

"The allegations have been thoroughly investigated and seven members of staff remain suspended pending formal disciplinary hearings."

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ROME, Italy (CNN)  -- The murder trial of American student Amanda Knox in the death of her housemate two years ago resumed Monday in Italy after a summer break.

The trial of American college student Amanda Knox, 22, resumes Monday, September 14.

Knox, 22, and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito also face charges of sexual assault.

They are accused of killing British student Meredith Kercher, Knox's housemate in Perugia, a scenic university town north of Rome.

Kercher, 20, died in what prosecutors called a "drug-fueled sex game." She was found half-undressed in bed, with a stab wound to her neck on November 2, 2007.

Knox and Sollecito were both present at Monday's court session, Kercher's attorney Francesco Maresca said. Sollecito's defense attorneys requested the annulment of DNA analysis, which investigators say shows Sollecito's genetic material on the clasp of the victim's bra. The judge rejected the request.

The next hearing is scheduled on Friday, Maresca said.

Knox, from Seattle, Washington, took the stand in June and testified that she was not at the girls' villa the night her roommate died, which authorities think was the evening of November 1.

She said she was visiting her then-boyfriend, Sollecito, at his home, where the two watched a movie, smoked marijuana, had sex and went to bed.

On her return to their villa the next morning, Knox said, she noticed "strange things," such as the front door left open, dried blood in the bathroom sink and a locked door to Kercher's room.

When Knox returned to Sollecito's house, he suggested they call police in case the house had been burgled, she said. Police found Kercher's body in the house.

Prosecutors say evidence places the defendants at the scene. They also said the suspects gave investigators confusing and contradictory statements about their whereabouts the night Kercher died.

Knox said she gave conflicting answers at the interrogation on November 6 because of police pressure and her confused state.

"When I would say that I was with Raffaele, they would say, 'You are a liar,' and they repeated this," she said in June, speaking about the police. "'You will go to prison for 30 years. ... You must remember.'"

During the trial, she said police had slapped her on the head during questioning, a charge she had made before.

The case has attracted worldwide media attention. During her testimony in June, cameras were barred from the courtroom because the prosecutor said he wanted to avoid sensationalism.

A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted of murder in the case in October and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is appealing his conviction.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- The fiery leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant movement assured Lebanon on Monday that his movement will cooperate in the country's political life.

Supporters carry posters of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

Hassan Nasrallah said: "We don't want to have control over Lebanon, or to have governance over Lebanon or to impose our ideas over the people of Lebanon, because we believe Lebanon to be a special and diverse country that needs the collaboration of everyone."

Nasrallah spoke a day after Lebanon's parliament elected Michel Sleiman the country's president after a six-month vacancy in the position.

Nasrallah, speaking at a packed stadium, told his followers: "I renew my appeal and invitation for a true national partnership with no eliminations or impositions. The national unity government is not the victory of the opposition against the pro-government. It is the victory of all Lebanese."

He said Sleiman's election "renews the hope amongst the Lebanese people to a new era and a new start."

"I must say that there are deep wounds from our side and theirs, we are both in front of two choices; either to expand the wounds and add salt to them or try to cure them for the sake of Lebanon and we prefer the second choice."

The parliament had tried 19 times to vote on a new president, but failed because of disagreements over how to share power in a new Cabinet.

Lebanon's Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition reached a deal last week aimed at ending an 18-month political crisis that pushed the country to the brink of civil war, and paved the way for Sleiman's election.

The agreement, reached in Doha, Qatar, calls for a consensus government in which the Cabinet would be comprised of 30 posts -- 16 for the majority, 11 for the Hezbollah-led opposition and three set aside for the president to nominate.

The seat allocation had been a key sticking point for the opposition, which wanted to ensure it had the power to veto major decisions. With 11 Cabinet posts, it will have that power.

In exchange for the veto power and a redistricting plan ahead of next year's elections, Hezbollah agreed to end its sit-in protest that has paralyzed downtown Beirut since late 2006.

In his speech, Sleiman expressed gratitude to Qatar and to the Arab League for helping broker the deal.

Sleiman was the consensus candidate, and is viewed as a neutral party by Lebanon's political factions. The nation's previous presidents have been seen as either pro-Syrian or pro-Western. In his 10 years as chief of the army, Sleiman also is believed to have unified the splintered military.

However, he inherits a nation grappling with divisions. Lebanon's elected, pro-Western government has long been locked in a power struggle with Hezbollah.

In public statements and demonstrations in recent years, Hezbollah threatened to use its power and popularity to oust the Sunni-led government, triggering fears of a new civil war that could further destabilize the volatile region.

The election helped end a political crisis that deteriorated into violence this month. That crisis was defused when the Lebanese government gave in to two key Hezbollah demands -- lifting a government ban of Hezbollah's telecommunications system and reinstating the chief of security at Beirut's airport.

"The performance of the opposition proved that it did not organize a coup, but only wanted the illegal government to withdraw its two decisions," Nasrallah said.

"I promise that the opposition's representation in the government will not be monopolized by Hezbollah, Amal and the Change and Reform bloc. We will give other opposition parties shares - and unfortunately we must speak of shares - even if it is at the expense of Hezbollah's shares."

Hezbollah has been linked to numerous terrorist attacks against U.S., Israeli, and other Western targets and the United States lists it as a terrorist organization. But many in Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East -- particularly Shiites -- view Hezbollah militants as freedom fighters.

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question: Who is considered a consensus president?

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Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series exploring Judge Sonia Sotomayor's background and life with those who know her, revealing the experiences that might shape her views as a Supreme Court justice.

Sonia Sotomayor is flanked by her supervisor, Warren Murray, and D.A. Robert Morgenthau, right, in 1983.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor graduated with honors from Ivy League schools. But she may have learned some of her most memorable lessons as a young prosecutor, following police into abandoned tenements and tracking down witnesses on the grimy streets of New York.

Sotomayor joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office in 1979 during an epic crime wave. Muggings, burglaries and assaults were rampant; homicides topped 1,800 a year. She was recruited from Yale Law School by Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan's district attorney. She was 25, and her starting salary was $17,000.

The cases in Trial Bureau 50 seasoned the idealistic young lawyer and honed her trial skills. She could shred a witness on cross-examination and move a jury to tears, former colleagues recalled.

New York City was awash in heroin, street crime and gun violence. To prepare for trials, she followed police into tenement shooting galleries, scaled rickety staircases in dilapidated buildings and fought off the stench of squalor to talk to reluctant witnesses.

Sotomayor's former colleagues and her legal foes describe her as intense, driven and politically astute.

As a prosecutor, she had a commanding presence and put in long hours, chugging several cans a day of the diet soft drink Tab and chain-smoking cigarettes. (She no longer smokes.)  Watch how she made an impression on fellow prosecutors Â»

Trial Bureau 50, with its crowded cubicles and walls painted the color of putty, has sent many lawyers onto distinguished careers in public service, including the late Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Kennedy Jr.

Sotomayor's five years there, say Manhattan prosecutors past and present, make her uniquely qualified for the nation's highest court. If confirmed, she would be the only justice who prosecuted criminal cases, presided over them and handled criminal appeals.  See what would set Sotomayor apart on the court Â»

"If you can handle a felony case load in New York County, you can run a small country," said Warren Murray, who ran the bureau when Sotomayor worked there, and still does.

"I think Sonia's most interesting days were in the district attorney's office," said Hugh H. Mo, a former homicide prosecutor who supervised Sotomayor and tried cases with her. "You can grow up in the projects and still be very sheltered. She got her education on the streets of Harlem."

Like most rookies, Sotomayor started with misdemeanors, juggling 60 to 80 cases at a time, working 12-hour days in the 1930s-era building on the tip of Manhattan, and pulling an occasional shift in night court.

"Some of the judges liked to use the new assistants to clear their calendars," Morgenthau recalled. "She quickly established herself as somebody the judges couldn't push around."

On her second trial, Sotomayor met Dawn Cardi, a rookie Legal Aid lawyer who was trying her first case. They became best friends.

"We were both baby attorneys," Cardi said. "She's really, really smart and very well-prepared. She was an excellent trial attorney. She had a talent for it."

Another defense attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, recalled Sotomayor as "a very zealous prosecutor," adding, "She didn't see gray. She only saw black and white."

Sotomayor moved up quickly in the D.A.'s office. It wasn't long before she was prosecuting murder cases.

To prepare for trials, she hit the streets, working junkies and street characters for information and comforting grieving families. The work was sometimes unnerving, but it could also provide an adrenalin rush.

"You could feel the violence. It was palpable," said Mo, who with Sotomayor accompanied detectives of Harlem's 28th precinct into top-floor apartments in six-story tenements to prepare for what became known as the "Tarzan Burglar" case.

"Normal people do not walk into these buildings," he recalled. "They were hangouts for drug addicts."

Robert M. Morgenthau remembers Sotomayor for her role in both the Tarzan Burglar case and in winning the office's first conviction under a rewritten child pornography law.

Sotomayor mentioned the lessons of the Tarzan case during her confirmation hearings. She said the case taught her "the tragic consequences of needless deaths."

A family was destroyed after one of the siblings was killed by a bullet in the head, she said. "They scattered to the four winds, and only one brother remained in New York who could testify," she said Tuesday.

The Tarzan case was Sotomayor's rite of passage as a prosecutor. She sat second chair, meaning she assisted Mo, the lead prosecutor, at the murder trial of Richard Maddicks. Read the complaint (pdf)

Maddicks earned his nickname by swinging from building to building with rope and cables, Mo said. Along his route, he burglarized top-floor apartments, robbed residents and shot people who got in his way.

Sotomayor convinced Maddicks' girlfriend, Mabel Ivey, to testify, pointing out that she could shave years off her sentence in another case if she cooperated.

They linked the murder weapon to Maddicks through a neighbor who sold liquor after-hours through a hole cut in the door of his basement apartment. Sotomayor questioned the man, Charles "Wirdell" Brown, in court, Mo recalled. It was a high point in the colorful trial.

She had the jury in tears as she questioned the girlfriend of a man fatally shot by the Tarzan Burglar.

Sotomayor impressed Mo with her organizational skills and ability to boil a complicated case into the essential elements that resonate with jurors.

She helped write his opening statement for the five-week trial and -- long before computers and PowerPoint -- crafted People's Exhibit One, a large poster-board chart illustrating the pattern linking the Tarzan Burglar to his crimes.

The chart somehow survived nearly three decades in Mo's basement laundry room.

During the trial, Sotomayor handled the questioning of half the 40 witnesses.

Maddicks was convicted of murder, robbery and related crimes and sentenced to 62Â½ years to life in prison. He's still serving time "upstate," as Manhattan's prosecutors say.

Even 30 years ago, it was obvious Sotomayor was going places.  See her life story told in pictures Â»

"Did anybody think she was going to the Supreme Court? Of course not," said Cardi. "But when you look back, you see she always stood out. She was always really a cut above."

"She was very focused, very ambitious, very competent, very hardworking," Mo recalled. What struck him most, he said, was her confidence.

"She wanted to reach the highest pinnacle of the profession and didn't think that was far-fetched. You could see it. She wanted to make history," Mo said.

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text: most

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text: assistants

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text: their

text: calendars

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text: recalled

text: She

text: quickly

text: established

text: herself

text: as

text: somebody

text: the

text: judges

text: could

text: n't

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text: around

text: On

text: her

text: second

text: trial

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text: She

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text: trial

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text: defense

text: attorney

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text: zealous

text: prosecutor

text: adding

text: She

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text: street

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text: and

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text: palpable

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text: with

text: Sotomayor

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text: detectives

text: of

text: Harlem

text: 's

text: precinct

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text: top

text: floor

text: apartments

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text: story

text: tenements

text: to

text: prepare

text: for

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text: known

text: as

text: the

text: Tarzan

text: Burglar

text: case

text: Normal

text: people

text: do

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text: walk

text: into

text: these

text: buildings

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text: recalled

text: They

text: were

text: hangouts

text: for

text: drug

text: addicts

text: Robert

text: M.

text: Morgenthau

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text: Sotomayor

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text: her

text: role

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text: first

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text: child

text: pornography

text: law

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text: the

text: lessons

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text: the

text: Tarzan

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text: hearings

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text: case

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text: tragic

text: consequences

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text: needless

text: deaths

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text: family

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text: after

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: siblings

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text: killed

text: by

text: a

text: bullet

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text: the

text: head

text: she

text: said

text: They

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text: to

text: the

text: four

text: winds

text: and

text: only

text: one

text: brother

text: remained

text: in

text: New

text: York

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text: of

text: passage

text: as

text: a

text: prosecutor

text: She

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text: second

text: chair

text: meaning

text: she

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text: Mo

text: the

text: lead

text: prosecutor

text: at

text: the

text: murder

text: trial

text: of

text: Richard

text: Maddicks

text: Read

text: the

text: complaint

text: pdf

text: Maddicks

text: earned

text: his

text: nickname

text: by

text: swinging

text: from

text: building

text: to

text: building

text: with

text: rope

text: and

text: cables

text: Mo

text: said

text: Along

text: his

text: route

text: he

text: burglarized

text: top

text: floor

text: apartments

text: robbed

text: residents

text: and

text: shot

text: people

text: who

text: got

text: in

text: his

text: way

text: Sotomayor

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text: Maddicks

text: girlfriend

text: Mabel

text: Ivey

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text: testify

text: pointing

text: out

text: that

text: she

text: could

text: shave

text: years

text: off

text: her

text: sentence

text: in

text: another

text: case

text: if

text: she

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text: They

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text: the

text: murder

text: weapon

text: to

text: Maddicks

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text: a

text: neighbor

text: who

text: sold

text: liquor

text: after

text: hours

text: through

text: a

text: hole

text: cut

text: in

text: the

text: door

text: of

text: his

text: basement

text: apartment

text: Sotomayor

text: questioned

text: the

text: man

text: Charles

text: Wirdell

text: Brown

text: in

text: court

text: Mo

text: recalled

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: high

text: point

text: in

text: the

text: colorful

text: trial

text: She

text: had

text: the

text: jury

text: in

text: tears

text: as

text: she

text: questioned

text: the

text: girlfriend

text: of

text: a

text: man

text: fatally

text: shot

text: by

text: the

text: Tarzan

text: Burglar

text: Sotomayor

text: impressed

text: Mo

text: with

text: her

text: organizational

text: skills

text: and

text: ability

text: to

text: boil

text: a

text: complicated

text: case

text: into

text: the

text: essential

text: elements

text: that

text: resonate

text: with

text: jurors

text: She

text: helped

text: write

text: his

text: opening

text: statement

text: for

text: the

text: five

text: week

text: trial

text: and

text: long

text: before

text: computers

text: and

text: PowerPoint

text: crafted

text: People

text: 's

text: Exhibit

text: One

text: a

text: large

text: poster

text: board

text: chart

text: illustrating

text: the

text: pattern

text: linking

text: the

text: Tarzan

text: Burglar

text: to

text: his

text: crimes

text: The

text: chart

text: somehow

text: survived

text: nearly

text: three

text: decades

text: in

text: Mo

text: 's

text: basement

text: laundry

text: room

text: During

text: the

text: trial

text: Sotomayor

text: handled

text: the

text: questioning

text: of

text: half

text: the

text: witnesses

text: Maddicks

text: was

text: convicted

text: of

text: murder

text: robbery

text: and

text: related

text: crimes

text: and

text: sentenced

text: to

text: 62Â½

text: years

text: to

text: life

text: in

text: prison

text: He

text: 's

text: still

text: serving

text: time

text: upstate

text: as

text: Manhattan

text: 's

text: prosecutors

text: say

text: Even

text: years

text: ago

text: it

text: was

text: obvious

text: Sotomayor

text: was

text: going

text: places

text: See

text: her

text: life

text: story

text: told

text: in

text: pictures

text: Â

text: Did

text: anybody

text: think

text: she

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: the

text: Supreme

text: Court

text: Of

text: course

text: not

text: said

text: Cardi

text: But

text: when

text: you

text: look

text: back

text: you

text: see

text: she

text: always

text: stood

text: out

text: She

text: was

text: always

text: really

text: a

text: cut

text: above

text: She

text: was

text: very

text: focused

text: very

text: ambitious

text: very

text: competent

text: very

text: hardworking

text: Mo

text: recalled

text: What

text: struck

text: him

text: most

text: he

text: said

text: was

text: her

text: confidence

text: She

text: wanted

text: to

text: reach

text: the

text: highest

text: pinnacle

text: of

text: the

text: profession

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: that

text: was

text: far

text: fetched

text: You

text: could

text: see

text: it

text: She

text: wanted

text: to

text: make

text: history

text: Mo

text: said

question: Who is Manhattan's DA?

answer: Robert Morgenthau,

text: Robert Morgenthau,

question: When did Sotomayor work in Manhatten DA's office?

answer: 1979

question: Who is the nominee

answer: Sonia Sotomayor

text: Sonia Sotomayor

question: When did she work in the Manhattan DA's office?

answer: 1979

question: Where did she work in 1983

answer: Manhattan District Attorney's office

text: Manhattan District Attorney's office

question: What was Sotomayor's first legal related job?

answer: Manhattan District Attorney's office

text: Manhattan District Attorney's office

question: Where did she work?

answer: Manhattan District Attorney's office

text: Manhattan District Attorney's office

question: What do former colleagues say about her?

answer: She could shred a witness on cross-examination and move a jury to tears,

text: She could shred a witness on cross-examination and move a jury to tears,