Sotomayor has faced criticism since being nominated for the high court over comments she's made in the past concerning her Latina heritage.
Paris, April 3 - From Bamyan to Jerusalem or Sarajevo, in the past few years cultural heritage has often been a military target or the flashpoint of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
Here the past thrusts through the walls of the present, but it is not a heritage city pandering to the past: it is chaotic, relaxed and frantic, filled to the brim with its stylish, traditional, anarchic, conformist, self-centred, charming and ebullient inhabitants.
Mr Anderson said the visit was a wonderful opportunity for local people and visitors to learn more about their heritage and early past.
With enduring values of faith and family, hard work and sacrifice, Hispanics have preserved the rich heritage of generations past while contributing mightily to the promise of our Nation for their children and grandchildren.
Ordnance Survey and English Heritage experts have spent the past few months identifying the original outline.
Today, brass bands still invigorate the streets during Mardi Gras, French Quarter jazz clubs deliver the best in live improvisation on any given night, and the Jazz and Heritage Festival brings together the past, present and future of American jazz every spring, proving year after year that New Orleans is still the jazz mecca of the world.
Even for those with no Hollywood in their past, an official Certificate of Irish Heritage costs next to nothing and in some cases less.
From 1990-1993 she presented the arts programme The Late Show and in 1993 fronted the popular BBC heritage series One Foot In The Past - a role she continued into 2000.
The UKNC has also helped raise awareness about what happened in Iraq through sponsoring the travelling exhibition Catastrophe - the Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past and the book The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq.
Brush up on the city's colourful past and promising future at the place Baltimore Heritage, Inc. bestowed with a 2010 Historic Preservation Award before you explore the neighbourhood's streets, lined with Victorian row houses that lead you to local shopping, dining, art and theatre.
"This project honours the past and embraces the future, bringing together the heritage of the old industries and signposting the new technologies of the Sheffield region, " he said.
But if his past dozen years in Washington is prologue to the Heritage Foundation of tomorrow, it could be disastrous for the GOP, leading to a further narrowing of its appeal and the road to real fiscal reform.
Several attempts to develop the engine shed in Windsor Terrace in the past have failed, including the Cook's World Heritage Centre in 2002.
English Heritage chairwoman, Baroness Andrews, said investing in the past made economic sense.
Bosnia's cultural heritage was systematically destroyed to wipe out all traces of a past shared by the different communities.
Culture is a basic need, and cultural heritage a symbolic necessity that gives meaning to human lives connecting past, present and future.
This fantastic article from American Heritage Magazine (which is different from the conservative Heritage Foundation, by the way) recounts some of that past and explains that we owe federal regulation of the market and of all private enterprise to that episode in history.
Past President of the North American Economics and Finance Association, Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, and Senior Fellow of the Independence Institute.
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Mexico and Peru, with their rich heritage of pre-hispanic architecture, have long had an eye on the past, and are zealous in preserving their Spanish colonial towns.
Over the past two years, several Italian fashion brands have pledged substantial amounts of money for the restoration of well known heritage sites.
Jennifer Stewart, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund Wales, added: "As well as encouraging local residents to explore their past, this project will provide a permanent record of Treuddyn's special connection with the Urdd".
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