Sotomayor + Chris Kyle

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(1) Jodi Kantor, Sotomayor, a Star on the Book-Tour Circuit, Sees a New Niche for a Justice. New York Times, Feb 4, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/0 ... higher-calling.html
("Justice Sotomayor’s memoir is unusually frank by the standards of what government officials typically write. She emphasizes the fear and shame she has often felt * * * 'I disclose every fear I’ve ever had in this book,' Justice Sotomayor told her audience on Wednesday night")

Note:
(a) Jorge Ramos Ávalos (born in 1958) is a news anchor in Mexico. View his photo in
Kaye Foley, Jorge Ramos: Republicans 'Finally Getting It' on Immigration. ABC OTUS News, Feb 3, 2013.
http://news.yahoo.com/jorge-ramo ... -news-politics.html
(b) The report sais, "Other justices draw large crowds (particularly Antonin Scalia, known for his cheerfully pugnacious pronouncements) and have written No 1 best sellers (as Clarence Thomas did in 2007)."

Nina Totenberg, Sotomayor's Memoir Already A Best-Seller. NPR, Jan 30, 2013.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/30/17 ... lready-a-bestseller
(c) The report mentions "[a] brief highlight reel of audience responses."

reel (n): "a flanged spool for photographic film; especially : one for motion pictures"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reel

a photo (titled "Flying Film Reel," a stock photo of iStock):
http://i.istockimg.com/file_thum ... lying-film-reel.jpg


(2) Michael Schwirtz, 美国最致命狙击手在德州被射杀. 纽约时报中文网, Feb 4, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/world/2013/02/04/c04author/

, which is translated from

Michael Schwirtz, Untouchable in Iraq, Ex-Sniper Dies in a Shooting Back Home. New York Times, Feb 4, 2013 (front page)

Note:
(a) Chris Kyle, American Sniper; The autobiography of the most lethal sniper in US military history. William Morrow, Jan 3, 2012.
(b)
(i) The print version is somewhat different, placing, from the middle of the report to the first paragraph:

"He was credited with more than 150 deaths. He became the scourge of Iraqi insurgents, who put a price on his head and were said to have called him the 'Devil of Ramadi.'”

(ii) So paragraph 1 of the print version is as follows:

"From his perch in hide-outs above battle-scarred Iraq, Chris Kyle earned a reputation as one of America's deadliest military nipers. The Pentagon said his skills with a rifle so terrified Iraqi insurgents during his four tours of duty that they nicknamed him the 'Devil of Ramadi' and put a bounty on his head. The insurgents never collected