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☆ Irish museum pulls Sinéad O’Connor waxwork after just one day due to backlash
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An Irish museum will withdraw a waxwork of singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor just one day after installing it, following a backlash from her family and the public, it told CNN in a statement on Friday. The success of her music, with singles like “Nothing Compares 2 U,” combined with her openness about her struggles with addiction and mental illness made her an influential pop culture figure, particularly in her native Ireland. Sinéad O'Connor died last year. Michel Linssen/Redferns/Getty ImagesJohn O’Connor said he “thought (the waxwork) was hideous” and added “a friend of mine said to me last night that he’d seen better in (department store) Shaws, in the window.”“I lost my sister and to me that’s important,” he said. He explained that the waxwork’s sculptor had been feeling unwell and retired after many years of “fantastic work” for the museum.

Persons: Sinéad O’Connor, O’Connor, John O’Connor, RTÉ’s, “, ”, Sinéad O'Connor, Michel Linssen, Paddy Dunning Organizations: CNN, Wax Museum Locations: Irish, Dublin, Ireland

☆ Winners and Losers of the Columbia Protests? History Will Tell.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Two years later, a plurality of Americans held the view that so-called outside agitators — in this instance, Communists — were behind the civil rights movement. If we think of attention as a prevailing measure of success, then the Columbia protests, inspiring so many others and consuming global headlines, have been triumphant. “I see very little talk this week about what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza,” Peter Staley, the celebrated AIDS activist, told me. He recalled a major ACT UP demonstration in December 1989 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that is still debated among participants. The idea was to disrupt a Mass offered by Cardinal John O’Connor to condemn the church’s stance on condoms.

Persons: Eric Adams, ”, condescension, —, unmet, ” Peter Staley, Cardinal John O’Connor, ” Mr, Staley Organizations: Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Gallup, Washington, Police Department, ACT Locations: Gaza, Columbia, Morningside Heights, St, Patrick’s

☆ How to Hunt the Sasquatch
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Virginia Heffernan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE SECRET HISTORY OF BIGFOOT: Field Notes on a North American Monster, by John O’ConnorWhy do Americans need Bigfoot? This question propels John O’Connor’s “Secret History of Bigfoot,” a farrago of participatory journalism, anthropological speculation, pop-culture parentheticals and broadsides against Donald Trump that often seems stuck together by sap and tar. Officially O’Connor was seeking Bigfoot — or at least the enduring wellspring of faith in Bigfoot, which struck him as just as elusive. Like a forty-niner cutting ties with the uptight Victorians, O’Connor sought instead “wild places” where men are men, go unmasked and hope for moral redemption by Sasquatch. A stay-at-home dad in Cambridge, Mass., he became, during lockdown, a literal stay-at-home dad.

Persons: John O’Connor, John O’Connor’s, Donald Trump, O’Connor, Covid, “ wokesters, irked, he’s, ” Locations: American, Antarctica, O’Connor, Cambridge, Washington, Boston

WASHINGTON (AP) — One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight. That was pretty amazing.”O’Connor lived to see four women serve at the same time on the Supreme Court. Political Cartoons View All 1277 ImagesO’Connor, who left the court in 2006, died Friday in Phoenix of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court said. “I had never expected or aspired to be a Supreme Court justice. —-Richard Carelli, a former Supreme Court reporter for The Associated Press who is now retired, contributed to this story.

Persons: Sandra Day O’Connor, O’Connor, “, ” O’Connor, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Alito, wasn’t, John, Donald Trump's, Alito, O'Connor, ”, Sandra Day, Bill Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “ I’m Sandra, Ruth, ” Ginsburg, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, David Souter, “ It’s, Obama, Elena Kagan, Trump, Amy Coney Barrett, Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Ketanji Brown Jackson, she'd, SCOTUS, ” Ruth McGregor, O’Connor’s, Mary, David Letterman’s, Jon Stewart, John O’Connor, Scott, Brian, Jay, Potter Stewart, Richard Carelli Organizations: WASHINGTON, New York Times, Iraq, College of William, CBS, Supreme, Associated Press Locations: Phoenix, Arizona, Washington, United States, Virginia, Los Angeles

☆ Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman Supreme Court justice, dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ariane De Vogue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who blazed trails as the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, has died, the court announced Friday morning. O’Connor inspired generations of female lawyers – including the five women who served after her nomination on the high court. O’Connor stepped down from the court in 2006 to care for her husband who was ailing from Alzheimer’s disease. Key vote on abortion, affirmative action, Bush v. GoreDuring her tenure, the court for a time was known informally as the “O’Connor Court” because she served as the deciding vote in so many controversial cases. O’Connor was well aware of the symbolism of her place in history as the first female justice.

Persons: Sandra Day O’Connor, O’Connor, John Roberts, ”, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, George W, Bush, Samuel Alito, William Rehnquist, John O’Connor, “, ” O’Connor, James Forman, ’ ” Forman, Gore, Casey, Donald Trump’s, O’Conner, Marci Hamilton, ” Hamilton, Alito, Roe, Wade Organizations: CNN, ”, Stanford University, Stanford Law School, Maricopa County Superior Court, of Appeals, University of Michigan, Supreme Court, Republican Locations: Arizona, Maricopa County

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. When she retired, Justice Clarence Thomas, a consistent conservative, called her “an outstanding colleague, civil in dissent and gracious when in the majority.”She could, nonetheless, express her views tartly. “I had never expected or aspired to be a Supreme Court justice," she said. The retired justice was relieved that he was comfortable and happy at the center, according to her son, Scott. “It has been a great privilege indeed to have served as a member of the court for 24 terms,” the justice wrote.

Persons: —, Sandra Day O’Connor, O’Connor, John Roberts, “, Roberts, ”, John O’Connor, Ronald Reagan, Roe, Wade, Casey, Samuel Alito, George W, Bush, Democrat Al Gore, Clarence Thomas, tartly, unwisely, ” O’Connor, Bill Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary, Scott, ” Bush, Potter Stewart, Alzheimer’s, Brian, Jay Organizations: WASHINGTON, Senate, Democrat, Iraq, College of William, Office, Legislature, Washington, Republicans Locations: Phoenix, American, ”, Arizona, Vermont, Virginia, Afghanistan, Rose, Los Angeles, United States

☆ Oklahoma to execute man for 2002 killing of infant daughter
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

McALESTER, Okla. — A 57-year-old Oklahoma man is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002, despite claims by his attorneys that he is mentally ill and not competent to be executed. Oklahoma State Department of Corrections / AFP - Getty ImagesThe panel voted 4-1 to deny clemency, and a district judge earlier this month determined Cole was competent to be executed. Assistant Attorney General Tessa Henry said Cole killed his daughter because he was infuriated that her crying from her crib interrupted his playing of a video game. “He is not severely mentally ill,” said another prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Ashley Willis. “The evaluator, who was not hired by Cole or the State, found Cole to be competent to be executed and that ‘Mr.

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