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Ivy League diplomas and hotshot reputations define President Obama’s three potential nominees to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who announced on Friday that he would be retiring after 35 years on the bench.
The three leading candidates to replace him — Obama is considering about ten names in all, the White House says — are Elena Kagan ‘81, Merrick Garland, and Diane Wood. If Kagan is selected, she’ll be the third consecutive Supreme Court Justice nominee to be a Princeton alumna/us.
Kagan is currently Obama’s solicitor general (the administration’s top advocate before the Supreme Court), a position that has already let her practice that tricky process of Senate approval. During her confirmation hearings, Kagan drew some criticism for arguing that battlefield law, or indefinite detention without a trial, should apply even if an enemy was captured outside of the physical battlefield.
That little black mark aside, Kagan’s basically a shoe-in. Why? She’s super youthful. Coming in at a vibrant 49, Kagan could wear the robe for decades.
Professor Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will rediscover his Northern Ireland roots as he spends 
On a recent Wednesday evening Kathy Kiely, USA Today writer and current Mathey College Faculty Member in Residence (she lives in Blair Arch!) had dinner with a group of about a dozen students to talk about the rapidly deteriorating state of print journalism and her own coverage of the November election.
After Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus, Kiely’s editors at USA Today assumed that Obama would win the New Hampshire primary easily and go on to win the nomination (pretty much all the polling data and public opinion was predicting a big Obama victory in New Hampshire). So her editors assigned Kiely to a big profile on Obama that would run after his victory.