Elena

[ el-uh-nuh, uh-ley-nuh; Italian e-le-nah ]

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The current Court, though, is full not of pols but of judges; only Elena Kagan lacks prior experience as a federal judge.

The four liberal justices—Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor—will likely rule for them.

Five days after her husband went missing a politician friend of the family contacted Elena and told her Rybak was dead.

Forty-nine-year-old Elena brings a trembling hand to the bridge of her nose and makes a slashing movement across it.

As a young Harvard professor, Elena Kagan identified President Reagan as the pioneer of the current trend.

That 'perhaps' made him sadly afraid that Elena would not come.

A voice from within, which he recognised as Elena's, called, 'Christina!'

Elena had spent part of the summer at Lucerne,—she had just come from Paris.

At last Andrea was able to offer Elena his arm and carry her off.

Why should these recollections of Elena come back to him just now?

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