She will be remembered as perhaps the most powerful Supreme Court Justice in recent his-"tory. But to her clerks, Sandra Day O'Connor was most memorable for her thoughtfulness land utter lack of pretension. She wore a T shirt, for example, that proclaimed I'M SANDRA, NOT RUTH, to poke fun at advocates who would confuse the court's two female Justices. She attended her clerks' birthdays and weddings whenever she could; at one, she asked the groom's father for a ride. The car was packed, but when he tried to make her take the front seat, she insisted it go to his wife and happily squeezed into the middle in back. Each spring, she took the clerks to see Washington's celebrated cherry blossoms, and when it was cold and rainy one year, she took them anyway. "We had a picnic out in the rain," says former clerk Anup Malani. She's like a cowgirl ... just doesn't care about things like weather."
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机译：她可能会被公认为是最近他的故事中最有力的最高法院大法官。但对她的书记员来说，桑德拉·戴·奥康纳（Sandra Day O'Connor）体贴入微，缺乏自负，最令人难忘。例如，她穿着T恤，宣称我是桑德拉（SANDRA），而不是真实主义者（RUTH），取笑那些会混淆法院两位女大法官的拥护者；她尽可能参加她的办事员的生日和婚礼；有一次，她请新郎的父亲搭便车。挤满了人，但是当他试图让她坐到前排座位时，她坚持要把它交给他的妻子，然后高高兴兴地挤到后面的中间。每年春天，她带着办事员去看华盛顿著名的樱花，当时天气很冷前一年的雨季，她还是把它们带走了。“我们在雨中野餐了，”前店员安纳普·马拉尼（Anup Malani）说。她像个女牛仔……只是不在乎天气之类的东西。
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