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From: The Texas Observer
Date: 20080627
Author:Hernandez, Elizabeth Pierson

Candidate Linda Yañez hopes to become the first Latina in Texas history to win a seat on the state Supreme Court.

The teenager carried a long-handled hoe. Her bosses had left her unsupervised to work the vast, northern Illinois vegetable field. As the summer sun beat down, she moved up and down the rows clearing weeds. When it came time for the midday break, Linda Reyna Yañez sought refuge under a shade tree-to read. At that time the 16-year-old from the Rio Grande Valley was devouring books by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, and anything she could find by Thomas Hardy.

Yañez ...

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