       "When I'm working in particular, I'm extraordinarily
focused and people get intimidated by that focus and intensity I
bring to the interaction," she said. "And it takes people a
little bit of time to realize that I'm not forbidding, that I
actually am fun-loving, very open and very human."  Sen. Lindsey
Graham, R-S.C., told reporters in Washington this past week that
he wants to know "is this temperament problem overstated,
overblown or is it fundamental to who she is?"  Sotomayor's
intensity has been on display for the decade she has sat on the
2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, where she would
often lean forward and stare at the lawyer she was questioning.
If the lawyer evaded her question or gave a weak response, she
would repeat the question and push for clarity, sometimes to the
point of sounding exasperated. But her tone was not belligerent
and appeared directed at getting an answer.  Long before
Sotomayor was elevated to the appeals court in 1998, the 2nd
Circuit was regarded as a