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...Dave Herlihy and his band, O-Positive, are far from the fringe. After years of playing the local club scene, the band recently released their first album with Epic Records, and this week opened for Sinead O'Connor concerts at Great Woods. Now, with their first video getting airplay on MTV, O-Positive seems on the verge of making the big breakthrough to the elusive Mainstream...
...climax comes at the opinion-writing stage. Although the Justices confer alone and vote in complete secrecy, the clerks listen to their bosses' instructions, often see their private notes and write the preliminary drafts of the opinions. The custom of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, recalls University of Michigan law professor Kent Syverud, is to give her clerks "a firm outline" of her opinion, then take the clerks' ensuing draft -- together with all the relevant research -- and "edit the hell...
Once they obtain the job, clerks enter into an intimate family. The Justices tend to return the loyalty and friendship they demand of their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores...
That is undeniable. As was Reagan, who appointed three conservative Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- Bush is in a position to pacify the restive right and propel the court more speedily on its current course. With two other Justices, Thurgood Marshall, 82, and Harry Blackmun, 81, in fragile health and rumored ready to follow Brennan into retirement, the Bush imprint on the high court could become every bit as significant as Reagan...
...right-wing agenda is the repeal of Roe v. Wade. O'Connor, the court's only woman, has seemed sympathetic to such a reversal but reluctant to provide the decisive vote in a court split 5 to 4 on the issue. But if another antiabortion Justice joined the bench, O'Connor could take refuge in a 6-to-3 majority...