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...Souter's very lack of a firm ideological profile that appealed to Bush. Three years earlier liberal activist groups had derailed the court nomination of the indisputably conservative Robert Bork. If Souter didn't have a long paper trail of court rulings, law review articles and books, it would be much harder for liberals to stage a replay of the Bork defeat. (Read the TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People...
...What Souter did have were unquestionable intellectual chops. He majored in philosophy and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. Then came the Rhodes scholarship that took him to Oxford and the Harvard law degree that quickly brought him a job with a New Hampshire law firm. But Souter was restless in private practice. By 1968 he had joined the staff of the state attorney general's office. When Warren Rudman became attorney general two years later he tapped Souter as his chief aide, and when Rudman moved on to the U.S. Senate in 1976 he persuaded...
...surprisingly, the already battered travel industry is eager to capitalize on the trend. Carroll Rheem, director of research at PhoCusWright, a consulting firm in Sherman, Conn., that follows the travel sector, says pink-slip trips are particularly common among those who receive sizable severance packages - i.e., the lawyers and Wall Street types who are confident they'll find another job soon enough. ?If they have the time and they have the money, people are stepping back after a lay-off and thinking, 'Hey, why not?" she says...
...Tiffany Richards, the company's president, says that roughly 30 of the firm's 1,200 bookings since January have taken advantage of this promotion. She adds that the discount brings the price of a 15-day trip to Morocco to $722.50 from $850, not including airfare. "For people who are in between jobs and maybe a little nervous about money, this kind of savings could be the difference between staying home and getting to see the world," she says...
CHICAGO Epicureans in the Windy City have a firm grip on Crate & Barrel's bamboo utensil...