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...Sotomayor is confirmed, her relationship with Kennedy will be crucial. He holds the swing vote on the court, usually siding with the conservative bloc but sometimes voting with the liberals. Former clerks describe Kennedy as particularly open to the influence of people with whom he interacts. "He likes personal stories and is affected by them," says one former Kennedy clerk. "And he's affected by his relations with people...
...whatever tools I have to be able to get back at these people.' LUIS DOMINGUEZ, a Cuban exile who masqueraded as a woman online to dupe Fidel Castro's son into an Internet relationship...
GenePartner tested long-term couples' HLA makeup and had them fill out in-depth questionnaires. "We asked them whether they find their relationship passionate, about the quality of intercourse, if it was love at first sight," says co-founder Tamara Brown. With genetic data from 270 couples, the company came up with an algorithm for predicting compatibility based on HLA combinations. "It's something you don't think about when you're choosing a partner," the neurobiologist says. "But it's an important evolutionary principle, to keep the species alive...
Still, Knox's words may yet work against her. Her rosy depiction of the roommates' relationship contradicted testimony from Kercher's friends that the two didn't get along. Speculating on Kercher's slow death--pathologists say she choked on her own blood--Knox called it "yucky, disgusting" and mimicked sounds of choking in a manner that seemed to startle jurors. When asked if she ever thought about the victim, Knox was less than sympathetic. "In the end, I knew her for a month," she said. "And first of all, I'm trying to get on with my life...
Cash and his wife also have five children, some of whom may find themselves acting opposite Sasha and Malia in the Christmas pageant. But if the experience of past Camp David chaplains is any guide, Cash won't necessarily have the opportunity to form a pastoral relationship with Obama. "We used to tell people our job was to run like a five-star resort," said Patrick McLaughlin, who was chaplain at Camp David from 2002 to 2005, in an interview with Religion News Service. "One of the things you value when you go on vacation is peace and quiet...