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...pantheon of self-improvement weekends for the BlackBerry set. It joins BMW Performance Driving School, Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp and the original wish-fulfillment adventure, the one in which Cal Ripken puts on a convincing face and tells you that you've got a pretty good swing. Only instead of bond traders, Crush Camp is packed with people who take private yoga classes and won this trip at a benefit auction for the Junior League. If you want to talk wine, being with these people is the price you have...
...ANTHONY KENNEDY, THE SWING JUSTICE...
With Sandra Day O'Connor retired and his colleagues evenly divided, centrist Kennedy is the likely swing vote in tight cases. He began to play the role last term--with characteristic moderation. He sided with conservatives to limit the reach of the Clean Water Act but voted with the liberals to declare unconstitutional the Bush Administration plan to try alleged terrorists before military tribunals...
...Bush Administration, argue that using race as a deciding factor violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The most recent precedent: 2003, when the court ruled 5-4 that race could be used as a factor in admissions to public universities. Kennedy, who dissented in that case, could swing the decision the other...
...Corp. In 2003 the firm began taking Warren County garbage and converting it to what Bouldin calls "fluff." That's household trash ground up, with the metals removed, and heated so it's inert. Fluff is used as a peat substitute. Bouldin's new landfill project is expected to swing to profitability after it launches its first durable products next year: landscape timber and building blocks made from trash. "A few years down the line, we'll wonder why we ever put this stuff in the ground," says marketing manager Terry Jones...