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That may have been his way of demonstrating that he was undaunted by Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges and the Senate's lukewarm 52-48 confirmation vote -- one of the thinnest margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
...condoms are not created equal: Cohen has no trouble pointing out his best-sellers. Patrons appreciate "Kimono" most of all, because it's the thinnest. "Unfortunately, the Japanese have done that. they've beat us again" he says...
Cohen estimates that for every American-made condom, he sells three Japanese, brands. "People want the thinnest one you can get," he explains...
...third or more of the vote this fall -- has George Bush and Bill Clinton paying unusually heavy tribute to their parties' core constituents. Instead of moving their candidates toward the center to win, both camps are seriously mulling over how to win the White House with just the thinnest plurality of voters. Call it the 34% solution...
...conference dispersed. The plane climbed up from Norway and made its way into the thinnest, coldest air. The planet became a fluffy abstraction beneath the wings. Time warped. A man who was in Auschwitz as a boy walked down the aisle to borrow the Wall Street Journal. Someone told a joke about Eleanor Roosevelt. Survivors and ghosts at 35,000 feet -- moral afterlives...