WINNERS & LOSERS
THE SUPREME COURT TERM
[WINNERS]
RUTH BADER GINSBURG Gender-rights pioneer gets the chance to aim from bench: she orders V.M.I. to admit women
WILLIAM REHNQUIST Chief heads Supremes who often lean his way, thanks to earlier conservative appointments
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Convince her you're right--on abortion, race, religion--and you get the winning fifth vote
[& LOSERS]
ANTONIN SCALIA Ginsburg's old pal can't shake habit of caustic dissents. Exhibit A: May's gay-rights ruling
JOHN PAUL STEVENS His dissents on race, federalism, criminal law offer receding echoes of Warren-era liberalism
CAMPAIGN-FINANCE CURBS Justices muddy the field by lifting key restrictions on spending by political parties
RAW DATA
Wherever Bob Dole goes, expect Mister Butt Man. The Democratic National Committee is circulating instructions for party operatives to dress up as a walking cigarette and dog Dole, distributing so-called Dole Dollars that excoriate his tobacco policies. Says D.N.C. spokeswoman Amy Weiss Tobe: "We hope to have a Mister Butt Man in every state."
LOCAL HEROES
STEPHAN MOORE, 30; GOLDEN, MO.; director of inner-city summer sports camp Moore's camp, called Kids Across America, brings youths from 50 inner cities to the shores of Table Rock Lake. Operating since 1990, the camp doubled its capacity this year, to 4,400. "It's tough, knowing the difficult home situations these kids are going back to," says Moore. "This may be the only time in their lives when they receive unconditional love--and it blows their minds."
DR. ZENON AND NADIA MATKIWSKY, 64 AND 54; SHORT HILLS, N.J.; medical-relief workers The husband and wife founded Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in 1990, shortly after the veil of secrecy over the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, their homeland, began to unravel. CCRF has delivered more than $40 million in medical aid to "the littlest victims," still plagued by thyroid cancer and birth defects. Quoting the Talmud, Nadia says, "If we've saved a life, we've saved humanity."
THE STATE OF OUR UNIONS
What's the zeitgeist? While policies like affirmative action are under siege, a recent study shows a rise in intermarriage between blacks and whites
(First marriages as a percentage of all marriages involving one Afro-American.)
1970 2.6%
1980 6.6%
1990 10.8%
1993 12.1%
Source: Douglas J. Besharov, Timothy S. Sullivan
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?