Guessing Begins on Judgeships in a Kerry Term (The New York Times)

By NEIL A. LEWIS

Published: October 22, 2004

What is likely to matter most is whom Mr. Kerry would nominate to the Supreme Court. With no vacancies on the court in more than a decade, there is heightened expectation that the next president will have one or more opportunities to choose justices and shape the court for years to come.

Some people who could be considered for the Supreme Court, according to interviews with several Democratic advisers:

Other candidates include Walter E. Dellinger and Seth P. Waxman, both former solicitors general; David S. Tatel and Merrick Garland, federal appeals court judges in Washington; Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law School. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/politics/campaign/22kbench.html

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 Anthony Hecht, a Formalist Poet, Dies at 81 (The New York Times)

 By HARVEY SHAPIRO

October 22, 2004

 Anthony Hecht, an accomplished formalist poet whose early work of courtliness and urbanity gave way to searing chronicles of the 20th-century's terrors, died on Wednesday at his home in Washington. He was 81. The cause was lymphoma, said his wife, Helen.

 As a formalist poet, Mr. Hecht often discouraged any autobiographical readings of his work, though in many of his poems the darkness is clearly his own.

Mr. Hecht had another professional life, as a professor, teaching at institutions like Smith, Bard, Harvard, Georgetown and Yale, though most of his career was at the University of Rochester. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/books/22Hecht.html

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Most College Students Favor Kerry-Harvard Poll (Reuters)

By REUTERS

Published: October 21, 2004

Filed at 4:21 p.m. ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - The majority of U.S. college students favor Democratic challenger John Kerry over President Bush, according to a Harvard University poll released on Thursday that sees a dramatic rise in campus voter turnout.

Just weeks before the Nov. 2 election, researchers at Harvard's Institute of Politics found that 52 percent of all students want the Massachusetts senator elected president, 39 percent support Bush, and 8 percent are undecided.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-campaign-youth.html