The Other Vote: Clarence Thomas would be...

The Other Vote: Clarence Thomas would be named Supreme Court justice if the women competing in the Miss America Pageant had their way. “I think that he is an intelligent man who will do his job” if confirmed, said Miss Kansas, Robbin Lee Wasson. But lawyer Carolyn Helen Ladd, Miss Oregon, filed an objection: “When President Bush says he is the right man for the job, he’s not accurate.”

Say What? It may be in bad taste, but a Kalamazoo, Mich., judge has ruled it’s not against the law to yell obscenities in the presence of women or children. The judge dismissed charges against Linda Prak, who was accused of shouting obscenities at a group of preteen girls in her neighborhood. Prak claimed she only gave back what she got--the girls had shouted obscene insults at her as part of a neighborhood feud. The judge ruled that the law was too vague because it did not spell out the insults.

Newly Noted: Ted Turner made the cut. So did Norman Schwarzkopf. But don’t expect to see lip-syncing pop stars Milli Vanilli or poison-pen biographer Kitty Kelley in the latest edition of International Who’s Who. “We do try to avoid people who have just done one thing,” editor Richard Fitzwilliams said Tuesday. But if that one thing is to lead allied troops in the Persian Gulf War, there is an exception to the rule.

Discriminating: Swedish businesswoman Helen Wellton is fighting for the right to display her impressive cleavage. The Swedish council against sexually discriminating advertising condemned her picture in a newspaper ad, which showed her with one of the computers sold by the firm she co-owns. Wellton said: “It is high time that women are accepted even if they happen to have a big bust and do not dress like a man.” The council condemned the ad for showing her “deep decolletage” and “inviting smile.”