Court Decision: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...

Court Decision: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall apparently is getting along well with his new colleague, David H. Souter, despite Marshall’s biting comment about Souter’s appointment. Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking to students at George Washington law school in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, said: “They’re getting along . . . . They’re both very likeable people.” Marshall said in July he had never heard of Souter and said of Bush: “I think somebody’s calling his shots.”

Fergie’s Friends: The duchess of York says she once ran with a fast crowd that included drug abusers. The former Sarah Ferguson toured a drug rehabilitation clinic in New York Monday and told the patients that “a lot of my friends have been alcoholics and drug addicts. It’s important that we stand together.” The duchess is wife of Britain’s Prince Andrew.

Mind Games: Magician Doug Henning says he and Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will build a $1 billion theme park, practically in Walt Disney World’s back yard, featuring magic and Eastern-style meditation. “Vedaland” will open in 1993 in Orlando, Fla., with attractions on the themes of knowledge, enlightenment and entertainment and will include a building apparently suspended above water. Veda is an Eastern term meaning knowledge, Henning said.

No Fig Newtons: For the third year in a row, Rep. Wayne Owens (D-Utah) has held a “Mrs. Fields Cookie Day” for his colleagues in the House. Debbi and Randy Fields, creators of the popular cookie franchise, are from back home in Park City, Utah. Owens had planned to give the chocolate chip treats to all the members except House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, but at the last minute, decided that in the hope of getting Congress adjourned, even Gingrich would get his cookies.