Signs of the Times: A sign in...

Signs of the Times: A sign in a window of Sen. Quentin Burdick’s office suite is sending a not-so-subtle message about the Supreme Court’s newest justice. The sign reads: “We Believe Her.” Two women on Burdick’s staff posted the sign on the day the Senate voted to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court despite Anita Hill’s allegations that he sexually harassed her. Burdick (D-N.D.) opposed Thomas’s confirmation. The sign faces the Supreme Court, but trees block the court’s view of it.

The Heart in the Jar: Was King Boris III poisoned? Whodunit? A human heart in a glass jar unearthed from a Bulgarian garden might hold the key to the royal murder mystery. Boris III died at age 49 in Bulgaria 12 days after returning in August, 1943, from a visit to Adolf Hitler in Germany. The heart was labeled as that of the king. “I am nearly sure that Boris was poisoned either by the Nazis or by Stalin’s Soviet secret services,” one scientist claims.

Caught in a Web?: A businessman who was a close friend of former President Nixon has been accused of incest in a lawsuit 13 years after his death. In a suit filed in Newark, N.J., last week the great-granddaughter of Elmer Holmes Bobst accuses him of engaging in “incestuous conduct” with her when she was a child. Though Bobst died in 1978 at age 93, Sharon Haymes, 28, is suing Bobst’s widow and others for unspecified compensatory damages. Her lawyer would not say whether Nixon was a beneficiary named in Bobst’s will and thus a defendant in the suit.

Power of the Word: Those who trash Texas now face the wrath of a 260-pound former heavyweight champion. Boxer George Foreman will put some punch into the state’s “Don’t Mess With Texas” anti-litter campaign, but Foreman won’t be wearing gloves when a video crew calls to shoot the advertisement. Instead, Foreman, a preacher, will be at a pulpit calling down fire and brimstone in a sermon that ends with: “And if he ever, ever messes with Texas . . . pray for him, brothers and sisters, pray for him.”