Doing Her Part: California Supreme Court Justice...

Doing Her Part: California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard is joining staff members in taking four days without pay. “I feel I owe it to my staff,” said Kennard. “How can I ask them if I were not going to be subject to the same sacrifice?” As of Friday, Kennard apparently was the only justice among the seven on the Supreme Court, or 88 on the state Court of Appeal, to agree to take part in the voluntary money-saving furlough program. Court employees proposed the furlough in hopes of avoiding pay cuts or layoffs.

Royal Guest: Ex-hostage Terry Waite is a guest of Queen Elizabeth while he recovers from nearly four years in captivity. Waite, 52, his wife, Frances, and their four children are using one of the queen’s houses at Balmoral, Scotland, a palace spokesman said. Balmoral, with its wooded, rolling terrain, provides privacy and security. Waite was the Anglican Church’s special envoy in Lebanon.

The Name Game: Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and Seminary may have a new name by spring semester. “Nothing is final though,” college President Bernard Rossier said last week. School officials announced a new name--World Evangelism Bible College and Seminary--at a recent meeting on college accreditation. Rossier wouldn’t say why the change was being considered. The Baton Rouge, La., college has seen enrollment plummet since Swaggart left the Assemblies of God in 1988 after being photographed with a New Orleans prostitute.

Name Game 2: In Dover, Del., public defender Thomas D.H. Barnett didn’t want Dorothy Uwanawich as a juror because of her name and occupation. Uwanawich (pronounced “you want a witch”) says she’s a psychic reader and adviser. Barnett wondered whether she might really have powers that could influence the jurors. But the judge never had to make a decision. Uwanawich was a no-show and the prosecutor dropped the case moments before it was scheduled to start last week. “She may have been psychic enough to know that,” prosecutor James A. Rambo said. Contacted later, Uwanawich said she believed her psychic abilities would have interfered with the trial, but conceded she had no advance word on the dismissal.