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...chips remaining, where art can be Michelangelo's David in extra large, where employees are costumed as giant diamonds or Roman vestals in mini-togas. Amid all this, the ritual extraction of money produces shrieks, groans and -- sometimes -- incongruously grim determination. On his first night as a $25,000-a-year dealer, Larry Brown saw a gambler suffer a stroke. "What really shocked me is how the players reacted, how they continued making their bets, reaching over him and stuff," he says...
...constituents' tolerance of his sexual habits. Last week, after the Washington Times broke the story, Frank admitted that in 1985 he paid for sex from a male prostitute who had advertised in a gay newspaper. The Congressman then hired him, with his personal funds, as a $20,000-a-year errand boy for his Capitol Hill apartment. In 1987, Frank said, he decided that the man was using the apartment for prostitution. He said he fired...
...Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some of them too poor to afford the $10-a-year dues...
...lenient last week. Though Gesell could have sent former Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to prison for ten years for his role in the Iran- contra affair, the judge declined to do so. Instead, after listening to North softly declare that he had grieved over his "mistakes," he handed North three suspended sentences, two years' probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service in an antidrug program for inner-city youths. (The Navy promptly suspended North's $23,000-a-year pension but recommended that the Comptroller General restore it when the matter comes before him.) Incarceration...
...flight from public service highlights an already vexing problem. A score of people approached for the once coveted Pentagon job of Under Secretary for Acquisition have refused to submit to the nomination process. At the Department of Energy, five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...