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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...votes to the highest bidder, as the staff editorial rightly points out. Has he abused the public trust? If, as is expected, the Ethics Committee finds that Frank knew nothing about the prostitution ring being run out of his Capitol Hill apartment and clears him of any wrongdoing, the answer is no. Finally, will this episode irreparably impair his ability and effectiveness in fighting for the liberal causes that he and the voters of his district care deeply about? Ultimately, Frank and his constituents must decide that...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Excuses, Excuses | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

Nonetheless, those who do frequent the store, drawn by the quiet reading space which the patio offers, are an unusually intense breed of book lover. One patron, when asked what he thought of the new store, replied that he was too absorbed in his book to answer any questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newcomer: Not Just Books | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...that argument, Native Americans answer that 1) most of the unearthed Indian bones lie moldering and unexamined in museum basements; and 2) little if any data gathered from their study are shared with the descendants. According to Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, the only bit of information the Smithsonian ever imparted to her group was that their ancestors ate corn. "We could have told them that anyway," says Harjo, citing the accuracy of Indian oral tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Returning Bones of Contention | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later: "As far as I know a West Indian has never died in the cane fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Take Their Lumps | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...which to view the peculiarities of Japanese baseball and the Americans who struggle to play it. But a larger point also slides home to the reader. If Americans and Japanese cannot see eye to eye on baseball, how can they understand each other on such issues as trade? The answer is evident from this book: they are not yet able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wa Is Hell The name of the game is besuboru | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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