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...seems, the protesters will get their way. After months of paralysis, the House Ethics Committee appears ready to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied...
Meanwhile, the Packwood debacle promises to reverberate for months--perhaps years--to come. In Oregon, state law does not authorize the Governor to appoint an interim Senator, but instead requires a special election. If Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, selects a date within 80 days, the two parties will choose the candidates, who will then face an open election. If Kitzhaber chooses a later date, there will be both a primary and a general election. Oregon has not sent a fresh face to the Senate since Packwood's first election in 1968-when he ran a memorably aggressive campaign that...
Knowles will appoint a search committee early this fall to find a successor for De Gennaro...
...perpetual cause celebres occupying student activists at Harvard looks to loom large again. Ethnic studies represents one of the few issues on which students and administrators within the University remain far from consensus on a suitable disposition. While activists demand departmental status for the field, administrators refuse even to appoint a committee which will formally investigate the possibility...
...smacks of censorship. Senator Robert Dole, no friend of lewd popular culture, rails against the chip as bringing us "one step closer to government control of what we see on television." While the Senate bill calls for broadcasters to devise their own rating system, it mandates the government to appoint a commission to do so if TV programmers fail to construct one within a year. Such industry agreement seems unlikely...