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Ethics is all the rage in Washington these days, as Speaker of the House Jim Wright can testify. This week the House Ethics Committee will release a 450- page report summing up a ten-month investigation of Wright's alleged wrongdoing. A vocal minority of Republicans, led by G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich, predict that the inquiry will result in Wright's censure, removal as Speaker or maybe even expulsion. But in the end he is likely to hang on to his job because this is an argument not about right and wrong but about the peculiar ethics rules...
...wrap up the nomination before convention time and give Jackson a definite leg up in the 1992 race. Last week two white party | strategists, Thomas Donilon and Robert Beckel, circulated a paper that argues for a return to the previous rules. In a thinly veiled reference to Jackson, the report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting the new rules he risks appearing to be a tool for Jackson. One possible solution: keep...
When the Government released its closely watched unemployment report for March last week, the figures seemed to give fresh evidence of economic strength. They showed an unexpected drop in the U.S. jobless rate to 5%, down from 5.1% in February and the lowest monthly rate in more than 15 years...
Bureaucracy Watch: There are two teams of Harvard researchers racing to help confirm the results of a University of Utah fusion report that could revolutionize science and, possibly, American society. One of the Harvard scientists, whose experiment will likely be finished on Monday or Tuesday, said that he might have been able to run his experiment yesterday had it not been for a faculty meeting he was required to attend...
...President Derek C. Bok, writing on the Kennedy School in his annual report released this week...