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Kemp announced his action as congressional aides said several prominent figures in the investigation will be called to testify again, including former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce...
...went largely unquestioned until Galileo and other early 17th century sky watchers pointed the newly invented telescope at the sun and saw black spots on its surface. So much for solar purity. Despite clerical disapproval, the reality of sunspots was quickly accepted. Still, more than two centuries passed before Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German apothecary and amateur astronomer, discovered the strange, cyclic behavior of the solar blemishes...
...appalled that he turned the sentencing over to another jurist (Peters got two years) and leveled the loud opinion that by vouching for a witness in a case he had yet to hear, Giamatti had biased himself outrageously. George Palmer, a former state-appeals-court judge, and Samuel Dash, famed Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, last week took the stand on Rose's behalf to endorse that view. They thought Dowd's 225- page finding read less like an investigator's report than a prosecutor's indictment...
...Carnegie recommendations add up to a middle school that is part classroom and part social-welfare agency, a combination that is bound to make some educators uneasy. "Middle school administrators have got their hands full just trying to educate kids, let alone creating warm, caring environments," says Samuel Sava, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals...
...heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of mayors. Under Pierce's feckless leadership, HUD's budget was pared 70% (it stands at $14.9 billion for 1989). Little was done to halt a decline in the nation's inventory of low- income housing, from which 4.5 million units have disappeared since 1973. Critics charge that programs were dismantled, talented staffers...