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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...
ANDRES SEGOVIA: FIVE CENTURIES OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (MCA Classics). The reviver and master of the instrument as you have never heard him before. Twenty-six digitally reissued performances, dating from 1952 to 1968, drawn from the works of ten Spanish composers...
...Sammataro Hut. When I try to sign a check, I run out of room." The family's insurance reimbursements are bogged down because records do not match. The couple have to maintain an extra listing in the phone book so their children's friends can find them under Hutchins. "Ten years ago, when I married, I felt very strongly that I should retain my name," says Debra, nee Sammataro. "But it's been a nuisance ever since...
...Administrators at Harvard, "If Harvard as the premier institution that trains the best and brightest is a place that is absent of the best Black men and women, it sends a message that we are not very good." This report followed an equally critical report 10 years earlier. Ten years, 20 years...how long must women and minorities wait on Harvard's good graces...
...There are threats, the mildest being a pledge to beat my face in. Our weekly magazine is criticized in a newspaper that from force of habit no one dares argue with: * Pravda. The fear caused by this newspaper is supposed to be so deep and basic that it is ten times greater than other fears...