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...Cambridge to speak at the Harvard Hillel, the embattled representative yesterday told a questioner, "I'm not retiring [from the House]" upon leaving the building. Frank, who is awaiting a House Ethics Committee inquiry, said earlier this week that he would not resign pending that committee's investigation...
...charges, based upon federal antitrust statutes, raise the spectre of collusion and the abuse of power--intentional or not--by some of the nation's most respected institutions...
...capital- gains reduction. Before IRA deductions were restricted in 1986, however, they cost the Treasury $16 billion a year in lost taxes. Bentsen's proposal is unlikely to stop the stampede to cut capital gains, and it could become the next giveaway that Congress and the President will seize upon. But the prospect of a huge loss in revenue at a time of record deficits will probably prove unacceptable...
After 18 months, Frank says, he dismissed Gobie upon discovering that he was bringing clients to Frank's apartment. Two years later, Gobie tried unsuccessfully to sell his story to the Washington Post. He then gave the story to the Washington Times for nothing, in hopes of getting a book contract for the male version of The Mayflower Madam. This week Gobie will appear on Geraldo, discussing his prospects for a television mini-series...
...dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep emerging; the example of others' failures seems only to add to the imagined glory...