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Some tropical storm-type gusts whip up and the officials should call off the race, right? Wrong--just a delayed start because of the choppy conditions created by winds sweeping across the course from the Boston side of the Charles...
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...
...Facing M.I.T's strongest squad in many years, the varsity tennis team is nonetheless a favorite to whip the Engineers in the opening match of the regular season at 3 p.m. today on the Soldiers Field Courts...
Hightower, who heads a staff of 575 state workers, was elected to his post in 1982 and re-elected in 1986 with 60% of the vote. His foes realize they would be unlikely to whip him at the polls, so they want to abolish his job and replace it with a panel appointed by the Governor. Hightower forced the showdown two months ago, when he made the surprise decision to pass up a race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm and instead run for re- election in 1990. Then he promptly spurred a ruckus with his plan...
...instead of selecting the MX or Midgetman, perhaps the President might be wiser to stay with the existing Minuteman. -- Why U.S. Jews are unhappy with the rigid policies of Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. -- House Republicans put some lash in their whip by electing contentious Newt Gingrich as their No. 2 man. -- The swain of cocaine: a DEA Don Juan made cases by making love...