Word: wright
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Democrats prefer to remember the 1988 investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright, whose chief accuser was Gingrich. Then too the ethics committee dismissed nearly all complaints against Wright but asked for a special counsel to investigate the remaining one. Eventually the counsel requested and was granted the authority to look wherever he felt he needed to. More harmful disclosures ensued. Wright resigned. Calculating the prospects for Gingrich, House minority whip David Bonior of Michigan assumed his most sepulchral tones: "As time passes, the gravity of the situation will...
...place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing to widen the investigation of Jim Wright...
...never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's refusal to publish his scientific papers, bequeathed the U.S. government £100,000 to build "an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge." Today its trove ranges from the Wright brothers' airplane to a prototype of the Apple personal computer...
...close 3-2 vote, the panel of student judges--which included Georg S. Dukas '97, the editor-in-chief of the International Review, Jonathan P. Feeney '98, Undergraduate Council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, Crimson editor Ben J. Lima '98 and Crimson President Andrew L. Wright '96--picked the group Daily Planet as the winner...
...PEACE WAS AT HAND, WHY DID ITS makers look so somber? The three Balkan Presidents were pale and hollow-eyed as they gathered behind the diplomatic table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, last week. When Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina walked to his chair, he focused his gaze downward and barely touched the proffered hands of his counterparts, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. As the three leaders initialed the stacks of documents that would end the 44-month war among these South Slavs, each gave the impression he was sitting behind...