Word: wrights
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Ethics and politics -- can the two go together? It sometimes seems not. In an eerie parallel to the trials of U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, Japan's leading politicians are under fire for misunderstanding -- or missing -- the connection. In both countries, the lines are often hard to draw, as changing standards of morality are applied to the fuzzy world of campaign financing...
House Speaker Jim Wright has the haunted and strained look of a lonely and failing man even in the midst of his righteous anger. In his Thursday statement to the nation, his smile was just a bit too forced, his somber- visaged Democratic congressional colleagues in dark formation behind him just a bit too straight-backed and eager to applaud. Something was slipping away...
...Wright on most counts is basically honest and decent. He has the right to shout into the rising storm that is battering him that he should not be judged guilty until he is tried. It is logical for him to mount a tactical defense detailing dates, times, dollars, his service to the House for 34 years. These are the tidy rituals of comradeship and parliamentary procedure that are so dear and so binding to those denizens of the Capitol. Wright is correct that the media convulsion about human rectitude or the lack of it is unrealistic, often unfair...
Although House Speaker Jim Wright's ethical violations may not have compromised the spirit of the Constitution, they should also be judged harshly. According to the House Ethics Committee, Wright may have tried to circumvent House honoraria limits by telling groups to buy copies of his book. The teamsters, for example, bought more than 2000 copies...
PUNISHMENT: Wright should be tied to a chair and forced to read the memoirs of 2000 teamsters. In Lamont Library. Next to somebody eating an orange. Enough said...