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...strange behavior that landed Mulheren in jail on Feb. 18. Alerted by his wife that he was acting irrationally, police stopped him as he drove from his Rumson mansion and arrested him for carrying a semiautomatic rifle. The police said Mulheren, who has been treated for manic depression, seemed intent on killing Boesky and Boesky's former head trader, Michael Davidoff. Mulheren apparently thought they were linking him to the insider-trading scandal...
...sleep from my eyes, grabbed my faithful issue of The Crimson. As I glanced over the page, searching for anything interesting, I read the headline, "Group Takes Aim At Fly Club." I couldn't believe it. There is now, as we speak, a student group with the specific intent of attacking final clubs. I can't believe the issue has gone this...
...concert segments which Frank included do seem to have the express intent of deglamorizing the musicians and their work. During a concert with Stevie Wonder, for example, we watch Mick Jagger awkwardly attempt to share a mike with the blind musician. He bends over Stevie's piano bench, dodges the waves of his unknowing head, looks exasperated and finally gives up. The one close-up on Stevie himself captures him as he accidentally knocks his dark glasses off and fumbles to slip them back...
...intent of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act is clear enough: to prohibit former federal officials from selling their influence with friends in Government. The law is not unduly restrictive. A would-be lobbyist must wait only one year after leaving the Government before contacting his old associates. Yet Congress wrote such ambiguous language into the law that until last week no one had ever been convicted of violating...
Over Christmas, Shrum began to cobble together a new stump speech that altered the tone of the Gephardt candidacy: the new Shrum speech zeroed in on the "Establishment" as the culprit for what was wrong with the country. The Establishment, Gephardt charged, was intent on sending jobs overseas, cutting Social Security and hacking up family farms for agribusinesses. It was a brazen act of reinvention: Gephardt's previous message touted his ability as a Washington insider to work within the corridors of power; now he was preaching the politics of resentment...