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Championship games are usually followed by scenes of celebration and dejection. Members of the winning team pile on each other. Members of the losing team crumple into balls of misery or lay on the turf like they have just had a close encounter with a Mack truck...
Last week John Mack, 35, gave in and quit as the top legislative aide to House Speaker Jim Wright. The furor had stemmed from the Washington Post's curiously timed recounting of Mack's savage knife and hammer assault on college student Pamela Small more than 15 years ago. After serving only 27 months in a county jail for the felony, he had been hired as a $9,000-a-year clerk by Wright, whose daughter was married to Mack's brother...
...wish I could rewrite the past, but unfortunately I can't," said Mack, probably the most influential staffer on Capitol Hill. Insisted Speaker Wright, who loses his right-hand man as he faces a bitter survival struggle over his ethics problems: "I was willing to give this young man another chance, and I have never had occasion to regret...
...Small had the bad fortune to be shopping at World Bazaar that night, Mack had the good luck to have a brother married to Congressman Jim Wright's daughter. Mack was arrested and pleaded guilty to malicious wounding with intent to kill, saying stress made him do it. Mack was offered a job by Wright after sentencing, and ended up serving 27 months of a 15-year term in the relatively soft confines of the county jail rather than the state penitentiary...
Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho, with whom Mack golfs, support Mack's rehabilitation; they view the dredged-up story as an indirect attack on Wright, who is under investigation by the House ethics committee. Others feel that rehabilitation occurred before adequate retribution. Mack may have satisfied the demands of the legal system, but his elevation to a position of privilege may yet offend a larger notion of decency. Should a felon who has been denied the right to vote be instrumental in making the nation's laws...