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The ethics controversy surrounding Congressman Charles Rangel until yesterday the powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is yet another in a long line of incidents that prove what really needs no proving Power corrupts The cases are rooted in the psychology of power and they are

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Conservatives are permitted to define whatever standards of intellectual consistency for themselves that they wish But it is important in gauging the political sincerity of a movement and its leaders to determine how they fulfill the standards they have set for themselves It is one thing to criti