Milestones

CONVICTED

Just weeks after Representative Charles Rangel was re-elected to a 21st term in Congress, a House subcommittee found the New York Democrat guilty of 11 counts of ethics violations. While the investigation had gone on for two years, the trial lasted less than two days. Rangel walked out after the panel refused to grant him a postponement to obtain new representation (he was between lawyers). The 80-year-old former chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee is not likely to be expelled.