Brace Yourself: Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi financier...

Brace Yourself: Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi financier on trial along with Imelda Marcos for racketeering, finally got rid his electronic surveillance bracelet in New York Friday. The device reported his location when authorities made predawn wake-up calls. “It is really not fair to him to be in court all day and to be awakened in the wee hours,” said Judge John Keenan. “I miss it already,” Khashoggi joked.

Resolved: The District of Columbia Democratic party defeated 29-23 a resolution late last week that would have asked the district’s mayor, Marion Barry, not to seek reelection. Barry has not disclosed his political plans since returning to the city from a substance-abuse treatment program. Barry said the resolution “undermines the right of the voter to decide.”

Nursing Hopes: Miss America 1988 plans to be a nurse long after offers to travel and speak dry up. “It was not a dream of mine to be Miss America,” Kaye Lani Rae Rafko told a group of nurses in La Crosse, Wis., last week. “I am prouder of my registered nurse title than I am of my Miss America title.”

Double Trouble: Lynnette Harris, 35, who once posed nude for Playboy with her identical twin sister, was convicted in Milwaukee Friday of evading taxes on money she allegedly got in exchange for sex with David Kritzik, an elderly Milwaukee businessman who died last June at age 89. Her sister, Leigh Ann Conley, is to be tried in June on similar charges. Harris contended the money was in the form of gifts, not taxable income.