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...reception was so good and so enthusiastic that our hosts kept yelling for more,” wrote Peter H. Strauss ’54, the band manager, in an account of the evening in the band archives...
...published Wartime Lies, the partially autobiographical account of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Poland using forged Catholic papers. And the book met international acclaim...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell had been piling on the pressure in recent weeks, demanding that the CIA be held to account for a number of false statements vetted by the Agency that made it into Powell's United Nations Security Council speech indicting Iraq on Feb. 5, 2003. Tenet, a holdover from the Clinton administration had let it be known that he wanted out of the job after November, but his premature resignation marks him as the highest-profile political casualty thus far of the Iraq...
...According to Bob Woodward's insider account of the decision to go to war, when President Bush had questioned the paucity of hard intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons capability, Tenet had told his boss that the WMD case against Iraq was "a slam dunk." But failure to find any such weapons in Iraq after the war led David Kay, the CIA official who led the Iraq Survey Group assigned to find Saddam's banned weapons, to tell Congress that "We were almost all wrong." A bipartisan commission appointed by President Bush into WMD intelligence is due to report early...
...answer to your legal question is easy, but the family issues around it are thornier. According to attorneys in several community-property states, if you leave money to your son in your will, it is his property alone--as long as he keeps it in a separate account under his name. But if he puts the cash in a joint account or uses it to buy his wife a diamond necklace, it becomes joint property. To prevent this, you can set up a trust to be funded after your death, appointing a trustee to dole out the money as needed...