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...Happy study card day” doesn’t have quite the same ring, somehow, as “Happy New Year.” Neither does today’s less-august event occasion the kisses, toasts and choruses of “Auld Lang Syne” that ushered in 2003. But today is a holiday of sorts—one marked by a memo from the registrar and a highlighted page in your dayplanner—and in the spirit of the day I offer my best wishes and this story...
Then there's the man credited with persuading President Bush to dump the dividend tax--Charles Schwab. Founder of the discount brokerage firm, Schwab took part in the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, in August 2002. As the President listened to speakers lay out proposals for getting the economy moving, Schwab ticked off several ideas, including a recommendation "to reduce the double taxation of dividends...
Aides to the President counsel patience, and there is some wisdom to that. "It reminds me of last August," said one last week. "The same sort of headlines and complaints--and then the President spoke at the U.N., and everyone was back on board. Wait till he makes the case." No doubt the President will make an effective State of the Union speech this week; he usually does. But there's more to leading the world into war than set-piece speeches--and Bush has seemed decidedly unpresidential at times in recent weeks, flustered and impatient. "I'm sick...
...August 1953 In Operation Ajax, CIA officers in Iran engineer a coup against Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring SHAH REZA PAHLAVI to the throne. The agency's role soon becomes widely known...
...says he "did not ask the U.S. to interfere on my behalf although I am a dual citizen. I wanted to keep the battle lines clear and clean. I was fighting an Egyptian cause as an Egyptian on Egyptian soil." When the White House informed President Hosni Mubarak last August that Ibrahim's conviction jeopardized aid, Egyptians condemned the U.S. for meddling. The head-scratching continues in Cairo about why the government is dragging out a case that has so damaged the country's reputation. Some speculate that Mubarak was goaded by an article Ibrahim wrote shortly after Bashar Assad...