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Hubbard had been pushing the dividend idea for months, but Bush's imagination was captured by Charles Schwab, leader of the eponymous brokerage firm. Schwab suggested the maneuver to Bush at the economic summit that the President convened in Waco, Texas, last August. Bush bit like a hungry bass. Throughout the fall, the number crunchers at Treasury massaged the numbers on all the different elements of the plan, running different options by scores of outside economists. Bush did not seriously consider a payroll-tax reduction, which some economists argue is fairer and would provide the most immediate tax relief...
DIED. MAURICE GIBB, 53, bass player and keyboardist in the sibling disco trio the Bee Gees, from cardiac arrest following intestinal surgery; in Miami Beach, Florida. The hat-loving Gibb (pictured in the middle) was the least flamboyant of the brothers, whose string of 1960s hits was followed by the chart-busting 1977 soundtrack for the film Saturday Night Fever, which made them the most commercially successful trio in pop history. Believing Maurice died "unnecessarily," his brothers vowed to investigate his death. Although three-part harmony is integral to the Bee Gees' sound, the brothers plan to continue...
Waller is a bass and the oldest of the three, a senior who modestly says he had already submitted several of his college applications...
Banfield, another bass and a junior, flashes a Cheshire cat smile, especially when he speaks of his possible future as a politician...
During the days, the students will be divided into two age groups to take specially designed classes, from Harvard’s top professors—including a lectures by University President and economist Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger Porter, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and chemistry demonstrations from Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach...