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...life, the poet says, and you can see at least three of them already in George W. Bush's presidency. First came his strange, complicated birth, his narrow escape from a Florida swamp, a President uncertain from the start. Next came the innocent clarity of September and the burst of national unity. The attacks and their aftermath seemed to end all the confusion about who was in charge and showed us what Bush was capable of after all: strength, leadership, even vision...
...carmakers keep it up? The industry's recent history is well-told by now. Zero-percent financing deals, fat incentives and a burst of patriotism produced a spectacular bounce-back for the industry from the post-Sept. 11 flatline, (helping us speed through the recession in the process). That spike softened quickly, but suddenly the sales resurgence in April, after a fall in March, had investors and economists alike thinking that maybe, just maybe, this recovery might not be so lousy after...
...Blodget correctly forecast in 1998 that the stock of Amazon.com, then trading at around $225, would hit $400 within 12 months. When the stock hit that target within months, a star was born and Blodget soon jumped to the more prestigious Merrill Lynch. By the time the Internet bubble burst in April 2000, Blodget had become one of the most influential people in the technology business, able to move markets with his predictions...
...said, "Happy news! Mazel tov to the bride and groom." Dagan hesitated. She didn't want to speak. She didn't want to force her misery on others. But she couldn't hold back. "I'm going to put it on my daughter's grave," she said. The florist burst into tears. Dagan's daughter Danit was only 12 hours dead, killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up beside the young woman and her fiance in a crowded Jerusalem cafe...
...embassy in Islamabad in 1995, killing 15 people. The Egyptians had surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where al-Khadir, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify Pakistan's then chief spymaster, General Mehmood Ahmed, so that his spooks could burst in to arrest al-Khadir. Ahmed promised swift action...