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Ghassan (Gus) Karim's daughter was on the phone. Karim is a tailor who immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1969. Thirty-two years later, when George W. Bush took the oath of office as President, he was wearing a suit made by his friend Gus. But after last week's bombings, Karim's daughter, who works for a Dallas financial-consulting company, called in tears. She had been taunted. "You were born in this country. Don't worry about it," Karim told her. A Muslim, a Rotarian and an American success story, he says, "This is my home...
...course, Democrats are already making that argument about Bush's tax cut, letting no cable show go unvisited in order to blame the hard times on the President. They declare with straight faces that the slowdown didn't "really" kick in until moments after Bush took the oath of office, and they delight in the opportunity provided by the shrinking surplus to accuse Republicans of raiding the Social Security trust fund and "endangering our seniors." Though intellectually suspect, it's a potent attack. Republicans returned to Congress after the recess to an internal poll that showed that voters' concern about...
...that means breaking a promise. In 1998, Republicans and Democrats made a blood oath never to touch the Social Security surplus and they fear it would be political suicide to do so now. But it may be impossible not to dip into the fund if Bush wants to spend more on education and still give the Pentagon $18.4 billion extra next year for a national missile defense. And it may be a good idea to dip into the fund to help stimulate the economy. But so far, the only politician to stick his head above the parapet and say times...
...state board of pharmacy doesn't vote to revoke his license, she very much doubts he will just slide right back into his white coat when all this is over. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," Winckler says. "Pharmacists are bound by a code of ethics, and an oath - they?re bound to hold patients above everything...
...phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic.") Freed had been his own worst witness, confronting the committee, contradicting himself under oath. Clark - who had become a millionaire by investing in 33 music-related businesses and by being "given" the royalty rights to 143 songs, many of which he promoted on "Bandstand" - was much smoother...