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...Roth IRA--much talked about but mind-bogglingly underused. Put simply: you have just two more conversion weeks till Christmas. Don't blow it. Mutual-fund companies estimate that only 5% of people eligible to convert their old IRA to the Roth version have done so. There may be a crush of late activity, and paperwork received the last week of December may not get processed before the year-end deadline...
...Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton...
...Tyson workers who had filed worker's compensation claims against the company on the theory that they might be more willing to expose its underside. He ordered up Sun-Diamond Growers lobbyist Richard Douglas' phone records dating back to 1987--though Espy didn't take office till 1993--and his passports since 1978. At least one judge quashed some of Smaltz's subpoenas. Several of his lawyers quit because they were concerned about the prosecutorial standards of his office...
...Leary, a 34-year-old New Yorker poised to do battle with a day of Christmas parties that force him to con-front every group of significant people in his life. On Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve (Tad and his brother's childhood way of marking the days till Christmas), Tad has just been fired from his job at an elementary school and is about to be booted out of his apartment. He navigates his way through family, a friend's performance-art show, his ex-girlfriend's family, the parent-teacher party at the school where he used...
Elliot Shmukler '00 is The Crimson's general information-technology guru and can be reached via e-mail at elliot@thecrimson.com. Like most things in life, he leaves his holiday shopping till the last minute...