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Forbes, Steve

CAMPAIGN 2000 | THE CANDIDATESSteve Forbes The flat tax man is in for the long haul by Beth Rowen Steve Forbes.This article was posted on December 3, 1999.The Long HaulWINNING THE REPUBLICAN…

News of the World, 2008

2008 news of the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe by Beth Rowen and Liz Olson Robert MugabeRelated Links 2008 Year in Review 2008…

Biographies of the Presidents

  Read bios on all of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama. George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison…

Margaret Warner

TV news reporter A graduate of Yale University, Warner was a reporter for The Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, The San Diego Union, and The Wall Street Journal. In 1983 she transferred to Newsweek…

Spencer Abraham

George W. Bush's secretary of Energy Born: 6/12/1952Birthplace: East Lansing, Mich. As a senator from Michigan, Abraham on three occasions proposed eliminating the department he is now slated…

Iraq Crisis, 2004

by Borgna Brunner 1920s–1999 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 Next: 2005 Jan. 15, 2004 Tens of…

Schiavo case

(Encyclopedia) Schiavo case, the legal battles over the guardianship and rights of Theresa Maria Schindler Schiavo (1963–2005). Terri Schiavo was incapacitated and hospitalized in 1990, after she…

Rumsfeld, Donald Henry

(Encyclopedia) Rumsfeld, Donald Henry, 1932–2021, American government official, b. Chicago, Princeton Univ. (B.A., 1954). After graduating college,…

Barack Obama

U.S. President Born: Aug. 4, 1961 Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4, 2008, prevailing over Arizona Senator John McCain…