The Year in Review This holiday season is proving to be one of the best in recent memory for merchants and consumers alike. Our economy is on the rebound with the Dow breaking 10,000 points and investor confidence on the rise. The tyrant of Baghdad is in the bag and Libya’s Mohmmar Qadaffi is desperately trying to avoid the same fate. America has made it through 2003, but not without a good number of events worth noting. Let us reflect on them now. On the political front, the 227th year of this republic proved as fascinating and frustrating as ever....