Recently added articles from Newsweek International:
Letters: 'The Capitalist Manifesto'.(International Edition)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Fareed Zakaria reminds us that no economic system is perfect, so we cannot always expect a bump-free ride. Katherine Mancuso, Incline Village, Nevada After reading Fareed Zakaria's cover story on capitalism's return, I believe it is apparent that any economic model ...
Afghanistan's 'Predatory' State.(International Edition)(Interview)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai Former Afghan finance minister Ashraf Ghani is one of President Hamid Karzai's most articulate and vociferous critics, and a chief contender against the incumbent in the upcoming August presidential election. A U.S.-educated former World ...
Russia on the Walls.(International Edition)(Russian women running art galleries)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Ginanne Brownell When Dasha Zhukova, the glamorous girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, opened her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in a converted bus depot in Moscow last autumn, art connoisseurs scoffed. What did a 27-year-old socialite, born in ...
Free Sculpture With a Night's Stay.(The Good Life)(Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Sana Butler "Don't touch that," i thought to myself as I watched a toddler stumble across the park of the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland. His father called his name; the boy laughed and kept going, wobbling at an ever-faster pace. He was headed for a shiny, ...
Interior Design.(The Good Life)(hotel interior and collections)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Zachary Kussin It used to be that a hotel was simply a place to stay to recover from a tiring day of museum-hopping. But a number of hotels offer spectacular indoor gallery space of their own for displaying surprising collections of works that can include everything from ...
A Troubled Pipeline.(International Edition)(natural-gas pipeline Nabucco)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Owen Matthews Nabucco, the natural-gas pipeline running from Central Asia to Austria via the Balkans and Turkey, has run into trouble from an unexpected quarter. The European Union hopes Nabucco will help break its dependence on Russian gas. However, since the project's ...
Forgive Us Our Debts.(International Edition)(public debt)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Rana Foroohar Public debt is rising at its fastest rate since World War II, as nearly all major governments seek to stimulate their shaky economies. Who's most at risk from the ballooning debt bubble? It's an important question, since countries that struggle to service ...
The Twilight of a Power Couple's Era.(International Edition)(Nestor and Cristina Kirchner)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Brian Byrnes The Kirchners have reigned supreme as Latin America's most glamorous power couple for six years, but Argentina is turning on them now. Polls show Cristina will likely lose her congressional majority in 'Paulson's Complaint' June 28 elections, even though her ...
How Not to Catch a Thief.(International Edition)(Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Ron Moreau The element of surprise is a tried-and-true tactic to catch enemies off guard. But that doesn't seem to be Pakistan's strategy in its manhunt against public enemy No. 1: Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who allegedly masterminded Benazir Bhutto's assassination ...
Run to Mexico?(International Edition)(international runners)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Alexis Okeowo A growing number of international runners are leaving their homelands for an unlikely destination: Mexico. Though the U.S. still boasts more foreign transplants, Mexico's high altitude, easier visa process and cheaper cost of living are luring some of the ...
Blowing the Whistle On Kenya.(International Edition)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Mohammed J. Herzallah In 2005 Kenya's anti-corruption czar, John Githongo, became a man on the run. For years he'd been compiling evidence to implicate incumbent president Mwai Kibaki's government in some of the most shameless acts of graft the country had ever ...
The Coming Oil Crisis.(International Edition)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Mohammed J. Herzallah Canadian economist Jeff Rubin has a somewhat oracular reputation. Since 2000, he has predicted a massive oil-price spike, and he was among the first in 2007 to prophesy that oil would soar over $100 per barrel (a few months later, he said $150 a ...
Why Brown is Too Big for Britain.(International Edition)(Gordon Brown)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Stryker McGuire; McGuire is a NEWSWEEK Contributing Editor. In Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been all but consumed by a wildfire of parliamentary scandal, Labour Party infighting, domestic-policy missteps and profound national anxiety over an economy in ...
The N Word.(International Edition)(nuclear proliferation in Japan)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Takashi Yokota Why Japan won't go nuclear. North Korea's recent nuclear test has spawned many nightmare scenarios, including the possibility that pacifist Japan will go nuclear, triggering a new arms race. Both U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and ...
What Japan Got Right.(International Edition)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Robert Alan Feldman; Feldman is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. The economic news isn't all bad. Interest in Japan among global investors and policymakers is abysmal. Indeed, in many discussions, Japan is regarded as a museum ...
The Germans Are Toxic Too.(International Edition)(bank capital )
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Stefan Theil Claims of safer banks now ring false. German leaders have long boasted about the stability of their financial system, and lately have been blaming the global credit crisis on American irresponsibility. German finance, they brag, is dominated by ...
This One's For the Girls.(International Edition)(Asian literature)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Asians embrace chick lit The man who grace thinks is the One has finally given her The Ring! She is so blinded by love, she barely registers that he is moving overseas for work and hardly has time to talk to her--or that a leggy blonde ...
Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away.(International Edition)(the film, Kinatay, portrays life of underclass)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Jessica Zafra Brillante Mendoza's film Kinatay (Slaughtered) is so grim and gruesome that it didn't even divide audiences and critics when it screened at Cannes last month; it united them in hatred and disgust. Shot on film and video, the Philippine director's latest ...
Khrushchev in the Land of Lincoln.(International Edition)(KaBlows Top)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Nikita Khrushchev was the face of the Soviet Union for 11 years, yet to this day he is defined in the West by one image: banging his shoe furiously upon a U.N. delegate's desk. Was he a short-tempered but essentially good-natured buffoon, or was this the ...
The Havana Obsession.(International Edition)(United States-Cuba relations)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Moises Naim; Naim is Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy magazine. Why all eyes are on a bankrupt island. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their ...