Newsweek International back issues from April 2008:
Mail Call: Turkey and the EU.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 07, 2008 ... Our Feb. 18 cover story on Turkey's fight to join the EU got mixed responses from readers. One claimed, "Turkey isn't part of Europe--its leaders can't manipulate geography." Another said, "Erdogan is Islamizing Turkey, not democratizing it." A Turk demurred: "It will all depend on our ...
The Politics of Practical Nostalgia.(World Affairs; EAST ASIA)(Ma Ying-jeou, Lee Myung-bak, Thaksin Shinawatra)(Cover story)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams; With Jaimie Seaton in Bangkok and B. J. Lee in Seoul Asians are rallying to new leaders promising something the region once took for granted: growth. Voters in Asia are kicking out incumbents like never before. As maturing ...
Meet Taiwan's Conciliator-Elect.(World Affairs; FIRST PERSON)(Ma Ying-jeou)(Interview)
Apr 07, 2008 ... Urging Beijing to seize the chance for cross-strait detente A political earthquake shook Taiwan on March 22. Out went the brash, pro-independence Chen Shui-bian. In came mild-mannered Ma Ying-jeou, who has ambitious plans to open Taiwan's economy to China. The power shift has ...
The Prime Minister Vanishes.(World Affairs)(Yasuo Fukuda)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi As Japan's economy stalls, Yasuo Fukuda has gone missing in action. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda couldn't have made it any clearer. Appearing before the cameras on March 24, he declared: "I don't understand what's ...
China's Dangerous Game.(World Affairs; PROPAGANDA)(violent demonstation in Lhasa, Tibet)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Melinda Liu; With Mary Hennock in Beijing and bureau reports As rulers successfully crush sympathy for Tibet at home, they stir it worldwide. It didn't take long after the outbreak of violent protests in Tibet two weeks ago before China's well-oiled ...
Taking Out the Trash.(World Affairs; EUROPE)(Italy's general election)(Cover story)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Barbie Nadeau, Jacopo Barigazzi and Christopher Dickey If Silvio Berlusconi and Walter Veltroni came together they just might be able to save Italy. Eating mozzarella cheese is becoming a test of patriotism in Italy. But not just any mozzarella. No, this has ...
The Businessman Prime Minister.(World Affairs; THE VIEW FROM THE RIGHT)(Silvio Berlusconi)(Interview)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Jacopo Barigazzi 'I'm an entrepreneur who has grown up in the market.' Never one to be out of the spotlight, media mogul Silvio Berlusconi is running for another term as Italy's prime minister. NEWSWEEK's Jacopo Barigazzi caught up with him in Rome, where ...
The 52-Year-Old Italian Upstart.(World Affairs; THE VIEW FROM THE LEFT)(Walter Veltroni)(Interview)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Barbie Nadeau 'I honestly believe that we are now facing our last chance.' Former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, at 52, would be Italy's youngest elected prime minister if he wins against 71-year-old Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's April elections. Borrowing from ...
Why Beijing Needs Tibet's Help.(Point of View)(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Recent events in Tibet have underscored the fact that more than a Half Century of Chinese occupation--and forcible attempts to change Tibetans into Han Chinese--aren't working and never will. Resistance to Beijing's imperialism hasn't come just from the "Dalai Lama clique," as Chinese ...
A Crash Landing.(World Affairs)(Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Rod Nordland and William Underhill; With Sophie Grove and Christopher Werth in London Heathrow is one of the world's busiest airports--and possibly the worst. Heathrow is hard to avoid. The world's busiest international airport is also its most crowded. Every ...
Slowing the Money Trail.(Business; EAST ASIA)(remittances)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Joseph Contreras; With Mac Margolis in Rio De Janeiro, Owen Matthews in Moscow and Stefan Theil in Berlin Immigrants are starting to send less cash back home, in part because there's no one at home. For decades, millions of Latin American and Caribbean men ...
Music to Her Eyes.(Arts)(Patti Smith)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Amber Haq Patti Smith, the high priestess of punk rock, also knows her way around a camera and a sketchpad. She may be an icon of rock and roll and the godmother of punk, but today Patti Smith is in a mellow mood. Sitting by the window in a fifth-floor, ...
Building Moments.(Society and the Arts)(Jean Nouvel)(Interview)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel on his battle to reshape a world of cities that all look the same. Jean Nouvel, 62, is the 2008 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, only the second French designer honored in the 30-year history of ...
Lawrence Summers: 'A Long Way From The 1970s'.(The Last Word)(Interview)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, is as well credentialed as anyone to assess the global credit crisis. He won the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40, was chief economist at the World Bank and ran Harvard University. But ...
It Began With Books.(Turning Point)(Room to Read)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: John Wood; Wood is the founder of Room to Read and the author of "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World." On Microsoft, meaning, and the drive to help educate children across the developing world. My defining moment happened 10 years ago. In April 1998, I'd ...
With Rooms to Grow.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)(Moscow hotels)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Anna Nemtsova If there is any doubt that Moscow has arrived as a high-end tourist destination, just try booking a hotel room. Accommodations in the hotel-starved Russian capital are already going for $1,000 a night--not including breakfast. The number of travelers to ...
Sirocco, Kalk Bay, South Africa.(The Good Life; HOT SPOT)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Located about an hour outside Cape Town, this lovely open-air restaurant is snuggled on the main street between art galleries, antiques shops and the picturesque harbor filled with fishing boats and friendly seals. Ambience: Open just for ...
Belize City.(The Good Life; 4 HOURS IN)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Lauren Mack THIS unspoiled Central American eco-tourism center is a perfect blend of natural beauty and compelling history, boasting world-class diving, ancient ruins, rain forests and small islands, like Cayo Espanto, which can be rented out for $12,000 a night. ...
The Maximalist.(The Good Life)(Dubai First Royale credit card)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Karen Pinchin When platinum just isn't enough, the diamond-encrusted Dubai First Royale credit card can deliver any good or service imaginable. Available by invitation only and hand-delivered to the front door, it comes with a personal lifestyle manager who can ...
Watch Out for the Bees.(The Good Life; FASHION)(garments and accessories with rose design)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Lily Huang A rose is a rose is a dress is a purse is a -- shoe? This spring, roses can be found on all sorts of garments and accessories, and still look awfully sweet. They garnish Prada's satin clutch, their folds echoed on the pleated front ($695; bergdorfgoodman ...
Mountain Highs.(The Good Life; ADVENTURE)(zip lines)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Paul Tolme Thrill-seekers are discovering the joys of zip lines, rides that zoom over treetops at high speeds. Riders wear a harness that clips to a cable, and automatic brakes prevent crashes at the bottom. Popularized in Costa Rica as a way to tour the forest canopy, ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Apr 07, 2008 ... Byline: Quotation Sources: AP, Reuters, AP, Reuters, NY Times, BBC "Mr. Fujimori -- You are sleeping!" Peruvian judge Cesar San Martin, scolding the former president for snoozing at his own trial, where he stands accused of authorizing death-squad kidnappings and ...
Christian Provocateurs and Muslim Moderation.(Periscope; CONTROVERSIAL CONVERSIONS)(Pope Benedict's baptism of Magdi Allam)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Christopher Dickey Have you noticed that Europe is issuing new provocations to Islam, and that Muslims are reacting so far with calm? Dutch politician Geert Wilders is promoting a film he says will prove his belief that "Islamic ideology is a retarded, dangerous one." A ...
Going Down the Tubes?(Periscope; CITY OF LONDON)(Northern Rock)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz As the Bear Stearns meltdown made front-page news in Britain last week, London bankers worried Wall Street's chaos could spread across the pond. And with good reason: bankers and regulators are still feeling the fallout of their own recent crisis of ...
What 10 Million Buys.(Periscope; BLACK MARKETS)(10 million Zimbabwe dollars)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Scott Johnson Zimbabwe's new 10 million dollar bill is red, perhaps a warning that this money is melting down fast. Last week, 10 million Zimbabwe dollars could buy two rolls of toilet paper. By now, it probably won't get quite that much. Not surprisingly, the currency ...
It's Biennial Time.(Periscope; MODERN ART)(Whitney Biennial)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Katie Baker The Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial show has long been heralded as a survey of the most influential up-and-comers, and also derided as a hit-or-miss exhibit that fails to live up to its hype. The reality, of course, falls somewhere in between, and ...
PR For Dictators.(Periscope; SPINMEISTERS)(public relations)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Christopher Flavelle In the 1930s, the Nazis hired an American named Ivy Lee to improve relations between Hitler's government and Washington, until the deal provoked outrage and led to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. If only Lee could see us now ....
Containing Multitudes.(Periscope; FAST CHAT)(Junot Diaz)(Interview)(Brief article)
Apr 07, 2008 ... Literary wunderkind Junot Diaz's debut novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," just netted top honors with the National Book Critics Circle Award. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Jesse Ellison. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: So 10 years ago you were the hot young writer. There was a lot of ...
Building A Faster Internet.(The Technologist)(dynamic-circuit network technology)
Apr 07, 2008; ... Byline: Karen Pinchin A conductor in Tokyo moves his baton, and an orchestra in Cleveland starts to play. A few bars later, a violinist in Berlin joins in. To compensate for a slight delay, the musicians play along with an electronic metronome. The performance is broadcast on ...
Mail Call: Italy's Problems.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 14, 2008 ... Our Feb. 25 cover story on Italy's mess hit home for many readers. "Politicians hide the truth of the economic decline," wrote one. Another said, "Problems of crime, corruption and inefficiency are well known." A third insisted, "Venice is not sinking--the problem is the waves caused by ...
Attack of the Judges.(World Affairs; Europe)(secularism versus religion )
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen In the battle for the heart and soul of Turkey, the lines are now being drawn by the judiciary. Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya doesn't look like a revolutionary. With his sober black suits and neatly clipped white moustache, he looks the ...
Ankara's Quiet Revolution.(Point of View)(banning of Justice and Development Party)(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) must be delighted by the recent turn of events. On March 31, the nation's constitutional court agreed to review a case urging that the party be banned for allegedly violating Turkey's secular Constitution, throwing the country into a period of ...
Repression 2.0.(World Affairs; Asia)(internet repression)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Adam B. Kushner; With Zhong Menglu and Melinda Liu in Beijing, Christopher Dickey in Paris And Gameela Ismail in Cairo Totalitarian states are learning to control citizens by creating the impression of ubiquitous surveillance. In the latest twist on Internet ...
One Sure Thing: Death to Taxes.(World Affairs)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Mac Margolis; With Brian Byrnes in Buenos Aires Latin Americans watch their taxes grow but get little in return. Now they're finally fighting back. In Argentina, pots and pans have many uses. Brandished over the hearth, they can conjure some of the world's ...
What Power Looks Like.(Business)(superclass)(Cover story)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: David Rothkopf They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass. To get a sense of how the world's elite acts in a moment of ...
The Overlooked Killer.(World Affairs)(traffic accident)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Andrew Ehrenkranz and Adam B. Kushner; With Jason McLure in Addis Ababa In Africa, traffic accidents are a leading cause of death, inspiring new calls for an end to the carnage. Miscano Messelleh is a 52-year-old truckdriver, not a menace to society. But for ...
The Gangs of Beirut.(World Affairs)(Sunni, Shiite)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Mitchell Prothero An eruption of street fights between Shiite and Sunni youths has many fearing a slide toward war. When the scooter flies around the corner for the third time, Mazen and his friends--clustered outside a south Beirut phone shop--stop joking ...
Digging Up the Dirt.(World Affairs; Truth Test)(Missing Persons Task Team)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Kim Gurney and Scott Johnson A forensics team is tracking down South Africa's disappeared--and reopening some very cold cases. One June day in 1986, security agents from South Africa's apartheid regime abducted 10 black teenagers from Mamelodi township, 40 ...
Storm Warning.(World Affairs)(food crisis)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jason Overdorf; With Christopher Flavelle, Ana Elena Azpurua and John Sparks in New York The world could be one crop failure away from an actual food crisis. Market panic has already started. When all goes well, thunderheads tower above ...
Talking Ourselves Into Recession.(The Last Word)(Luis Alberto Moreno)(Interview)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Market turmoil has already spread like a cancer from New York to Berlin. All over the world, the zeitgeist is turning against the markets, prefiguring a cyclical return to regulation. Luis Alberto Moreno, the Colombian president of the Inter-American ...
Turkey's Judicial Coup D'etat.(World View)(banning of Justice and Development Party)
Apr 14, 2008; ... This battle could last for months longer, and whether the AKP wins or loses, the consequences are bad. Turkey is at war with itself again, over religion and politics in Turkish life, and the consequences for both itself and its friends could be devastating. Last month, the ...
Styling in the Rain.(The Good Life; Fashion)(rain coats)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Karen Pinchin Spring showers may be on their way, but that doesn't mean we need to dress to match the drear. Burberry encourages customers to face the rainy season head-on in its dazzling gold double-breasted leather trench coat ($2,495; burberry.com). Or for an extra ...
Hot Spot.(The Good Life)(Sunset Marquis Hotel)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Dana Thomas Sunset Marquis Hotel, Hollywood For most of its 45 years, it's been known as a discreet retreat for the wild and famous: Courtney Love wrote a song about the place, Brad Pitt moved in when he and Jennifer Aniston split and, most famously, '60s ...
4 Hours In -- Wroclaw, Poland.(The Good Life)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Karen Pinchin Once the ancient capital of Silesia, Wroclaw (pronounced vrot-swaav) weathered the second world war and five name changes to become one of Poland's best-kept secrets, buzzing with romance, hard-earned history and nightlife. Shop for luminous ...
Dream Home.(The Good Life)
Apr 14, 2008 ... Saunders Street This 7,567sq.k. estate in Perth, Australia, boasts a tennis court, ...
Around the World in 131 Days.(The Good Life; Travel)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Ana E. Azpurua Major cruise companies are scheduling ultra-long voyages for those with time to kill. These journeys evoke the golden age of steamship travel, with the added comforts of our time. The Silver Shadow visits 45 ports--including Bora Bora and Ho Chi Minh ...
A Wing And a Chair.(The Good Life; Decor)(MotoArt's aircraft furniture)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008 ... The coolest new office toy isn't a nano-size satellite device. It's a desk made out of a Boeing 747. MotoArt turns salvaged historic aircraft parts into furniture. Now you can gather a board meeting around a wing-flap table ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Apr 14, 2008 ... Byline: Sources From Top: Times of London, AP, Reuters (2), AP "Everyone should put down 'trisexual,' whoever you are." Actress Vanessa Redgrave, reacting to the news that London's Arts Council is now requiring organizations to list the sexual orientation of board ...
If Lethal Dictators Ban the Death Penalty, Who Cares?(Periscope; The Measure Of Civilization)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Owen Matthews For years now, the death penalty has been held up as a marker of enlightenment, distinguishing the cultivated states that ban it from the brutish ones that still administer it. By this measure, the world is becoming a much more ...
Goodbye, Shanghai.(Periscope; Factory Flows)(why )(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Christian Caryl with Jonathan Adams, B. J. Lee and Akiko Kashiwagi Evidence of an investor exodus from China is mounting. Some 200 Taiwanese firms have left the city of Dongguan, says a Taiwan trade group. The Federation of Hong Kong Industries predicts 6,000 to 7,000 of ...
All For the Tehran Line.(Periscope; Exclusive Poll)(Iranian youth speak out)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Tepperman Western pundits like to console themselves that while Iran's leaders may be fiercely anti-American, its people, especially the young, are another matter: pro-Western aspiring democrats who, if allowed to vote freely, would elect a more agreeable ...
By the Numbers.(Periscope)(Georgia and Ukraine seek North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008 ... They're not a natural pair, even if George W. Bush wants both Georgia and Ukraine in NATO, and Germany and France want them out. No one is listening to what the Georgians and Ukrainians want, which is (respectively) in and out: 77 Percentage of Georgians who support NATO ...
Afghanistan's Idol.(Periscope; TV Stars)(Lima Sahar)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau The usual line about "Afghan Star"--the TV hit where competitors croon traditional tunes--is that the show represents a cultural breakthrough in the country's strict Muslim society. It's not a hard argument to make: 11 million people tune in ...
Dengue Plagues Rio.(Periscope; Disease Watch)(Rio de Janeiro)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Mac Margolis Tropical maladies are nothing new for Brazil. Still, until the late 1990s, dengue fever--the scourge of Asia--was practically unknown in the country, where battalions of mosquito killers had all but wiped out the virus's Aedes aegypti host in their efforts ...
Sarkozy's Nouveau Style.(Periscope; Le Bling-Bling)(Nicolas Sarkozy)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Tracy McNicoll Re-presidentialization. De-bling-bling-ation. To hear spectators on both sides of the channel tell it, you'd think French President Nicolas Sarkozy's trip to Britain last week was less state visit and more celebrity detox. After his setback in municipal ...
Power From a Distance.(The Technologist)(gadgets that don't require plug-in recharging)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Christopher Flavelle Roy Kuennen had a problem to solve. In 1996, one of Amway Corp.'s products, a household water filter, kept breaking down. The filter used an ultraviolet lamp to kill bacteria, but the lamp had to be submerged in water, which corroded the electrical ...
Quirky Ways of Fueling the Future.(The Technologist; Environment)(solar energy)(Brief article)
Apr 14, 2008; ... Byline: Katie Paul Chances are you've heard of hybrids and biofuels, but what about oil-producing yeast and turbinelike buoys that transform ocean waves into electricity? Those are just a few of the alternative-energy sources that may power the future, according to Fred Krupp, ...
Mail Call: Seoul's Leader.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 21, 2008 ... Readers of our March 3 article on South Korea's President Lee took us to task. One said, "The leftist government's defeat does not negate all its achievements." Another wrote, "Roh Moo Hyun's Korean is excellent, as are his speeches." A third simply rejected our comparison of Lee to ...
Big Power Goes Local.(Business)(alternative energy)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: Stefan Theil; With Patrick Falby and Jesse Ellison A grass-roots movement to generate power in towns and basements is challenging the energy industry's status quo. In the late 1990s, the town of Freiamt in Germany's Black Forest decided to take the fight ...
Stronger Than Steel.(Business)(bamboo)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: Lily Huang Bamboo may be the world's greenest raw material. Architects and bicycle designers are catching on. For the opening race of the Eastern U.S. collegiate cycling season, Nick Frey, a junior at Princeton, had a brand-new bike. Frey, currently the ...
Meles Zenawi: An Impatient Ally.(The Last Word)(Interview)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: Jason McLure We understand why the U.N. could not send a peacekeeping mission. But why not provide some funding to the African Union? Despite his poor human-rights record, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is Washington's most important African ally in the ...
Luck Of The Wary.(World Affairs; FINANCE)(Europe's banking industry)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: William Underhill Caution helped a few Continental banks avoid subprime turmoil. There are plenty of headlines touting the latest European victims of the subprime crisis. Earlier this month the Swiss banking veteran Marcus Ospel quit as boss of UBS after ...
Pilgrims' Progress.(World Affairs; ASIA)(Uighurs' unrest)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Ansfield; With Melinda Liu, Wang Zhenru and Mary Hennock in Beijing China offers its minorities wealth and worldliness--and that's just what's driving the ethnic protests. As turmoil erupted in Tibet and Xinjiang recently, China's leaders seemed ...
Don't Mention The War.(Arts; FLASHBACK)(Yasukuni)
Apr 21, 2008; ... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi A new documentary on Japan's wartime past has provoked a conservative campaign to ban the film. Sooner or later, anyone who wants to understand Japan's tortured relationship with its past will end up at the Yasukuni Shrine. ...
Lured Into Bondage.(World Affairs; ASIA)(Forced labor)
Apr 21, 2008; ... A growing back channel of global trade tricks millions into forced labor. Some of the world's leading computer makers don't want you to know about Local Technic Industry. It's a typical Malaysian company, one of many small makers of the cast-aluminum bodies for hard-disk drives ...