Newsweek back issues from April 2004:
The Elephant In the Room; If the president, and the presidential candidate, understand how the attacks changed us, they will change the spirit of their campaigns.(investigation into political backdrop of September 11 terrorist attacks)(Column)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Sometimes the big jets fly so low over the Hudson that you'd swear if you squinted hard you could see the profiles of the passengers sitting in the window seats. I'm not the only one who follows their path across the sky, who turns at the sound of fire ...
Father of a Revolution; Here's the man who invented modern industrial design.(Christopher Dresser)(Biography)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan You may find it hard to believe that all the stuff in "Shock of the Old," the current show at the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York, was designed in one era, let alone by one man. From richly patterned wallpaper (that looks Victorian) to boldly simple ...
War in the First Degree; Rethinking 1914, and the fraught century it produced.(Book Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones The great tragedy of World War I, so the popular conception goes, is that it was so unnecessary. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, touched off a series of bluffs, threats and ultimatums that escalated ...
Theodore Rex; Ted Williams's sad, funny saga, from Superman to Everyman.(Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero)(Book Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: David Gates When Ted Williams was at the end of his life, bedridden and paralyzed from a stroke, one of his nurses got to wondering who this guy was and went online. "Mr. Williams," she told him, "I read up on you last night. You didn't tell me. You're a great American ...
Breaking the Brokers; As housing prices keep heading through the roof, more sellers are balking at paying full commissions. Some agents are even joining in this homegrown rebellion.(real estate brokers)(Industry Overview)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn When Larry and Jean Weed of Sparks, Nev., decided to sell their home, they invited some real-estate agents by for a visit. Most offered to sell the house the old-fashioned way, by listing it in the local brokers' database and charging a 6 percent commission ...
Retailing: Trading Spaces, And Jabs; Home Depot and Lowe's duke it out over fixer-uppers.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Peg Tyre Laurie Gearhart of Marietta, Ga., is the kind of customer who gives Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli nightmares. When Gearhart needs parts for her sink, she shops at Home Depot. But for paint, garden supplies and hardware, she heads to Lowe's, just down the road. The ...
Conventional Wisdom; March Madness Edition.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004 ... Maybe Bush's 'no WMD under his desk' joke was ill-timed, but hearings distributed plenty of blame to go around for both his and Clinton's admins. CW Bush= Hearings are unwelcome exploration into his primary-campaign premise: That he's the antiterror president. ...
In the Wake of Spain's Immeasurable Grief.(Letter to the Editor)
Apr 05, 2004 ... As the world mourned the victims of the train bombings in Madrid, the subject of our March 22 cover story, readers also voiced their outrage. Some were concerned about playing into terrorists' hands, given the surprise outcome in the Spanish elections. One spoke for many in saying, "It is ...
Generation Born Free; 'Granny must groove,' rap the youth in South Africa. But do they know how she fought for their freedom?
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Tom Masland The African National Congress bused teenagers to downtown Johannesburg by the hundreds last week for a Human Rights Day holiday festival. For old activists, the venue conjured up the sting of tear gas: Newtown, with its Market Theater, was a hub of resistance ...
Guns Over Gaza; Israel's assassination of the Hamas spiritual leader was not just another eye for an eye. It was part of a broader strategy.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Joshua Hammer, With Dan Ephron in Gaza When Israel killed Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin with a missile last week, the assassination appeared to be just another tit-for-tat strike in a game of escalating violence. Tens of thousands of Palestinians filled the ...
Terrorists Don't Need States; The danger is less that a state will sponsor a terror group and more that a terror group will sponsor a state--as happened in Afghanistan.
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria, Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com. Stepping away from the partisan screaming going on these days, the 9/11 commission hearings and--far more revealing--the panel's staff reports paint a fascinating picture of the rise of a new phenomenon in ...
Spies: Too Little Sharing; One big flaw revealed by 9/11 was the lack of cooperation among American spy agencies. It's still a sore point.(Cover Story)
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball, With John Barry How prepared is America for the next 9/11? The Bush administration's response to the U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies' failure to communicate is the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. Launched last May, ...
The Editor's Desk.(9/11 investigation)(Editorial)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Whitaker It was one of the most haunting moments of Richard Clarke's riveting testimony before the 9/11 commission. Trying to cut through all the "what ifs," former Democratic congressman Tim Roemer asked the ex-terrorism czar whether anything could have actually ...
Show us your soul; On her new CD, Janet hides in plain sight.(Damita Jo)(Sound Recording Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Lorraine Ali On the kickoff track of the new "Damita Jo," Janet Jackson's eighth album, she whispers, "We're vulnerable"--and who would know better what it's like to stand exposed? Her Super Bowl debacle/accident/publicity stunt aside, she's the ninth and youngest child ...
Black like whom? Justin loses cred.(few white artists have enjoyed as much support among African- Americans as Timberlake but some believe he showed his true color after Janet Jackson's wardrobe infamously malfunctioned at the Super Bowl)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Allison Samuels Has Justin Timberlake's all-access pass to the black entertainment universe been revoked? Few white artists have enjoyed as much support among African- Americans as Timberlake, thanks to a debut solo CD jammed with classic R&B and tracks produced by the ...
Meet the punisher; Lars von Trier devastates audiences--and actresses.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Dana Thomas Lars von Trier stretches out on the Louis XIV sofa in his hotel room in Trollhattan, Sweden, where he's just started his next film, "Manderlay," and puts his hands behind his head. "So, you are the shrink?" he says to the reporter. "It all started with my ...
Another damsel, deep in distress.(Dogville)(Movie Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: David Ansen At the lurid heart of all of Lars von Trier's recent melodramas is a woman bravely suffering the slings and arrows of the cruelest fortune that fate (a.k.a. von Trier) can dish out. His chosen victim this time is Nicole Kidman, gamely and subtly playing a ...
A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can; I worried that my gender was holding me back, until I realized the boys were studying just as hard.
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Carolyn Turk, Turk lives in Silver Spring, Md. When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didn't have any toy trucks, G.I. Joes or ...
The Insider; The Town Crier: He came, he bore witness and he sent Washington into a frenzy. How Richard Clarke fueled a firestorm over who's to blame for 9/11, why two presidents missed the warning signs--and what we can learn to keep it from happening again.(Cover Story)
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff and Tamara Lipper, With John Barry, Daniel Klaidman, Pat Wingert and Mark Hosenball in Washington What does Richard Clarke have against Condoleezza Rice? In his book, "Against All Enemies," Clarke, the former counterterror chief for the Bush ...
Party Of One; Joining forces: The stars were aligned, and the Clarke buzz was loud. But the Dems are still struggling to dent Bush's wartime appeal.(Cover Story)
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Howard Fineman, With Richard Wolffe, Tamara Lipper and Holly Bailey in Washington Weeks before Richard Clarke's assault, the anti-Bush universe was alive with anticipatory chatter. "Clarke's book is going to be devastating," a member of Sen. John Kerry's circle ...
The Books: The Kiss-and-Tell Club; Sometimes they avenge. Sometimes they expose. Sometimes, they even sell. The political memoir, through the ages.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Michael Beschloss, Presidential historian Beschloss's latest book is "The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany." In 1939 Raymond Moley, a onetime member of Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust," published a memoir charging that his ex-boss ...
A Moment of Moral Clarity; After unconscionable foot-dragging by the White House, we're beginning to get to the bottom of the most searing event of our time.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter On Sept. 14, 2001, I was in the press pool at ground zero and stood five feet from President Bush, who had mounted a crushed fire truck, slung his arm around an exquisitely wizened firefighter and told the world through a bullhorn that the terrorists would ...
Bonds of Steel; Keeping faith: The families of 9/11 victims are a mighty force. Ask the White House, the commission--or anyone else in their way.(Cover Story)
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Pat Wingert, With Tamara Lipper, Holly Bailey, Martha Brant, Karen Breslau and Rebecca Sinderbrand For two long days last week, Lorie Van Auken sat in a stiff, armless chair in the 9/11 commission hearing room, right behind the witness table, listening as one government ...
Newsmakers.(Interview)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Devin Gordon Q&A: ELISHA CUTHBERT On TV's "24," she plays the perpetually imperiled Kim Bauer. On April 9, she stars in the teen comedy "The Girl Next Door" as a sweetheart with a not-so-sweet secret. Elisha Cuthbert spilled the beans to NEWSWEEK's Devin ...
Perspectives.
Apr 05, 2004 ... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Associated Press, USA Today, The Washington Post, London Telegraph, USA Today, Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, E! Online, UPI "I changed my mind. I didn't want to die anymore." Hussam Abdo, a ...
Chalabi: A Questionable Use of U.S. Funding.(Ahmad Chalabi )
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh Ahmad Chalabi has never paid much attention to rules. As an international financier, he was convicted in absentia in 1992 of embezzling millions from his own bank in Jordan. In the mid-'90s, the CIA tried to make him its point man in a ...
Kucinich: 'I'm Still a Candidate!'.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Susannah Meadows With Howard Dean's endorsement of John Kerry last week, the Democratic Party finally appeared to be united around its presumptive nominee. At a fund-raiser in Washington, even Al Sharpton engaged in public displays of affection with his fellow Democrats, ...
Lots of Mea, Little Culpa.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Peg Tyre Before last week, former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines still had a few friends left in the New York Times newsroom. The new issue of the Atlantic Monthly will probably change that. In it, Raines offers a 21,000-word article in which he strafes ...
Kerry: A Help to the Hairless.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn During his drive to clinch the Democratic nod, John Kerry has had his biography dissected. But one chapter remains largely unexamined. From 1979 to '82, Kerry was a Boston lawyer who developed a unique specialty: filing lawsuits against doctors who ...
Evolution: Lucy Who?(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael The story of Lucy, man's famous upright-walking ancestor, may be almost as well known as the Creation story. Since her discovery in 1974, scientists have painted her as chimplike, one of the earliest creatures to evolve after humans' and chimpanzees' ...
Cartoons: Having a 'Bad Time'.(Brief Article)(Interview)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Bret Begun If you think cartoons are funny, pick up Bruce Eric Kaplan's new collection, out this week. The New Yorker regular (and TV writer) got literary with NEWSWEEK's Bret Begun: You called this collection "This Is a Bad Time." Why? How did you name it if ...
Cheney: 'Sisters' Gets Outed.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Holly Bailey In 1981, long before her husband was elected vice president, Lynne Cheney wrote "Sisters," a steamy bodice-ripper set in the 19th-century American West, featuring vivid tales of whorehouses, attempted rapes, a suspicious murder and several lesbian love ...
China, Trade And Progress; Working conditions in China today don't look too different from those in the United States a century ago, when we were first industrializing.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views ... at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald once said. So it is with China and trade. On the one hand, expanded trade has lifted millions ...
Snap Judgement.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg, David Gates, Barbara Kantrowitz BOOKS Little Children By Tom Perrotta In this satirical suburban novel, a failed lawyer and stay-at-home dad embarks on a needy affair with a doctoral student turned soccer mom--as ...
The Diva Grapevine; With style and charm, 10 savvy friends from Boston are changing the world of women and wine, one glass at time.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Starr The dishes are sublime, from the salmon and caramelized onion dip that whets appetites to the classic caramel flan that caps the meal. So, too, is the dish, a veritable tour of sex and their city, from the surprise Vegas elopement by kids of famous parents to ...
Health Care Made Easy; A smart graphic guide through the medical maze.(Book Review)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Finding your way through the health-care system these days can be overwhelming. The problem often is not too little information but too much--from dozens of books, magazines, Web sites and support groups, to mention just a few sources. Short of going ...
Doughnuts in the Dark; New treatments offer hope for night eating disorders.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Anne Underwood Shelly's Snack Shop was the name that Brian Egemo of Badger, Iowa, applied to his wife's side of the bed. In 1994 Shelly, who had been a sleepwalker as a child, began sleepwalking again. But this time, her nightly rambles took her to the kitchen for ...
A New Face In Space; An inventor plans to be the next civilian to blast off.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Brad Stone Employees are whispering at the Princeton, N.J. -based Sensors Unlimited. CEO Gregory Olsen, typically a self-professed "nose to the grindstone" workaholic, has been disappearing for weeks at a time and, when he does come in, the door to his office is closed ...
Waterworld.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael Given the lack of intelligent life on Mars (sorry, sci-fi buffs), it's been busy up there lately. First, European astronomers spotted, via satellite, water at the planet's south pole in the form of an ice cap. The same day, the rover Spirit lifted its ...
Health: Helping Depressed Kids.
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael It was a news story certain to stoke public fears. Last week the FDA announced that antidepressants, the very drugs that were supposed to lift patients out of emotional danger, might cause some of them to worsen and even turn suicidal in the first few ...
Food: Parisian Bakeries.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Alison Brooks A stale croissant? Quelle horreur! Two new French guidebooks, "Le Guide des Boulangeries de Paris" ($16.70; amazon.fr) and "Chercher le Pain" ($23; amazon.fr), will help you avoid the unthinkable on your next trip. Le Boulanger de Monge, 123 ...
Medicine: Keep The Doc Away.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Anne Underwood Do you think that one-a-day multivitamins are just for children? Think again. A panel of 19 leading health and nutrition experts now says grown-ups should take them, too. "The conventional wisdom has been that we eat so well, we don't need them," says Dr ....
Road Test: Audi TT; Sticky as bazooka.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Tara Weingarten When I have to give back my Audi TT DSG6 tester, I'm going to cry. For the past few days, I've been zipping through southern California canyons, feeling more like Formula racing's Michael Schumacher than a suburban mommy. From the outside it's hard to ...
Sports: The Boys Of This Summer.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Starr It's been a hot winter for baseball, mostly for all the wrong reasons. And you'd think there were only three teams: the Yankees, the Red Sox and the big steroids club. Here's what you need to know about the 2004 season: Drug testing: Sure, it's a ...
Money: More Time For Taxes.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Raina Kelley Stop! If you're having trouble sorting through last year's tax changes, don't fall on your sharpened pencil. Take a deep breath and buy yourself a little extra time. The IRS offers everybody an automatic four-month extension, which means the new due date ...
Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Lindsey Gerdes, Where does the term "piggy bank" come from and why is the pig associated with saving money? Why not a cow or a tiger, or some other animal? Catharine D. Hussain, Minneapolis It has more to do with semantics than swine. The Old ...
Technology: Return Mail.(BigString)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Jennifer Barrett It's an office classic. You fire off a catty e-mail about a co-worker--and realize a split second too late that you've sent it to the subject of your gossip. But once you've hit "send," it's gone, and there's nothing you can do about it. Or is there? ...
Videogames: Prime Crimes.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Peter Suciu What do a broken engine part and a couple of smashed teeth mean? A lot, if you're a crime-scene investigator. Small clues like these can break a case wide open, but spotting them is just part of what it takes to solve crimes in Sin City--and ...
Home: Closet Meals.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Sana Butler Too glued to "The Apprentice" to get a fresh cold one? Now you can build a refrigerator into any room of the house. New York City interior designer John Buscarello has seen ...
Family: The ABC's Of Voting.(Brief Article)
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Karen Springen Most kids can't wait to turn 16 so they can drive. Here's how to get them equally excited about turning 18, when they can vote. Hit the books. For elementary-school kids, check out Linda Granfield's "America Votes" and Eileen Christelow's ...
Oscar Junior; An awards show you don't sleep through? Nickelodeon's given new meaning to the words 'Hollywood slime.'.(Kids' Choice Awards )
Apr 05, 2004; ... Byline: Marc Peyser Cameron Diaz is a much better burper than she lets on. She'll tell you how she has to really work at it, to practice her timing. "I'm not one of those natural burpers who can just swallow air and bring it back up. Mine has to brew for a little bit," she says ....
Snap judgment: TV; Our critics steer you straight.(Redemption)(Looking for Fidel)(Rocked)(Television Program Review)
Apr 12, 2004; ... Byline: Marc Peyser Redemption April 11 at 8 p.m. ET, FX Jamie Foxx ("Ali") stepped away from comedy a few movies ago, but it's still a shock to see him in "Redemption. "Foxx plays Stanley (Tookie) Williams, the cofounder of the Crips gang who turns ...
The Twelfth Book of Revelation; The Christian 'Left Behind' series combines profits and prophecy.(Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins )
Apr 12, 2004; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones, With Kristine Markwell in Spartanburg and Jamie Reno in San Diego Beverly Reynolds got to the Christian Supply Store in Spartanburg, S.C., at 5:30 p.m. last Tuesday. Along with 900 other fans, she was waiting in line to buy a signed copy of "Glorious ...
Why Your Tax Cut Doesn't Add Up; Behind the promises to save you money, a hidden agenda is at work, with a stealth tax to pay for it all.(Cover Story)
Apr 12, 2004 ... Publisher correction: 20 April 2004In our cover story about taxes, we wrote that $40,000 "is close to the mean income of all tax filers." We meant to say it was the median income of all tax filers. _____________ Byline: Allan Sloan, With Ari Berman, Elizabeth Macbride, ...
Six Fixes for the Tax Mess; Sure, it's complicated. But there's something to be said for a little common sense.(Cover Story)
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Allan Sloan It's all too easy to get lost in the fine print when it comes to taxes--both when you're filling out your return, and when you're trying to separate fact from financial fiction in the ongoing political debate about taxes. Common sense, alas, is in short ...
Conventional Wisdom; Special 'You're Hired' Edition.(Brief Article)
Apr 12, 2004 ... Dem candidate, Kerry, has got his arm in a sling for the next couple of weeks. Was he winged by the zillions of Bush campaign ads? CW Bush = Finally good job numbers. But burned Americans are gruesome reminder that Iraq mission is far from accomplished. White House ...
Mail Call; To Infinity and Beyond With a Search Engine.(Google)
Apr 12, 2004 ... Google users responded to our March 29 cover story with personal tales. One self-published author enthused that Google was the perfect way to "let others find me and my work." Another user explained how the search engine helped him diagnose his uncle's illness. "In five minutes I had found ...
From Kosovo To Fallujah; America went to war in--well, over--Kosovo partly to protect Muslims. America's harvest of gratitude has not been bountiful.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: George F. Will Last week's stomach-turning images from Fallujah--ecstatic children learning from adults the delights of creating and then mutilating corpses--were redundant reminders, but evidently necessary reminders, of how difficult it is going to be to build a ...
The Best Ways To Beat Terror; Open societies will have to get used to some invasions of privacy. We need pre-emption but against individuals more than states.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria, Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com. Last week the British government foiled what it believed was the largest terrorist plot ever in that country. Police arrested eight men, and seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate, enough for an explosive ...
Has the War Made Us Safer? New Threats: Iraq has become a savage battleground--part of the world's first global insurgency. Time is running short to fix that.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Christopher Dickey and John Barry, With Gameela Ismail in Cairo A year ago this week, U.S. Marine Cpl. Edward Chin scaled the long arm of a tank-recovery vehicle to put a noose around the neck of Saddam Hussein's statue. Then he put an American flag over the dictator's ...
The Dark Road Ahead; Testing Time: The United States cannot afford to fail in Iraq. But its enemies seem to be multiplying.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Rod Nordland, Melinda Liu and Scott Johnson, With John Barry, Daniel Klaidman, Tamara Lipper and Mark Hosenball in Washington and Gameela Ismail in Cairo, Graphic by Meredith Sadin The video sells for less than $1 at any market in Baghdad. On the soundtrack of the ...
Avoiding the Cross Hairs; Everyone in Iraq has a survival strategy. Some slink around, trying to keep a low profile. Others favor armor and guns.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Rod Nordland They live in hiding. They move around Baghdad by stealth. They sneak into and out of the country by gloom of night, and when challenged by strangers for their nationality, they're ready with a practiced lie. Asked where they live, they name any old hotel ...
The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Mark Whitaker Every year, our Wall Street editor, Allan Sloan, goes to his accountant on President's Day. This year, he had an epiphany as he learned just how many Jacksons and Grants he was shelling out in taxes. Although President Bush had promised almost everyone a ...
Party like it's 2004; Prince is back--with new music and a newfound faith. Sure, he's changed, but he's still the man.
Apr 12, 2004; ... Byline: Lorraine Ali A technician is sound-checking the trademark purple guitar, and the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is growing impatient. The 5-foot-2 singer adjusts the long poet sleeves of his white blouse, strokes his goatee, fidgets with his ...
Politics as Usual Just Won't Cut It This Time; We put a man on the moon; surely we can hold an election with clear ballots and consistent guidelines.
Apr 12, 2004 ... Byline: Rose Lundblad, Lundblad lives in Huntington Beach, Calif. My earliest memory is of my mother casting her vote for president in 1956, when I was going on 3 years old. I remember holding her hand as we walked to the corner on a cold November afternoon in Cleveland. The ...