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Leaving on A Jet Plane; A perfect storm of recent historical events would make a draft more divisive and disastrous than ever before in the nation's history.(military draft)(Column)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Most politicians think it's so radioactive, they won't go near it, and government officials keep insisting it's not going to happen any time soon. But the military draft is a subject that just won't go away, particularly for young Americans and the adults ...

This Gore Is No Bore; An (almost) First Daughter writes a hilarious first novel.(first-time author Kristin Gore)(Interview)(Biography)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Sean Smith The word "funny" is not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name "Gore." Last year, when Miramax announced it had commissioned Kristin Gore, daughter of Al, to write a comic novel about a single woman working in Washington, Jay Leno turned ...

An Empire Of Stories; Turkey's tortured history inspires two fine novels.(Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres)(Snow by Orhan Pamuk)(Book Review)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones Turkey is a novelist's dream, or perhaps a land dreamed by a novelist. A border country between Europe and the Middle East, it has for centuries been so many things to so many people--Christians, Muslims, Armenians, Greeks, Kurds and, of course, Turks--that ...

The Incredible W.(the policies of U.S. President George W. Bush)(Cover Story)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Weston Kosova and Holly Bailey (Illustration by John Kascht) Some days a guy can feel he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders. For George W. Bush it's every day. What with the menacing enemies he's got in Iraq, Afghanistan--France--not to mention a groggy ...

Judging Wall Street; When investors lose money, they can go to arbitration. Critics say the system is stacked against the little guy.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Charles Gasparino Over the course of his long and prosperous life, 90-year-old Henry Hochman had amassed a fortune investing in WorldCom, the high-flying telecom company. As the stock rose and Hochman's net worth hit eight digits, he never gave much thought to the stack ...

Mail Call: Our Never-Ending Battle With the Bulge.(Letter to the Editor)

Sep 06, 2004 ... Our Aug. 23 cover story examining new research on fat cells prompted many readers to sound off on America's obesity problem. Many dismissed new medications and weight-loss techniques and emphasized the importance of exercise and diet. "Lab mice get fat when they eat as much as they want," ...

A War's Hidden Hands; As Americans and Iraqis slaughter each other, another player aims to reap big rewards: Iran.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Scott Johnson in Baghdad, Christopher Dickey in New York and Mark Hosenball and Eve Conant in Washington) Six months ago, Abu Sajjad was rolling in cash. His cloth shop is right in front of the Imam Ali shrine, a great location to attract ...

Once Drawn to Zion, Now Glad to Leave; NEWSWEEK's departing correspondent on Israel's future.(Column)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Joshua Hammer During my first visit to Israel, in the spring of 1981, I almost decided not to go back home. The seduction began shortly after I arrived at Ben Gurion airport, when I was joined on the bus to Jerusalem by a dozen Israeli soldiers. As a secular Jew from New ...

Don't Blame The Saudis; Consider the irony--one Bush administration reason for war in Iraq was to reduce our dependence on Saudi Arabia's oil.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) Last week oil prices finally stopped rising. They now hover around $43 a barrel, a 20-year high. The average American family will spend about $2,700 on gasoline this year (driving 22,000 miles). That's ...

And Now A Mole? In the Pentagon, a suspected spy allegedly passes secrets about Iran to Israel.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff And Mark Hosenball (With Michael Hirsh and Daniel Klaidman in Washington and Dan Ephron in Jerusalem) It was just a Washington lunch--one that the FBI happened to be monitoring. Nearly a year and a half ago, agents were monitoring a conversation between ...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: MARK WHITAKER Every summer, my wife and I take our kids to a little cabin in the Catskill mountains that we purchased as newlyweds almost two decades ago. It's a time for us to relax, see old friends--and hear what people are thinking outside the bubble of New York City ....

Voices Carry; Pop eccentric Bjork vocalizes with NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali about her instrument-free album.(Interview)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Lorraine Ali Defying expectations has always been Bjork's favorite game. The eccentric musician from Reykjavik has experimented with electronica, show tunes and the sound of crunching snow. Her latest album, "Medulla," is almost entirely a cappella. It embraces Bjork's ...

You Go, Girl; Reese Witherspoon stars in a lavish 'Vanity Fair'.(movie adaptation of novel by William Makepeace Thackeray)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: David Ansen "She's no mere social climber," a character observes of Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's sumptuous condensation of "Vanity Fair." "She's a mountaineer." Scheming, beautiful, seductive and utterly self-serving, Becky--played with great verve and an impeccable ...

Let's Give Our Kids Bach Before Britney; When children can't play an instrument or read notes, they can't appreciate all that music offers.(Column)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Maria Calidonna (Calidonna lives in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) Before I married my husband, my prospective mother-in-law told me, "Welcome to poverty." In those days, my husband-to-be worked as a high-school music teacher at a Roman Catholic school. I remember only vaguely ...

The Road To Resolve; A Sober View: He partied hard, then dried out and found a fierce determination. How George Bush was saved--and never looked back.(U.S. President George W. Bush)(Cover Story)(Biography)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Evan Thomas, Tamara Lipper and Rebecca Sinderbrand It is an article of faith with the president and his advisers, repeated like a mantra, that George W. Bush is "comfortable in his own skin." President Bush himself thinks so: "I know who I am," he told a pair of NEWSWEEK ...

'I've Learned to Be Patient'; Bush scratches the four-year itch.(U.S. President George W. Bush)(Interview)(Cover Story)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Evan Thomas and Tamara Lipper He is not a reflective man by nature, but the pause before his party's convention gave President Bush a chance to look back on the job and what it's taught him. Bush spoke with NEWSWEEK's Evan Thomas and Tamara Lipper aboard Air Force One. ...

The Reluctant Campaigner; First Lady Laura Bush, making her peace with politics.(Cover Story)(Biography)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Tamara Lipper and Rebecca Sinderbrand Laura Bush has always sought ways to preserve her privacy in a very public family. One way has been to get as far away from them as possible. Each summer the First Lady and a group of childhood friends from Midland, Texas, go on a ...

In the Driver's Seat; Changing Lanes: He's governed to the right. The convention's up the middle. Can Bush--and Karl Rove--have it both ways?(George W. Bush's campaign for re-election and the Republican National Convention)(Cover Story)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Tamara Lipper, Michael Isikoff, Susannah Meadows and Richard Wolffe) It was a warm summer day in Ohio, and on the Cleveland Browns' practice fields south of the city an eagle-eyed coach patrolled the sidelines. As George W. Bush tossed a football ...

The Man in the Middle; John McCain backs Bush--right?(Cover Story)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Melinda Henneberger There are Republicans convinced that John Kerry's idea of a war on terror is remonstrating sternly in French, and Democrats who see George Bush as the best recruiter Osama ever had. There are multitudes in both parties who don't much like either guy, ...

The Democrats' 'Toughness Gap'; The GOP throws 'red meat.' The PC Dems are loath to offend.(the different handling by Democratic and Republican parties of mud-slinging and viciousness in political campaigns)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Shortly before the 1992 election, a World War II veteran approached NEWSWEEK and other major media outlets with an unsubstantiated story about how he said he saw President George H.W. Bush strafing unarmed Japanese fishermen in the Pacific when both men ...

Star Power; It's Bush's convention, but the 2008 jockeying has begun. Pretenders to the throne, and other bright GOP lights.(Republican National Convention, New York City, 2004)(aspirations and career outlook for several Republican politicians)

Sep 06, 2004 ... The Rock Star Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor Of New York City Three years after his resolute response to the 9/11 attacks made him America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani continues to shine brightly in the GOP firmament. He has campaigned ardently for the president and is a ...

Newsmakers.(actor William Shatner, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, former anchorpeople of The Today Show)(Interview)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Nicki Gostin, N'Gai Croal Q&A: William Shatner William Shatner is all over the place. The first season of "Star Trek" is out on DVD this week. He's starring in a new David E. Kelley drama called "Boston Legal." And another album comes out in October. He spoke ...

GOOOOOOAAAALL!!! The United States shined with some stunning performances, and Athens showed its stuff.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Starr (With reports by Devin Gordon, Bret Begun, and T. Trent Gegax) As athletes readied for the mass frolic that signals the Olympics' close, Greece was indisputably the biggest winner here. Olympic chief Jacques Rogge has done away with his predecessor's ...

Perspectives.

Sep 06, 2004 ... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Cnn.Com, Newsday, Usa Today, Agence France-Presse, Abcnews.Com, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Boston Globe, Black Enterprise, Associated Press "We're well positioned to take care of any contingency." ...

Crashes: Did 'Black Widows' Bring Down the Planes?(Russian government confirms terrorism as suspected cause of plane crashes)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Anna Kuchment Russian officials confirmed what the rest of the world suspected: that terrorism was a likely cause of two nearly simultaneous crashes of airliners that took off from the same Moscow airport one night last week. The FSB (formerly the KGB) ...

Abu Ghraib: 'Breaking' a General.(Pentagon report fails to include testimony by soldier regarding U.S. military intelligence procedures in Iraq)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh The Pentagon reports on interrogation practices at Abu Ghraib and other prisons were somewhat vague on how widespread the abuse was, especially by military intelligence. NEWSWEEK has learned that an especially damaging allegation may have been left out of ...

Archeology: Questions in Qumran.(archaeological excavations calls into question history of the Dead Sea Scrolls)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael Yuval Peleg and Itzhak Magen are not revolutionaries. They work for the establishment--both respected archeologists have offices at the Israel Antiquities Authority. And, lest you have visions of Indy Jones, they've spent the last 10 years quietly ...

Career: Baghdad To Houston.(Iraqi boxer Najah Ali)(Brief Article)(Biography)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Lorraine Ali The fight is never over for Iraqi boxer Najah Ali. At 4 feet 11 and 105 pounds, the 24-year-old light flyweight boxed his way from the dilapidated gyms of Baghdad to the Olympic ring in Athens. Though he left Greece without a medal (there's always 2008), ...

Politics: Native Power.(politicians court the vote of Native Americans)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Ron DePasquale When Democrats clinched a South Dakota seat in the U.S. Senate and Arizona's governorship by razor-thin margins two years ago, a small voting bloc was credited with tipping the balance: Native Americans. So this year both parties are trying to court that ...

E-mail: Voice From the Grave.(Web site allows customers to log personal messages to be delivered by e-mail after their death )(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: William Lee Adams Always wanted the last word? Now you can have it--from six feet under. LastWishes.com, a Dallas-based Web site, allows customers to create a list of people who will receive personalized messages, photos and videos via e-mail upon the subscriber's death ....

Bocce: My Turn, Grandpa!(Italian ball game gains popularity)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: William Lee Adams The ancient sport of bocce suffers from an image problem. "It conjures up this picture of old Italians with a glass of wine and a stogie," says Mario Pagnoni, author of the definitive guide to the sport, "The Joy of Bocce." Male octogenarians long held ...

Books: Metal Defector.(Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: William Lee Adams At the age of 10, cherub-faced Seb Hunter wanted one thing for Christmas: heavy-metal band AC/DC's latest album, featuring the raunchy single "Let's Get It Up." Six years later he dropped out of his English boarding school and began a 15-year quest to ...

Bush's Jobs Albatross; Politicians, the press and the public all buy into this notion that a president can deliver prosperity. Sadly, it isn't even a half-truth.(U.S. President George W. Bush)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson As Republicans gather in New York, the lackluster job market must dishearten President Bush. He had hoped that a strong economic recovery would favor his re-election, and in some ways, he's gotten his wish. Gross domestic product (the economy's ...

SWING STATE WATCH; The Gotham City Edition.(presidential campaign, 2004)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Andrew Romano As a wounded Kerry retreated to Nantucket and the GOP invaded New York, Bush tore through eight states in six days. Now the smoke has ...

Health: Life Without Glasses.(choosing corrective eye surgery)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Barney Gimbel Ten seconds. That was all it took for Hugh Coffee to put on his contacts whenever the bell rang in the firehouse. After all, without those lenses, he couldn't run into a burning building. The contacts were a pain, but after almost 20 years as a firefighter ...

Food: Steakhouses.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Jenny Hontz Steakhouses are the sizzling new hot spots for hip urbanites. The prime picks: Lincoln Santa Monica, Calif. Celebrity-packed and retro-chic, blue-crab avocado fritters star alongside hormone-free beef. 310-828-3304 Balboa ...

Road Test / Subaru Outback; Clambake Mobile: L.L. Bean Edition 19mpg city/ 24mpg hwy; heated front seats; tire-monitoring system $32,770 subaru.com.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)

Sep 06, 2004; ... ***** CORRECTION: The photo of a Subaru Outback featured in Tip Sheet's Sept. 6 "Road Test" is of the 2004 model, not the redesigned Outback. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Tara Weingarten CORRECTION APPENDED I'm a West ...

Uncorked: Value Whites.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004 ... White wine is the perfect antidote to August heat, especially when the bottle is under $10. Improved wine-making techniques and a string of good vintages mean you can stock up on favorites or explore something new without breaking the bank. 87 | $9 | Columbia Crest Chardonnay Columbia ...

Style: Male Lip Liner.(mustaches)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Anne Taulane Thanks to stars like Jude Law and Gael Garcia Bernal, the mustache is back. The two join a cast of leading men sporting the lip accessory made famous by Tom Selleck in the '80s. "These guys represent what's going on," says trend spotter Joe Zee, editor in ...

Money: Finance 101.(credit cards, banking tips for college students)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Linda Stern Giant lecture halls can be easier to navigate than those first credit-card bills. Some tips for new students: ^ CampusEdge is a new checking account from Bank of America (bankof america.com ) that comes with a Stuff Happens card that kids can use ...

Technology: New Life For 'Mixes'.(converting audiotapes, LPs to digital form)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Claire Sulmers Remember those mix tapes your college boyfriend made for you? Granted, some were better than others (so were the guys), but there's no reason you can't relive your glory days--on your iPod. While most music from that faraway time is available in CD or MP3, ...

Perfect Weekend: The Hamlet By The Sea.(Sausalito, California)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Tara Weingarten Sausalito, the postage-stamp-size waterfront village just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, has a colorful past. Decades ago its mayor was a convicted madam. More recently, touristy shops flooded the artsy town. Today this hamlet has reached ...

Ask Tip Sheet.(head pain sometimes caused by ingesing cold food or drink)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Anne Taulane What causes a "brain freeze" when you've had something cold to eat or drink? --Karen Russell, Doylestown, Pa. The explosion of pain you feel after sucking down a Slurpee happens because the extremely cold temperature stimulates the sensitive ...

Medicine: Know The Numbers.(preventing high blood pressure)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Claudia Kalb If its nickname, the "silent killer," isn't scary enough, the perils it can lead to surely are: kidney damage, heart disease and stroke. The culprit? High blood pressure. In a study published last week, researchers found that 65 million American ...

Design: Voter Chic.(clothing designers and stores offer t-shirts that play into election fever, 2004)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Want to help get out the vote? Designers have made it easy to spread the message with style this election year. The nonprofit Rock the Vote is distributing French Connection's cheeky FCUK YOU, I'M VOTING! shirts in New York this week during the ...

The Lion Kings Return; After the tragedy, NBC tries a Siegfried and Roy sitcom.

Sep 06, 2004; ... Byline: Marc Peyser There was the talking horse, of course. Also the heroic collie, the helpful dolphin and an entire planet of apes. Animals used to be a TV staple, but lately they've been put out to pasture, a.k.a. cable. That's going to change in a big and bizarre way this ...

Conventional Wisdom; Elephants in Gotham Edition.(humorous anecdotes on current events)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 2004 ... Like it or not, Tom DeLay has to come to New York City. Will the former exterminator pack his rat poison? CW Bush + Bad numbers on economy, Swift Boat charges shredded and Iraqi insurgents unbowed--yet he gains. Go figure. Kerry= Heads into Labor ...

Bill's New Bridge; The Clinton presidential library in Little Rock stunningly evokes the 'bridge to the 21st century' he envisioned. And guess who kept tweaking the design?(former U.S. president Bill Clinton)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (Graphic by John Sparks) As former president Bill Clinton was facing heart surgery in a New York hospital last week, workers were busy finishing up his presidential library in Little Rock, set to open Nov. 18. The stunning bridge-like structure will ...

I Want a Movie! Now! For those who can't wait, Netflix and TiVo have an idea.(the two companies consider a joint venture that could allow consumers to download movies right off the Internet and onto their televisions)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Brad Stone Netflix and TiVo ushered in an age of couch-potato bliss. Netflix lets its customers browse through its huge movie catalog on the Web and rent DVDs through the mail without having to worry about late fees. TiVo lets people digitally record their favorite shows ...

A 'Corporate Kleptocracy'.(results of investigation into corrupt practices of Conrad Black, former chief executive officer of Hollinger International Inc.)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 2004 ... CEOs are a competitive lot, and not just about making money. For some, bragging rights also seem to come from expensing a spending spree. Remember ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski's $6,000 shower curtain? Conrad Black, Hollinger's ex-chief, might give him a run ...

The Real Cost Of 'Ownership'; Bush's plan is great marketing: show the goodies but not the price tag. The bill? That will come later--or maybe get sent to your kids.(U.S. President Georg W. Bush's social security policy)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Allan Sloan (Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com.) By now, if the Republicans did their job right, the term "ownership society" is still rattling around inside your head. It sure sounded great when President George W. Bush unveiled it at ...

Mail Call and Correction: Excavating and Pillaging Biblical History.(Letter to the Editor)

Sep 13, 2004 ... Readers unsettled by our Aug. 30 cover story on the looting of archeological sites in the Middle East also pondered what it means for the historical record. One decried those responsible for fueling the illicit trade. "Archeologists seek answers, [but] looters don't care about ancient ...

In the Three Pennsylvanias; The state may be for Bush a 'crucial' state that really isn't. Perhaps he will carry it only if he does not need to--only if he is surging nationally.(Column)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: George F. Will Pittsburgh--re-ordained in Manhattan, George W. Bush headed for his 34th presidential visit to Pennsylvania. Tony Podesta dourly says Bush cabinet members are so thick on the Pennsylvania ground, "He could have a quorum for a cabinet meeting here." ...

A Vision, and Little Else; President Bush mocked press reports, but if he really thinks that Iraq today looks like Germany in 1946, he's in for a rude surprise.(U.S. President George W. Bush)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) The Democrats could take a lesson or two from George W. Bush. The president gave a superb speech accepting the Republican nomination. He has come to deliver formal speeches with confidence and poise, quite ...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Whitaker Sometimes we know we're on to a great story by the length of time we spend discussing it in our weekly Wednesday cover meeting. Several months ago, Senior Editor David Noonan pitched a project on "Generation Excess"--about how kids today grow up wanting ...

A Rapturous Return; It's been a rocky 10 years since Anita Baker's last CD--and a rocky few years before it. Where's she been so long?(Interview)(Biography)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Allison Samuels When Anita Baker vanished from the music charts and the public's view a decade ago, the sound of R&B was already changing from the lush love ballads that made her 1986 album "Rapture" a multiplatinum hit to what we know today: more and more graphic ...

Past the Boiling Point; 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is just the beginning. Brace yourself for the explosion of left-leaning documentaries.

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: David Ansen If talk radio and Fox TV are the preferred media of the right, film has emerged this year as the left's not-so-secret weapon. There's never been an election in which political documentaries played a significant role--until now. Michael Moore's ...

A Great Adventure in The Shadow of War; As I explored castles and listened to oompah music, Germans came to terms with their brutal past.(author was an American teenager living in Frankfurt, Germany, during war crime trials of Nazis)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Mary Helen Dirkx (Dirkx lives in Duncanville, Texas.) In 1964-65, as the 20-month-long Auschwitz trial was coming to a close, I was a 14-year-old girl boarding at the dormitory of Frankfurt American High. I was 200 kilometers south of my parents, who lived on an Army ...

Special Report; Photo Gallery of a Grand Old Party (And Its Discontents).(Republican National Convention, New York City, 2004)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 2004 ... 'I WILL NEVER RELENT IN DEFENDING AMERICA ... WHATEVER IT TAKES.' George W. Bush, September 2, 2004 CAPTION(S): Solemn vow: On a stage built to put the president out amid his people, Bush conjured 9/11 and pledged to make the world more secure Party time: ...

Tending To The Flock; Soul Man: A White House aide keeps faith with the faithful.(Tim Goeglein, presidential aide to George W. Bush)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Melinda Henneberger So how do social conservatives really feel about the largely moderate face of the GOP convention? Just fine, thanks. In fact, the endless talking-head debates over whether they are furious, middling mad or only slightly dismayed is one of the many ...

A Case Not Yet Closed; Turn The Page: In a new book, Sen. Bob Graham examines the embers of 9/11.

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff In the summer of 2002, congressional investigators probing the September 11 terror attacks made a startling discovery. A college professor and longtime FBI informant in San Diego had dealt extensively with two of the 9/11 hijackers. The informant became ...

Taking Aim At Our Enemies; Fresh Clip: The convention was a test run for new technologies to secure the homeland.

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh (With Eve Conant in Washington) For a year and a half, A.T. Smith lived, ate and slept the ultimate security nightmare. On Sept. 2, 2004, the president of the United States would speak in the middle of Madison Square Garden. George W. Bush would be standing ...

Newsmakers.(actor Jeremy Piven)(Charlize Theron's neck injury)(Alec and Stephen Baldwin)(Serena Williams)(Interview)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Hilary Shenfeld, Sean Smith, Brian Braiker Q&A: Jeremy Piven Jeremy Piven earned rave reviews as a hard-charging Hollywood agent in HBO's "Entourage," and now he's to star in "Lucky 13," a movie about the cutthroat world of bar mitzvahs. He talked to ...

Perspectives.(quotations from people in the news)

Sep 13, 2004 ... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Associated Press, People Magazine, The Washington Post, Reuters, Miami Herald, New York Times, Reuters, MSNBC, Reuters (2), Associated Press(2) "I've never seen a hurricane of this magnitude." Simeon ...

Classified Info: Springing a Leak.(FBI investigation into actions of Pentagon official Larry Franklin and American-Israel Public Affairs Committee)

Sep 13, 2004; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff One measure of how seriously the Feds are pursuing an investigation into whether a Pentagon analyst leaked secret information to a pro-Israel lobbying group is the fact that FBI agents showed up unannounced at the offices of the ...