Newsweek back issues from October 2006:
What Little Town Blues? For 21st-century design, it's smaller cities that rule.(new Denver Art Museum)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan The fabled architectural sketch on a cocktail napkin has made a comeback. But in the case of the new Denver Art Museum, it was a boarding pass--Daniel Libeskind says he grabbed it as he flew over the city: "I copied the shapes I saw out of my airplane ...
Through Her Lens; In her new book, Annie Leibovitz, our most famous photographer, places celebs side by side with surprisingly personal images of love and loss. An exclusive.(Cover story)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (With Jac Chebatoris) Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she' s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue. Like so many of her photo sessions, there was nothing ...
On the Lost Highway; Cormac McCarthy sends a father and son on the scariest road trip he can imagine. Seat belts fastened?
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Malcolm Jones For a more than decent summary of the plot of Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, "The Road," consult the Library of Congress boilerplate that follows the book's title page: "1. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels--United States--Fiction. 3 ....
One Hedge Fund's Wilting Fortunes.(Amaranth)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Allan Sloan We at NEWSWEEK don't print obituaries before our subject has been officially declared dead. But I'd like to make an exception for Amaranth, the hedge fund that became famous last week for losing $6 billion of its investors' money almost overnight by betting ...
Swell Sulpher Edition.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Fresh from their Havana summit, the world's tin-pot loudmouths take over U.N. discourse with U.S. bashing. Was Bolton right? Bush + Loony Venez. leader calls him "The Devil," generating sympathy. Why didn't Rove think of this? Mahmoud = ...
Copiers: Keys to Company Info.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Linda Stern Copier security isn't just about making sure you take your resume off the machine before your boss gets there. As copiers, printers and other office tools become more sophisticated, they become more hackable. Attendees at August's Black Hat USA ...
Pointing to Tomorrow.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Linda Stern At the University of North Carolina, English majors can minor in entrepreneurship, non-business-school freshmen take seminars in starting companies and faculty members can get money to create new business classes. The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership ...
Quick Read.(Mavericks at Work)(Make Money, Not Excuses)(The Starfish and the Spider)(Book review)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: John Sparks Mavericks at Work by William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre Thinking differently is one thing, but what about actually doing differently? That's precisely the key to success for each of the three dozen companies profiled by veteran business ...
Remedies Reborn; The newest high-end spa treatments take their inspiration from ancient Chinese medicine.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Chinese medicine has moved out of the apothecary and into the most chic five-star spa resorts. Leading the pack: the major hotels in Asia, which have recently begun offering treatments based on ancient health practices. The hotels have ...
Wisdom From the Big Digg; Kevin Rose's Web site lets the masses compose their own front page.(Interview)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: STEVEN LEVY Some people say that the current Internet boom peaked when a national business magazine put a 29-year-old dude on the cover, declaring that the kid made $60 million in 18 months. Actually, Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, has yet to cash in. ("I ran to my ...
The Netflix Effect; Vacation homes are hardly the only luxury items that you can borrow. How about a Ferrari or a Gucci handbag?
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Jessica Ramirez When Nicole Cross opened the mail on a recent evening, she found a padded white envelope that gave her a reason to grin. She quickly tore it open to try on the contents: a pair of 14-karat-gold hoop earrings adorned with white pearls. Designed by fine ...
Coming to America; The Brazilian-made Obvio! will either be the little green car that could or, as one blogger put it, just 'roadkill.'.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Karen Breslau) When automotive enthusiast Ricardo Machado made his play for the U.S. car market last year, no one paid him much mind. Machado, a lawyer and real-estate broker in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was by his own admission a stranger to the global ...
Something Brewing; Green Mountain, a specialty-coffee roaster, is betting a whole lotta beans on a one-cup-machine maker.(Company overview)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Robert Stiller has a knack for getting it right. In 1981, when he bought a specialty-coffee roaster in Vermont, instant coffee was more the norm and Starbucks hadn't spread beyond Seattle. But Stiller was convinced America's tastes would evolve, and he ...
Tales From Travelers; Stranded in Kurdistan, sick in Bratislava--but, hey, life's good when you're wearing a snappy tie.
Oct 02, 2006 ... We asked readers to tell us about some of their most unusual business trips--and offer advice: Geoff Kronik Brookline, Mass. With my shoes off, laptop out and boarding pass held mug-shot style across my chest, I headed through the security check at Washington's ...
Toying With Wine.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Rebecca Hall If you can't sate your inner oenophile with stylish wine-glasses, there are plenty of cool new accessories on the market. The Wine Sceptre (who wouldn't want to own a sceptre ?) is a metal wand you freeze to keep a prechilled wine bottle at optimal ...
A Kingly Chess Set.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Allan Madrid Yell "checkmate!" in style. The House of Staunton, a chess-set maker based in Toney, Ala., displays meticulous attention to detail in its new Sheffield line ($1,495; houseofstaunton.com ), introduced last month. The kings are a hefty four inches tall; the ...
Capital Ideas.(employee stock options )
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) You may remember that employee stock options were supposed to make everybody rich. Well, they made some people rich who hit the market right and exercised their options in time. But you can't count on them when ...
Wall Street Weaselwords; Pretexting, backdating, market timing. So many of the phrases that catch on in the business world obscure what's really happening. Can't we use just plain English?(Essay)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Allan Sloan There are times when having an English degree comes in handy for looking at the business world. This is one of those times, because the only way to grasp the essence of the Hewlett-Packard and "backdated" stock-options scandals is to speak in plain English ...
Man of Leisure; Steve Case made Exclusive Resorts No. 1 in the destination-club industry--one $20 million property at a time.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Daniel McGinn If anyone needed a good vacation during the past few years, it was Steve Case. In early 2000, the celebrated founder of America Online engineered AOL's merger with Time Warner, which turned into the dot-com era's most disastrous deal. But whenever Case, who ...
Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Boardroom Drama at Hewlett-Packard Clearly fed up with corporate shenanigans, readers of our Hewlett-Packard cover story let loose. "We haven't even had a chance to get past the Enron scandal and other high-profile crimes committed by head honchos and stockbrokers," one wrote ....
A Species Yet Not Extinct; Some people say more troops--50,000 more--should be sent to Iraq. Ike Skelton says: 'Oh, we have the troops. But are they ready? No.'.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: George F. Will Republicans regret, or say they do, that there are no more "Truman Democrats" --Democrats as hardheaded about national security as was the president who formulated the cold-war policy of containment. That regret must amuse the gangly, soft-spoken 15-term ...
The Rise of Jihadistan; Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they--and Al Qaeda's leaders--can operate freely.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Michael Hirsh (With Zahid Hussain in Islamabad and John Barry in Washington) You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban. In Ghazni province's Andar district, just over a two-hour trip from the capital on the ...
What Iranians Least Expect; What if Bush publicly offered to open an embassy in Tehran?
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) If you think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said some crazy things, none comes close to this: "If the worst came to worst and half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to ...
Dangerous Neighborhood; Hard questions about nukes, civil war and other sore topics for the presidents of two of the hottest spots in the Middle East.(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani)(Interview)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Lally Weymouth Iran and Iraq go side by side, not only on maps but among America's most urgent challenges. As the U.N. General Assembly convened last week in New York, the two presidents talked separately to NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth. While Iraq's president is ...
This Week Online.(Editorial)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Q&A: Barack Obama NEWSWEEK: As you've traveled around the country, many people seem to really respond to you. Why? Democratic Senator from Illinois: It's always hard to stand outside yourself and know what it is that people are reacting to. Some of it is just dumb ...
The Editor's Desk.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Mark Whitaker I have always been a big fan of Annie Leibovitz--and so has almost every other magazine editor in the business. When the American Society of Magazine Editors last year asked its members to choose the best 40 covers of the past 40 years, No. 1 and No. 2 were ...
The Royal Treatment; In 'The Queen,' Helen Mirren is sublime as Princess Di's distant mother-in-law.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz When Helen Mirren was growing up in postwar London, millions of Britons revered the royal family. Mirren's parents were not among them. "They didn't like the class system, and the royal family is the pinnacle of the class system," she says. "I was ...
Passing the Pen Down To the Next Generation; I wanted to be author of my daughter's destiny, but I realized it's time for her to write her own endings.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Lynne Smelser (Smelser lives in Brighton, Miss.) In this age of internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless diversions to keep a child occupied. And yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her ...
In Rove's Footsteps; They learned from the master, and are applying the lessons in the hottest races ahead. Meet the architect's proteges.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Richard Wolffe In a darkened edit room in downtown Dallas, admaker Scott Howell is tinkering with his latest political firebomb. The ad starts with illegal immigrants running across the border. It then cuts to images of Osama bin Laden and Zacarias Moussaoui. Finally ...
Battlefield Flashbacks; For many Vietnam veterans, the Iraq war is a trauma trigger.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Dan Ephron Scott Cameron and Dennis Kanke had a lot in common. Residents of Duluth, Minn., both fought in Vietnam and returned home with traumas that lingered for decades. Both clawed their way out of the pit with the help of therapy and medication. And both fell back ...
Who Is George Allen, Anyway? In a campaign, developments that might otherwise be one-day stories end up crystallizing deeper doubts about a candidate.(Biography)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Jonathan Alter In a subdued speech at the end of a rough week, Virginia Sen. George Allen didn't mention anything to the evangelical Family Research Council about his discovery of his Jewish heritage. He didn't reassure his audience that, as he had told the Richmond ...
Newsmakers.(Interview)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Marc Peyser, Devin Gordon Cameron Diaz Snaps Back The camera loves Cameron Diaz, but that doesn't mean that she cares much for cameramen. Last week Diaz filed a police report accusing a paparazzo of assault with a deadly weapon--the weapon being his car. Diaz ...
Perspectives.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Times (2), The Independent, Associated Press, Reuters, Associated Press "We haven't even begun rearming." Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, in ...
Hewlett-Packard: One Chief Gone, Another Tries to Hang On.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Brad Stone Hewlett-Packard CEO and newly named chairman Mark Hurd is hoping to keep his name off the growing list of corporate casualties in Silicon Valley's worsening spy scandal. At an unusual press conference last Friday in which the chief declined to take questions, ...
CIA: Probe Into Renditions.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball As many as 20 CIA officials and contractors could face legal charges in Germany for their alleged role in the abduction of Khaled el-Masri, a German national once wrongly suspected of involvement with 9/11 conspirators, German officials ...
Coming Home.(space shuttle Atlantis returned last week )(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... The space shuttle Atlantis returned last week from a nearly flawless 12-day mission to resume construction of the ...
Fast Chat: 'Nobody Wants Me'.(Bill O'Reilly)(Interview)(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Jonathan Darman Fox News king Bill O'Reilly has a new book, "Culture Warrior," in stores this week. He caught up with Jonathan Darman. Have you always been a culture warrior? When I designed ["The O'Reilly Factor"] in 1995, I never felt that I was ...
Sports: Walking Wounded.(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: Devin Gordon In professional sports, not all injuries are created equal. Consider the divergent fortunes of New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui and New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi. Matsui broke his wrist in May and missed four months of action; Bruschi ...
BeliefWatch: God's Gift.
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: Holly Lebowitz Rossi When sex is discussed in religious circles, the conversation is usually about morality: what you should and shouldn't do . But apparently for many Americans, sex is not just moral, physical or emotional--it's spiritual. In a new online survey ...
Exclusive: Harry Potter and the Wavering Costar.
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: SEAN SMITH Harry Potter" might lose one of its stars. The fifth film in the series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is currently filming at Leavesden Studios north of London. Negotiations to lock in Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) ...
Trickle-Up Economics? No one should be happy with today's growing inequality. It threatens our social compact, which relies on a shared sense of well-being.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson If you're in Asheville, N.C., stop by Biltmore, the vast estate that George Vanderbilt III--heir to a railroad fortune--constructed between 1889 and 1895. You can tour most of its 250 rooms, including 43 bathrooms and an indoor swimming pool. When few ...
Snap Judgment: Movies.(All the King's Men)(The Last King of Scotland)(Movie review)
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: David Ansen All the King's Men Directed by Steven Zaillian Despite Sean Penn's meaty, lip-smacking performance as the populist demagogue Willie Stark--novelist Robert Penn Warren's fictional version of Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long--this tale of ...
Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief article)(Book review)
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: Raina Kelley, David Gates, Marc Peyser Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood If only we had Margaret Atwood around us always, making our lives' hard choices and awkward impasses seem not only inevitable but graceful. This collection of interconnected short stories ...
The Benefits of Busy; A new study finds that 'overscheduling' is a myth.(child raising)
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn (With Karen Springen and Joan Raymond) For many families, figuring out how many after-school activities are too many is a struggle. For parents who fear they're "overscheduling" their children, a new study carries a soothing message. The paper, published ...
They're Seeing Red Over Greens.(E. coli in spinach crop in Salinas Valley, California)(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006; ... Byline: Matthew Philips Since 1990, Don Patterson has grown and sold nearly 50 million pounds of conventional fresh market spinach from his small farm in Cranbury, N.J. No one has ever reported getting sick from eating it, and he's never been cited by the FDA. But when Patterson ...
They Call Her 'Lucy's Daughter'; A 3 million-year-old ancestor speaks to us.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's been 3.2 million years since she died--and 32 since she was unearthed from the Ethiopian desert and christened after a Beatles song--but the prehuman fossil known as Lucy can still draw a crowd. Six hundred people showed up last Thursday at Georgia ...
Health: Getting Ready To Roll.(babies)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Karen Springen From the day Avrick Altmann was born 15 months ago, his mom, Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann, has kept him moving. She gave him plenty of "tummy time" on the floor. She held up bright objects and rattles so he would lift his head. When he was about 4 months, she ...
Checklist.
Oct 02, 2006 ... Our top picks for the week ahead. BUY 'Pride and Prejudice': Limited Edition ($60). Fans will swoon for this gold-embossed set of the classic BBC mini-series with Colin Firth. GO to Europe with deals from studentuniverse.com. London starts at $205 round trip; ...
Road Test: Mazda Speed3; All revved up.(Product/service evaluation)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Tara Weingarten It you think car writers live to test exotic sports cars on a racetrack, you're right. So when Mazda invited me recently to the notoriously fast Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif., to sample its new under-$25,000 sport compact Mazdaspeed3, you'd ...
Ask Tip Sheet.(Hollywood star salary)(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Sean Smith When a Hollywood star is said to make $20 million a picture, how much does he actually get to keep? --Pam Lackey, Albuquerque, N.M. Of an actor's $20 million salary, 10 percent goes to his agent. His business manager and lawyer each get ...
Cameras: Modern Retro.(Panasonic new Lumix DMC-L1 )(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: George Hackett Panasonic has clicked with its Lumix line of digital point-and-shoot cameras, which feature Leica lenses. The new Lumix DMC-L1 is the brand's first digital single-lens-reflex model, and shooters who grew up with the classic film SLRs of ...
Food: Vegas For Gourmets.(Las Vegas has been flooded with brand-name chefs)(Brief article)
Oct 02, 2006 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria In the past decade, Las Vegas has been flooded with brand-name chefs. But few of their restaurants have become destinations in their own right. Now that's changing. At the highest end, two French chefs have arrived with restaurants that are showcases for ...
Are There Blue Skies Ahead? Home sales are falling, but Century 21's CEO says his house is in order.(Tom Kunz )(Interview)(Industry overview)
Oct 09, 2006; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn There's no popping sound--not yet anyway. But for doomsayers who've been worried about a housing bubble, data released last week brought long-awaited news: after months of slowing sales, in August the median existing home price fell by 1.7 percent, the ...
Speechless In Seattle; What has happened in Seattle prefigures what a national Democratic administration might try to do to stifle ?conservative talk radio.
Oct 09, 2006; ... Byline: George F. Will Seattle--as the comprehensive and sustained attack on Americans' freedom of political speech intensifies, this city has become a battleground. Campaign-finance "reformers," who advocate ever-increasing government regulation of the quantity, timing and ...
Blood, Guts and Money; Don't look now, but mixed martial arts has gone mainstream.(Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Oct 09, 2006 ... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: Our story "Blood, Guts and Money" (Oct. 9) contained an outdated domestic-revenue figure for WWE's 2006 WrestleMania event. The correct figure is $31.8 million. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Julie Scelfo ...
The Clinic: A No-Spin Zone; It's the determination to stay within the zone of privacy that has made abortion an easy mark for cheap mythology and easy demonization.(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen For anyone who has spent a lifetime listening to the bumper-sticker rhetoric of abortion politics, hearing Renee Chelian describe how she does things at the Michigan clinics she oversees is, no question, a shock to the system. "We're not going to correct a ...
Don't Get Excited. It's Just the Dow.
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Allan Sloan Have you recovered yet from celebrating the Dow's reaching record highs last week? Hope you didn't go too wild. Hangovers can be so nasty--though it sure was fun watching folks on the New York Stock Exchange floor whoop it up as the Dow finally eclipsed its ...
Paging the Pages Edition.(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006 ... Louisiana guv Edwin Edwards famously said the only way he'd lose was if he was caught "with a dead girl or a live boy." Ouch. Bush - Only good thing about Foley scandal is it keeps spotlight off Iraq fiasco. Gulp. Hastert - Won't resign over ...
The Face Business.(Facelogic International)(Product/service evaluation)(Company overview)(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Linda Stern Pedicures have been popularized, so why not facials? A new franchise dedicated to that idea is spreading faster than untreated crow's feet. Facelogic International, of Carlsbad, Calif., is following the affordable-luxury concept that put nail ...
Sit, Stay Awhile.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Linda Stern Cross a hotel room with an apartment and you get a popular concept in business travel: the extended-stay hotel. Aimed at workers who spend more than four days in one location, extended-stay hotels offer more room, kitchens--and lower bills to bring back to ...
Get the Man To a Monet!(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Linda Stern Who's majorly affected by your mental state? The boss. Depressed workers can cost employers big bucks due to lost productivity. In 2002, for example, workers suffering from depression cost Lockheed Martin $786,000 in lost work hours, according to calculations ...
Clean Out Your IN Box in the Car.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Linda Stern Road warriors might want to make room on their dashboards for one more gadget. Coming in early 2007: the iLane, a device that will read e-mail aloud and allow users to reply, forward--or, perhaps most important, delete--while they keep their hands on the ...
Quick Read.(Brief article)(Book review)
Oct 16, 2006 ... Byline: John David Sparks Red, White, and Drunk All Over By Natalie MacLean As escape fantasies go, it's an appealing one: a thirtysomething chucks a career in tech marketing to build a living around her love of wine. MacLean succeeds in her gambit and in the process ...
Data Points.(Brief article)
Oct 16, 2006 ... $130 Price of one ounce of Beluga caviar from finecaviar.com $215 Midweek rate for non-members to play a round of golf and eat lunch at the Royal ...
Sticking to The Business; Jake Winebaum rode the boom and weathered the bust. Now he's focusing on work--dot-com style.(Interview)
Oct 16, 2006; ... Byline: Steven Levy While some entrepreneurs in the current boom are proving that there are second acts in America, others are quietly proving that the first act isn't over. Case in point: Jake Winebaum. After starting Disney's first big Web effort, he joined with Earthlink ...