Newsweek back issues from January 2007:
Contrition as Leadership; Smarter today than yesterday. That's true of the American people on Iraq. It would be good to learn that it's true of their leader as well.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Anna Quindlen When word circulated that the president would make a speech to the nation on Iraq in the new year, there was speculation about what he would say. Some suspected he would just repeat boilerplate sentiments about bringing freedom to Iraqis and making America ...
Wanna Buy a Bridge To Big-Time Debt?
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Allan Sloan It's the happiest of New Year's on Wall Street, which is positively awash in money. No, I'm not talking about the jaw-dropping eight-digit bonuses at Goldman Sachs or the even bigger unpublicized paydays for heavy hitters at some hedge funds and private ...
Ford Not a Lincoln Edition.(Brief article)
Jan 08, 2007 ... The oldest living president ever finally passes on. Warning to those who live along fairways in heaven: Buy a helmet. Jerry Ford (up) The last of the straightforward straight shooters. Try to picture a prez now who's liked by everyone. G. W. Bush (down) Think that ...
Letters to the Magazine.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Readers responding to our cover story on the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group were nearly unanimous that a new direction is necessary. One said, "The realities articulated by the ISG are some of the loudest, most credible and brutally honest wake-up calls aimed at the ...
The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Meacham It was nearly noon on an over-cast August day in Beaver Creek, Colo., in 1998, and former president Gerald R. Ford, wearing a pressed golf shirt and seated on a flowered sofa, was revisiting the past. He had kindly granted NEWSWEEK an interview for an ...
'Surge' Strategy; The military mission is shifting. Are more troops really the answer anymore?
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Hastings, Michael Hirsh and Richard Wolffe He was caught just like a rat." Those were the simple, happy words of Ray Odierno three years ago, after units of his Fourth Infantry Division cornered Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. The hulking general went on to declare ...
Vengeance of The Victors.(execution of Saddam Hussein not likely to end Iraq's sectarian violence)(Column)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The saga of Saddam's end--his capture, trial and execution--is a sad metaphor for America's occupation of Iraq. What might have gone right went so wrong. It is worth remembering that Saddam Hussein was not your run-of-the-mill dictator. He created one of ...
Death of a Tyrant; He killed not only Kurds and Shiites but Baathist rivals. His end was ignominious.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Michael Hastings and Scott Johnson in Baghdad, Richard Wolffe in Washington and Babak Dehghanpisheh) President George W. Bush was sleeping at 9 p.m. at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when Saddam Hussein's body plunged through the trapdoor of a ...
The Importance of Being Neighborly; The people next door are strangers, but they don't need to stay that way. Why I invited one man inside.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Thea Rhiannon (Rhiannon lives in Bend, Ore.) The oil stain on my garage floor has faded to a dusty umber, the same nondescript color as the other random blots that collect on concrete over the years. Once, it was a shallow black puddle, pooling under my neighbor Bill's ...
Ford's Long Shadow; An unlikely President, Ford steadied America and, in an unpublished interview, mused about her fate.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Beschloss He was a larger figure than you might have thought. Many familiar personalities--politicians, movie stars, newscasters--are smaller in fact than they are on television or in photographs. In his 1970s-modern desert house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., or his ...
In Memoriam; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: George Herbert Walker Bush George Herbert Walker Bush The 41st President 'He Gave Us A New Day' I got to know Jerry Ford when I was running for the Senate down here in Texas in 1964. I lost that one, and then he campaigned actively for ...
Bill Clinton; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Brent Scowcorft, James Cannon Bill Clinton The 42nd President 'I was grateful for his counsel' Thirty-two years ago, when President Ford took the oath of office, I was running for Congress in Arkansas. When he ...
Henry Kissinger; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger Former Secretary Of State 'He Moved With Calm' I first met president ford in the mid-1960s, when I was a professor at Harvard. I was conducting a defense-policy seminar. It was customary to invite people ...
Dick Cheney; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Vice President 'Confidence in His Bearing' He was an unassuming man, our 38th president, and few have ever risen so high with so little guile or calculation. Even in the three decades since he left office, he was ...
The 38th President: More Than Met the Eye; As a youngster, Ford survived a turbulent family life by learning the art of the deal--and he used that skill to thrive amid the wars of Washington.(Cover story)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Barbara Kantrowitz) On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 8, 1974, after he had been president for about a month, Gerald Ford took communion at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square, across from the White House. He prayed alone in the presidential ...
The Bushes' Saddam Drama.(Column)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Howard Fineman Evil was on the loose in the world, President George W. Bush had told the country, and on his first Thanksgiving in office--November 2001--he was on his way to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to dine with newly trained troops heading out to fight the (evil) ...
Newsmakers: Clive Owen, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Rosie O'Donnell, Donald Trump, P. Diddy, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Nicki Gostin Clive Owen Owen stars in "children of Men," a futuristic thriller about saving the only pregnant woman in a society thought to be entirely sterile. He chatted with Nicki Gostin. Take this as a compliment--I wanted to stick my head in ...
Perspectives.
Jan 08, 2007 ... "Where does [Bush] get his advice?" Former president Gerald R. Ford, in a just-now-published New York Daily News interview from last May, opposing President Bush's reasoning for the Iraq war "The governor was awake, alert and talking in the recovery room." ...
Iran: A Brewing Battle of Heavyweights in Tehran.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Maziar Bahari Iranians are deserting the president they elected by a landslide in June 2005. Not only did university students heckle Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with chants of "Death to the dictator!" during a speech last month in Tehran, state-run TV had the temerity to report ...
Homeland Security: A Tighter Border Plan?(Brief article)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Hosenball For more than 15 years, British and most other Western European visitors have been allowed to stay in the United States for up to three months without needing to apply for visas. But Homeland Security officials are now accelerating efforts to tighten entry ...
Environment: Bears on Thin Ice.(Brief article)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Jerry Adler An adult polar bear needs, on average, four to five pounds of seal blubber a day to survive, and it earns every ounce of it: crouching for hours in the Arctic cold alongside an opening in the ice, waiting for a seal to surface for a breath. Although bears may ...
Pelosi Party On.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Eleanor Clift Nancy Pelosi is celebrating her debut as Speaker of the House with ...
Technology: Hum, and Ye Shall Find.(Brief article)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Mummolo Going nuts trying to name that tune? Relief may be a Web site away. "If you can hum it, you can search it," says Jay Bose, COO of Nayio.com, which offers a new humming search vtool. Here's how it works: Sound off a few bars of a song into your PC's mike ....
Beliefwatch: Blasphemy; "Hi my name is Lindy and I deny the existence of the Holy Spirit and you should too.".
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Jerry Adler With that five-second submission to YouTube, a 24-year-old who uses the name "menotsimple" has either condemned herself to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife or struck a courageous blow against superstition. She's one of more than 400 mostly young ...
Crime: Losing the Street War.(Brief article)(Statistical data)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Andrew Murr A recent surge in violent crime is creating anxiety at the Justice Department and posing potential political problems for the Bush administration. The 3.7 percent rise for the first six months of 2006, cited in a new FBI report, was ...
James Brown, 1933-2006.(Obituary)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: David Gates It's been almost 40 years since james brown gave the most overwhelming concert I've ever attended, or ever will. On April 5, 1968, he played the Boston Garden--less than 24 hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Chicago, Detroit and Washington, ...
The Economic Mega-Worry; It's productivity, which is the wellspring of our rising living standards. Growth has been strong for the last decade, but it may now be slowing.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The start of a new year is a good time to take stock, and there are few better indicators of our long-term economic prospects--and also our prospects for political and social peace--than productivity. As anyone who's taken basic college economics ...
Environment: Easy to Be Green.
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Joan Raymond You don't have to ditch leather or sell your car to help the environment. We've gathered 10 simple tips for living greener in 2007. Hey, it's a lot easier than losing those 15 pounds. 1Feed The Bees Pesticides, pollution and habitat destruction ...
The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.
Jan 08, 2007 ... SKI free on Winter Trails Day (Jan. 6; wintertrails.org). Beginners get free admission and gear rental at participating snowshoeing and cross-country resorts. Now all you need is snow. CLICK on cdc.govfor a free, illustrated 2007 Healthy Living Calendar and accompanying online ...
Oprah Goes to School; True, the world's most successful woman has always shared her wealth. But her latest project is really one for the books.(Winfrey, Oprah)
Jan 08, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Samuels Two thousand and six was the year Africa went Hollywood: Madonna, Clooney, Brangelina. And now, in 2007, the most exclusive spot on the continent will undoubtedly be in the town of Henly-on-Klip, about 40 miles outside Johannesburg. Set on 22 lush acres ...
The Devil Wears Swastikas; Norman Mailer's new novel is a Hitler-family saga, with superstar guests. Maybe fiction isn't his real calling after all.
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: David Gates Last month the New York Times took note of the half-dozen pages of bibliography at the end of Norman Mailer's forthcoming "The Castle in the Forest," recalled recent novels similarly equipped and, with a spin of the Rolodex, confected a controversy that must ...
The Last Van Standing; Chrysler is under siege in the minivan market it invented. It's firing back with a line that shatters the soccer-mom stigma.
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Keith Naughton When Chrysler designer Ralph Gilles first became a family man, he wasn't ready to drive a dowdy minivan. So he pimped out a '99 Dodge Caravan with big wheels, dual racing stripes and a monster engine. "I thought, 'If I'm going to have a minivan'," he ...
Democratic Congress Edition.(brief satirical comments on current events)(Brief article)
Jan 15, 2007 ... Self-styled security expert Rudy Giuliani can't keep his presidential campaign plans from getting stolen. We'd give this guy the nuclear briefcase? Bush (equal) Good news: Will finally announce new Iraq strategy. Bad news: His "surge" plan probably won't work. Pelosi ...
Mail Call; Squaring Off in the Race for the Presidency.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 15, 2007 ... Many readers of our year-end issue on the potentially historic campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were eager for change in the presidency. "Can we fast-forward two years? You ask if America is ready for our first black or female president. I am an American. I am ready for either ...
The Editor's Desk.(collaboratoins between journalists Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert)(Editorial)
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Meacham In the Spring of 1986, Pat Wingert joined NEWSWEEK's Washington bureau after nearly a decade of reporting for two Chicago newspapers. Her first assignment was to work with a new writer in New York, Barbara Kantrowitz, on a story about how more American ...
MacArthur's Two Words; Saddam's executioners turned an act of justice into an episode of bloodthirsty sectarianism. So it accurately expressed Iraq's civic culture.(General Douglas MacArthur)(execution of Saddam Hussein)(Column)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: George F. Will awe (o), n.1. Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. --Oxford English Dictionary Last week Americans were on the receiving end of a kind of shock and awe. The shock of recognition was delivered not by columns of tanks, flights of ...
The New Prime Time; Two of our writers explain how the years after 40 are a time for critical changes. An exclusive excerpt.(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Not long ago, a fortysomething friend of ours stopped at a convenience store to pick up a sports drink for her 13-year-old son. As she was about to pay, she felt a sensation of intense heat throughout her body and became nauseated and ...
The Basics; Does everyone pass through the same menopause milestones?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Remember when you were 13 and your girlfriends shared their complaints of menstrual aches and pains with you? Around that time, you probably realized that not everyone's periods were the same. Some got on a regular schedule pretty ...
Hot Flashes; I just had my first hot flash, and it was a freaky sensation. What exactly is going on in my body?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz More than three quarters of American women suffer from hot flashes during the menopause transition. This means, of course, that a lucky minority of women don't. Our question is: who are these women, and where are they hiding? Everyone ...
Sleep; Lately, I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping no matter how tired I am. Is there a connection between menopause and insomnia?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Both age and menopause are conspiring to rob you of the sleep you need. Although you once enjoyed a solid eight hours a night, you may be so exhausted now that you would happily settle for a meager five or six. Well, that dream is still ...
Sex; I've heard that sex gets better for some women during the menopause transition but worse for others. What can I do to increase my chances of being in that first category?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Surprising as it seems, sex does get better for some women around menopause. They're more experienced and know what they like and are willing to ask for it. With children out of the house, they may have less stress and more time to ...
Mood; I'm usually a pretty upbeat person, but lately I've been barking at everyone I know and shifting from neutral to supercranky in less than five seconds. I know I'm being unreasonable, but I can't seem to help myself.(menopause)(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz While you might think everyone gets a little irritable (OK, bitchy) during menopause, research proves that menopause doesn't cause a major mood problem in most midlife women. While women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as ...
Eyes; I've been wearing contact lenses since I was 13, but lately they feel uncomfortable. I'm constantly taking them out, cleaning them and reinserting them. Why are my eyes so dry and irritated?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Whether you wear contact lenses or not, dry eyes may be one of the first changes you notice around menopause. A decade ago many eye doctors dismissed complaints of dry eyes without much thought. But these days doctors are recognizing ...
Bones; I admit it. My diet isn't particularly good, I smoke, I drink more than I should and I hate exercise. At age 45, can I still make changes to protect my bones?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Plenty of women share these challenges, but it's way too early to declare yourself a lost cause. After menopause, women are much more vulnerable to osteoporosis, a thinning of bones that leaves them susceptible to fracture. Estrogen ...
Heart; My doctor says I need to watch my cholesterol, even though I'm only 47. I thought only men had to be concerned about heart disease. Does menopause change things?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz If you're like many midlife 'women, you're probably more worried about breast cancer than heart disease at this point. Chances are you have more than one friend who is struggling with that devastating illness. But breast cancer, as ...
Cancer; Now that I've turned 50, my doctor is telling me I need regular screenings for cancer. What should I be most concerned about, and how often should I get tested?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Let's start with the basics. Menopause doesn't cause cancer. It doesn't even increase your risk of getting cancer. But the levels of hormones in your body (what your body produces naturally, as well as what you take via pills, creams, ...
Hot Flashes and Hormones; Here's what you and your clinician should talk about before deciding whether to take estrogen.(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Joann E. Manson, M.D., Dr.Ph., and Shari S. Bassuk, Sc.D. (Manson and Bassuk are affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. They are the authors of "Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health" (McGraw-Hill), which provides state-of-the-art ...
Is Male Menopause Real? As men age, testosterone levels decline, which can lead to lots of problems.(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Daniel D. Federman, M.D., and Geoffrey A. Walford, M.D. (Federman and Walford are members of the faculty of Harvard Medical School. For more information on male menopause and men's health, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) You're a guy in your late 50s. You've just ...
Nap Time for Aging Boomers; It's never too late to start living a healthy life. Our Harvard doc on the challenges of growing older.(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Simon is associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and author of "The No Sweat Exercise Plan" (McGraw-Hill, 2006). For more information, go to health.harvard.edu. Readers should consult a medical professional for an accurate diagnosis. ...
Diet; I've always been able to lose weight fairly quickly by cutting back on sweets and carbs and working out more. That still works--but it's much, much slower. Also, I feel as if I can gain weight just by looking at food. Is it me or is it menopause?(Cover story)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Probably a little of both. Whether you've been a health nut or a couch potato, you're going to find menopause a challenge. Your metabolism slows down as you get older, so you will gain weight if you don't cut calories and increase your ...
We're Losing the Infowar; Insurgents using simple cell-phone cameras, laptop editing programs and the Web are beating the United States in the fierce battle for Iraqi public opinion.
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Scott Johnson (With Michael Hastings in Baghdad and Benjamin Sutherland in Treviso) For nearly four years, U.S. military officials have briefed the Baghdad press corps from behind an imposing wooden podium. No longer. Last week U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William ...
Spycraft as Thespianage; Hollywood's latest forays into the postwar intelligence community get the period detail right--and miss the point.(movies "The Good German" and "The Good Shepherd")
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Evan Thomas Moral ambiguity is the none-too-subtle point of two new movies about the creation of Pax Americana after World War II. In "The Good German," an antihero war correspondent (played by George Clooney) is caught up in a tangle of lies as the Americans cover up ...
I Freed Myself When I Embraced My Locks; I used to hate my natural hair, but going back to my roots has allowed me to appreciate my beauty.(Personal account)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Evette Collins (Collins lives in Chicago.) When I was a little girl, every day was a bad hair day. In the morning, my grandmother would wash my hair, then straighten it with a hot pressing comb, yanking my naturally thick, kinky hair, and jerking my head in every ...
Iraq: Friends at War; For most members of Congress--as for most Americans--the Iraq war has been an abstraction, to be debated and defended or deplored, but never experienced in any real or personal sense. Only a half dozen or so lawmakershave children who have served in Iraq.
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Darman, Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas (With Holly Bailey) War itself is a foreign concept to many solons of Capitol Hill; a small number--perhaps as few as 25 out of 535--have come under fire in combat. John McCain and Chuck Hagel are obvious and visible ...
Sidestepping The 'Surge'.(deployment of troops, Iraq)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Holly Bailey) Before Barack Obama was a senator, he opposed the war in Iraq. Now that he is one, he says that sending more troops would be "a mistake that compounds the president's original mistake." But don't expect Obama--or most other Dems--to try ...
In Scandal's Shadow; In a NEWSWEEK exclusive, Reade Seligmann details his family's anguish since that infamous lacrosse party.(student, Duke University)(Interview)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Susannah Meadows Last April, Duke lacrosse star Reade Seligmann huddled with his dad at a Durham, N.C., law firm. A stripper hired to perform at a team party on March 13 claimed several players raped her. In a lineup, she'd identified three of them as her alleged ...
Hagel Could Have a Shot; As recently as six months ago, any Republican who didn't back the president on the war in Iraq was in deep trouble. But that was then.(Senator Chuck Hagel)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Let's try an elementary thought experiment for Republican Primary voters. It may help explain why it's far too early to tell what might happen in 2008, the first election since 1928 with no incumbent president or vice president of either party on the ...
Newsmakers.(movie actor Renee Zellweger)(Interview)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Renee Zellweger Zellweger's back with another British accent, as author Beatrix Potter in "Miss Potter." The actress spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Did you gain any weight to play "Miss Potter"? A little bit. But I don't ...
Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, AP, New York Times, CSTV.COM, AP (2), The Washington Post (2), Usa Today, Chicago Tribune "I accept ... in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship." Rep. Nancy Pelosi, on being elected the first woman Speaker of the ...
Exclusive: Arnold's Primary Plan.
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: Karen Breslau The U.S. Constitution prevents Austria-born Arnold Schwarzenegger from running for president. But California's GOP governor, sworn in last week for a second term, still plans on influencing the 2008 election. Schwarzenegger says he'd like to move the ...
Congress: Is a Katrina Probe On?(Hurricane Katrina)(Brief article)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball One early indication of how aggressively Capitol Hill Democrats will investigate the Bush administration--and how strongly the White House will resist--will be how vigorously the new congressional majority pursues Katrina inquiries. Under GOP leadership, ...
Intel: A Writer's Blocked.(former intelligence officer Valerie Plame)(Brief article)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff A CIA panel has told former officer Valerie Plame she can't write about her undercover work for the agency, a position that may threaten a lucrative book project with her publisher. Plame's outing as a CIA officer in July 2003 triggered a criminal probe ...
Politics: A White House Shuffle.
Jan 15, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Intelligence insiders expect recent personnel shifts to strengthen the authority of the national intelligence director, the job Congress created to improve U.S. spy operations after September 11, 2001. Last week the White House announced that the first ...
Beliefwatch: Bookish.(Julie Sandorf and Nextbook.org)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller When Julie Sandorf's daughter, Sarah, was 3 years old, she came home from nursery school and declared: "Mommy, I don't want to be a Jewish, I want to be a Christian." These words sent Sandorf, an assimilated Jew with almost no grounding in her own religion, ...
Science: A Faster DNA Test.(from biotech company Thermal Gradient)(Brief article)
Jan 15, 2007; ... Byline: Matthew Philips A tiny silicon device half the size of a fingernail is on the verge of changing the world of DNA testing. Thermal Gradient, a small biotech company in upstate New York, has developed a mechanism that reduces DNA amplification--the third most ...