Newsweek back issues from February 2007:
Mail Call; A Young Generation Seared by War and Terror.(Letter to the editor)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Readers were distressed by our Jan. 22 cover story on what the future holds for Iraq's youth, whose lives are being shaped by war and death. "Rearing children in chaos, mayhem, murder and hatred is a likely recipe for terrorists," said a U.S. Air Force veteran who drew parallels to a ...
Certain About The Unknown; As winter turns to summer, Iowa to New Hampshire, candidates to nominees, myths could be dispelled, or turn into conventional wisdom.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Presidential campaigns are like the surface of the earth. Layers accumulate slowly over time. Soon the assumptions of today will be buried under strata of primary contests, opposition slime and debate fallout. Voters will find themselves amazed that they ...
Pop Art's Poppa; Long before Warhol's soup cans, Jasper Johns revolutionized painting with works that were right on target.(Andy Warhol)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Peter Plagens In 1953, an intense, taciturn 23-year-old Southerner named Jasper Johns arrived in New York from a draftee's tour of duty in the Army. Johns was an aspiring artist, and at the time all the art hipsters were emulating Jackson Pollock--a.k.a. Jack the ...
The Man With Two Brains; Whose words these are we thought we knew. But his notebooks show Robert Frost discovering himself.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: David Gates From the 1890s until he died in 1963, Robert Frost wrote down ideas, homemade aphorisms and fragments of poems. As one of his jottings says (God knows in what context), "I reel them off with one brain tied behind me." As you'd expect of a man who fetishized ...
Don't Forget to Fix Social Security.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Allan Sloan Sometimes what people don't say about a topic is more interesting than what they do say. Consider, if you will, President Bush's State of the Union message. Social Security--the focus of his speech two years ago--got only a few fleeting mentions in last ...
The Banker & The Anchor; Maria Bartiromo's relationship to a top Citigroup executive has kicked up a controversy. But CNBC stands by its 'Money Honey.'.(Todd Thomson)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts The audience for business television skews heavily toward testosterone: traders, CEOs and other "Masters of the Universe," as author Tom Wolfe dubbed Wall Street's upper crust in "The Bonfire of the Vanities." How else to explain why the tabloid ...
Surge Protector Edition.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Senate is poised to pass a bipartisan no-confidence vote on Bush surge plan. All eyes on John Warner Bush (equal) Uninspired State of U. does nothing to make his case. But gracious nod to Madame Speaker Cheney (down) Libby trial points to him as instigator of leak. ...
The Editor's Desk.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham John Duncan was not convinced. As the Republican congressman from Tennessee sat listening to President Bush's State of the Union address, Duncan, who opposed the Iraq war from its outset, could not bring himself to agree with Bush's case that it is time to ...
The True Cost of War.(Cover story)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Weston Kosova (Written by Weston Kosova. With reporting by Arian Campo-Flores in Decatur, Gretel c. Kovach in Pflugerville, Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Stefan Theil in Heidelberg, Dan Ephron, Eve Conant, Richard Wolffe, Daren Briscoe, Jonathan Mummolo and Steve Tuttle in ...
Preview of a Post-U.S. World; The ball is in everybody's court, which means it's in nobody's court. This free ride can't last. The global system is not self-managing.(World Economic Forum )(Conference news)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Two things were missing from this year's world Economic Forum at Davos: snow (which arrived eventually) and America-bashing (which did not). There were, of course, lots of American businessmen, activists and intellectuals filling the panels and halls of ...
'Of Course We Worry'; Two Mideast leaders, Sunni and Shiite, agree America cannot abandon Iraq now.(Adel Abdul Mahdi, Ahmed Nazif)(Interview)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Lally Weymouth In any discussion of who might replace Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki if he fails to bring peace to Baghdad, the name of Adel Abdul Mahdi comes up. But the Shiite vice president may be a slim reed to lean on. In an interview with NEWSWEEK's Lally ...
Geeksta Rap Rising; Isn't it time somebody represented for the Clark Kents of the world? Nerdcore hip-hop says 'Darn straight!' And don't think this stuff is parody.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Brian Braiker Bryce Case Jr. sounds like your stereotypical street-tough rapper. In 1999 he was convicted of vandalism, put on probation and slapped with a hefty restitution (between $50,000 and $60,000). He dropped out of high school to focus on, among other things, his ...
Will Oscar Finally Toast Peter O'Toole? The legend on awards, aging--and good Scotch.(Interview)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nicki Gostin It's a bit of a shock when Peter O'Toole enters a room. He's unsteady on his feet--he's 74--and his piercing blue eyes are rheumy with age. You get the feeling that a strong wind might knock him down. But his shirt collar is at a jaunty angle, he's sporting ...
One Son's Choice: Love or Country? Our reluctance to accept gay marriage forces people to move away from their homes and their families.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nadine Chaffee (Chaffee lives in Boise, Idaho.) My son cameron is a model American citizen. He is a hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding young man. An honor student, a National Merit Scholar, a dean's list mainstay. He is liked by his teachers, co-workers and bosses; ...
A Reluctant Rebel's Yell; From Vietnam to Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel has never been afraid to fight. Now he talks about what could be his biggest battle yet: a run for the White House.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Darman (With Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey) Chuck Hagel wears pain on his face. The senior senator from Nebraska earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, where a mine blew out his eardrums and delivered a sharp burn up the left side of his head. When he is ...
The Baggage They Carry; Will pro-war stances hurt the GOP hopefuls for '08?(Grand Old Party)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Richard Wolffe (With Holly Bailey) Matt Dowd knows more about the politics of war than almost anyone who has worked inside Bush's inner circle. The president's long-time pollster was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign three years ago, when he helped frame ...
Many a Hurdle For Hillary.(Hillary Clinton)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Howard Fineman So far, so good for Hillary Clinton. She launched her presidential campaign with a smooth professionalism that reminded me of George W. Bush's debut eight years ago. The technology has changed (Web chats vs. a chartered-plane fly-around), but the message ...
The Man Without Doubt; In a rare print interview, Dick Cheney talks about Iraq, Iran, Chuck Hagel, his image as 'Darth Vader' and Bob Woodward.(Interview)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Richard Wolffe A man with a reputation for secrecy and seclusion, Vice President Dick Cheney has spent the past few months out in public. He campaigned in the midterm elections, traveled to Saudi Arabia to talk security and eulogized former president Gerald Ford. Last ...
New Hampshire Before New Year's? The front-loading of primaries--meant to help pick a nominee quickly--may backfire.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter I saw Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago last week, and he used a political term from the past: "Favorite son." Until the '60s, local party leaders would often keep their powder dry before a nominating convention by pledging their delegates to a senator or ...
Newsmakers.(Drew Barrymore)(Interview)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q&A: DREW BARRYMORE Barrymore plays a neurotic lyricist in the upcoming romantic comedy "Music and Lyrics." She spoke to Nicki Gostin. Do you do your own singing in this movie? Yeah. I've always been the person who everyone ...
Perspectives.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Quotation sources: The Washington Post, NPR, Boston Globe, New York Times (3), AP, New York Times, AP, Reuters "Let us find our resolve and turn events toward victory." President George W. Bush, asking Congress to give his Iraq plan "a chance" during the State ...
New Fears: The Return of a Superterrorist.(Imad Mughniyeh)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Maziar Bahari and Joanna Chen Before Osama bin Laden, there was Imad Mughniyeh. The Lebanese terrorist from Hizbullah was considered the most dangerous in the world. Now the White House worries that he's back, after years of lying low. Four serving U.S ....
Comics: An Obama Problem.(Barack Obama)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nick Summers Pundits, donors, opponents red and blue--everyone's getting ready for a Barack Obama presidential bid. But one group is still unprepared: the nation's comedians, who say the pol appears almost invulnerable to caricature. How do you make fun of someone when ...
The Leak Case: A Subpoena for Rove.(Karl Rove)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff Anxiety in the White House over the Scooter Libby perjury trial is mounting because current and former senior officials--including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett--may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony about the ...
Scandal: The Case of the Coach.(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores The scandal has a titillating mix: cheerleaders, soldiers, booze, sex. Police say Jill Moore, a high-school cheerleading coach in Ware Shoals, S.C., bought alcohol and cigarettes for two underage squad members and had sex with a ...
Fast Chat: Immigrant Injustice?(Peter Miller)(Interview)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Joshua Alston Documentarian Peter Miller illuminates history's lost stories. In his latest film, "Sacco and Vanzetti," he revisits the tragic fate of two Italian immigrants executed in 1927 for a murder they probably didn't commit. He spoke with Joshua Alston. ...
Collecting: A Mix-Up On Medals.(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Peter Suciu In December, the Stolen Valor Act made it a crime to buy, sell, mail, import or export any military decoration approved by Congress. But the bill--intended to stop people from impersonating decorated vets--has such vague wording that medal collectors and ...
A Life In Books.(James Billington)(Interview)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007 ... His No. 1 book is the Bible, which, among other virtues, stands up to rereading--unlike "Les Miserables," which James Billington went back to and found "long and tedious." The librarian of Congress shares his Recommended list: MY FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS "War and ...
BeliefWatch: Slaughter.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller The ancient Jews did it. So did the Romans and the Aztecs. Sacrificing an animal to please or placate God or the gods has been commonplace for many thousands of years. Still, it's a little bit shocking when we see the practice in our own backyards. ...
Taboo: Spanking Smackdown.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Julie Scelfo The uproar over a California assemblywoman's announcement that she wants to make it illegal for parents to spank their own toddlers raises an interesting question: how many parents actually spank their kids? We may have to beat them to get the truth. A new ...
Let's Not Hide Health Costs.
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We are awash in health-care proposals. President Bush has one. So does California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has a plan, as does a coalition led by Families USA (a liberal advocacy group) and America's Health Insurance Plans ...
He Calls Himself God; A Puerto Rican minister says Christ 'integrated' with him. Others call him a cult leader and a charlatan.(Jose Luis de Jesus, Growing in Grace )
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores At first glance, the congregation gathered in a warehouse in Doral, Fla., seems like a typical Hispanic evangelical group. There's the 10-piece band, the singing and swaying, the whooping and hollering. But look a little more closely. There's not a ...
America's Most Wanted; In a new book, a right-wing critic blames the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on left-wing politicians, movie stars and activists.(The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D'Souza)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler In 2004, when Sen. Ted Kennedy was temporarily grounded by the appearance of a certain "T. Kennedy" on the No-Fly List, it was treated as an amusing bureaucratic snafu. But is it possible the government was on to something? Dinesh D'Souza, the right-wing ...
Project Green: This Ecofriendly House.
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Anne Underwood Michele Gries-Haber, 41, a marketing executive in Austin, Texas, composts, recycles and drives a hybrid car. So when she got mar-ried last year and decided to enlarge her house--a 1926 Craftsman-style bungalow--it was a no-brainer that she and her husband, ...
The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Top Chef, television program )(African Spirit, gospel choir)(Can I Freeze It?, cookbook by Susie Theodorou )(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007 ... SEE 'Top Chef' finale (Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET; Bravo). Find out who'll manage to slice and dice their way to victory in this foodie version of "Project Runway." HEAR 'African Spirit,' by the Soweto Gospel Choir ($18.98). Oprah and Desmond Tutu are among its biggest fans. The ...
Road Test: Mitsubishi Galant; One hot papa.(Product/service evaluation)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Byline: Anna Kuchment The Galant Ralliart is for that family guy who hasn't quite given up the dream of race-car driving. At first glance, it's all flash: aluminum pedals; gleaming, 18-inch alloy wheels; a faux-leather-wrapped steering wheel with red stitching; a sport mesh ...
A Pocket of Tunes.(online music offered by wireless carriers)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007; ... Byline: Cathy Lu Nearly every major wireless carrier now offers a mobile music service for your phone. How do the plans compare? TIP SHEET put them to the earbud test. SPRINT MUSIC STORE Demand instant gratification? For $2.50 (plus a minimum $15-per-month data ...
Money: Get Set for April.(tax planning)(Brief article)
Feb 05, 2007 ... Tax time is here. But have no fear, we've gathered tips from the Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2007. Take a look at its list of commonly overlooked deductions. If you believe some of them might work for you, consult your personal tax adviser or irs.gov for more info. 1 Cell phones: ...
Where Memory Endures; After 25 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial casts a long shadow.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is so iconic, you tend to forget the political tempest that surrounded it more than 25 years ago. After the design--by a then-unknown Yale undergrad named Maya Lin--beat out 1,420 contenders in a blind competition, big ...
Changing Climate Edition.
Feb 12, 2007 ... The CW tips its hat to former New York governor George Pataki for not running for president. Here's hoping he starts a trend. Bush (equal) Visits his base of bonus-stuffed satraps on Wall Street. Gets cheered until he zaps exec pay. Jealous? Ari Fleischer (down) After ...
Mail Call: Home at Long Last.(Letter to the editor)
Feb 12, 2007 ... Mystery of a Strange Captivity and Rescue Readers of our cover story about the abductions of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby were grateful for the boys' safe return, but many were concerned that excess publicity might inhibit their recovery. "They're already forever linked ...
The Editor's Desk.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Meacham Kathy Deveny is big enough to admit it: "I have been a closet Paris addict for years, and I can't read enough about these chicks--Paris, Britney, Lindsay Lohan," she says. "They're young, beautiful and do whatever the hell they want. I've always had a soft ...
Inconvenient Kyoto Truths; Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?(Column)
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: George F. Will Enough already. It is time to call some bluffs. John Kerry says that one reason America has become an "international pariah" is President Bush's decision to "walk away from global warming." Kerry's accusation is opaque, but it implies the usual complaint ...
Apocalypse Now; Iraqi forces struggle in the battle against a shadowy Shiite death cult. And that's only a small part of the problems they're facing in Iraq's south.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh (With reports from Iraqi staff in Najaf and Maziar Bahari in Tehran, Christopher Dickey in Paris and Karen Fragala Smith in New York) Dhia Abdul Zahra claimed he was the messiah. And on the eve of the holiest day in the Shiite calendar, Ashura, when ...
The Road to Reformation; Al Qaeda had hoped to rally the entire Muslim world against the West, but now it is in the middle of a dirty sectarian war within Islam.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria For those in the West asking when Islam will have its Reformation, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the process appears to have begun. The bad news is it's been marked by calumny, hatred and bloody violence. In this way it mirrors the ...
To Reach for the Moon; China's lunar program is about more than national pride. Try this: a limitless supply of clean, safe energy.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Melinda Liu and Mary Carmichael Western analysts still can't say what Beijing was thinking when it shot down one of its aging weather satellites. True, the recent test was a fine show of marksmanship, destroying a refrigerator-size target sailing at orbital speed 500 ...
Colorblind at Last? This year, a record five black actors received Oscar nominations. That's amazing progress--maybe.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Sean Smith And Allison Samuels Black Hollywood has been keeping a secret. For decades, African-Americans had been so consistently overlooked by the Academy Awards that a private group began sponsoring the "Black Oscars." Every year, on the night before the actual Oscars, ...
A Waking Nightmare; Sex, spies und audiotape in corrupt East Germany.(The Lives of Others)(Movie review)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: David Ansen The Stasi--East Germany's omnipotent and greatly feared secret police--employed some 100,000 people, in addition to the 200,000 informers who could be counted on to spy on their neighbors, their friends and their own families. The waking nightmare of this ...
Why I Broke One of My 'Cardinal' Rules; I thought guns were evil. Then a tiny red bird came to call, and I had to rethink everything.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Walda Cameron (Cameron lives in Goshen, N.Y.) Guns are evil. This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence. It was the one fixed point on a vacillating ...
Bush's Truman Show.(George W. Bush, Harry Truman)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Holly Bailey, Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas (With John Barry) President Bush was reaching out--sort of. It was Dec. 7, the day after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group had delivered its recommendation that the administration begin to tamp down its war effort in Iraq and ...
He's Ready to Rumble.(John Edwards )
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Howard Fineman John Edwards played defensive back in high school, and waiting offstage to speak, he looked eager to get onto the field and hit someone. That is what he did (rhetorically) in the first scrimmage of the 2008 presidential campaign last Friday. Speaking to ...
Stop Pandering on Education; It's time to move from identifying failing schools to identifying failing teachers. Sounds obvious, but it hasn't happened in American education.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Alter The crazy thing about the education debate in the United States is that anyone with an ounce of brains knows what must be done. Each political party is about half right. Republicans are right about the need for strict performance standards and wrong in ...
Justice: Bench Player; Sandra Day O'Connor left the high court a year ago. Now she's really busy. In a NEWSWEEK exclusive, she talks about stepping down, Iraq and caring for her ill husband.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Debra Rosenberg (With Eve Conant) Walk down the hallway on the second floor of the Supreme Court, through the part of the massive marble building the public never gets to see, just past the chambers of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and you might think you've stumbled into ...
Seventh Grade Surprise; He seemed like a normal 12-year-old boy to most. But 'Casey Price' was anything but a typical classmate.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Andrew Murr Twelve-year-old Casey Price did his best to fit in as his grandfather and uncle spent the past 18 months bouncing around Arizona. In tiny Payson, Casey invited boys at the local skate park to join a skateboard team he said he'd founded called Plan Z. In ...
Happy Birthday, Abe; The Lincoln Bedroom is restored to its 19th-century glory.(Abraham Lincoln)(Brief article)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Beschloss (Beschloss's next book, "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989," will be published in May.) A hundred and ninety-eight years after Abraham Lincoln's birth, the White House's Lincoln Bedroom finally looks like a room ...
Hillary's Religious Roots; At 13, she met a Methodist minister who became a lifelong friend.(Hillary Clinton, Rev. Don Jones)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Susannah Meadows If Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush have anything in common, it is a deeply rooted wariness of outsiders. Both the president and the woman who hopes to succeed him have always relied on a small, closed circle of friends and advisers who have been with ...
The Mayor's Mistress; San Francisco's Gavin Newsom was on the move, but an affair with a friend's wife may slow him down.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Karen Breslau Gavin Newsom, the popular, handsome--and very available--mayor of San Francisco, was one of those men who could seemingly get any women they wanted. Since his 2005 divorce from Fox News commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle, he had become something of a man about ...
Newsmakers.(Belinda Carlisle)(Interview)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Jac Chebatoris (Ramin Setoodeh) Q&A: Belinda Carlisle Belinda Carlisle will always be a Go-Go, but her new solo album is called "Voila--and it's all in French. La chanteuse spoke with Jac Chebatoris. You've recorded an entire album in French? ...
Perspectives.
Feb 12, 2007 ... "The struggle in Iraq is winnable." Gen. George W. Casey Jr., addressing the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing for the post of Army chief of staff "The most dangerous tornado scenario is a threat for killer tornadoes at night, and that was the ...
The War: 'Ambiguous' Intel on Iran's Meddling in Iraq.
Feb 12, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Hosenball How solid is evidence that Iran is stoking the conflict in Iraq? The White House has ratcheted up rhetorical attacks, suggesting that Iranian government elements were supplying Iraqi Shia insurgents with deadly weapons technology. But the idea that Iran ...
The CIA Leak: Boring In on the Veep.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff The Scooter Libby trial has put a new focus on Vice President Dick Cheney's own role in the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. When the CIA on July 11, 2003, sent over a draft statement taking responsibility for President George W ....
Transition.(Molly Ivins recovering from breast cancer)(racehorse Barbaro may not recover completely from multiple leg fractures)(Brief article)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Eleanor Clift (Nick Summers) Molly Ivins, 62 The Austin-based reporter described her battle against breast cancer with her signature caustic wit: "First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that." Her column ...
Terror: A Viral TV Blunder.(Boston highways were shutdown after discovery of bomblike devices intalled near bridges for promoting a Cartoon Network show)(Brief article)
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Starr And Nick Summers The stakes could not be higher, nor the comedy more surreal. Parts of Boston were shut down last week when bomblike devices were found near bridges, train stations and other locations. A terrorist strike on a major city? Nope. Guerrilla ...
Science: The Time Is All in Your Mind.
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler Scuse me while I kiss this guy," Jimi Hendrix did not sing in "Purple Haze," but a lot of people heard it that way anyway: somehow in his listeners' ears the break between "the" and "sky" got moved one phoneme to the right. One question is why that kind of ...
Beliefwatch: Heavenly.(90 Minutes in Heaven, a book by Don Piper )
Feb 12, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller It isn't every day that a Christian book--that is, a book written by a Christian author for a Christian audience and marketed by a Christian publisher--crosses over into the secular market and makes any kind of appearance on best-seller lists or gets noticed ...