Newsweek back issues from March 2007:
The Gossip Minus Guilt; The peeping-Tom trade has been outsourced to the paparazzi. Instead of venom traded over back fences, we have Us Weekly and 'The Insider.'.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen The examination of conscience began when a hardworking and pious woman who had never watched "Access Hollywood" asked a question to which there was no good answer: "Who is Anna Nicole Smith?" It was the day of the death heard round the world, ...
Skies Were Cloudy Before Jet Blew It.(JetBlue Airways Corp.)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Allan Sloan (With Temma Ehrenfeld in New York) In its brief but glorious life, JetBlue Airways has become a business-school case study. Business junkies everywhere have praised the customer service, new planes and clever marketing that turned JetBlue from a concept into ...
Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Collision Course for Conflict in Iran? Readers of our Feb. 19 cover story drew a line between the Iranian people and the antagonism between their president and George W. Bush. "It is truly frightening that world peace is threatened by Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, two men who ...
The Editor's Desk.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham On Thanksgiving Day, 2005, the soldier on our cover this week--Specialist Marissa Strock--was the gunner on a patrol in Iraq. Suddenly, four 1.55 artillery rounds from an improvised explosive device ripped through her Humvee, killing two of her fellow ...
The Mysterious Mullah Omar; Tracing the elusive footsteps of the Taliban's Supreme Leader--and bracing for what may be their bloodiest drive yet.
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau There's no mistaking the thrill in Ghul Agha Akhund's voice. The Taliban field commander, speaking by mobile phone from his redoubt in Afghanistan's Helmand province, says the militants' covert network of couriers has brought him a vital ...
The Surge That Might Work; It would cost $100 million to restart all of Iraq's state companies. That's as much as the military will spend in the next 12 hours.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) We are now fighting a war intelligently in Iraq. The only problem is, it's the last war, not the present one. The United States has gambled all its efforts on a troop surge that tackles the conflict that ...
Untreated Wounds; Iraqi soldiers are injured at twice the rate of Americans, and their prospects for long-term care are bleak at best.(Cover story)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh with Baghdad bureau reports Private Atiya was driving a heavy truck on the outskirts of Baghdad when he saw the flash. Then, a deafening boom and darkness. When Atiya came to, he was lying on the side of the road and the truck, still carrying 11 of ...
Europe's Apple Attack; Regulators say they want to liberate iTunes for all.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: John D. Sparks Apple Inc. never lets anyone forget who it's not--Microsoft. Apple ads feature a hipster named Mac humiliating a pale, pudgy loser named PC; its slogan urges consumers to "think different." But the tech darling now shares at least one thing with its ...
The Rage of Aquarius; The Zodiac killer has never been caught, but David Fincher still made a riveting film about him.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: David Ansen Obsession craves resolution the way a hunter craves his prey. But what happens to the obsessed when there is no resolution? David Fincher's fascinating, uncompromising "Zodiac" is about four men who became obsessed with capturing the legendary Bay Area ...
My Turn: And on This Farm She Found a Future; Agriculture is a backbreaking, low-paying, male-dominated field. I wouldn't want any other job.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nancy Brill (Brill lives in Cherry Hill, N.J.) The farmer had a tanned face, weathered from working in the hot sun and dry air. He took in my clean appearance and small, unmuscular body. "So," he said, "you like to get dirty?" It was 1998. After working as a ...
Forgotten Heroes.(Cover story)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Dan Ephron and Sarah Childress (With Jamie Reno, Eve Conant, John Barry, Richard Wolffe, Karen Springen, Jonathan Mummolo and Ty Brickhouse) After returning from Iraq in late 2005, Jonathan Schulze spent every day struggling not to fall apart. When a Department of ...
The Apology Primary Is On; McCain's career-enhancing apologies are legion. But his reputation for using contrition to charm his way out of trouble might be catching up with him.(John McCain)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Hillary Clinton is right to resist efforts to make her cry uncle and apologize for her 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq-war resolution; that would look weak. Her mistake was in not anticipating this problem with the liberal base of her party last summer and ...
Net Roots Gets Meta; Which presidential candidate has the best Web site? You can surf them all, or just go to techPresident.com.(Website overview)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Daren Briscoe In the early race for 2008, most national polls have Hillary Clinton thumping Democratic rival Barack Obama by double digits. But the junior senator from Illinois can take comfort in at least one tally: MySpace, apparently, is Obama country. About 48,000 ...
Fragged by An F. O. B. Hillary expected an attack from the right. But the shots came from an old Hollywood buddy of Bill's.(David Geffen, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Clinton )
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Eleanor Clift and Mark Hosenball in Washington, Johnnie L. Roberts and Jonathan Alter in New York and Andrew Murr and Sean Smith in Los Angeles) Last December, a NEWSWEEK reporter tentatively broached a delicate subject with a longstanding adviser to ...
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW ... PRINCE HARRY?(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... The 22-year-old royal will be serving his country like any brave soldier--he's going to Iraq. More questions and a photo gallery at xtra.NEWSWEEK.com. ...
Newsmakers.(Interview)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q&A: CRAIG FERGUSON Britney Spears was in and out (and in and out and in again) of rehab last week, but you won't catch Ferguson making fun of her on CBS's "Late, Late Show." He spoke with Nicki Gostin. Why did you devote an entire monologue to ...
Anna Nicole's Trail of Tears.(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... It was hard to know whether to laugh or cry at the battle over Smith's body. There haven't been these many crazy characters since the O.J. trial--and this one includes a weepy judge, a mother and two lovers. Our brief: Larry Seidlin: A judge who grants custody of a corpse to a ...
Perspectives.
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Quotation sources: AP, CNN, AP, Reuters, CNN, ABC News, New York Times (2), AP (2), The Sun "Iran has not suspended ... enrichment-related activities." A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Iran's alleged defiance of a U.N. Security Council ...
Rough Justice Edition.
Mar 05, 2007 ... CW sez keep an eye on Justice Dept.'s political purge of seven competent U.S. attorneys. What are Bushies covering up? Bush (down) Visited Walter Reed, but missed the scandalously horrible conditions. P.S.: His new budget stiffs vets. Blair (equal) British P.M. will ...
The Politics of the Brit Drawdown.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Stryker McGuire, Richard Wolffe and Babak Dehghanpisheh In public, British and American officials say the U.K.'s withdrawal of troops from southern Iraq is a sign of success. But that wasn't the private reaction when the Brits first explained their plans last year ....
New Marines: Coalition of the Swimming.(Navy plans to use trained dolphins and sea lions to detect seaborne attackers)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Marc Bain and Jessica Ramirez The baleful Bottlenose? The sinister sea lion? Citing the need to boost security at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on the Puget Sound, the Navy recently announced that its preferred plan, currently in use at Naval Base Kings Bay in Georgia, would ...
Gallaudet's Bad Grade.(Gallaudet University)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Summers Students at Gallaudet rebelled last year over whether the appointed president was "deaf enough" to lead the nation's premier university for the deaf and hard of hearing. But while debate focused on issues of Deaf culture, the university's foundation was ...
Targeted By Tehran?(New York Police Department suspects Iranian terrorist attacks)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran have revived New York Police Department concerns that Iranian agents may already have targeted the city for terror attacks. Such attacks could be aimed at bridges and tunnels, Jewish organizations and Wall ...
Reporter.(American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion by Paul Barrett)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller (With Rayhane Sanders) In the aftermath of 9/11, when the offices of The Wall Street Journal were temporarily moved from Ground Zero to SoHo, a young journalist sat at his desk and edited one story after another about the Muslim world abroad. Jihad this, ...
Ads Made For You.(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Mummolo Ads just got personal. Thanks to radio frequency identification (RFID) tags-- scannable devices like the ones in an E-ZPass--advertisers can tailor messages to individuals. Last month, Mini USA began erecting billboards in four U.S. cities for a ...
Ordering Protection.(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Hilary Shenfeld The couple had a fight--and the woman returned home to find the body of her gray-and-white kitten, decapitated, in her front yard. (Court papers didn't ID the Bethalto, Ill., woman.) Similar incidents are prompting lawmakers to try to protect animals from ...
Fast Chat: Northern Exposure.(Interview)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Karen Springen Barbara Hillary has a big dream. At 75, the Queens, N.Y., resident wants to be the first African-American woman to set foot on the North Pole. She plans to fly out of Longyearbyen, Norway, with a group on April 20; they will cross-country ski to the Pole ....
To Boldly Go ... On?(another Star Trek film to be released in 2008)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Joshua Alston Fans of the "Star Trek" franchise love forward-looking stories, but for a while now they've had to live in the past. Trekkers flocked to Christie's auction house this past October, snapping up more than $7 million worth of props and costumes from the show ...
A Life In Books.(literary influences on Eric Foner)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Eric Foner wrote the book on Reconstruction--literally. The Columbia historian also penned "Who Owns History?" and "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men," among other scholarly but accessible works. The prof shares his required reading: My Five Most Important Books "The ...
A $2 Trillion Footnote? The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have far exceeded almost all estimates, but that's much less important than it seems.(Column)
Mar 05, 2007 ... ***** CORRECTION: CLARIFICATION: In a previous column, "The Stubborn Welfare State," (Feb. 19) I showed the shares of federal spending going to defense, payments to individuals (Social Security, Medicare etc.), interest on the debt and everything else (schools, the environment, ...
How to Design a Healthier Planet.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler The green movement is so much more than a referendum on what kind of car we drive--or don't. In a post-McMansion age, our homes, offices and community facilities have become a reflection of our newly green values, whether that just means replacing ...
Raiders Of the Lost Tomb; A book and movie allege the final resting place of Mary, Joseph and the King of Kings has been found. Controversy to follow.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller and Joanna Chen In Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people's houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky soil. Tova Bracha has always known that the tiny, ...
Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals; A new book 'deconstructs' a Twinkie and analyzes all 39 ingredients. Industrial-strength junk food, anyone?(Twinkie, Deconstructed)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Anne Underwood As Steve Ettlinger dropped down a Wyoming mine shaft, plummeting 1,600 feet in an open-mesh cage, he wondered how many other food writers had ever donned hard hats and emergency breathing equipment in pursuit of a story. But it was too late to turn back ....
Decoding 'The Secret'; Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this 'new thought' may just be new marketing.(Oprah Winfrey)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler (With Matthew Philips in New York, Mary Carmichael in Boston, Karen Springen in Chicago and Kendall Hill in Sydney) If you're a woman trying to lose weight, you had your choice of two pieces of advice last week. One, from the American Heart Association, was ...
The Baby Who's Not Supposed to Be Alive; Amillia's doctor didn't realize just how young she was.
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Pat Wingert The chance of survival of a 21-week, 6-day-old fetus is zero. That's something Miami obstetrician Guillermo Lievano thought he knew for sure. Then he delivered Amillia Taylor, who weighed just 10 ounces, and appears to be the youngest premature baby ever to ...
Health: I Screen, You Screen.(screening tests do not result in reduction of heart ailments, according to a study)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Joan Raymond Hank Furman prides himself on wringing the last cent out of a dollar. But when it comes to good health, "no amount of money is too much," says Furman, a 73-year-old retired machinist from Euclid, Ohio. That's why he recently took advantage of a vascular ...
The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... GO to Ireland. Aer Lingus is offering round trips from New York, Boston or Chicago to Dublin or Shannon for $399, including car rental. Book by Wednesday for specific March departure dates. SEE the moon turn red as it passes completely through the Earth's shadow on Saturday ....
Family: Jazzy Odes to Boogers.(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Brian Braiker Kids' music improved immeasurably around the time They Might Be Giants released 2002's "No!" But now it seems we've entered a golden era that even parents can love. Some top picks: 'MOMMY SAYS NO!' With their first family record, the frenetic ...
At Your Service.(cell-phone services)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Cathy Lu Fed up with mainstream wireless carriers? Try connecting with one of these specialized cell-phone services. Amp'd Mobile (ampd.com ; $30 and up per month, plus $10 to $20 for video): Watch original programs like the animated parody "Lil' Bush" ...
A Case Of the Blues.(JetBlue Airways Corp.)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007; ... Byline: Linda Stern When people are as contrite as the folks at JetBlue, you have to forgive them, right? Especially when they're offering rock-bottom fares, like $39 from D.C. to Boston, $59 from New York to Houston and some money-back guarantees. Professional fliers like Randy ...
SMALL BUT SPEEDY.(Austin Mini Cooper)(Product/service evaluation)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: TARA WEINGARTEN When the Mini Cooper folks took me and a few other automotive journalists to a racetrack to test these new second-generation coupes, it had the trappings of a joke. We're talking about a subcompact city car, not a Ferrari, right? But instead of laughing, ...
UNCORKED: BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
Mar 05, 2007 ... Byline: Wine Spectator rates wines on the 100-point scale; all wines are blind-tasted. Prices are those suggested by producers or importers. For more information visit winespectator.com. Brunello di Montalcino, the Sangiovese-based red wine from Tuscany, doesn't come cheap. But ...
Whose Art Is It? American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (With Andrew Murr and Barbie Nadeau) In 1972, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a record-smashing $1 million for an ancient Greek vase known as the Euphronios Krater. It was worth every penny. The krater--a 12-gallon pot for mixing wine and ...
Sontag's Last Stands; The final book from one of our greatest essayists.(At the Same Time)(Book review)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: David Gates Before she died in 2004, Susan Sontag mapped out what would be her last book of essays. (Not her last book--as always, she just wanted to get back to fiction.) Some planned pieces never got written, and she didn't have a title. But her editors have put ...
He'll Take Manhattan; A thoroughly modern author revisits New York's past.(Book review)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: David Gates Early in Kurt Andersen's "Heyday," set in 1848-49, a character admits his literary taste isn't arty: "I know I am supposed to read Balzac and Flaubert ... but I still crave the impossible coincidence. Give me Dumas, or Dickens." This is as clear a manifesto ...
A City Where Murder Got to Be a Way of Life.(Book review)(Brief review)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones Michael Lesy's "Murder City" is a creepy book. Fascinating, but creepy. Lesy ("Wisconsin Death Trip") focuses on Windy City murders in the '20s, a time and place we all think we know: Capone, Leopold and Loeb, "Chicago"--merely drop the city's name and ...
The Street Turns Green; Goldman Sachs got environmentalists to embrace a utility they loved to hate--and sealed a $45 billion deal.(Company overview)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Believe it or not, Goldman Sachs's interest in green goes beyond its record profits. The firm chauffeurs execs in hybrid cars, and the "Green Tower," its new $2 billion headquarters rising in Manhattan, is so ecofriendly that switching to a meatless ...
Comin' Through! Toyota is on track to pass General Motors this year as the world's No. 1 auto company. How GM plans to fight back.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Keith Naughton and Allan Sloan (With Christian Caryl in Toyota City, Japan, and Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo) General Motors and Toyota were once neck-and-neck when it came to developing high-mileage gasoline-electric hybrid cars. About a decade ago, you see, both firms had ...
Mail Call; Treating an Often Debilitating Disease.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Men suffering from depression responded to our cover story offering advice and recounting their experiences. One physician wrote, "I find it easier, but painful, to suffer in silence rather than seek help and sabotage my career. I suspect I'm far from alone." All regretted the pain they ...
The Editor's Desk.(Arthur Schlesinger Jr.)(Editorial)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Whenever Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who died last week at age 89, was asked whether individuals or abstract forces play the larger role in shaping history, he would propose a speculative scenario. In the early 1930s, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
Longfellow: A Founder; That his 200th birthday passed unremarked is redundant evidence of this forward-leaning democracy's historical amnesia.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: George F. Will One hundred years ago, Feb. 27 was enlivened by events around the nation commemorating what had happened 100 years before that, in 1807. But last week's bicentennial of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow passed largely unnoted, which is noteworthy. ...
Kabul's Peril; A suicide bomber hits the center of U.S. force in South Asia--and the Taliban's spring offensive is yet to come.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Sami Yousafzai (With Holly Bailey with Cheney and Ron Moreau) Dick Cheney was cool and collected, just as he had been on that September morning five years before when two Secret Service agents burst into his White House office and half-carried him into ...
Silence of the Sadrists; So far the Mahdi Army is lying low. But for how long?
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Rod Nordland (With Ayad Obeidi in Baghdad and bureau reports) Early in the latest u.s. and Iraqi attempt to bring peace to Baghdad, one high-ranking Iraqi official included Moqtada al-Sadr in his prayers. "Allah, lo yehdih, lo yedahdih, " he prayed, a pun that roughly ...
The Sky Isn't Falling in China; The day after the Shanghai stock market fell, we saw again all the same warnings about the Chinese system and the odds of its collapse.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) For some years economists and analysts have been wondering what it would take to scare financial markets. Wars, coups, soaring commodity prices, increased energy costs, unwinding housing markets--nothing ...
Soul on Ice, And a Twist; Singer Amy Winehouse is a mess. Lucky for us.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Joshua Alston Amy Winehouse takes a while to warm up to new people, and until she does, she stammers--badly. "I'm. Really. Sorry," she says, pausing for what seems like a minute between each word. "It'll. Go away. Once I. Relax." This hardly seems like the British ...
Dear Satu: Letters Tell The Story of Our Lives; For 40 years, a note from my pen pal could make my day. At last I met the woman behind the words.(Personal account)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Rey de La Cruz (De La Cruz lives in Glenview, Ill.) Satu gave me a big hug and said, "It wasn't so hard to recognize you." Satu Vaverka and I had been writing each other since 1966, when we were 11 or 12 years old, and had exchanged so many pictures over the years that ...
Master of Disaster.(former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani)(Cover story)(Biography)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Darman (With Susannah Meadows, Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff, Eve Conant, Sarah Childress, Andrew Romano and Jonathan Mummolo) Rudy Giuliani had been speaking for six minutes before anyone in the audience thought to clap, which was exactly the way he wanted ...
Bloomberg: The Waiting Game; His billions allow Mayor Mike to enter the'08 race late.
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Eleanor Clift In the aftermath of 9/11, nobody thought he could fill Rudy Giuliani's shoes. But under billionaire Michael Bloomberg, New York City's Democrat-turned-Republican mayor, the city rebounded. He's overseen a continued decline in the crime rate, forced ...
Wrong Time for An Urban Cowboy? His lead in the polls makes sense, but Giuliani's leadership style is out of sync with history's pendulum.(Column)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Presidential elections are said to be about the future, but they also end up as verdicts on the past. Voters often reject the type of leadership they have recently experienced. In 1960, young JFK was the antidote to dowdy Ike. In 1976, Jimmy ("I'll never ...
Arthur Schlesinger, 1917-2007.(Obituary)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Meacham On a Saturday evening in Georgetown in late 1946, the columnist Joe Alsop was giving a dinner at his house in the 2700 block of Dumbarton. The guests were predictably drawn from the glamorous and the powerful; Supreme Court justices, ambassadors and ...
Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Quotation sources: AP, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, New York Times, AP (2) "He's not yet martyred." Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, in a recently aired interview on British television, ...
A Mass Firing Puts Justice on the Hot Seat.(attorneys fired at Department of Justice)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff The firings of eight U.S. attorneys has put the heat on top Justice Department officials--and some GOP members of Congress. The unusual mass dismissals took place late last year, but the controversy escalated last week when David Iglesias, the former U.S ....
Jefferson, the Chosen President?(Brief article)
Mar 12, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Summers and Marc Bain U.S. President. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Force behind the Louisiana Purchase. And ... Jew? A new genetic study raises the tantalizing possibility that Thomas Jefferson may have had Jewish ancestry. Researchers at ...
At Sea, a 'Colossal' Catch.(990-pound colossal squid caught)(Brief article)
Mar 12, 2007; ... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: In "At Sea, A 'Colossal' Catch" (Periscope, March 12), we incorrectly stated that a giant squid had been caught in Arctic waters. In fact, it was a "colossal squid" and was found in Antarctic waters. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors. ***** ...
Proving You're You.(online banking security measures)(Brief article)
Mar 12, 2007; ... Byline: Samantha Henig For years, anyone calling a bank for account info has been prepared to answer a standard security question: "What's your mother's maiden name?" But as the threat of identity theft grows, financial-services companies are deploying a new array of ...