Newsweek back issues from April 2007:
The Weight Of What-If.(militarism and the social costs of war)(Column)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen In the summer of 1971 I stood at the wire ticker and watched as my college boyfriend's lottery draft number came up 365. Only his cousin, born in a leap year, did better. It made it a certainty that neither would have to serve in Vietnam. Every once in a ...
Blackstone Is Hiding Its Private Parts.(investment company Blackstone Group L.P.)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Allan Sloan What a letdown. Blackstone Group, the giant "private" equity firm, finally filed its going-public documents last week--but left out what Wall Street's financial voyeurs most wanted to see: how much of the firm co-founders Steve Schwarzman and Pete Peterson ...
Letters; Mail Call: What Set Us on the Road to Becoming Human?(Letter to the editor)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Readers of our cover story were full of questions about the new approaches to studying evolution--like paleoneurology. "So we're not descendants of Neanderthal man after all? Species developed quickly, not gradually by natural selection?" one asked. Some quibbled over the new scientific ...
The Editor's Desk.(correspondence of American soldiers, Iraq War)(Editorial)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham The handwriting on this week's cover belongs to Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis L. Youngblood, who was deployed to Iraq in March 2005. The full sentence, from a letter Youngblood wrote his wife, Laura, reads: "I have accepted the fact that any day I'm ...
Our Soldiers' Stories; The War in the Words of the Dead.(American soldiers in the Iraq War)(Editorial)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Meacham He was exhausted, but he wanted to talk to his daughter, and the only way to do that in Fallujah was to write a letter. "This war is not like the big war--there are no big sweeping maneuvers with hundreds of tanks pouring over the border and so forth," Army ...
A Day Of Death; For every soldier or Marine who dies in Iraq, at least 20 Iraqis are killed. Some of their stories.
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Salih Mehdi and Ahmed Obeidi in Baghdad) Describing Jalal Mustafa to a reporter, the first thing his family mentions is "that long love story of his." The young mechanic's dream was to wed his fiancee, Laila, and "have as many ...
What the Warriors Cannot Do; It's Time To Call Iraq's Leaders To Account.(Column)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria In the last weeks, the violence in Baghdad has moved from ghastly to merely grim, and we are told that the tide has turned. President Bush says the surge of U.S. troops is producing "encouraging signs." Many of his neoconservative supporters have been less ...
To Topple a Tyrant.(correspondence from American soldiers, Iraq War)
Apr 02, 2007 ... It's easy to forget how daunting and dangerous everything seemed on the eve of the Iraq War. U.S. forces were braced for the worst. Hardly anyone believed Iraq's claims that it no longer possessed any weapons of mass destruction--untold stockpiles of lethal biological and chemical ...
Hidden Enemies.(Iraq War)
Apr 02, 2007 ... As 2004 dawned, Saddam was in jail and his sons had been killed. But the initial, heady sense of victory continued to crumble. Iraq's civic and economic order had all but ceased to function--and many Iraqis blamed America. In Sunni-dominated cities and towns like Fallujah, shadowy ...
A Glimmer of Hope.(correspondence of American soldiers, Iraq War)
Apr 02, 2007 ... By the third year of the war, the white house focused on turning Iraq into a showcase of Middle Eastern democracy. In the first of three elections in 2005, millions of jubilant Iraqis waved their purple-stained fingers for the cameras--a rare triumphal moment. The fact that the vast ...
Things Fall Apart.(Iraq war)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The air changed early on the morning of Feb. 22, 2006. That day a gang of saboteurs, presumably Sunni, destroyed one of the holiest shrines of Shiite Islam, the gold-domed Askariya Mosque in Samarra. The restraint that Shiites had demonstrated in the face of insurgent attacks quickly ...
'If You're Reading This . . . '.(goodbye letters from troops in Iraq)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Combat troops live every day with the specter of their mortality. Usually, they ignore it and do their jobs. But at some point, heading for a war zone or shaken by a close call, many of them write letters to be read only if they don't make it home alive. They want to convey the things that ...
GRAPHIC: THE HUMAN COST OF WAR.(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Text and Reporting by Jessica Ramirez; Graphic by Stanford Kay Four years after President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, U.S. armed forces have served a combined total of about 1 million tours of duty. More than 3,200 have been killed in the process and at least ...
We Protect Kids From Everything But Fear; With hand sanitizer and long-sleeved swimsuits, we're teaching our children a dangerous lesson.(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Paula Spencer (Spencer lives in Chapel Hill, N. C.) Four 11- and 12-year-old girls stood in front of my open pantry, mouths gaping wide. "Look! Fruit Roll-Ups!" "Oh, my God! Chocolate-chip cookies!" "You have regular potato chips? We only get the soy kind!" ...
Perspectives.(quotations )
Apr 02, 2007 ... "I will veto it if it comes to my desk." President George W. Bush,on a bill passed by the House to withdraw American troops from Iraq by September 2008 "Frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like this. It's pretty ...
Executive Privilege Edition.(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... When Nixon invoked this privilege during Watergate, the Supreme Court nixed him. Will they be as tough on the guy they elected? Bush (down) Conditions for aides to meet Congress: No oath or transcripts. Sounds like one of Cheney's covert ops. The Edwardses ((up) ...
A Test for Gonzales.
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Richard Wolffe When dispirited Justice Department officials assembled for a senior staff meeting last Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales surprised them. "I just got off the phone with the president," he said, "and he told me he wants me to ...
A New Struggle for Edwards.
Apr 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Darman Early last Friday morning, John Edwards was back at work. A day earlier, the Democratic presidential candidate had shocked the nation with the sad news that his wife, Elizabeth, had suffered a recurrence of breast cancer that could be treated but not ...
A Sign of Rising Tensions.(Iranian navy takes British sailors into captivity)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball, John Barry and Michael Hirsh The Iranian navy may be no match for the blue-water fleets of America and Britain, but at a breakfast with reporters last year, Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. chief of Naval Operations, was clearly worried about the ...
What Breast-Cancer Survivors Can Expect.(Interview)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Last fall, Elizabeth Edwards was the guest speaker at a conference sponsored by NEWSWEEK and Harvard Medical School. Although she spoke about the sorrows in her life, she conveyed an inspiring optimism. Now she faces another tough fight. To learn more ...
Taking a Hard Look at CIFA.(Counter-Intelligence Field Activity)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball The Pentagon is reviewing the charter of a controversial counterspy agency set up by former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld after 9/11. The Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) was supposed to "coordinate" counterintel and antiterrorist reporting ...
Two Shots For Chicken Pox Now.(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Karen Springen Like 100 of their peers at Orchard Park Elementary in Ft. Mill, S.C., Emily Rivers, 9, and her sister, Olivia, 6, contracted chicken pox this year--despite getting immunized when they were a year old. The girls got sick because a single shot--the old ...
The List: Choosing the Chosen.
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller Michael Lynton was on a conference call recently when his assistant interrupted: Sen. Chuck Schumer was on the other line. Normally Lynton, who is chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, would take a call from the senator. But not this time. "We were so in the ...
Destination Earth.
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Devin Gordon Could any TV program sound more boring than an 11-hour nature documentary? Lions. Tigers. Bears. Oh my. But "Planet Earth," the Discovery Channel's breathtaking new wildlife series that globe-trots from caves to jungles to deserts to polar ice caps, never ...
What's Your Food Footprint?(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Karen Breslau As if counting calories weren't enough, now you can calculate the "carbon cost" of your food. Starting next month, Bon Appetit, a food-service company that operates corporate and university cafeterias, will test a "low-carbon diet," designed to reduce the ...
A Life In Books: Walter Mosley.(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... All writers lie about their favorite books, says Walter Mosley, author of 28 novels, including "Devil in a Blue Dress." He says the most important books are read before the age of 12, so any list of books read later must be arbitrary. He humored us anyway. My Five Most Important ...
Was It Business Or ... Personal?
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn Lawsuits are always written to make the target look guilty. But even by those standards, the countersuit filed last week by Wal-Mart against Julie Roehm is a devastating narrative. It alleges that before being fired in December, Roehm, formerly the ...
Who's Your Comrade?(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler Once, the FBI would have loved to see this stuff. Actually, they probably did see it, but now everyone will get a look at the files of the Communist Party USA, which the party is donating to the Tamiment Library of New York University. The huge trove of ...
Tying the Financial Knot; Getting hitched? Don't even think of it before you've had 'the talk' with your beloved. No, not that talk. The one about money.
Apr 09, 2007;
Expert Advice: Love by the Numbers; Your new marriage is bliss--until the bickering over finances begins. How to keep money from wrecking your home life.(Interview)
Apr 09, 2007;
Caveman Chic; They're hairy, hostile and sporting designer clothes. Geico's prehistoric pitchmen are on TV every commercial break. But are they ready for a sitcom of their own?(John Lehr)
Apr 09, 2007;
Mail Call: Exercise Might Just Aid What Ails You.(Letter to the editor)
Apr 09, 2007
The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
Apr 09, 2007;
AP Harry's College Try.(advanced placement)
Apr 09, 2007;
Walk Through Fire; Hard times feed the insurgency, and the insurgency keeps Iraq in ruins. A report from the front, such as it is.
Apr 09, 2007;
A Desert's Lion in Winter; How the Saudi king, disillusioned with Bush, is trying to save the Arabs.(King Abdullah, George W. Bush)
Apr 09, 2007;
Why Sanctions Are Working.
Apr 09, 2007;
Babes in the Holy Land; Israel flirts with a racy new public-relations strategy.
Apr 09, 2007;
The $4 Billion Man; Hanks, Cruise and Gibson used to be the top guns, but not anymore. Meet the new most powerful actor on the planet--Will Smith.
Apr 09, 2007;
Swindler's List; Clifford Irving wrote a phony autobiography of Howard Hughes, but 'The Hoax' is the real deal.
Apr 09, 2007;
The Miracle of My Mother's Easter Pies; When my mother died, we weren't expecting a fortune. Then we looked in the back of her freezer.
Apr 09, 2007;
Private Lives in a Public Campaign; As John Edwards travels the country, he's sticking to his message--and caring for a sick wife.
Apr 09, 2007;
'I'm Not Praying for God to Save Me'; Elizabeth Edwards talks about cancer and how the death of a son gives her the perspective she needs to cope.(Interview)
Apr 09, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Alter After disclosing that her breast cancer, first diagnosed before the 2004 election, had spread to her bones, Elizabeth Edwards became a symbol of how to cope with recurrence. The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, Elizabeth sat down with ...
Newsmakers.(Heath Ledger)(Interview)
Apr 09, 2007;
Perspectives.
Apr 09, 2007
RAPSHEET EDITION.(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007
CAMPAIGN 2008: Meet the 'Law & Order' Candidate.
Apr 09, 2007 ... Byline: Holly Bailey It looks as if Fred Thompson is getting ready to run for president. Friends of the former Tennessee senator turned actor (anonymous to protect their relationship) say he's increasingly tempted to enter the 2008 Republican primaries, fueled in part by new ...
Rove: A Moving Target.(Karl Rove)
Apr 09, 2007;
GIULIANI: What Did He Know About Kerik?(Bernard Kerik)
Apr 09, 2007;
Beliefwatch: Marriage.
Apr 09, 2007;
Fast Chat: The Risk of Opting Out.(Leslie Bennetts)(Interview)(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007;
Culture: Oh Bother! It's Darby.(Christopher Robin)(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007;
The Gulf: The New Hostage Crisis.(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007;
The Military: Out, and On the Lam.(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007;
Mormons: With Cheney, Even the Faithful Protest.(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007;
'American Idol': The Power of the Brand.
Apr 09, 2007
A Life In Books: Dana Gioia.(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007
Higher Rates! Bigger Fees!(subprime borrowers)
Apr 09, 2007;
Is God Real?
Apr 09, 2007
The God Debate; At The Summit: On a cloudy California day, the atheist Sam Harris sat down with the Christian pastor Rick Warren to hash out Life's Biggest Question: is God real? A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Interview)
Apr 09, 2007;
In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains.
Apr 09, 2007
My Life with Cancer.(Cover story)
Apr 09, 2007;
Reflection: 'We Have to Be Ruthless'; An iconic survivor challenges the nation to close the gap between what we know and what we do about cancer.
Apr 09, 2007;
The Long and Winding Road; From their Beetles to their boxy SUVs, Americans who grew up in the '60s and '70s defined themselves by what they drove.
Apr 09, 2007;
Memoir: It Was Love at First Shift; My first car was a cute foreign beauty with mysterious ways.
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