Newsweek back issues from September 2007:
Disinvited to The Party.(Republican Party's Rudy Giuliani)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen One of the complaints you hear a lot from readers when you're in my line of work and live in my part of the country is that you can't understand America from the vantage point of New York City. I'm beginning to think there's some truth to that, and it's ...
Fall Preview: Books.(Book review)
Sep 03, 2007 ... 'Exit Ghost,' Philip Roth, October : Roth says goodbye to his longtime fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. (The four novels collected in the Library of America's new "Zuckerman Bound" include a prehistory of this fictional fiction writer with a scandalous best seller.) Zuckerman returns ...
You, Too, Can Have A Bionic Body; New materials and high-tech procedures are driving a surge in hip, knee and even ankle replacements.
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael Susan Burke's left knee was humbling her. At 54, she wanted to hike and whitewater raft through the national parks or, at the very least, to stroll around the block with her husband at night, as she'd always done. Instead, she could barely walk from her ...
A Case of Prius Envy; Honda introduced the gas-electric car to America, but Toyota's Prius became the synonym for 'hybrid.' Here's how Honda hopes to regain its enviro street cred.
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Keith Naughton (with Mary Chapman) Peter Kessner, a devout environmentalist, bought a Honda Civic hybrid four years ago to show everyone that he wants to save the planet. The only problem: no one noticed, since, other than the hybrid badge on the trunk, it looked like a ...
Mail Call: The Global Warming Debate; Readers weigh in on climate change and its causes.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 03, 2007 ... Our Aug. 13 report on the global-warming "denial machine" elicited more than 250 passionate responses. One reader declared the article "a public-service piece," adding, "It doesn't take a great intellect to figure out that humans are having a negative impact on our environment." But many ...
The Editor's Desk.(on correspondents' reports)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Sami Yousafzai, NEWSWEEK's correspondent in Afghanistan, wasn't counting on the interview. In reporting this week's cover story on the six-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, Sami reached out to a Taliban source who told him to come to a mountain village even ...
Taking On Tourette's; A new approach to stopping tics before they happen offers hope to thousands who live with the disorder.
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Marg MacKrell was just 3 when her parents noticed the first signs of what turned out to be Tourette syndrome. The blond toddler began sniffing her fingers repeatedly, and over the next six years, her uncontrolled tics came to ...
When Opposites Attract; Washington and Lafayette were oddly matched, but joined forces in the great, close-run fight for equality and freedom.(Pres. George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Evan Thomas On July 27, 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette and 14 other French military officers arrived in Philadelphia hot, filthy and exhausted. They had slipped past the British blockade in Charleston, S.C., and trekked for 32 days to the capital of the newly created ...
Into Thin Air.(Osama bin Laden's whereabouts)(Cover story)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: This story was reported by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border; Zahid Hussain in Islamabad; Rod Nordland in Tora Bora; Mark Hosenball, Michael Hirsh, Michael Isikoff, John Barry, Dan Ephron and Eve Conant in Washington; Christopher Dickey in Paris, and ...
Black-Gold Booster; Energy's Future: A onetime oilman admits we need alternatives, but says there's plenty of petroleum left.(Lee Raymond)(Interview)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Lee Raymond succeeded as an oilman by staying focused on oil. (In the mid-1980s, he was responsible for unwinding the alternative-energy program at his former company, Exxon.) Now chairman of the National Petroleum Council, Raymond says that petroleum ...
Pakistan's Power Game; Former leader Benazir Bhutto on the tumult in Islamabad.(Interview)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Lally Weymouth It looks like Pervez Musharraf's days as president of Pakistan may be numbered if he does not change course. With one rival, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, threatening to return to Pakistan, Musharraf has been meeting with another former archenemy, ...
Fall Preview: Music.(Sound recording review)
Sep 03, 2007 ... 'Graduation,' Kanye West, 9/11: West's third record drops the same day rival rapper 50 Cent releases his new CD. A showdown has ensued (naturally), and 50 has vowed to quit the rap game forever if West outsells him (country crooner Kenny Chesney has also thrown his Stetson in the ring, ...
Mt. Vernon, Va.: Washington Slept Here.(George Washington's residence in Virginia)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Beschloss Shortly before George Washington retired as president in 1797, two of his cherished house slaves--Martha's helper Oney Judge and their chef, Hercules--ran away. Tracked down at Washington's order, Oney tried to set strict conditions for her return, ...
Fall Preview: Movies; Summer's over, school is back, but the consolation of fall was always that the best films, shows, CDs and books were ripe for picking. Now there's too much competition, too much stuff. How to figure out what's worthy? Here is a warts-and-all preview, arranged from sublime to subprime.(Movie review)
Sep 03, 2007 ... 'No Country for Old Men,' 11/9: The mighty Coen brothers have been in a rut. Their last two films, "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers," both big-studio comedies, flopped. But they're back on familiar ground with this eye-popping adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's brutal thriller ...
The Love That Will Finally Speak Its Name; It took the death of my dear life partner for me to find the courage to come out of the closet.(Personal account)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Loraine Barr I was born at a time when to have romantic feelings for another woman was known as "the love that dare not speak its name." I first read Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" around 1938, in my impressionable teens. The book was a heartfelt cry for ...
Perfect Stranger.(Politics)(U.S. presidential candidates)(Correction notice)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Holly Bailey ***** We incorrectly reported that Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson were not on the Iowa ballot ("Perfect Stranger," Sept. 3). In fact, each candidate was on the ballot, but none chose to actively compete there. NEWSWEEK regrets the ...
Bush's History Problem; In Vietnam, our adversary had an alternative ideology. That is not the case in Iraq.(George W. Bush)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh Much was changing in Vietnam when I visited in December 1991, in the waning hours of the Soviet Union. The coziness between Moscow and Hanoi, once comrades, had curdled into mutual contempt. The Russians, aware their empire was imploding, had little ...
Newsmakers.(interview with Scarlett Johansson)(Interview)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Scarlett Johansson Her last performance was in a Justin Timberlake music video, but Johansson returns to movies as the nanny in "The Nanny Diaries." She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Did you have a nanny growing up? I came from a ...
Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
Sep 03, 2007 ... "I say to the president ... 'Pick whatever number you wish'." Sen. John Warner, on his proposed withdrawal of an as-yet-undetermined number of U.S. troops from Iraq by winter "Sentencing is about a final accounting. It is a closure; it is a reckoning." ...
Periscope: Special Shafted Edition.
Sep 03, 2007 ... On the heels of Utah coal disaster, Bush admin greenlights 'mountaintop mining' to wreck environment. Nice crowd. Bush (down) Old take: Don't dare compare Iraq to Vietnam. New: Reason to fight on--we should have stayed in Vietnam. Warner (up) Va. GOP senator breaks ...
A Doctor Says She Didn't Murder Her Patients.(Anna Pou)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Julie Scelfo The tragic deaths at New Orleans's Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina were among the most notorious examples of the vast human suffering that resulted from the flooding of the city--and the government's incompetent response to the disaster. At ...
Iraq: Another Troubling Report Enters the Fray.(National Intelligence Estimate)(Brief article)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Spies normally abhor publicity, and many U.S. intelligence officials are dismayed that once secret intelligence reports have now moved to center stage in the debate over war. National Intelligence Estimates, like the summary on Iraq made public last week, ...
BeliefWatch: Ever After.(polygamy issue among Mormons)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller No group is more emphatically and publicly opposed to the practice of polygamy than the Latter-day Saints. The topic is, however, irresistible and perennial. While the Mormon Church banned plural marriage more than 100 years ago and promises excommunication ...
Dissent on The Front.(U.S. Army paratroopers' opinion piece in the New York Times)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Nick Summers and Catharine Skipp Are there consequences for soldiers who write publicly, and prominently, against the war? Eight are finding out. "We have failed on every promise," wrote seven 82nd Airborne paratroopers in a stark dispatch from Baghdad that was the lead ...
Cancer's New Pitch.(Periscope; Charity)(Correction notice)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Daniel McGinn ***** In "Cancer's New Pitch" (Periscope, Sept. 3) the name of Los Angeles designer Julia Fikse was misspelled. NEWSWEEK regrets the error ***** Two summers ago a group of Philadelphia-area women who were preparing for ...
A Life in Books: Michael Pollan.(Interview)(Brief article)
Sep 03, 2007 ... In "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Michael Pollan said we're all eating wrong. For this interview, he had his own dilemma. He took a long look at his bookshelf, then called us back. My Five Most Important Books "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau. It got me thinking hard ...
ALCOHOL: War's Liquor Legacy.(Brief article)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Tony Dokoupil Every American war has inspired a cocktail. There's the Artillery Punch (Civil War), the French 75 (WWI), the Kamikaze (WWII) and the Napalm shot (Vietnam). So what about Iraq? The top contenders World Peace: A diplomatic gin martini served at ...
Campus Crusaders; The complicated story of tiny Patrick Henry College, where Christian students prepare for the world's fight.
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Va., is the kind of place that would make most coastal liberals run screaming. A tiny college with about 500 students, its stated goal is to "prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our ...
The Catch-22 Of Economics.
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We are now in the "blame phase" of the economic cycle. As the housing slump deepens and swings in financial markets widen, we've embarked on the usual search for culprits. Who got us into this mess? Our investigations will doubtlessly reveal, as they ...
The Blackboard Bungles; Three authors take us inside today's classroom. These flies on the wall reveal how we might fix our schools.(The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle; Tested; A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools)(Book review)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Peg Tyre In 1965, after Jonathan Kozol was fired from his job in a Boston public school for teaching his African-American fourth graders a Langston Hughes poem that was not part of the curriculum, he went on to write a book that laid bare the inequities of a segregated ...
Putting Brains On the Couch.(use of electroencephalogram to diagnose bipolar disorder)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Sharon Begley (With Jeneen Interlandi) For doctors who treat illnesses that strike from the neck down, a patient's symptoms are only the first step toward a diagnosis. No sooner do they hear "It hurts when I climb stairs" than they order blood work, X-rays or other ...
Era of the Super Cruncher; Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.(Super Crunchers)(Book review)
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Jerry Adler If the editors of a magazine--NEWSWEEK, for instance--want to know what interests their readers, their resources are limited. They can count cover sales, but that only tells them about one story a week. They can convene a focus group, but that's a cumbersome ...
Dollars for Scholars; A bold experiment pays parents to do the right thing.(New York's experimental program 'Opportunity NYC')
Sep 03, 2007; ... Byline: Raina Kelley Paying kids for good grades is a popular (if questionable) parenting tactic. But when school starts next week, New York City will try to use the same enticement to get parents in low-income neighborhoods more involved in their children's education and ...
Fall Preview: Theater & Art.
Sep 03, 2007 ... 'Young Frankenstein,' 11/8: Can lightning strike twice? We don't mean the lightning crackling around the mad doctor's spooky castle. We mean: can Mel Brooks have a monster hit transforming his 1974 movie comedy into a Broadway musical, just as he did with "The Producers"? And can he and ...
Fall Preview: Television.
Sep 03, 2007 ... 'Dirty Sexy Money,' 9/26: Start with that title: so deliberately sleazy, so nakedly provocative that it must be a joke, right? Yep, it's a joke, and it's a good one. ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" is a rollicking satire, a cathartic slap at a culture that has gorged itself on the lifestyles of ...
Truly, Madly, Deeply; Theresa Duncan created acclaimed videogames. Jeremy Blake was a digital-art pioneer. They were talented, successful and in love. And then they committed suicide. How the technology that infused their work helped destroy them.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Tony Dokoupil On July 10, Jeremy Blake returned to his downtown Manhattan apartment from a day of meetings with plans to relax with a bottle of Scotch. The 35-year-old digital artist, whose work is already enshrined in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern ...
From a Sunny Mordor to the Garden State; Junot Diaz's first novel is worth all the waiting.(The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)(Book review)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: David Gates It's been 11 years since the Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz published his first book, the justly celebrated story collection "Drown." Back then, the novelist Francisco Goldman predicted that Diaz would become "a giant of American prose." Good call. Now ...
Securing (Or Not) Your Right to Vote.(analysis of California's electronic voting machines)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Steven Levy Next year we'll have the second presidential election since the horribly botched one in 2000. Can we expect better? An answer comes from the highest election official in the most populated state in the Union. Worried about a string of reported ...
Blog Watch: What's and What's Not; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs.(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007 ... Should MTV's hit reality show "The Hills," about four affluent girlfriends in Los Angeles, be seen as "Sex and the City" for a younger generation? Gawker.com seems to think so. The blog jezebel.com ponders a recent Cosmopolitan story on "gray rape," a euphemism for acquaintance ...
The New Money Pit; It started with subprime mortgages. Now owners of McMansions are defaulting, and the effects of the housing bust are beginning to ripple through the economy.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Daniel Gross (With Eleazar David Melendez in Henderson, Alice Chen in Merced, Lynn Waddell in Tampa and Temma Ehrenfeld in New York) Walking through the gated community of Black Mountain Vista on a hill in Henderson, Nev., Thomas Blanchard offers a guided tour of ...
Mail Call: Changing the Way Millions Connect.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 10, 2007 ... Readers of our cover story on Facebook were intrigued by the online behemoth, but the majority were worried by the impersonal nature of such social interaction. One said, "I'm honestly puzzled by this Internet-friendship phenomenon. I wish someone would explain the huge psychological shift ...
The Editor's Desk.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Howard Baker sensed it early. In 1966, after he became the first Republican senator from Tennessee since Reconstruction, he asked his aide Bill Hamby to keep an eye out for fresh talent for the nascent state GOP. By 1972, when Baker was running for ...
Now, Defining Decency Down.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: George F. Will Last week, a U.S. senator's 27-year congressional career crashed and burned and his life unraveled in public ignominy, and a presidential candidate announced his disgust in a way that did him no credit. The U.S. attorney general made a resignation ...
Well-Rounded Docs; That's the goal as medical schools seek out and admit more nonscience students. English majors welcome.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Sarah Kliff One week into his premed classes at Washington University in St. Louis, Ryan Jacobson was rethinking his plan to become a doctor. His biology and chemistry classes were large, competitive and impersonal--not how he wanted to spend the next four years. ...
Baghdad's New Owners; Shiites now dominate the once mixed capital, and there is little chance of reversing the process.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Larry Kaplow (With Iraqi Staff in Baghdad) It was their last stand. Kamal and a handful of his neighbors were hunkered down on the roof of a dun-colored house in southwest Baghdad two weeks ago as bullets zinged overhead. In the streets below, ...
Why We Need a Draft; An Iraq veteran and 9/11 survivor says that we cannot win until all Americans sacrifice.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: CPL. Mark Finelli (Finelli is an inactive, noncommissioned officer in the Marine Corps.) Maybe we would have only lost those three instead of 13," I thought to myself on a dusty Friday in Fallujah in early November 2005. I was picking up the pieces of a truck that hours ...
Stalin's Tipping Point; The battle for Moscow--the biggest, bloodiest clash in human history--helped turn the tide against Hitler. But the Soviet leader came closer than most realize to defeat.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Andrew Nagorski By mid-October 1941, most of Moscow's residents were convinced that their city was about to be overrun by the Germans. The NKVD, as the Soviet secret police was then called, had prepared the first of what promised to be a series of pamphlets. "Comrades! ...
Go Ahead, Make Her Day; More than 30 years after 'Taxi Driver,' Jodie Foster grabs a gun and gets her revenge in 'The Brave One.'.(Interview)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Devin Gordon Over the course of her new film, "The Brave One," Jodie Foster kills eight people. She plays a public-radio host named Erica Bain who survives a brutal attack in New York's Central Park during which her fiance is killed. After she heals, she slowly ...
The Train to the Plain; Crowe and Bale keep '3:10 to Yuma' on track--barely.(Russell Crowe and Christian Bale)(Movie review)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: David Ansen James Mangold's remake of the 1957 Western "3:10 to Yuma" is a decent-enough entertainment, though it's hardly going to breathe new life to a genre whose demise has been reported for at least 30 years. What this version offers is the chance to watch Russell ...
What Grandma Kept Hidden From Us; Deep down, I didn't want to know the truth about Babushka if it meant dealing with my own mortality.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Anya Ulinich (Ulinich lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.) By the time I took my 2-year-old daughter to visit her great-grandmother in Moscow, we hadn't seen my Grandma Gita in more than a year. After my grandfather's death, Grandma had spent two winters at my parents' house in ...
Grin and Bear It; His story sings--a small-town boy who became a senator and a star. But does he have the requisite fire in the belly? We'll soon see.(Fred Thompson)(Cover story)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Holly Bailey (With Richard Wolffe, Eleanor Clift, Eve Conant and Mary Carmichael) Fred Thompson does not want to meet the Butter Princess. Everywhere he turns at this morning's meet-and-greet at the Minnesota State Fair, he is surrounded by hundreds of star-struck ...
Talk to the Hand; You know about Republican Sen. Larry Craig's arrest on disorderly conduct charges in a Minneapolis bathroom. But do you know about the cop he tried to solicit?
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Keith Naughton (With Hilary Shenfeld, Catharine Skipp, Kevin Taylor and Suzanne Smalley) A 49-year-old traveling salesman allegedly seeking sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom in June noticed a boyish young man with short, sandy hair and an athletic build standing at a ...
A Rush to Judgment; 'Until Proven Innocent' is harshly critical of the city and campus response to the Duke University rape case.(Book review)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Roya Wolverson) On March 28, 2006, the four co-captains of the Duke lacrosse team accused of gang-raping an exotic dancer met with university president Richard Brodhead. One of the captains, David Evans, emotionally protested that the team was innocent ...
Last Stop on The 'V'-Train.(values)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Earlier this year, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig explained why he favors Mitt Romney. "First and foremost," Craig said, "he has very strong family values." That platitude had power for Craig, as it did for his party. But it turns out that family values might no ...
Newsmakers.(Tim Gunn)(Interview)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Tim Gunn The "Project Runway" star knows his way around the closet, so we asked him to come raid ours (see the video online). He then spoke to Ramin Setoodeh about his Bravo show, "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style." Are people nervous ...
Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
Sep 10, 2007 ... "[He's] leaving, but these questions remain." Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, pushing for further investigation into whether departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave false testimony to Congress "I'm sure that there are going to be a lot of red-faced people over ...
Conventional Wisdom: Wide Stance Edition.
Sep 10, 2007 ... Even before Petraeus report, Bush decides to request another $50 billion for Iraq--and doesn't tell Secretary of Defense Gates. Beautiful. Bush (down) Another great week: A.G. out, a GOP scandal, Iraq bad as ever, Katrina anniv. is reminder of incompetence. Larry ...
A Systematic Failure.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Daren Briscoe Louisiana politicians and the federal government have had two years to fix the sewers of St. Bernard Parish since Hurricane Katrina destroyed every pump and lifting station in the 30-mile network. Little to nothing has been done. For now, emergency trucks ...
Why Gonzales Bailed.(Alberto Gonzales)(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Richard Wolffe Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told friends he resigned last week at the urging of his wife following a summer vacation. But he had plenty of reasons to leave the capital. Just days earlier, congressional leaders had signaled they ...
Fund-Raising: Oprah's Obama Blowout.(Oprah Winfrey's support of Barack Obama)(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Allison Samuels Oprah Winfrey has said she's not interested in running for president--but can she help elect one? On Saturday afternoon, Winfrey will throw the flashiest fund-raiser of the 2008 cycle when she welcomes about 1,500 guests to her Montecito, Calif., home to ...
Defending The Surge.(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Dan Ephron What could Gen. David Petraeus possibly say next week to convince a never-more-skeptical Congress that the troop surge in Iraq is working? A 5,000-word blog entry penned by one of his key aides and widely linked by military bloggers could provide clues. Dave ...
BeliefWatch: Memoirs.
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Lisa Miller Some experiences just inspire people to pick up a pen. Convinced that what they saw, felt or heard was profound and unique, these writers are moved to share. Jury duty is one such experience. Parenthood is another. Religious conversion, or an intense ...
Dial and Tribulation.(United States Do Not Call Registry)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Kurt Soller At county fairs in Pennsylvania this summer, visitors lined up for the Ferris wheel, pie-eating contests--and to renew their spot on the state's Do Not Call Registry. Who knew that the list, which was established in 2002, came with a five-year expiration ...
Separation Anxieties.(resegregation in public schools)(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Matthew Philips This fall, returning students might not have to try so hard to fit in--but that's not necessarily a good thing. According to a new report, more public schools are filled with students of the same racial and economic backgrounds than at any time in the ...
Brown's the New Black.(New York Fashion Week features Charlie Brown and the 'Peanuts' characters)(Brief article)
Sep 10, 2007; ... Byline: Kurt Soller Charlie Brown is neither tall nor skinny enough to be a model, but he's still landing on the runway. At this week's Fashion Week in New York, more than 20 designers are bringing the Peanuts characters to life in a charity couture show. "At first I thought, ...