Newsweek back issues from March 2008:
Hand-Tied By The Times.(Howard Fineman; Living Politics)(John McCain; The New York Times)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Howard Fineman There is no easier TV "get" in Washington than Sen. John McCain. When Sunday talk-show bookers call, he always says yes--52 times to "Meet the Press" alone, a record for current officeholders. Last week, though, he was suddenly, categorically, unavailable ....
Winding Down Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH)(George W. Bush; Barack Obama; Hillary Clinton)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... After hallucinating over a brokered convention (Al Gore in smoke-filled room!) reality sets in: it's almost over. Bush UP - Goes to Africa, where he's almost as popular as Obama. But give him props for AIDS relief. Obama UP - Winning streak up to 11 blowouts--and he's ...
On the Road to Denver.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT REMAINING PRIMARIES)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Never thought we'd get this far with arrows still to distribute. Is the Denny's still open? Ohio UP - Gov, shot-and-beer crowd for Hillary, but her NAFTA record won't help. Toss-up. Texas UP - Weird primary/caucus setup favors Barack in delegate count. Advantage: ...
Home Cooking.(Anna Quindlen; THE LAST WORD)(children; parenting)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Sending the kids off to college is one rite of passage. But it's when they finally leave for real that the biggest breach begins. The other day my son cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner, all in a single frying pan. Scrambled eggs, grilled ...
A Friendly Ghost.(Books)('Vindicated')
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Andrew Murr When a naughty celebrity wants to write a memoir, he calls Pablo Fenjves. Pablo Fenjves first made a name for himself as the ghostwriter on "If I Did It," the hypothetical confession by O. J. Simpson in which The Juice explained how he might have ...
'Mad Men': The Novel.(Books)('The Learners')(Book review)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Amid Capeci In 'The Learners,' advertising is so seductive, even the art directors can't resist their own campaigns. An advertising career has always held the allure of mind control: the ability to persuade an insatiable nation to buy something based on a ...
Web Surfer, Heal Thyself.(The Technologist)(electronic health records; The Cleveland Clinic)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Steven Levy Medical files in a doctor's care have special legal protections. Not when they're stored by Microsoft or Google. The Cleveland clinic, the renowned nonprofit medical center, has kept electronic records of its patients for some time. But despite the ...
Borrowers Are Out In The Cold.(Business)(credit market)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Gross; With Mary Chapman In Detroit, And Temma Ehrenfeld And Ashley Harris In New York It's no longer just people with bad credit who are feeling the squeeze. Americans with good credit at all income levels are now caught in a full-blown credit crunch. ...
Fault Lines Form as Republicans Battle.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 03, 2008 ... 'There Will Be Blood': Readers gave a thumbs down to the conservative revolt against the GOP front runner. "What's really bothering these right-wing windbags is not John McCain, but the realization that they have become irrelevant," one said. Another wrote, "McCain's success is a message ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Addiction knows no social or geographic boundaries: what John Cheever called "The Sorrows of Gin" are democratic in their destructiveness. I know few people who have not been affected in some way by addiction--in the world where I grew up, the drug of choice ...
What Addicts Need.(Cover Story: Science; Science)(Cover story)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jeneen Interlandi; With Raina Kelley Addiction isn't a weakness; it's an illness. Now vaccines and other new drugs may change the way we treat it. Annie Fuller knew she was in trouble a year ago, when in the space of a few hours she managed to drink a male ...
And Now, Back In The Real World --.(Cover Story: Science; Law Enforcement)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Claudia Kalb; With Tina Peng And Karen Springen A report from the front in the never-ending war on drugs. Seth Norman, a criminal court judge in Nashville, doesn't know a lot about dopamine receptors or glutamate. A cure for addiction? "I'd love to see it," he ...
Sadly, There Is No Magic Bullet.(Cover Story: Science)(pharmaceutical)(Cover story)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Addiction is not solely a disease of the brain. The case for holistic treatment. Drugs--We love them. We've come to believe in a prescription for every condition and a pill for every ill. Industry advertising tells us what doctors should prescribe for a catalog of ailments, real ...
Every Breath They Take.(Periscope; HEALTH MATTERS)(Column)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: David Noonan ***** CORRECTION: "Every Breath They Take" Misidentified Sara Rosenbaum's academic affiliation. She is chair of the department of health policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ...
Island Of Failed Promises.(International)(Cuba)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Joseph Contreras; With Monica Campbell In Mexico City Younger Cubans have waited all their lives for Fidel to deliver. And now? The phone woke Yoani Sanchez long before dawn in her 12th-floor Havana apartment. It was a French TV network calling to get her ...
This Is Pakistan's War.(Fareed Zakaria; World View)(elections and democracy)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria 'If [people] are permitted to choose their own destiny -- the extremists will be marginalized.' True or false? In one of his many speeches on the sources of Islamic terrorism, George W. Bush argued that "when a dictatorship controls the ...
Don't Just Call Me Jane.(My Turn)(author on her name)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Johnna Kaplan; Kaplan Lives In New London, Conn. Sure, it gets mispronounced all the time. But my unique name is an important part of my identity. I am so accustomed to people's getting my name wrong that I will answer to almost anything. I have been called ...
Good For The Jews?(Middle East)(Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh And Dan Ephron Hillary Clinton's surrogates are questioning Obama's commitment to U.S.-Israel relations. The comment seemed like a casual aside. Ann Lewis, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, was touting the New York senator's strong support ...
How They Have Lost.(Politics)(Hillary and Bill Clinton)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Darman; With Sarah Kliff And Elise Soukup In defeat, the Clintons are remarkably adept at picking up the pieces. Hillary Clinton has always been the woman who doesn't quit. Her supporters testify to her stamina--how at an endless upstate meeting on ...
With Friends Like These ...(Campaign 2008)(John McCain's alleged relationship with Vicki Iseman)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Evan Thomas And Michael Isikoff; With Holly Bailey, Suzanne Smalley, Richard Wolffe, Pat Wingert And Eve Conant McCain's denial that he had a romantic relationship with a lobbyist was firm, but it invited a game of catch me if you can. It was the kind of press ...
Hillary Should Get Out Now.(Jonathan alter; Between The Lines)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter ***** CORRECTION: In Jonathan Alter's column "Hillary Should Get Out Now" (March 3), the reference to Barack Obama's then 925,000 lead in the popular vote incorrectly stated that that total included the disputed votes in Florida and Michigan ....
The New Monroe Doctrine.(Newsmakers)(Marilyn Monroe; Lindsay Lohan)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Hello, Norma Jean. Again. Marilyn Monroe has been gone for more than 45 years, but she's with us now as ever, thanks to the never-ending string of women (and a few men) for whom she is an inspiration, or just a costume. The latest wanna-be, Lindsay Lohan, went for the Marilyn of "The Last ...
Anne Heche.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Heche stars in "Men in Trees," which returns to ABC this week. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. You sound so happy. I am happy. Are you in love? I'm so in love! I have two incredible, incredible guys in my life ....
How to Act Like a Drama Queen.(Newsmakers; THE EQUATION)(Natalie Portman)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Natalie Portman has lost her head for a role before--OK, maybe she just lost all her hair. But this week she really sticks out her neck in "The Other Boleyn Girl." Portman plays the unlucky-in-love Anne. How does her performance measure up? We do the math, with the help of some past ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(quotations)(Quotation)
Mar 03, 2008 ... "It was something you would see in the National Enquirer, not The New York Times." Steve Schmidt, senior adviser to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, responding to a Times story that implied the Arizona senator had had a "romantic" relationship with a female lobbyist ...
Elections Usher In A New Face.(Periscope; Pakistan)(Makhdoom Amin Fahim)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Zahid Hussain, Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh Washington can expect to get along reasonably well with Pakistan's next prime minister. The Pakistan People's Party, the dominant partner in the newly elected ruling coalition, has chosen the eminently trusted politician ...
Antiterror Help Wanted.(Periscope; Intelligence)(National Counterterrorism Center director)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball In October 2007, National Counterterrorism Center director John Scott Redd, a retired Navy vice admiral, told a TV interviewer that the invasion of Iraq "probably" did not make the U.S. safer from terrorism. A few days later, Redd resigned, citing health ...
To Block A Nation's Birth.(Periscope; Kosovo)(Kosovo's independence)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Rod Nordland And Zoran Cirjakovic The world's eyes were fixed on Belgrade last Thursday when some 2,000 rioters broke off from a protest march against Kosovo's Feb. 17 declaration of independence and torched the U.S. Embassy. But the more telling attack came two days ...
The Question is Elementary, My Dear Watson.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(celebrities)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behaviors that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. It's come to this for Lindsay Lohan: she takes off all her clothes for a magazine spread and everyone agrees it's a smart career move. Wasn't she an actress ...
A Reformer Who Keeps 'The Faith'.(Periscope; Fast Chat)('The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It and Why It Matters')(Interview)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Lisa Miller Recent popular books by atheist authors have spawned a new generation of Christian apologists. The latest rebuttal is "The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It and Why It Matters," by Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate felon turned prison ...
When Tonya Met Nancy.(Periscope; CLOSURE)(Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jessica Bennett In the mass-media age, news captivates us for a moment and then vanishes. We revisit those stories to bring you the next chapter. STARTING POINT OLYMPIC figure skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly masterminds the 1994 ...
Animals With No Kingdom.(Periscope; Pets)(homeless pets)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Amy Green Low-income families aren't the only victims of the mortgage crisis: there's also a surge in homeless pets. Animal shelters are flooding with the furry friends of people who can no longer afford their property--or their pets. The Society for the Prevention of ...
This Is Your Brain On Scary Ads.(Periscope; Commercials)(shock advertising)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jessica Bennett The image is meant to shock: a little girl's face atop a woman's body, cleavage spilling over a low-cut cocktail dress. Behind it, the explanation: "When you look at a young girl as something more, you need help." The ads are disturbing, to put it ...
Diane Ackerman.(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... A poet and naturalist, Ackerman is known for rhapsodic works of philosophy such as "An Alchemy of Mind." Her latest book is "The Zookeeper's Wife," the true story of a zookeeper who hid 300 Jews from the Nazis. Her list: My Five Most Important Books 1. "Benedictus" ...
Dolly's Back In The Saddle.(Periscope; Worth Your Time)('Backwoods Barbie' by Dolly Parton)(Sound recording review)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jac Chebatoris Dolly Parton excels at being Dolly Parton, and I love her for it. On the cover of her new CD, my girl--now 62--reclines on a pile of hay in the back of a pickup truck, resplendent in a leopard-print bodysuit, her belt cinching a diaphanous, hot-pink trench ...
HBO's Killer With A Code.(Periscope; Transition)(television character Omar Little in 'The Wire')(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Joshua Alston Omar Little, 34, Armed Robber A charming, cunning shotgun surgeon who made his living robbing drug dealers, Omar Little had an aura of permanence--amazing considering he wasn't a real person, he was a TV character (played by actor Michael K ....
The Specter of Stagflation.(Robert J. Samuelson; JUDGMENT CALLS)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We're not there yet, but the Federal Reserve may be steering us back to the 1970s by underestimating the danger of higher inflation. "Stagflation" is back in the headlines--but the term is being misused, and that's an important story. We're ...
How Your Brain Looks At Race.(Politics)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Sharon Begley; With Daniel Stone Not even Obama thinks America is 'post racial.' But neuroscience, like the primary results, suggests we are not doomed to see things in black and white. Robert Kurzban remembers when he felt a whisper of hope that racism was ...
Planners Wanted ASAP.(The Tip Sheet; MONEY)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn; Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld ***** CORRECTION: Tip Sheet's "Planners Wanted ASAP" (March 3) reported that "Virginia Tech in Martinsville offers undergraduate majors as well as master's degrees in financial planning." In fact, it is ...
New Rules of Refinancing.(The Tip Sheet; DEBT)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Linda Stern If you missed your chance five years ago, this might be a good time to refinance your home mortgage. The credit crunch has paradoxically produced the lowest interest rates in years. Rates on 30-year loans are below 6 percent, and 15-year loans are skirting ...
NET INTEREST.(The Tip Sheet)(online financial information services)(Website overview)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... The Internet is crawling with smart money sites offering calculators, data and advice. Below, TIP SHEET reviews some standouts that can help you make good financial choices. Analyzenow.com: A former engineer breaks down all the math behind retirement planning. It includes free ...
How Green is Your Stuff?(The Tip Sheet; ENVIRONMENT)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Linda Stern Greenwashing isn't about salad prep. It's what companies do when they plaster their products with meaningless but inspiring labels like EARTH-FRIENDLY and ECO-SAFE. Sounds good, looks pretty, but how do you know whether you're really getting an ...
The Battle of the Banks.(The Tip Sheet; SAVINGS)(rewards checking)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008 ... With rates on money-market accounts and certificates of deposit stuck around 3 percent, it hardly seems worth driving by the bank to make a deposit. But now a relatively new kind of account, called rewards checking, is showing up at hundreds of banks around the country, promising to pay as ...
Give It the Old College Buy.(The Tip Sheet; ASK THE PRO)(Mark Kantrowitz)(Interview)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Cash-strapped parents are filling out their aid forms in the face of higher college costs, a credit crunch and new student-loan legislation from Washington. TIP SHEET's Linda Stern asked Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, how you can get the most cash for your kids. ...
A Chicken-Fried Gourmet.(The Tip Sheet; FOOD AND DRINK)(Fearing's restaurant)(Restaurant review)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Julia Reed Granny Fearing's 'Paper Bag Shook' chicken with whipped potatoes appears on the same menu as a nice foie gras duo. My friend Robert Harling is a screenwriter who lives part of the time in Louisiana, which means that when he flies to L.A., he is ...
Checklist.(The Tip Sheet)(videos, sound recording, travel kit and festivals)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Mar 03, 2008 ... Our top picks for the week Rent "Darjeeling Limited." Director Wes Anderson transports his arch, melancholic sensibility to India, where three estranged brothers hop a train in a quixotic attempt to heal spiritual wounds. "Darjeeling" has a lightweight, coloring-book charm that ...
Quick! Plug Those Holes.(The Tip Sheet; RETIREMENT)(workers 401K plans)(Brief article)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Linda Stern Individual workers can sue their bosses for mismanaging their 401(k) plans, the Supreme Court said last week. But that doesn't mean the millions of employees who are watching their nest eggs shrink this year should race to the courthouse. They are more likely ...
Reality's Believe It Or Not.(Television)('Little People, Big World')
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Susanna Schrobsdorff Physically unusual people have 'performed' for decades. But on TV, they're bigger--and smaller--than ever. Is this entertainment, or exploitation? Who among us hasn't tried to weasel out of a traffic ticket with some creative excuse? "But ...
Score One For The Net.(Culture; Review & Rebuttal)(Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick)(Interview)
Mar 03, 2008; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh If at first you don't succeed, try your show in cyberspace. That's what the creators of 'Quarterlife' did. Not many shows get a second chance to succeed. "Quarterlife" is on its third. After ABC rejected the pilot, the show's creators, Marshall ...
East Side Story.(Profile)(Richard Price's Lush Life)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones Richard Price's novel may look like a murder story, but it's really a tough guy's love letter to the old neighborhood. Richard Price is no stranger to urban chaos. Since he hit the literary scene as a 25-year-old wunderkind with his first novel, ...
From Ping-Pong To Pyongyang.(Culture; First Person)(impact of a friendly table tennis match between US and China )
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Connie Sweeris; As Told To Tony Dokoupil How a 1971 table-tennis match put China in play. Before there was Philharmonic diplomacy, there was Ping-Pong diplomacy. In 1971, nine members of the U.S. national Ping-Pong team were invited to compete in communist ...
The Prince And The Taliban.(Periscope; Royalty)(Prince Harry's anonymous military service in Afghanistan)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Sami Yousafzai And Stryker Mcguire Despite the British government's concerted effort to preserve the secret, a veteran Taliban field officer claims he was scarcely surprised by the disclosure that Prince Harry was serving with Britain's troops in southern Afghanistan ....
Attack Ads On The Way.(Periscope; Campaign 2008)(Foundation for Defense of Democracies' TV commercials)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff A new series of TV commercials featuring sinister photos of Osama bin Laden may signal what's to come this fall: a wave of secretly financed political attack ads. The spots, by a group called Defense of Democracies, which was just created by former ...
Win (the Next) One for the Huckster.(Periscope; ANALOGY CHECK)(Mike Huckabee)(Brief article)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Matthew Philips History repeats itself, but not without a few wrinkles. We make the connections, then pick them apart. The Comparison Mike Huckabee's insistence on staying in the primary race against John McCain, despite calls from his own party to ...
Extinction Trade.(Society)(Janjaweed trade ivories for weapons)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Sharon Begley; With Scott Johnson In Nairobi, Jeneen Interlandi And Jason Overdorf In Delhi Endangered animals are the new blood diamonds as militias and warlords use poaching to fund death. The marauders galloped into Zakouma National Park in Chad, the last ...
A Room With A Hue.(The Arts)(Jim Lambie's ZOBOP)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Peter Plagens A vibrant new show at MoMA raises the question: why has the color drained out of contemporary art? Jim Lambie's "ZOBOP!" looks like a personal-injury lawsuit waiting to happen. "ZOBOP!" is a dizzying installation of meandering parallel strips of ...
Lo Mein Street, U.S.A.(Books)(Book review)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Americans love Chinese food. The problem is, most of what we're eating doesn't really come from China. In the United States, there are more Chinese restaurants than McDonald's, Burger Kings and KFCs combined. Chances are, you've got your own ...
The Unspeakable R Word.(Daniel Gross; MONEY CULTUREYes?)(recession)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Gross In certain quarters of Washington, understatement and euphemism, verging on denial, are par for the course. Testifying before Congress, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke conducted a master class in the art of understatement last week. "The ...
Arab-America's Store.(Business)(Wal-Mart stores open in Middle East)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Keith Naughton Wal-Mart stocks falafel, olives and Islamic greeting cards to attract Dearborn's ethnic shoppers. As Arwa Hamad strolls a new Wal-Mart, an eight-foot display of olive oil stops her in her tracks. "Oh, wow," she says, marveling at the sight of ...
A Concert Aims For Perfect Harmony.(Culture)(New York Philharmonic performs in North Korea)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Melinda Liu The N.Y. Philharmonic brings cultural diplomacy to North Korea, but the real encore may take a while. Kim Jung Rok's ears pricked up when he heard that the New York Philharmonic would play in Pyongyang as guests of his government. "I wanted to ...
She's Responsible for Keeping It Real.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 10, 2008 ... 'The Real Michelle Obama': Readers remain intrigued by Michelle Obama as a potential First Lady. One said, "I value authenticity more than secrecy and pretension, and feel inspired by this couple's frankness with one another. Thank you, Michelle, for taking your candor on the campaign ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
Mar 10, 2008 ... Byline: Jon Meacham The note was unexpected, brief and witty. A few years ago, in The New York Times Book Review, I wrote about a book of William F. Buckley Jr.'s (one of his 50), a "literary autobiography" titled "Miles Gone By." I had found the book charming, and said so. ...
McCain and the Oath.(George F. Will; THE LAST WORD)(John McCain)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: George F. Will He has not been bashful about advising the Supreme Court. He should weigh in again, against aspects of McCain-Feingold. John McCain aspires to take the presidential oath to "preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution," but some of his ...
China's New Empty Nest.(International)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Melinda Liu; With Bureau Reports An aging population is transforming the family. Although they live in a nation of 1.3 billion people, Wu Shaoqiu and his wife are lonely. Their son now lives in Canada, their daughter in France. "We need to have someone stay ...
What The World Is Hearing.(Fareed Zakaria; World View)(what will be the next US president's foreign policy)
Mar 10, 2008; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria A senior Latin American diplomat says, 'We might find ourselves nostalgic for Bush, who is brave on trade.' Despite their spirited squabbling, the two Democratic candidates are united in the view that one of the big benefits of electing either ...