Newsweek back issues from October 2008:
He Gave Liberalism A Good Name.(Lionel Trilling )(Essay)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jeremy McCarter Lionel Trilling wasn't just a critic. He traced--brilliantly--the way our literary and political lives intersect. When the feuding tramps in "Waiting for Godot" trade insults, Gogo ends the exchange with a slur so vicious it leaves Didi ...
Don't Keep Talking Happy Talk.(financial crisis )
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Gross Yes, we have to be careful about crying "fire" in a crowded theater. But calling this a meltdown is like crying "fire" in an inferno. Having difficulty coping with financial stress? Forget Bernanke & Paulson. Think Rodgers & Hammerstein. In the ...
The Monster That Ate Wall Street.(Business; ECONOMY)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Matthew Philips How 'credit default swaps'--an insurance against bad loans--turned from a smart bet into a killer. They're called "Off-Site Weekends"--rituals of the high-finance world in which teams of bankers gather someplace sunny to blow off steam and ...
Love the New Skin You're In.(Culture; ARCHITECTURE)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan ***** Correction: In "Love the New Skin You're In" (Oct. 6), we incorrectly said Edward DurellStone designed the U.S. embassy in London. In fact, the architect was Eero Saarinen. Stone designed the embassy in New Delhi. NEWSWEEK regrets the ...
Start Grousing Now!(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Britain's grouse-hunting season is in full swing until midOctober. The British sporting company Roxtons offers bespoke driving and walking shoots in Scotland and northern England, charging $218 per brace of birds (roxtons.com). In Yorkshire, the Black ...
Shoes: A Different Platform.(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Last season, heels on women's shoes took on innovative shapes, including chain links, flowers and spheres. Now designers are giving wedges and platforms a makeover. Towering at nearly four inches high, Louis Vuitton's Powder shoe, in calf suede, ...
Quick Read.(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference)(Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know)(The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future )(Book review)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: John Sparks; John Sparks Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference By Tim Sanders Former Yahoo executive Sanders won't be mistaken for Lenin (he lacks a beard, for starters), but he ...
Won't You Stay a Bit Longer?(Enterprise; BUSINESS TRAVEL)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Mcginn Hip, new extended-stay hotel chains cater to road warriors who expect amenities like flat-screen TVs, stainless-steel appliances and outdoor fire pits. It's cocktail hour in the lobby of the Element, a new hotel just off the highway in the ...
Leading The Green Charge.(Enterprise; ENERGY)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi Japan's automakers are zooming ahead in the eco-car race to market. Honda's new FCX Clarity feels like a perfectly ordinary car--which may well be the most shocking thing about it. Slip behind the wheel and press the pedal, ...
The Tsunami That Changed My Life.(Enterprise; MY TURN)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jet Li; Li is an actor and the founder of the One Foundation (onefoundation.cn). A famous Chinese actor almost lost his children during an island vacation. His world view changed, and he started a foundation dedicated to disaster relief. On Dec. 25, 2004, I ...
A King Of Agriculture.(Enterprise; LEADERSHIP)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Cargill's CEO has to manage a vast set of businesses. Few companies are as well established as Cargill, the Minnesota-based agricultural powerhouse. Its history stretches back to the 1860s, and today it has 160,000 employees and more than $120 billion in annual revenue. But ...
My Blackberry As A Bomb Sniffer?(Enterprise; INNOVATION)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland Expensive radiation detectors may not be as effective as widely distributed chips in cell phones. What do bananas, smoke alarms, toilets and large granite buildings have in common? They're all sufficiently radioactive to set off detectors ....
Women Want to Focus On Real Issues.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 06, 2008 ... 'From Seneca Falls to -- Sarah Palin?' Our Sept. 22 cover story prompted cries of "Enough already!" One reader lamented, "A hurricane hits, our economy is failing and you devote a third cover in a row to Palin?" Another asked what Joe Biden should do to merit some coverage: "Put on a ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Nearly half a century ago, in 1960, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Harvard historian and committed Democrat, wrote a book that, in retrospect, would seem to be among the least necessary volumes of the mid-20th century: "Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any ...
Farewell, Election Day.(George F. Will; THE LAST WORD)(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: George F. Will What kind of people will not vote if doing so requires them to get off their couches and visit neighborhood polling places? The sentiment expressed by a sly bumper sticker this year (EVERY DISASTER IS A CHANGE) is a cousin of this axiom: Most ...
Got Insurance?(Health)(Katherine Swartz on the presidential candidates' health policies)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Why the candidates' plans might not deliver on universal health coverage Barack Obama and John McCain have put forth radical--and radically different--proposals to change the way Americans do, or don't, get health insurance. Is it really possible to make sure everyone's ...
Worlds Apart.(Cover Story: Campaign 2008; CAMPAIGN 2008)(presidential debate)(Cover story)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh; With Suzanne Smalley, Holly Bailey and Richard Wolffe in Washington After last week's debate, it's obvious how different the foreign policies of Barack Obama and John McCain would be. What's less well understood are the key factors that shaped their world ...
'We Should Join Hands'.(International; INTERVIEW)(Wen Jiabao)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao speaks out in his first interview with a major U.S. publication in years. In New York for last week's U.N. General Assembly opening, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave a rare interview to NEWSWEEK's Fareed Zakaria. Topics ranged from Tibet ...
Palin Is Ready? Please.(Fareed Zakaria; WORLD VIEW)(Sarah Palin)(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true. Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in ...
At The Helm In The World's Hot Spots.(International; INTERVIEW)(Hamid Karzai )(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008 ... One faces a deadly insurgency, the other confronts a belligerent neighbor. Two presidents on their perils. With the security situation in his country steadily deteriorating, and Taliban activity on the rise, Afghan President Hamid Karzai sat down in New York last week with ...
At the Helm In the World's Hot Spots.(International; INTERVIEW)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008 ... One faces a deadly insurgency, the other confronts a belligerent neighbor. Two presidents on their perils. The world is divided between those who admire Georgian President Saakashvili's valiant attempts to bring democracy to his country and those who believe that he almost ...
The Vices of Their Virtues.(Cover Story: Campaign 2008; CAMPAIGN 2008)(Cover story)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas; With Holly Bailey and Richard Wolffe John McCain's impetuosity is either thrilling or disturbing. Barack Obama's cool is either sober or detached. It's clear now how each would govern. October came early this year. In presidential ...
Love Me, Love My Mix Tape.(Entertainment; MOVIES)(Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist)(Movie review)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: David Ansen Think all teen movies are shallow? Meet 'Nick & Norah.' To anyone who grew up in the past three decades, it may seem as if Hollywood had been created to serve the youth market. Movies for, about and starring teenagers are so commonplace, you might ...
Flowers From Uncle Sam.(My Turn)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Elizabeth Heubeck; Heubeck lives in Baltimore. I'd hoped the federal stimulus check would allow me to splurge a little. But the family budget didn't. Every time I step outside to water the flowers on my front porch, I am reminded of how my "stimulus" check ...
'Ask Not What You Can Do For Barack Obama, Ask What Barack Obama Can Do For You'.(Campaign 2008; A LETTER TO MY GENERATION)(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Darman Dear Young Americans: I won't tell you how special you are because you've heard it before. For the past nine months, the mainstream media have showered you with adulation. Before the Iowa caucuses, Barack Obama's campaign said you'd be his ...
The Books of John.(Campaign 2008; POLITICS)(John McCain)
Oct 06, 2008; ... McCain's editor on what he's learned from poring over a decade's worth of the senator's manuscripts. In the past 10 years, I've edited five books by John McCain and his longtime aide and collaborator, Mark Salter.aAt my urging, McCain and Salter have written a children's book of ...
A Teachable Moment.(vice presidential debates)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Howard Fineman Vice presidential debates, like vice presidents, used to be low voltage. Now they are prime time, big time. Why? Two words: Dick Cheney. In 2000 and 2004, his debate performances (he played the calm, well-informed dinner guest) helped elect and re-elect ...
What If Obama Loses?(Campaign 2008; POLITICS)(Barack Obama)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Allison Samuels African-Americans thought he had no chance--then they started to believe. Now they fear defeat. If you had tuned in to "The Michael Baisden Show" early last year, you would probably have heard the host talking mostly about urgent issues such ...
Time to Channel Cousin Frank.(Jonathan Alter; BEWTEEN THE LINES)(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter McCain's answer to the charge he's impulsive: so was Teddy Roosevelt, and look how he turned out. John McCain wants us to think he's a man of character when he's actually just a character. There's a big difference between the two. "Character" ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Oct 06, 2008 ... "If money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down." President George W. Bush, watching nervously as negotiations on the federal bailout plan hit partisan snags after he'd asked for congressional bipartisanship "I didn't know you were Catholic." House ...
A Freddie Mac Money Trail Catches Up With McCain.(John McCain)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey Few advisers in John McCain's inner circle inspire more loyalty from him than campaign manager Rick Davis. McCain and his wife, Cindy, credit the shrewd, and sometimes volatile, Republican insider with rescuing the campaign last year when ...
Paulson's Goldmen.(Hank Paulson's financial advisors)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Critics of Henry Paulson's effort to put together a financial bailout worry that the Treasury secretary is getting too much of his advice from aides who were his colleagues at Goldman Sachs, where he was the CEO before joining the Bush administration in ...
Saving Face Goes Sour.(Periscope; CHINA)(Fonterra's relationship with Sanlu Group)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Melinda Liu Could a New Zealand dairy trader have done more to prevent China's milk scandal? At press time, Sanlu Group milk products contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine had killed four babies, sickened 53,000 and triggered import bans and recalls worldwide ....
Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling.(Periscope; APPLES AND ORANGES)(similarities between Sarah Palin and Tzipi Livni)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Katie Baker History repeats itself, but not without a few wrinkles. We make the connections, then pick them apart. The Comparison Former lawyer Tzipi Livni is poised to become Israel's next prime minister, which would make her the first woman to ...
Overlooked: The Littlest Evacuees.(Periscope; RECOVERY)(need for precise statistics on the number of children during disaster evacuation)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Sarah Kliff and Catharine Skipp Within hours of hurricane Ike's landfall in Texas, San Antonio officials had compiled precise statistics about their evacuee situation. They knew the city would need to care for 5,303 people (561 of whom had special medical needs) and 642 ...
First Great Debate Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Most popular YouTube video of the week: Katie Couric field-dressing Palin. Sometimes it takes a woman to expose a woman. Obama UP-Passes "presidential" test and stays loose in debate. Tie goes to the challenger. McCain SIDEWAYS-Erratic week salvaged by good debate ....
Arguing Against the Atheists.(Periscope; BELIEF WATCH)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Lisa Miller Hitchens was cruising for a fight. Over and over, the priest expressed his sympathy and agreement. Sometimes I argue in my mind against the new generation of professional atheists, and the arguments go something like this. First, if 90-odd percent ...
A Nation, Glazed And Confused.(Periscope; PAGE TURNER)(Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut)(Brief article)(Book review)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Oscar Raymundo "Doughnuts," Homer Simpson once marveled. "Is there anything they can't do?" From one expert to another: In "Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut," anthropologist Paul Mullins traces the pastry from sweet-tooth snack to shining symbol of national ...
The Slippery Art of Polling.(Sharon Begley; ON SCIENCE)(election polling method)(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Sharon Begley Young cell-phone-only users prefer Obama by 35 points, almost triple the spread among landline users. If quantity fostered quality, this year's polls asking "McCain or Obama?" would be the best in history: polls have proliferated so crazily that ...
From Clarence Thomas to Palin.(Dahlia Lithwick; THE VERDICT)(similarities between the supreme court justice and the Republican Party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin)(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Palin and Thomas are both casualties of an effort to create a country that measures diversity only in terms of appearance. When it comes to the perils of affirmative action, there's nobody as eloquent as Justice Clarence Thomas. In both his legal writing and his autobiography, ...
Saving the World for a Latte.
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Keith Naughton and Daniel McGinn A startup is betting free coffees and groceries will encourage reluctant recyclers. It's trash day in Everett, Mass., and the streets are lined with garbage cans. But as a white truck rumbles through this working-class suburb ...
To Postal Workers, No Mail Is 'Junk'.(Project Green)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Caitlin Mcdevitt With revenues falling, the post office owes its future to stuff we throw out. These are tough times for the U.S. Postal Service. It's being pummeled by high fuel costs. The soft economy is crimping the overall volume of mail, which fell 5.5 ...
A Nudge Can Help.(Project Green)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Why energy costs need to be visible In "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness," scholars Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue that by tinkering with the default choices and information given when people make decisions--like whether to invest in a ...
So Where's the Epidemic?(divorce)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: Kathleen Deveny; With Karen Springen The number of families in our position is actually much smaller than you might think. It's become a rite of each school year, a masochistic little ritual that I can't resist. As soon as my daughter's school sends out the ...
The Verdict: A Legend.(Culture; PAUL NEWMAN, 1925-2008)(In memoriam)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Byline: David Ansen Paul Newman played a lot of antiheroes, but his cool charm made viewers love him all the same. When Paul Newman turned 70, I asked him about the pros and cons of aging. "What's difficult about getting old," he said, with that gravelly voice that ...
Education, the Song of Hope.(Turning Point)(a charitable foundation created by the author to help finance the education of underprivileged children in Colombia)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Shakira; Shakira has sold more than 50 million albums; her next is slated for release in the spring. How going from middle class to poor as a child set Shakira on a mission. Often you don't know what you have until you lose it. When I was 7 years old, my ...
Best Organics for the Buck.(The Tip Sheet; FOOD)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Karen Springen Fewer Americans are buying organic. The number of people who regularly consume organic food and drinks dropped from 25 percent to 22 percent in the last year, according to a new report from consultant NPD Group. With the economy in the dumps, who can blame ...
Which Is Better?(The Tip Sheet; NUTRITION QUIZ)(nutritional content of General Mills' Lucky Charms Low-Fat Granola bar)(Brief article)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Tina Peng Sugary cereal enriched with marshmallows in the shape of rainbows and pots of gold, or crunchy granola cereal with raisins sprinkled throughout? If your first instinct is to reach for the granola, think again. Compared with Kellogg's Low-Fat Granola cereal with ...
Should You Go Generic?(The Tip Sheet; DRUGS)(Brief article)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Mary Carmichael A new study says Medicare patients prefer cheap generic drugs only when they're footing the bill themselves--when government pays, they want brand names. Recent news may shed some light on why: the FDA is investigating reports of faulty generic ...
The Leadership Lid.(Anna Quindlen; THE LAST WORD)(women's leadership)(Column)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen One of the greatest natural resources in America is going underused. And she may be sitting right at the next desk. Years ago someone referred to me as a show pony, trotted out to prove a point. It was at some conference, on one of those ...
A Lawyer's New Jefferson Memorial.(Entertainment; RACE)(Annette Gordon-Reed)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Jennie Yabroff The next chapter in the Hemings saga When she was in first grade, Annette Gordon-Reed made history. Although Brown v. Board of Education had passed a decade earlier, the school district of Conroe, Texas, where Gordon-Reed lived in 1963, ...
The Titanic's Last Secret.(Entertainment; CULTURE)(Book review)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Jeneen Interlandi All along, the shipbuilders knew the hull was weak. The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 ...
It Takes Power to Cut the Cord.(Daniel Lyons; TECHTONIC SHIFTS)(Lilliputian Systems' development of a charger for smart phones using fuel cells)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Lyons 'Batteries are holding back the portable revolution,' says the CEO of a firm that's developing an answer: a pocket-size fuel cell. My new 3g iPhone is a wonderful device, but it has one very serious short-coming. The battery life stinks. I never ...
The New Fixers.(Business)(comparison between the 1907 and 2008 financial crises in the United States)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Daniel Gross In 1907, one man saved us from financial collapse. Today it takes a troika. "This is the place to stop this trouble!" J. P. Morgan said on the afternoon of Oct. 23, 1907. After the failure of several trust companies (unregulated banks, kind of ...
Trouble Beyond the Emergency Bailout.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 13, 2008 ... 'Big Government to the Rescue': Readers were clearly frustrated by the struggling economy and political gridlock over the bailout. "Washington is stumbling blindly through an economic minefield while we watch helplessly from the sidelines," one said. Another resented the "zero-oversight ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(analysis of the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin)(Editorial)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Let us stipulate this right off: Sarah Palin won her debate with Joe Biden. She won, it is true, by not imploding, but a win is a win. Though the polls have given the evening to Biden on substance, Palin, after her unimpressive interviews with Katie Couric of ...
The Fall of America, Inc.(International; BUSINESS)(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Along with some of Wall Street's most storied firms, a certain vision of capitalism has collapsed. How we restore faith in our brand. The implosion of America's most storied investment banks. The vanishing of more than a trillion dollars in stock-market wealth in a day. A $700 ...
The Age of Bloomberg.(Fareed Zakaria; WORLD VIEW)(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria It's a time to figure out what works, not what ideological mantras to keep repeating. America's financial crisis has allowed all sorts of people--from British trade unionists to Asian central bankers to France's mercurial president--to declare ...
Best and the Brightest.(Future of Energy; THE FUTURE OF ENERGY)(Interview)
Oct 13, 2008 ... A Tennessee congressman says with the energy crisis we face another Sputnik moment. It sometimes seems as if the days of ambitious government science programs, like the Apollo space missions or the Manhattan Project, have ended. But Rep. Bart Gordon, a Democratic congressman ...
'Our Activities Are Legal'.(International; INTERVIEW)(Manouchehr Mottaki)(Interview)
Oct 13, 2008 ... Iran's foreign minister praises Washington for sending an envoy to talks, but remains defiant. In New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Iran's tough-talking Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki sat down with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth to discuss how he sees ...
This (Illegal) American Life.(My Turn)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Maria E. Andreu; Andreu lives in Leonia, N.J. I may not look like an undocumented alien, but until the age of 18 that's just what I was. When the pundits began to tear into undocumented immigrants last summer, using terms like "parasites" and "criminals," my ...
The Palin Problem.(Cover Story: Politics)(Sarah Palin)(Essay)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Jon Meacham; With Holly Bailey, Karen Breslau, Suzanne Smalley, Michael Isikoff and Sarah Kliff Yes, she won the debate by not imploding. But governing requires knowledge, and mindless populism is just that--mindless. The question, the McCain campaign later ...
Good Luck to the Next Guy.(Howard Fineman; LIVING POLITICS)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Howard Fineman At the zenith of his presidency, George W. Bush wore a flight suit-- but now he's leaving his successor in a straitjacket. As the presidential candidates tout their plans for the future, it's easy to overlook the dismal reality: there's a colossal mismatch ...
Name That Economy!(Nation; THE BIG IDEA)(Viewpoint essay)
Oct 13, 2008; ... The new system might best be called regulatory capitalism. Or life-jacket capitalism. Or Rube Goldberg capitalism. At the beginning of the century, when the United States briefly contemplated the prospect of paying off its national debt, Alan Greenspan raised an unexpected ...
Biden's Unified Theory of Biden.(Campaign 2008; POLITICS)(Joe Biden)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter At a Wilmington coffee shop, the veep nominee falls off the tight-lipped wagon. Joe Biden was so disciplined during the vice presidential debate, so brief (under five minutes!) in his speech bidding farewell to his son Beau and other members of ...