Newsweek back issues from March 2009:
The Other Lincoln.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(Mary Todd Lincoln)(Column)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Mary Todd may have been the first to see greatness in her husband. But once he was a legend, history saw only the worst in her. As a Catholic schoolgirl I supplemented the obligatory "Lives of the Saints" with the biographies of famous women, ...
Brother, Can You Spare a Painting?(Entertainment; ARTS)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Peter Plagens The recession has been disastrous for the contemporary-art market. That may turn out to be good for the art. Imagine a Wynton Marsalis quartet playing in Wembley, or the Stade de France, or Giants Stadium in New Jersey--with a lot of Gothic ...
Her Cups Runneth Over.(Entertainment; CULTURE)(Barbie dolls)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Eliza Gray Barbie turns 50--she looks good, doesn't she?--and gets dueling biographies as a gift. No one thinks a lot about the prepubescent Barbie, but she was young once too, and she's got a doozy of a nativity narrative. It goes like this: during a family ...
Love on the Blocks.(Entertainment; BOOKS)(Book marketing)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Jennie Yabroff You've gotta have a gimmick to sell a book. We're sold on an auction catalog that's really a novel. Lenore Doolan met Harold Morris at a Halloween party in 2002. She was dressed as Lizzie Borden in a bloodstained lace blouse, he as Harry ...
Old Media Strikes Back.(Business; TECHTONIC SHIFTS)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Lyons Hulu, founded by NBC and Fox, has become a better moneymaker than Web darling YouTube. The moral: better content wins. As the worlds of technology and media collide, the same contest keeps getting played out over and over again: lumbering ...
Death of the Dream.(Business; ECONOMY)
Mar 02, 2009; ... California has come back before, but 'hysterical greens' aren't helping. For decades, California has epitomized America's economic strengths: technological excellence, artistic creativity, agricultural fecundity and an intrepid entrepreneurial spirit. Yet lately California has ...
The Reeducation of Larry Summers.(presidential adviser's change in demeanor)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Evan Thomas He's become a champion of massive government intervention in the economy, and he's even learning how to play nice. Larry Summers had the rumpled, slightly sleepy look of a professor who has been up all night solving equations ....
In California, Green Means Growth.(Business; COUNTERPOINT)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Stefan Theil Why smart regulations can help, not hurt, the economy. With the global economy in a deep recession, there's a predictable debate going on: can we still afford to fight climate change and invest in a greener economy? Nowhere is this debate more ...
Is America Inching Closer to Socialism?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 02, 2009 ... 'We Are All Socialists Now': Readers reacted heatedly to our Feb. 16 cover, which argued that America is adopting some socialist ideas to address our fiscal woes. "Modifying American capitalism in this financial crisis so that our system is more workable has nothing to do with ...
The Editor's Desk.(political leadership of Barack Obama and other American presidents)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Nothing against Abraham Lincoln, but in a way it is too bad that President Obama has replaced President Bush's Oval Office bust of Winston Churchill with one of the 16th president. True, American conservatives, particularly neoconservatives in the Cheney ...
Tibet's Rising Son.(Karmapa Lama)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Patrick Symmes Traditionally, the Karmapa Lama would not become the leader of the Tibetan people. Tradition may need to change. For a god, he is a nice young man. lean and assured, dressed in red and gold, the Karmapa Lama is a scholar-prince greeted with bows ...
To Pack a Real Punch.(Alex Molinaroli, the president of power solutions at Johnson Controls, on automotive batteries for plug-in electric vehicle)(Interview)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Everything hangs on the race to build tomorrow's battery. Discussions of cutting-edge energy always come down to a technology that's more than 200 years old: the battery. Modern versions are much more powerful than Alessandro Volta's pile of ...
Man Bites 'Slumdog'.(India's slums and poverty)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar Don't let the movie mislead you: there are no fairy-tale endings for most of India's street kids. I was one of them myself. On the way to see "Slumdog Millionaire" in Kolkata, I had my cabdriver pass through the slum district of Tangra. I lived ...
Finally, the Surreal Deal.(Entertainment; MOVIES)(The Exterminating Angel)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Seth Colter Walls After 40 years, a Bunuel masterpiece is back. We miss our late, great artists even more during trying times. With so many people quoting "Baby, It's Cold Outside," who wouldn't like to have Ella Fitzgerald around to sing it live once again? ...
The Truth About Multiple Births.(reproductive medicine guidelines on in vitro fertilization)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Mark I. Evans, M.D.; Evans is the director of Comprehensive Genetics in New York City. Lost in the octuplets saga is the scary medical reality: without selective reduction, lots of lives are at risk. More than 20 years ago, I got a phone call from a distressed ...
America's New Shrink.(Nation; COVER STORY: NATIONAL AFFAIRS)(Cover story)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Chin up, everyone. This president is well poised to bring us back from the brink. If Ralph Waldo emerson had a 19th-century Facebook page, his "Favorite Quotation" (or maybe I should say my favorite Emerson quote) would likely be: "Events are ...
Paging Doctor Zeke.(Ezekiel Emanuel on medical ethics and health care industry)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Howard Fineman Moving from hospital to hospital, a young oncologist named Ezekiel Emanuel made a startling discovery. The doctors he worked with often didn't know if the treatment they were administering was the most sensible one available or merely, as was often the ...
Why Marbury V. Madison Still Matters.(United States' judiciary system)
Mar 02, 2009; ... More than 200 years after the high court ruled, the decision in that landmark case continues to resonate. Tuesday, Feb. 24, is the 206th anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, the most important decision the Supreme Court--and perhaps any court--has ever issued. The late chief ...
Dubious New Models for News.(Nation; THE BIG IDEA)(Column)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Top media institutions have never adhered to a single business plan. They are even less likely to follow one in the future. The sorry predicament of the newspaper industry has given rise to a testy argument about journalism's future. In one corner are editors who believe news ...
A New Mission for the NAACP.(Nation; FACING FACTS)(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Ellis Cose The youngest president in association history leads at a time when many question the body's very necessity. This February the NAACP marked its 100th anniversary. The venerable organization was on the front lines of some of the most important ...
Reefer Madness.(Michael Phelps' marijuana use)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Suzanne Smalley and Weston Kosova Everyone wanted a piece of the great bong brouhaha. That's the American way. Here's what usually happens to a college kid who's caught with a small stash of marijuana: the police give him a good scare, let him stew in a cell ...
Q&A: Rosie Goes Back to Therapy.(Newsmakers)(Rosie O'Donnell )(Interview)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Rosie O'Donnell isn't really a therapist, but she's playing one on TV, in the Lifetime movie "America." She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Is this your first Lifetime movie? Yes. My first of many, I hope. Are you a big fan of them? Years back, I used ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Mar 02, 2009 ... "In things racial we have always been, and I believe continue to be, in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards." Attorney General Eric Holder, in remarks to Department of Justice employees at an event celebrating Black History Month "Scooter Libby is a ...
Where Being Our Friend Doesn't Help.(Periscope; AFGHANISTAN)(American troop presence in Afghanistan affects potential candidates' polls)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Dan Ephron When visitors stop by his office at the national Defense University in Washington, Ali Jalali enjoys showing off a mug stamped with the words I'M A ROCK STAR IN AFGHANISTAN. The country's former interior minister says he keeps it around for laughs, but his old ...
To Catch a Mini-Madoff.(Periscope; JUSTICE)(Allen Stanford called as mini Bernie Madoff)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff They're already calling him Mini-Madoff, but Allen Stanford, the Texas tycoon whose alleged "massive, ongoing fraud" was shut down last week by the SEC, is a different character than Bernie. Madoff kept his operation secret; Stanford is ...
Busted: The Churchill Flap.(Periscope; Diplomacy)(bust of Sir Winston Churchill)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Katie Connolly Has America's even- tempered new president already ruffled feathers in the land that spawned Borat and Benny Hill? That's certainly how the spiky British press responded after the White House sent back to the British Embassy a bust of Sir Winston Churchill ...
Illinois Tries, Fails to Have Scandal-Free Week.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. After all that fuss, Blago's chosen Illinois Sen. Roland Burris admits he forgot to share some key details about raising cash for the deposed governor. Here we ...
Still Gloomy Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH)
Mar 02, 2009 ... In a sign of the times, GM says it'll "shrink" Pontiac. No longer building excitement with horsepower, will it be building anything at all? Obama SIDE: Signs biggest spending bill ever, and he'll probably have to do it again. Cheers! Hillary UP: Smart as usual on ...
Swings & Misses Edition.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT MLB 2009)
Mar 02, 2009 ... Baseball season is only a March Madness away. New Yankee Stadium acoustics will be tested early when A-Fraud is introduced. Bud Selig DOWN: Commish takes no responsibility for steroids era. What does MLB pay him $18 million for? Phillies UP: Still not sure how they ...
Even to Friends, The Goose Is Cooked.(Periscope; AIR SAFETY)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Matthew Philips Ever since us airways flight 1549 made its miraculous safe landing on the Hudson River in January, America has had a new public enemy--a villain so resilient that annihilation through open war appears to be the only way to save ourselves. This scourge's ...
Who's This Fella Keynes, Anyway?(Periscope; CHEAT SHEET)(John Maynard Keynes )
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Matthew Philips The name of vaunted British economist John Maynard Keynes has been invoked so much in recent months--as hero and whipping boy--you'd think he was a member of President Obama's economic team. In a way, he is, even though he's been dead for 62 years. With ...
Sorry, Don't Know Anyone by that Name.(Periscope; BUSINESS)(businesses change their names to save the from public disgrace)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... It's a classic trick for a company suffering through public disgrace: change your name. The latest example is Blackwater, the embattled private security firm. But does it work? Branding experts weigh in on recent cases: BEFORE: BLACKWATER: The ominous name becomes an albatross ...
The Chick-Lit Culprit.(Periscope; CLOSURE)(How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Tina Peng In the mass-media age, new stories captivate us, then vanish. We revisit those stories to bring you the next chapter. Starting Point In April 2006, The Harvard Crimson reports that passages in sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan's chick-lit ...
James Gray.(Periscope; A LIFE IN MOVIES)(James Gray's movie picks)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009 ... The writer and director of "The Yards" and "We Own the Night," Gray (left) returns with "Two Lovers," a melancholy love story featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. His picks: My Five Most Essential Movies 1. "The Nights of Cabiria." For me, this is ...
Another Banking Casualty.(Periscope; BOOKS)(Bailout Nation: How Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy)(Book review)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Barrett Sheridan To most publishers, it would've been a touch of golden luck: a manuscript about the worst economic crisis in decades, written by a financial insider and finished months before rivals had even a rough draft ready. Instead, Wall Street investor Barry ...
She's Just Not That Into Fidelity to You.(Periscope; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Mistresses)(Television program review)(Brief article)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston Of the all things "mistresses" has going for it, originality isn't one of them. Wives' husbands and husbands' wives slink away for scandalous trysts. Shocking secrets come to light. Dirty deeds are done dirt cheap. It's standard nighttime-soap stuff, not ...
The Good, the Bad, the Bible.(Periscope; BELIEF WATCH)(The Good Book)(Book review)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Lisa Miller The story of Dinah 'isn't a story they taught me at Temple Sinai's Hebrew school in 1980.' Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading "The Good Book," by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, ...
No Body Till Some Body Loves You.(Periscope; PAGE TURNER)(Bodies)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Jesse Ellison There was a time, believe it or not, when our bodies worked for us, instead of the other way around. In her new book, "Bodies," British author and psychologist Susie Orbach examines how science, culture and globalization have upended our relationships to ...
The Stunted Economic Stimulus.(Columnist; JUDGMENT CALLS)(Column)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Obama's package is too focused on political goals and projects. The effect is to weaken the program's basic purpose--to jolt the economy. Judged by his own standards, President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus program, which he ...
Anatomy of a Scare.(Society; SCIENCE)(link between childhood vaccines and autism)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Sharon Begley; With Jeneen Interlandi When one study linked childhood vaccines to autism, it set off a panic. The research didn't hold up, but some wounded families can't move on. Like many people in London on that bleak February day in 1998, biochemist ...
Men Will Be Men.(Society; JUSTICE)
Mar 02, 2009; ... Byline: Tony Dokoupil When guys lose jobs, the TV, den and gym win. Women? Sex? Not so much. Bankers no longer buying bottle service? Laid-off construction workers unable to summon the swagger to whistle at a pretty girl? Urban tales of the emasculating effects of ...
Suburban Stall.(Books)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones 'Mad Men' is hot. So is Richard Yates. Where are the Cheever believers? A year or so ago, I was sitting in a Manhattan bar with A group of friends, and when the waiter arrived with the drinks, the talk turned to John Cheever (someone had ordered ...
Reining In Bubbles So They Won't Pop.(Business; ADAPTATION)(managing the economy)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Our financial system accelerates the human instinct to go wild during good times. Perhaps we need some automatic brakes. When financial historians look back at the last six months, they'll be hard-pressed to explain precisely why our advanced financial system suffered such a ...
Where the Neon Lights Are Bright--and Drivers Are No Longer Welcome.(Business; URBAN PLANNING)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Nick Summers Under Mayor Bloomberg, New York City is embracing a controversial theory: closing down streets can reduce traffic jams. As the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg usually takes the subway to work. When he travels by car, a police escort zips ...
'Our Country Has Faced Far Worse Travails'.(Business; ECONOMY)(Excerpt)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Warren E. Buffett A paralyzing fear has engulfed the country. But America's best days lie ahead. Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway share-holders is a highly anticipated, market-moving event. This year Buffett, who is a director of The ...
Confessions Of A Pundit.(Business; ECONOMY)(economic commentators)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Zachary Karabell; Karabell is president of River Twice Research. Economic commentators may be insightful, but they're not neutral. Market forces shape their views. With the financial system in tatters and trillions of dollars of public financing at stake, ...
Stress: Better for Us Than We Think.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 09, 2009 ... 'Stress Could Save Your Life': Readers were skeptical about the benefits of stress, the subject of our Feb. 23 cover story. Heartened to hear of an upside, one reader, who had thought he'd be lucky to live until 50, wrote, "With the stress I carry about, I'll be around till I'm 150." ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Klaidman A few weeks after 9/11, when Americans were scared and bewildered, Fareed Zakaria wrote a cover story in this magazine under the deceptively simple headline "Why They Hate Us." At a time of confusion and understandable rage, Fareed argued for an American ...
FDR's Sweater Fable.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(Franklin D. Roosevelt )
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: George F. Will President Obama said he is strengthening government 'not because I believe in bigger government--I don't.' Chant: Yes you do. On April 12, 1933, the 40th day of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt met with reporters and recounted to them "a ...
Politics Takes a Right Turn in Jerusalem.(International; ISRAEL)(Benjamin Netanyahu )(Interview)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Lally Weymouth The next Israeli government is likely to be a narrow, hard-line coalition, led by some unlikely bedfellows. Likud Party | Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's Prime Minister-Elect, Benjamin Netanyahu, sat down last week for a long interview ...
Learning to Live With Radical Islam.(International; COVER STORY: INTERNATIONAL)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria We don't have to accept the stoning of criminals. But it's time to stop treating all Islamists as potential terrorists. Pakistan's Swat valley is quiet once again. Often compared to Switzerland for its stunning landscape of mountains and ...
Obama Should Talk To Syria Now.(International)(Barack Obama)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Damascus is signaling that it's ready to negotiate a separate peace with Israel. It won't happen without America's help. The silent treatment has to stop. Opportunity" and "Middle East" are rarely mentioned in the same breath, and for good reason. The Middle East is a part of ...
Neighbors In Flight.(International)(Arab-Israeli conflicts)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Kevin Peraino; With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem Acre was a rare oasis of calm. Now hate and fear have taken charge. The Mediterranean port of acre has long attracted men with violent ambitions. Alexander the Great arrived in the fourth century B.C., followed by ...
There's a World of Trouble Out There.(International; INTELLIGENCE)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh; With Owen Matthews in Moscow, Melinda Liu in Beijing and John Barry in Washington The CIA faces a threat it's never been great at analyzing: the fallout from global recession. In 1930, few people thought political turmoil in ...
Till Death Do Us Part.(Movies)(Watchmen)(Movie review)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Devin Gordon The long-awaited 'Watchmen' movie takes loyalty to new limits. And that's exactly what's wrong with it. Till Death Do Us Part Somebody had better appreciate the guts it takes to admit this: the first time I saw "The Phantom Menace," I ...
Autism And Education.(My Turn)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Stephanie Lindsley; Lindsley lives in Beavercreek, Ohio. Who should we focus on--my disabled son or my gifted girl? My son and my daughter are happy, active, healthy children who enjoy school and are lucky to have a solid family life. But they are very ...
Obama's Pelosi Problem.(Politics; WASHINGTON)(Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Holly Bailey The president has laid out a paradigm-shifting agenda. There will be pushback from the GOP--but less, perhaps, were it not for the House Speaker. Charlie Dent wanted to vote for Barack Obama's stimulus package. Obama really wanted Dent to vote ...
The Busiest Woman in Washington.(Politics; THE WHITE HOUSE)(Desiree Rogers)(Interview)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Katie Connolly and Evan Thomas As social secretary, Desiree Rogers is gatekeeper and imagemaker. But her top job is brand promoter--casting the Obamas as occupants of a 'People's House.' The White House has been, historically, a very white house. ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Mar 09, 2009 ... "There's not a single line in the budget that won't have someone who cares about it very strongly. And yet if we allowed all of those lines to -- grow over time, we would wind up with a fiscal crisis." White House budget director Peter Orszag, on making painful choices about ...
Try a Little Tea and Sympathy.(Periscope; PAKISTAN)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Dan Ephron, Ron Moreau, John Barry And Mark Hosenball ADM. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, likes to tell people he's on his third cup of tea with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who heads Pakistan's Army. During their nine meetings in the past year, ...
A Big Swing And a Miss.(Periscope; CIA)(on Kyle Foggo)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball In retrospect, Kyle (Dusty) Foggo probably wasn't such a smart choice to be CIA Director Porter Goss's No. 3 during the Bush administration. Foggo, who was sentenced to three years in prison last week after pleading guilty to an elaborate corruption ...
Blog the Record Straight.(Periscope; CHINA)(Brief article)
Mar 09, 2009; ... Byline: Melinda Liu The role of bloggers has been firmly established: they are self-appointed ombudsmen, documenting mistakes by media and government. But in China, where the Web is less censored than the mainstream media, Netizens have carved out an especially crucial role ....
IM Sory I Sed You Were a Gonner.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Brief article)
Mar 09, 2009 ... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. Sure, the private-jet gripes are tired, but you'd still have to be a PR fool to fly one to meet an attorney general. Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis is that ...
Robin Hood Edition.(Barack and Michelle Obama, and Bobby Jindal, evaluated)(Brief article)
Mar 09, 2009 ... From tax reform to a realistic budget, Obama's making big changes so fast our heads are spinning. But CW likes the dizzy feeling. Obama UP: Home-run speech before Congress; every day making good on his promises. Michelle UP: Sleeveless outfit out of season, but even ...
Fiscal Blueprint Edition.(President Barack Obama's financial planning)(Brief article)
Mar 09, 2009 ... A CW LOOK AT THE BUDGET PROPOSAL Obama's $3.5 trillion budget is a doozy. As for that mounting deficit, well, let's just hope those rosy growth predictions are right. Renewables UP: With $150 billion going to clean energy over the next decade, oil is out, green is ...