Newsweek back issues from June 2009:
India's Coming-Out Party.(Fareed Zakaria)(Indian National Congress)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria; Zakaria delivered the commencement address at Brown University last weekend. The country puts aside its divisions. One can date precisely China's debut as a great power. It was the evening of Aug. 8, 2008--the opening ceremonies of the Beijing ...
Bruce Nauman.(Art)(Vices and Virtues at the U.S. Pavilion )
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Peter Plagens Some people say that Bruce Nauman is the most influential American artist since Andy Warhol, but when Nauman arrived at art school way back in 1964, he had almost no idea where he was headed. Fresh from being a math and science student back in Wisconsin, ...
Battle of the Bands.(Music)(How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones The history of popular music in the 20th century is old news. It begins, depending on who you believe, with Scott Joplin and ragtime. Or maybe when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band first performed in 1916. At that point, the story marches through Jelly Roll ...
Why the Spell Not?(Television)(Scripps National Spelling Bee)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston A time will come when May's most anticipated competition isn't the NBA playoffs, the Kentucky Derby or the American Idol finale. Instead, we'll be swept up in spelling-bee mania. Our favorite students' names will be written on brackets for the office ...
Employment Lines.(Books)(The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Shop Class as Soulcraft)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Tony Dokoupil If you're lucky enough to have a job--especially a cushy, high-status job--you might feel guilty about how much you hate it. Prosperity perpetuated a little white lie: that work is supposed to make us happy. But the office is a fickle friend, according to ...
House Sweet House.(Food)(terminology of restaurants include "housemade")
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Andrew Romano As noted philosopher Dionne Warwick once said, a house is not a home. Now a growing legion of persnickety chefs want diners to know that their restaurants aren't either. Behold "housemade": the artisanal adjective that has yet to appear in ...
Slave Quarters.(Culture)(tour of the Elmina Castle )(Travel narrative)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Allison Samuels It takes four hours on an un-air-conditioned minibus called a tro-tros to get from Accra, the capital of Ghana, to the town of Elmina. The drive is lovely, especially when the road dances above the beautiful Cape Coast and when it enters Elmina's twisty ...
Kanye West.(Interview)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Feel the world is beating you down? Kanye West, a man frequently at battle--with, say, the president, or with Grammy voters--has written a short volume of aphorisms titled Thank You and You're Welcome. He spoke with NEWSWEEK's Seth Colter Walls: You've said you were inspired to ...
'Sesame Street'.(Television)(Television program review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Lisa Guernsey; Guernsey is the author of Into The Minds Of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth To Age 5. The show that counts This story has been brought to you by the letter S and the numbers 15 and 40. (Or, as the Count might say in his ...
MAY 25, 2009 'Obama On Obama: An Exclusive Interview'.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jun 01, 2009 ... 'May the pragmatist always carry the day. Obama's track record looks pretty good so far.' New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has done an excellent job discussing the importance of a president's first 1,000 days in office. Bloomberg, a former Republican who contemplated running for ...
A Modest Case For a Burkean Boomlet.(The Editor's Desk)(English Stateman Edmund Burke)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Jon Meacham Twenty years ago, I accompanied Andrew Lytle, the Southern writer, to a conference at Russell Kirk's compound in Mecosta, Mich. A crucial figure in the postwar American conservative movement, Kirk ran a kind of permanent salon at his home, which was known as ...
Tehran or Bust.(Iran; COVER STORY)(Cover story)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Hooman Majd; Majd is the author of The Ayatollah Begs To Differ. A journey through the heart of Iran. On a warm Friday in late April, as I rode back from prayers at the Molla Esmail Mosque in the dusty central Iranian town of Yazd, my companion was a loaded ...
Iran's Top 20.(Iran; COVER STORY)(List)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Power and public discourse in the Islamic Republic are dominated by fewer than two dozen heavyweights, ranging from ayatollahs to entertainers (and one TV network). 1. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader Watch his actions, not his words. Having made his ...
The Peace Maker.(Iran; COVER STORY)(Rahm Emanuel)(Cover story)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Rahm Emanuel's Mideast Mission. By Dan Ephron and Michael Hirsh One might be forgiven for thinking that Benjamin Netanyahu and Rahm Emanuel hark from parallel universes. Both are the sons of strong-willed, right-wing Israeli fathers. Both have sought to prove their ...
They May Not Want The Bomb.(Iran; COVER STORY)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria And other unexpected truths. Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make ...
Mohammad Khatami: 'The Country Can be Run Better'.(Iran; COVER STORY)(Interview)(Cover story)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Iran's ex-president on why change is on the way. Reformist leader Mohammad Khatami had a good shot at unseating President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in elections scheduled for June 12. But he recently pulled out of the race in favor of another candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. The ...
Mohamed Elbaradei: 'They are not Fanatics'.(Iran; COVER STORY)(nuclear program)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency on what it's like to negotiate with the Iranians. As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei has spent the past 11 years trying to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace ...
Anyone but .(Iran)(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)(Cover story)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Maziar Bahari The unlikely candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi. The candidate looked as if he wished he could be anywhere but where he was--among his most enthusiastic supporters. About 4,000 mostly young people had gathered in Tehran's Milad Hall for several ...
Perspectives.(Scope)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... "The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to--I was about to say [being] candid, that's too mild--to honesty." Sen. Arlen Specter, A former Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA had lied to her ...
The Catsouras Conundrum: An Update To Our May 4 Story.(Ripple Effect)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Jessica Bennett An outpouring of support after a family talks to NEWSWEEK about their daughter's death. For the past two years, Christos and Lesli Catsouras had done everything in their power to keep grisly accident-scene photos of their daughter's death, ...
Britain's Not-So-Great Expectations.(Scope; InternationaList)(David Cameron and the Conservative Party)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: William Underhill These should be dark days for David Cameron, leader of Britain's Conservatives. A spending scandal has revealed some embarrassing details about extravagant expenses claimed by his legislators. Among the rule-bending bills submitted to taxpayers: a new ...
Drinking Liberally In Iraq.(Scope; InternationaList)(secularism in Iraq)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Larry Kaplow In the first years after Saddam Hussein's overthrow, the dream of a secular Iraq seemed to be disappearing fast, as professionals fled the country, headscarves for women became a must and liquor stores were shuttered. Religious parties became the dominant ...
Hong Kong Gets Snubbed As a Hub.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Pettis; Pettis Teaches Finance In Beijing. Since the financial crisis struck, the conventional wisdom has been that Manhattan bankers should pack their bags for Hong Kong, since Asia's financial hubs would inevitably profit from the distress in New York and ...
How To Catch a Tiger In Sri Lanka.(Scope; InternationaList)(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Christian Caryl For years, most experts have argued that insurgencies aren't won on the battlefield but on the political front. Now events in Sri Lanka have called that axiom into question. Last week the Tamil Tigers admitted defeat after a brutal two-and-a-half-decade ...
Pakistan's Other Nuclear Threat.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: John Barry As the Taliban battles Pakistan's military just 60 miles from Islamabad, one question frightens experts around the world: what about the nukes? The good news is that Pakistan's warheads, estimated at about 100, are guarded by an elite unit screened for ...
Next Stop Nowhere.(Scope; Politics)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball As part of their efforts to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Obama Administration officials were poised in late April to make a bold, stealthy move: they instructed the U.S. Marshals Service to prepare an aircraft and a ...
The Swiss Say Get Out And Stay Out.(Scope; Politics)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball For decades Switzerland's banks have provided a haven for the ill-gotten wealth of Nazis, dictators and shady businessmen. But after 9/11, as U.S. investigators hunted for terrorist assets, the Swiss government promised to cooperate. For the first time, ...
Conventional Wisdom: Think Again.(Scope; Culture)(current events)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Obama (SIDEWAYS) On the defensive re Gitmo closure. At least explainer in chief talks to us like we're adults. Cheney (DOWN) Ex-veep manages cable smackdown with Obama. Problem: his real beef is with his old boss Dubya. No class. ...
Trick or Tweet.(Scope; Technology)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Jessica Bennett It seems as if everyone is on Twitter--but not everyone is who they say they are. Famous tweeters fall into three categories: they're doing it themselves, a lackey's doing it for them or someone's pretending to be them. A quick survey: Newt ...
Secretary of the Recovery.(Scope; Business)(Timothy Geithner)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... With each day, it seems, the Obama administration is unveiling another plan to bring sweeping reform to a broken sector of the U.S. economy--regulatory oversight, executive pay, credit cards. In front of a live audience last week at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary Tim ...
Twenty Years After Tiananmen.(Scope; My Turn)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Bao Tong; Bao, 85, is a democracy and human-rights activist living in Beijing. In March, I received a letter from my daughter-in-law in America. It was sent four years ago, and I just received it. Ever since I was released from prison in 1996, my private correspondence ...
Technology for Dummies.(Scope; Technology)(Website overview)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Nick Summers I have simple needs. I like cold drinks, hot pizza and difficult things explained to me like I'm a drooling half-wit. Just because I'm familiar with a technology doesn't mean I get it--a distinction addressed by CommonCraft.com, whose In Plain English series ...
The Other 'W'.(Scope; Balance Sheet)(United States economy)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Rana Foroohar When it comes to grading the economy, most professors would probably award a C-. But the letters bandied about now when macroeconomists congregate are L, U, V and W. Those letters refer to the shape of the recovery. An L signifies a trough followed by a ...
Face-Off: Over A Barrel.(Scope; Balance Sheet)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Oil prices are heading up. After hitting $145 last summer, then falling to $33 in February, a barrel of oil is now more than $60. How long until it's back above $100? Jeff Rubin: Very soon. "We'll be back to triple-digit oil within 12 months. As soon as a recovery begins, very ...
The President's 'Whiz Kids'.(Jonathan Alter)(Barack Obama)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A misplaced faith in the meritocracy. Earlier this month I did three things that didn't seem to have much to do with each other. I went on a memorable day-trip with my 87-year-old father, Jim Alter, who flew 31 harrowing combat missions over Nazi Germany. I read a scathing and ...
Let Them Go Bankrupt, Soon.(Robert J. Samuelson)(social security and Medicare)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Solving Social Security and Medicare. When the trustees of Social Security and Medicare recently reported on the economic outlook for these programs, the news coverage was universally glum. The recession had made everything worse. Social Security, Medicare face insolvency ...
They Might Be a Little Evil.(Technology)(Google's antitrust investigation)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Lyons; Lyons is NEWSWEEK's technology editor and the author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs. Why Google faces antitrust scrutiny. We all know how an auction works. The auctioneer sits up front and keeps calling for higher bids until there's ...
A Supreme Choice.(Politics)(judicial selection)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Dahlia Lithwick; Lithwick writes a column about the Supreme Court and legal affairs for slate.com. Why Obama could go bold. To the extent that Supreme Court reporters have any social utility at all, they're awfully useful when high-court vacancies pop up. ...
Hooked On a Feeling.(Sharon Begley)(mind over pain)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Sharon Begley; Begley, Science editor of Newsweek, is the author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. This is your brain on a placebo. As far as the body is concerned, a placebo is nothing--a sugar pill, a sham treatment, an inert compound. But try telling ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(quotations from Al Gore, Roxana Saberi, and Newt Gingrich)(Quotation)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... "Mother Nature does not do bailouts." --Former vice president Al Gore, advocating for international curbs on pollution at last week's World Business Summit on Climate Change. "The one thing that kept me going ...was singing the national anthem to myself." ...
Boom Times Are Back.(Fareed Zakaria)(economic boom)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Just not here in the United States. It is becoming increasingly clear that the story of the global economy is a tale of two worlds. In one, there is only gloom and doom, and in the other there is light and hope. In the traditional bastions of wealth and power--America, Europe ...
Tony Kushner's Day.(Oprah Effect)(Culture)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Jeremy McCarter "I wish I was an octopus," says Roy Cohn in Angels in America, " a f--king octopus." These days Tony Kushner, the man who wrote that line, is a f--king octopus. With life more chaotic than usual--good news and bad news coming at us faster and from more ...
Edie Over Easy.(Oprah Effect)(Television)(Edie Falco )
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston Edie Falco doesn't mind that people still see her as Carmela Soprano, the matriarch of television's most influential family drama. She just doesn't want to be seen as one of those mothers. You know the type. The self-righteous mommies who think parenthood ...
He's a Little Bit Country.(Oprah Effect)(Music)(Elvis Costello )(Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)(Sound recording review)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Seth Colter Walls You don't have to listen to the music of Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick McManus in London) to know he's obsessed with Americana. First, there's that stage name. Next, you have the clues from the songs he's written (or covered): "Eisenhower Blues," ...
Isn't It Bromantic?(Oprah Effect)(Movies)(movies get brotherly love comedy)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh We've all seen the damsel-in-distress movie before, but in The Hangover the damsel is a dude. The Hangover is a comedy about three guys who take their buddy Doug on a bachelor party to Vegas. When Doug disappears after a night of amnesia-inducing ...
Save the Slice.(Oprah Effect)(Food)(pizza)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Andrew Romano Chef Mathieu Palombino is wearing a New Kids on the Block T shirt--and while it may be ironic, it's not inaccurate. Late last year Palombino, 31, opened Motorino in Brooklyn. His training was tony--Laurent Tourondel, David Bouley--but his latest recipe was ...
The Bite Stuff, Again.(Oprah Effect)(Books)(The Strain)(Book review)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones If there's anything more insatiable than a vampire, it's the public's appetite for vampire tales. The trick for an author or filmmaker is to vary the formula just enough (teen vampires!) to suck back in those of us who have sworn off vampires (and serial ...
The Prognosticator.(Oprah Effect)(Music)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... in 3 months-- Last Train to Paris by Diddy. The Twittering mogul claims to have invented "train music." Ellington may have beaten him to the punch by 70 years, but radio will still take an interest. in 6 months Untitled by Adam Lambert. "My record will be ...
Q&A: Alanis Morissette.(Oprah Effect)(Television)(Interview)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston The raven-haired Canuck is taking a break from music to join the cast of TV's Weeds. She spoke with Joshua Alston. You signed up for seven episodes of Weeds, which is a lot. I'm a huge fan. I used to watch it in the back of my tour ...
Yojiro Takita: Best.Movies.Ever.(Oprah Effect)(Movies)(Yojiro Takita's favorite movies)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... His movie Departures, about a laid-off cellist who goes to work at a funeral home, was Japan's upset winner this year for best foreign film--in other words, it's the one that ruined your Oscar-pool ballot. Should it have beaten Waltz With Bashir? See for yourself. Departures is finally ...
Letters to the Editor: 'Everything You Think You Know About Iran Is Wrong'.(Mail Call)
Jun 08, 2009 ... Issue dated June 1, 2009 Zakaria tries to convince us that our thinking on Iran is incorrect, but actions speak louder than words. Martin Kay, Valley Village, Calif. A CIA coup overthrew the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, and ...
The Reeducation of Abu Jandal.(Oprah Effect)(World Affairs)(Hamoud al-Hitar)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Kevin Peraino Can jihadists really be reformed? Closing Guantanamo may depend on it. Photographs by Karim Ben Khelifa All teachers have their problem pupils. Hamoud al-Hitar's was a young man who liked to call himself "Abu Jandal," an Arabic ...
Like Father, Like Son.(Oprah Effect)(Politics)(Thomas Dodd and his son Christopher Dodd)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball and Suzanne Smalley Thomas Dodd left the Senate in disgrace. Now his son Christopher faces his own crisis. Room S-211 is not on the Capitol tour. It is a small, ornate chamber, with the look and feel of the late Grant ...
Revenge of the Nerd.(Oprah Effect)(Business)(Paul Wilmott)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Matthew Philips Paul Wilmott is out to save Wall Street's soul--one dork at a time. Imagine an aeronautics engineer designing a state-of-the-art jumbo jet. In order for it to fly, the engineer has to rely on the same aerodynamics equation devised by ...
Live Your Best Life Ever!(Oprah Effect)(Cover story)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert Wish Away Cancer! Get A Lunchtime Face-Lift! Eradicate Autism! Turn Back The Clock! Thin Your Thighs! Cure Menopause! Harness Positive Energy! Erase Wrinkles! Banish Obesity! Live Your Best Life Ever! In January, Oprah Winfrey ...
Getting Out of Gitmo.(World Affairs)(United States on Guantanamo Bay Prison detainees)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Inside the struggle to send detainees home. somewhere between president Obama's post-inaugural pledge to close Guantanamo Bay during his first year in office and the more recent news that he may--like his predecessor--prosecute some detainees in military commissions and keep ...
A Trade Explosion In North Korea.(Scope; InternationaList)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Takashi Yokota North Korea is as famous for its poverty as it is for its provocations. That has many observers now wondering how a country that can barely afford to keep the lights on foots the bill for a missile-and-nuclear-weapons program. The answer is that, contrary ...
Germany Looks Back And To The Left.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Stefan Theil Just a few years ago, Germans agreed that their high-wage economy and elaborate welfare system were getting undercut by the double onslaught of an aging population and global competition. Years of debate led to painful reforms, including benefit cuts for the ...
China Bucks the Dollar.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Drezner To hear some tell it, China is trying to undermine the dollar's status as the world's core currency. In March, the country's central-bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, proposed creating a new "super-sovereign" currency, untethered to any single nation, for ...
India Digs In Its Heels.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Sumit Ganguly Since India's congress party celebrated its huge election victory on May 16, pundits have predicted that relations between D.C. and a newly empowered Delhi would grow cozier. But so far the signs aren't promising. India is already angry over a ...
Europe's Fringe-Worthy Election.(Scope; InternationaList)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Christopher Werth Europeans seem indifferent to who runs their continent. According to polls, just 34 percent of citizens plan to vote in this month's EU parliamentary election, which determines who represents their countries in the pan-European legislature situated in ...
To Disclose Or Not To Disclose: A Fight Inside The Cia.(Scope; Politics)
Jun 08, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball The honeymoon between CIA director Leon Panetta and veterans of the agency's undercover division--the National Clandestine Service--may be coming to an end. The dispute concerns how much access congressional investigators should be given to ultraclassified ...
Conventional Wisdom: Think Again.(Scope; Conventional Wisdom)(public opinion on Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, and the Republican Party)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... Obama (Up) Judging Supreme pick always takes years. But shrewd move politically, even though it seems to be completely sincere. Sotomayor (Up) She'll make it. Path-breaking choice with experience and an irresistible life story. Good ...
Indignity Index.(Oprah Effect)(Scope; Culture)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... An unscientific appraisal of dubious public behavior. The Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian calls the pronunciation of "Sotomayor" "unnatural" and argues that "we shouldn't be giving in to" pressure to say it correctly. Illinois's Roland Burris is ...
'The American Future'.(Oprah Effect)(Scope; Books)(book by Simon Schama)(Brief article)
Jun 08, 2009 ... We read it so you don't have to In his new book, historian and social critic Simon Schama traces how the big questions facing Obama's America have been asked and answered since the era of the Founding Fathers: Do we encourage immigration or save American jobs for American ...