Newsweek International articles from April 2001

Newsweek International archives from April 2001

Mail Call.
April 2, 2001... New Hazards of Food and Farming With the world fretting over mad-cow disease, readers appreciated our special report on the epidemic. "Thanks for your thoughtful coverage on the social impact of mad-cow disease," said one writer. Other...

In the Thick of It.(wartime in Macedonia)
April 2, 2001... The attack came with little warning. We had just arrived in Selce, an idyllic cluster of red-tile-roofed houses packed tightly on the steep eastern slopes of a river gorge. For the past week this strategically located hamlet high above the...

In the Name of War.(Chechnya)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... With his close-shaven head and his small, feral eyes, Yuri Budanov, 37, is not the kind of man to inspire affection. Yet he's got plenty of fans. Outside the courthouse in southern Russia, where Budanov's case is being tried, demonstrators hold...

Building 'Stalinworld'.(Information Center and Museum of Grutas Park, Lithuania)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... The gates to the gulag will open on April 1. And if Lithuanian millionaire Viliomas Malinauskas has his way, this time around his countrymen will be begging to get in. In a forest just outside his country's capital city of Vilnius, Malinauskas...

Nibbling at the Net.(Arab countries)
April 2, 2001... In the narrow streets of old Cairo--in alleys where beggars limp through piles of garbage, where idle men puff on their hubbly-bubblies and chickens beat up dust with their wings--the ancient tradition of the neighborhood scribe lingers....

Ofir's Fatal Liaison.(Ofir Rahum)
April 2, 2001... Their online conversations resonated with the innocence and beauty of a budding romance. She told him he appeared to her in her dreams. He told her he missed her constantly. Many of their exchanges ended with the words "I love you." But while...

The Mark of Zorro.(Zhu Wenguang)
April 2, 2001... Zhu Wenguang knew he had to tread carefully. He was a controversial police guard from a far-off province, trying to persuade a roomful of country cops to support his idiosyncratic crusade. He had traveled more than 1,000 kilometers from his...

A Vigilante's Justice.(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Taking the law into one's own hands can be a dangerous business in China. Last spring, 38-year-old Sichuan native Huang Qi was a minor celebrity. The Web site he had founded to run photos and data about missing persons--including women sold as...

The Text Generation.(short message service)
April 2, 2001... The downfall of Philippine President Joseph Estrada earlier this year is an example of what the people can do when they're well armed--in this case, with mobile phones that deliver short, simple text messages. Opposition organizers used this...

The Body Snatchers.(Enrico Cuccia)
April 2, 2001... It would have taken at least four grave robbers, police reckon, to move the heavy marble stone sealing the tomb labeled Enrico, and make off with the oak coffin and body inside. The crime took place somewhere around the Ides of March, in a...

Mall Rush?(India)
April 2, 2001... Crossroads was an instant success with everyone, including all the wrong people. Opened in 1999, the first and only mall in India's most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai, was named after its location at the nexus of tony neighborhoods. On weekends the...

Help! I Need Somebody.(Review)
April 2, 2001... Going home is never easy. For Akio Kanzaki, the brooding Japanese salaryman in Ai Nagai's new stage drama "Hello, Mother," the experience proves downright unnerving. Seeking a place to "take off my tie" and relax, he returns to his childhood...

Ethnic Education.(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... As America welcomes its largest influx of immigrants since 1910, it is seeing the rise of an alternative kind of educational institution--the culture school. From California to Connecticut, more and more such programs, also known as cram...

The Confucian Solution.(internet self-censorship)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 2, 2001... Like many Arab countries, China does not disguise its schizophrenia about the Internet. On the one hand, the state's cyber commissars nail citizens for posting comments like "Down with the Communist Party!" (Two weeks ago, a high-school teacher...

Now it's time to Get Real.(information technology in Arab States)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 2, 2001... With globalization here to stay, Arab leaders are welcoming information technology. Afraid of being left behind, leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the gulf in particular rush to launch Web sites and embrace e-business without giving much thought to...

Fractured Fairy Tales.(marriages of royalty)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Crown prince Willem-Alexander can only wish he knew when his wedding day will be. His mother, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, wants him to wait for the unseemly public protests to die down before he goes ahead with plans to marry his...

A Kinder, Gentler OPEC.(Organization of Petroleum Epxporting Countries)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 2, 2001... The Organization of Petroleum Epxporting Countries will cut oil production this week by 1 million barrels a day, or 4 percent, despite President George W. Bush's pleas to "open the spigot." The news raised immediate fears of an economic "double...

Perspectives.
April 2, 2001... "I'll outlive all of 'em." South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, 98, responding to predictions that he won't live out his term "We are not just shooting ourselves in the foot. We are shooting ourselves in the nose." A senior Palestinian...

Periscope.(Tony Blair, views on nationalism in Germany, spitting in China, luxury hotel services, trailer homes in the United States)(Statistical Data Included)
April 2, 2001... BRITAIN Blair's Immunity to the British Malaise They called him Teflon Tony four years ago, and he still fits the bill. Britain is a mess these days, but somehow Prime Minister Tony Blair heads into the next election looking remarkably...

The Middle East After Arafat...(Yasir Arafat)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... We have grown accustomed to his face. Yasir Arafat's unshaven visage, wrapped with a checkered head scarf, is the most enduring image of the long conflict between Israel and the Arabs. In substantive debates as well Arafat remains at its...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
April 9, 2001... Taking the Measure Of a Mythic Man Some readers defended Colin Powell from what they considered our biased March 5 SPECIAL REPORT. "The most damning thing about him is that he does not like to shed American blood? Good for him." wrote one...

Microsoft Cops.(Microsoft Corp.)(Statistical Data Included)
April 9, 2001... By the time the driver of the Ford Transit van realized he was being followed, it was too late. Three unmarked police cars were on his tail, speeding through the business district of Katowice, Poland. Cmdr. Michal Terlega and his team of a...

Soldiers of Christ.(Christians bring aid to Sudan)(Statistical Data Included)
April 9, 2001... For the first time in seven months, a plane with supplies from the outside world stood on the guerrilla leader's dirt airstrip. The Americans had brought corn, soap, medicine and boxes of Bibles printed in the local language, Nuer. But what...

A Freedom Fighter Speaks.(interview with former colonel John Garang)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 9, 2001... John Garang, a former colonel in the Sudanese armed forces, leads the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. He holds a doctorate from Iowa State University. Garang met with NEWSWEEK's Tom Masland in his headquarters near Sudan's border with Kenya....

Magnet for Globophobes.(Brent Berlin)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 9, 2001... With his goatee, sandals and dreams of retiring to his house in the rebel land of Chiapas, Brent Berlin evokes the image of an aging hippie. One of the few outsiders who speaks Tzeltal, a local language, the 64-year-old anthropologist and...

Japan Finds Its Seoul.(Japanese attracted to South Korea)(Statistical Data Included)
April 9, 2001... Nothing in Suguru Okuhara's life prepared him to like Korea. His grandfather, an unrepentant veteran of Japan's Imperial Army, called Koreans racist names and sang songs in the shower with lyrics like "Koreans sound like pigs." Six years ago...

Loving Our Neighbors.(relationship between Japanese, South Koreans)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... In February, my daughter married a young Korean man whom she had met while studying in China. They're now enjoying life together as newlyweds in a suburb of Seoul. A year ago I never dreamed that something like this could happen. To my wife and...

Fighting Last Century's War.(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 9, 2001... At the University of California, Berkeley, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy is at the cutting edge of thinking about the new economy, including the ongoing battles between Microsoft and its many rivals. NEWSWEEK's Tony...

Foot-and-Mouth Wars.(foot-and-mouth disease research)
April 9, 2001... Peter Mason may have the strangest commute in America. Every morning, the balding scientist with the salt-and-pepper ponytail boards a ferry for a 45-minute ride across the Long Island Sound. Signs mounted on pilings warn the public to keep...

The Sunken Icon of Reform.(Brazilian oil rig sinks)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... During five long days last month, millions of Brazilians saw the tragedy unfold. On March 15 a series of explosions racked the world's largest oil rig, 120 kilometers off the coast. Half stunned, half in horror, they watched on live television...

Love Those Wearables!(wearable computers)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Thad Starner first started wearing his computer in 1993. He would strap a shoe box of electronics to his waist and a small keyboard to his wrist and don a bulky headset with a small display monitor suspended in front of his left eye. After a...

The New Face of Opera.(Statistical Data Included)
April 9, 2001... When London's Royal Opera House reopened last December after a four- year, $300 million renovation, the audience was struck by more than just the gleaming new architecture. On the program, the queen was relegated to second place below...

A Wave Of The Baton.(Interview)
April 9, 2001... In the first five years after it opened in 1989, the Bastille Opera House went through two conductors and an artistic boycott. It became known for staging mediocre performances by an uneven orchestra in a hall with terrible acoustics. So when...

'My Fair Lady's' Makeover.
April 9, 2001... Is "My Fair Lady" a period piece? At first glance the Lerner and Loewe musical, now enjoying a sumptuous revival at Britain's National Theatre, seems anachronistic. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion," the musical chronicles...

The Minister Who Would Be Czar.(Domingo Cavallo)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... The Spanish industrialists who met Domingo Cavallo during a whirlwind 18-hour visit to Madrid last week could be forgiven for wondering whether he had just been named president of Argentina. Barely a week after he joined the cabinet of Fernando...

A Place On The Map.(Sudan)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Amateur videos seldom exert much impact on U.S. foreign policy--but the film Frank Wolf brought back from his recent visit to Africa was anything but a holiday travelogue. This January, while other Washingtonians were skiing in Utah or...

'Her Name Was Aida'".(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... The busiest place in Ramallah these days is a parched slope on the city's outskirts, just beneath the Jewish settlement of Psigot. Here, in a new extension of the Al Bira Cemetery, Palestinian families gather through the day around 150 marble...

Honoring the E-Dead.(Polytech Co. )(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Japan is growing old. it may now have more elderly people per capita than any other country in the world. By no coincidence, funerals are also on the rise. More than 900,000 were performed in Japan last year, and the number is expected to...

The Fruits of War.(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Soldiers dressed in combat fatigues and black hoods would normally inspire fear in an Acehnese village. But not these commandos. As nearly a dozen fighters approach the edges of a hamlet some 30km southwest of the town of Bireun, their hoods...

McVeigh's Death Wish.(Timothy McVeigh )(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... The death penalty is an issue that provokes surprisingly little public debate in the United States, except when a celebrated murderer--or someone who may have been convicted wrongly--is up for execution. Then the controversy flares again, at...

His Willing Executioners.(Slobodan Milosevic)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Sarajevo. Srebrenica. Vukovar. Kosovo. It is impossible to calculate the toll exacted by Slobodan Milosevic. A quarter of a million dead. More than 3 million refugees. Countless homes and villages burned, lives and families broken, a nation...

An American in Paris (Film).(Peter Scarlet)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 9, 2001... Since it was founded in 1936, the Cinematheque Francaise has become one of the film world's most revered institutions. French film masters like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut found adoring audiences there, as well as a place where their...

Perspectives.
April 9, 2001... "Bush pulls out of saving the planet."Headline in British newspaper The Sun, on the Bush administration's decision to abandon the 1997 Kyoto Protocol "I guess we didn't realize it was the actual climate he wanted to change." Democrat...

Kill or Cure.(foot-and-mouth disease)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Why are we killing all these cows? The British government and its farmers have allowed the slaughter of nearly 1 million animals potentially infected with foot-and-mouth disease so far this year. The disease poses no threat to humans. And it's...

Gangsta Rap, Taiwan Style.(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... For years, Taiwan's Justice Ministry has tried to rid the legislature of gangsters (some lawmakers estimate that one third of Parliament has links to organized crime). A bill barring legislators with criminal backgrounds stalled pathetically,...

East Meets West.(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Sports can soothe even the stormiest of tiffs between the United States and China; in the 1970s table tennis opened the doors for the then President Nixon. Basketball probably won't throw missile-defense disputes off the radar, but who knows?...

Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... What did Christ, the man, actually look like? Depictions down the ages have been as varied as they are endless. Jesus the Father, gray and bearded; Jesus the Saint, young and winsome. Or gay, black, female, white.... Now a documentary from the...

Reality TV?(television programs)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... TV isn't real life. But couldn't shows try to present life in all its multi-ethnic diversity? PERI looked at some of the most popular English-language shows. Our ratings, from zero to a perfect 10: FRIENDS After 159 episodes, finally a...

Under the Desk, Kids!(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... The end of the Cold War doesn't mean the 1950s "duck and cover" drills are out of style. In the post-Columbine era, U.S. schools are adopting similar precautionary measures--not against Russian nukes, though. Today's threat is gun-toting teens....

Killing Time.(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... In a bold new economy experiment last week, AOL's London staff surrendered their watches, and promised not to peek at wall clocks; computer timekeepers and mobile phones were covered over for the day. The company, always up to the minute in...

Something to Write Home About.(United States Navy past year accidents)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... This hasn't been the best 12 months for the U.S. military. The incident over the China Sea is only one of many mishaps. As retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Horner said of the state of the military: "I've seen the trends, and they're not good." And...

Mail Call.
April 16, 2001... The Taliban Strikes Again Our March 12 story on the Taliban's plan to destroy ancient Buddhist statues prompted many readers to deplore what one called "a dastardly act." Another remarked, "The Taliban is laying waste to its nation's art...

Sticking to the Party Line.(Russia, Communist Party)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 16, 2001... If press freedom in Russia is under fire, Mikhail Leontiev is proud to be a member of the firing squad. He's made a habit of trashing journalist colleagues. He has defended military officers sentenced for murdering a reporter who had implicated...

The Big Embarrassment.(Milosevic Slobodan)
April 16, 2001... Slobodan Milosevic's new home has virtually every convenience. The high-security cell at Belgrade's Central Prison has a peephole so his guards can check on him in the toilet, and a hatchway so they can deliver his meals, served on foam plastic...

All Putin All the Time.(Vladimir Putin)
April 16, 2001... High on the eighth floor of Russia's national television center, journalists from NTV gather for what amounts to a council of war. With tense and tired faces, they listen as one of the station's lawyers, Yuri Bagrayev, briefs them on the day's...

The Tube Fixer.(London underground, Bob Kiley)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... A 65-year-old former CIA agent would seem an unlikely savior for London's venerable Tube. But American Bob Kiley was hired as the city's transport commissioner last year precisely because he had already turned around public-transport systems in...

Holy Toledo!(Alejandro Toledo)(Column)
April 16, 2001... His name was Andres, and for a fleeting moment last week the 12-year- old bootblack took center stage in Alejandro Toledo's quest for the presidency of Peru. Midway through his stump speech at a rally in the southern city of Arequipa, Toledo...

'They Have to Accept Me'.(Alejandro Toledo, Peru)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... In the closing days of Peru's election campaign, front runner Alejandro Toledo discussed his candidacy with NEWSWEEK's Joseph Contreras in Lima. Excerpts: CONTRERAS: The respected Peruvian newsmagazine Caretas published a cover story last...

Whatever Happened to... Alberto Fujimori?(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Alberto Fujimori's new life in Japan seems comfortable enough. (It sure beats the alternative.) From the windows of his new abode, a posh condominium in central Tokyo, he has enjoyed views of cherry blossoms. He's kept busy lately penning his...

There Is Gold in Graying Europe.(retirement financial market)
April 16, 2001... The code name was Operation Umbrella. The agents were bankers, lawyers and executives from two of Europe's largest financial institutions, nicknamed "Alpha" and "Delta" by insiders. These corporate 007s spent much of the year in stealth mode,...

Loving Pandas to Death.(in Chinal)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... The first tour buses pull up to China's Wolong Nature Reserve just after lunch. Giddy from the drive past polluted towns and chemical factories, the passengers stagger out into the parking lot and make their way to the four white-tiled souvenir...

Invasion of the Vintners.(influence of French winemakers in Chile)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
April 16, 2001... When French winemaker Alexandra Marnier-Lapostolle began buying up vineyards in Chile's Rapel Valley in the mid-1990s, the vines were bursting with grapes. So she took a pair of pruners and walked up and down the rows, methodically lopping off...

Waiting for the Jukebox.(digital music)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... There are two words that people in the record business love to hear: overnight success. When it comes to digital music, however, those words don't apply. Just ask Rob Glaser. Back in 1995, after launching the audio-streaming company...

'I Am Not So Pessimistic'.(Yevgeny Kiselev, general director of Russia's only independent TV station)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 16, 2001... NTV's embattled director general, Yevgeny Kiselev, spoke to NEWSWEEK's Christian Caryl about what his station's fortunes mean for Russia. Excerpts: CARYL: Why is an attack on NTV an attack on freedom of speech in Russia? KISELEV: NTV...

Rabbi With a Cause.(Menachem Froman and Middle East)(Interview)
April 16, 2001... Last week Rabbi Menachem Froman was invited by Yasir Arafat to his presidential palace in Ramallah. It was not the first time that Froman, 56, a hardcore member of the right-wing settlement group Gush Emunim, had crossed the lines that divide...

A BAD CASE OF EURO ENVY.(American Right-wing attitudes)(Column)
April 16, 2001... I'm not sure when it hit me. Maybe it was when the Bush administration announced two weeks ago that it would not be sending the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification. Or maybe it was when the Netherlands had the world's first real...

Perspectives.
April 16, 2001... "My mission is to bring the people home." President George W. Bush, on the 24 American crew members detained in China after their spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet "China is a strategic partner... I mean, strategic competitor,...

Will Bush Bash Beijing's Bid?(George Bush, olympics 2008)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... If the Bush administration is tempted to pressure China by threatening to block Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics, it had better think again. The U.S. Congress has already weighed in. The House of Representatives passed a resolution March 29...

A Nation of Many Millions... of Divisions.(racial segregation in United States)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... The census 2000 data is in: the United States is more diverse than ever. But Hispanics, Asians and especially blacks and whites still tend to live apart, according to an analysis by the State University of New York at Albany. A statistical...

Oy Viagra!(off the shelves during the passover)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... It's Passover, and leavened bread isn't the only thing lifted off the shelves this week in Israel. Viagra has been declared not kosher for this weeklong religious holiday. Jews who don't get their spice from matzo--the unleavened bread that's...

Computer Cure.(cancer research screen saver)(Brief Article)
April 16, 2001... Could a PC screen saver save your life? That's what scientists at Oxford University hope, after launching a software program to facilitate the search for a leukemia cure. The process is simple: download a screen saver from www.ud.com,...

Correction.
April 23, 2001... The quotation "Bush pulls out of saving the planet" (PERSPECTIVES, April 9), misattributed to a headline in the British newspaper The Sun, was in fact from the Daily Mail. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.

Mail Call.
April 23, 2001... Should We Blame The Internet? Readers were deeply disturbed by our March 19 cover story about the sexual abuse of children on the Net. "Thanks for raising public awareness," wrote one. "I didn't know whether to vomit or cry," said another....

The Wasteland.(storage of nuclear waste in Russia)
April 23, 2001... Sixteen years ago Ramzys Faizullyn had the misfortune of being born in Novaya Kurmanova, a poor village near the Ural Mountains in the shadow of the Mayak nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant. From birth he has suffered from hydrocephalus, a...

Old School, New Age.(Ecole Nationale d'Administration in France)
April 23, 2001... Charles de Gaulle established ENA, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, in 1945 with characteristic flourish and an unerring instinct for la Grandeur. He staffed it with former members of the Resistance. Its campus stood...

Shadow of Death.(Arab Israelis in danger in Palestine)
April 23, 2001... Until the moment the masked men burst into his shop last Sunday morning, Mamoun Freij must have believed the worst was behind him. For four years the Palestinian merchant had been exiled from his West Bank home in Tulkarm--forced to flee to...

Out to Save the World.(Ruud Lubbers)(Brief Article)
April 23, 2001... Ruud Lubbers, 61, for 12 years prime minister of the Netherlands, took over as U.N. high commissioner for refugees on Jan. 1. His agency is charged with providing protection for 22.3 million people in 120 countries. Among his goals: rich...

Tyson Versus Kasparov.(hard-liners against Mohammed Khatami in Iran)(Brief Article)
April 23, 2001... Is Mohammed Khatami afraid? Iran's president still hasn't said if he's running in the June 8 elections. Meanwhile his hard-line opponents, who control the Army and the courts, are making war on his supporters. Dozens of reformist newspapers...

A Battle For Peace.(North and South Korea)
April 23, 2001... For all the talk of a new cold war between the United States and China, the chilliest place in Asia may still be the Korea Peninsula. Last year prospects for a thaw looked bright: South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "sunshine policy" had led...

The Great Walls.(global free trade)
April 23, 2001... News flash: the free-trade world is breaking up. Global trade rose 60 percent to $5.5 trillion in the 1990s, but flowed increasingly within and not between Europe, Asia and the Americas. All the hype over globalization has obscured this...

Waiting for His Moment.(Riad Seif in Syria)
April 23, 2001... A successful revolutionary knows when to take a chance and when to play it safe. These days Riad Seif, Syria's most prominent political dissident, is avoiding confrontation. The 54-year-old Seif, who made a fortune as a garment manufacturer,...

Quebec.(Summit of the Americas, demonstration organizing)
April 23, 2001... The old city of Quebec is preparing for a siege. A 10-foot-high chain- link fence now encircles more than four kilometers of quaint cobblestone streets and stone ramparts that haven't seen action since redcoats stormed the city in the 18th...

Nuremberg Revisited.(Review)
April 23, 2001... We should be a lot wiser now. We've seen ex-communist nations grapple with the legacy of decades of wholesale repression, and the workings of truth commissions in Argentina, Chile and South Africa. Toss in mass murder in Cambodia, Rwanda and...

Travel Briefs.(Angkor Wat Site, Cambodia; The Leaning Tower of Pisa, reopening; adventure travel to promote employee rapport)(Brief Article)
April 23, 2001... TEMPLES Angkor Luxury The Khmer civilization may have perished over five centuries ago. But the temples of Angkor, the imposing monuments left by the ancient empire, are fast becoming one of the most alluring attractions in Southeast...