Newsweek International articles from April 2002

Newsweek International archives from April 2002

How Cool Is Lisbon?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... When designer Marco Sousa Santos came out with a series of glassware, he called it Sweet Revolution. It was a reference, in part, to the rebellious glassmakers who helped overthrow Portugal's fascist regime. But it was also a nod to a more...

Why China Cooks the Books.
April 1, 2002... The People's Republic of China is awash in gaudy numbers. For much of its exceedingly long history (5,000 years), the country has held out the promise of the world's biggest market (now more than 1.2 billion consumers). Beijing posted the...

Love Under The Taliban.
April 1, 2002... Some Afghans had special reason to celebrate the fall of the Taliban. Even before U.S. airstrikes began last October, hundreds of families in Kabul began to flee to Iran and Pakistan. One fifth-year medical student named Najeeb found himself...

The Revenge Of the Nerds.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Good salary, vacation, benefits, and... babes, babes, babes? That wasn't what Suh Kwang Young had in mind when he went to work at conservative Samsung in 1998. But nowadays when the young bachelor is introduced to a possible love interest, the...

Skyline Sculptor.(Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect)
April 1, 2002... Oscar Niemeyer, the master Brazilian architect, hates airplanes. "Flying is crap," he says, succinctly. He loathes flying so much that he has stood up presidents, media grandees and tycoons. Fidel Castro once joked about sending a ship to fetch...

For the Love of a Toothbrush.(Philippe Starck, designer)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... Designer Philippe Starck hit the worldstage in the 1980s, introducing his gleaming minimalist decors. With his bad-boy swagger, his braggadocio and his shameless pursuit of stardom, Starck quickly teed off the staid design community. But he...

Alternate Ithaca Tom.(life choices)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Weiser is a roving storyteller. Three years ago he quit his job as a database engineer and set out in a Volkswagen van to find himself. He proved elusive. Some quantum physicists theorize that every event produces all possible results....

Speculating in Concrete.(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... Most people who make it past 90 are happy to putter in the garden or read the papers in pajamas. Oscar Niemeyer goes to work. Every morning, six days a week, you can find him in his penthouse studio, in an elegant art-deco building in...

The Simplistic American?(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2002... I am gratefully reliant on Peace Corps volunteers who donate their government-supplied NEWSWEEKs to me each week and thus keep me informed of world events. Sadly, the British government does not extend a similar service to British volunteers...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... "We didn't see the slightest indication that he tried to stop [the violence] or prevent it." Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the suicide bombings that continue to rip through Israel "The...

Periscope.
April 1, 2002... U.S. ECONOMY The American Bull Is Back All together now: "Phew!" The U.S. Federal Reserve has made it official. The recession, if it ever happened, is over. Happy figures tell the story. Forecasts from the stodgy International Monetary...

A Geopolitical Guide to the World of Oil.
April 8, 2002... Coming Soon: The Hydrogen Car Graphic: (Diagram) The futurologists at Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler all agree that when oil runs out, hydrogen is likely to be the fuel of choice. The stinky internal combustion engine will give way to clean...

The Thirst for Oil.(American consumption)
April 8, 2002... The fat book opens like the tale of another age, with a nighttime image of auto lights streaking red and white past the World Trade Center. Released last May, the Bush energy policy warns that dwindling supplies of oil and gas, an antiquated...

The Once & Future Petro Kings.
April 8, 2002... The kings of oil are the Saudis, now and until the wells run dry. Of late the sheiks have been cast as the wobbling heads of a withering oil cartel, weakening next to a rising Russian petro power, as Iraq waits in the wings to usurp their place...

Pipeline Brigade.(George W. Bush's oil policy)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Is George W. Bush using war as an extension of his oil policy? It looked that way in February, when Washington announced a $700 million aid package for the Andean region, largely to fight the twin threats of guerrilla war and drugrunning that...

The Next Move is Check.
April 8, 2002... It is apparently beyond the limits of journalistic restraint to tell the story of Caspian oil as anything but a breathless spy thriller. So every few months for many years now, another writer has discovered that the age-old "Great Game" for...

What Not to Do.(European Union learns from United States energy mistakes)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Energy has surely been the beleaguered sector in the United States lately. First, California's newly deregulated power system crashed, leaving bankruptcies and blackouts in its wake. Then Enron, the king of energy trading, imploded. All this...

The Energy Squeeze.(petroleum)
April 8, 2002... As Kenneth Deffeyes walks the five blocks from the Princeton University campus to his home for probably the thousandth time, he veers sharply through a parking lot and then without warning takes a diagonal path across a side street....

Catching the Wind.
April 8, 2002... The natives of Lewis know wind--sometimes too well. Every winter the Atlantic gales come blasting across the northern tip of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The wind hardly slows down even after striking land; in the island's marshy interior, gusts...

Hydrogen Economy.
April 8, 2002... It's a little before noon, and an anemic winter sun is rising slowly over the Icelandic wasteland of jagged lava rocks. Over a steaming pool of milky blue water, Bragi Arnason is talking about the future. A ruddy-faced chemistry professor with...

Sun in the Forecast.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... High in the Mojave Desert, 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles, lies a vast field of mirrors. Crisscrossing rows of glass and metal, glinting in the sunlight, cover a full square mile of dirt. It's not some bizarre fun-house experiment or a...

The Last Great Hope.(building a pebble-bed nuclear power plant in South Africa)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... As a birthplace, Koeberg looks none too auspicious. It's a scrubby stretch of wasteland on South Africa's west coast, 30 miles north of Cape Town. The landscape is dominated by a pair of aging nuclear cooling towers, squatting like two pale,...

The Atom Option.
April 8, 2002... Nuclear power is at a curious crossroads. Ever since the accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, most people have come to see this technology as far too dangerous to contemplate making it a foundation of our civilization....

Catholic Revival.
April 8, 2002... Clandestine closets and hidden passageways are the stuff of legend in English castles and country homes. But the two "priest holes" at Ingatestone Hall, the Petre family's 470-year-old manor house outside London, are special. They vividly...

The Paramilitary Effect.(Colombia)
April 8, 2002... Salvatore Mancuso is a wanted man. The 37-year-old military chief of Colombia's outlawed right-wing militias was convicted in absentia last month of organizing armed "vigilante groups" and sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges arising from...

Hidden From View.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Japan's notorious intolerance for mental illness has given rise to a booming industry. Since the 1960s, hundreds of psychiatric hospitals-- the vast majority of them private, for-profit facilities--have sprung up to house "abnormal" people...

A Plea for the Pope.
April 8, 2002... Ever since his political masterpiece, "Z," hit movie screens in 1969, Greek director Costa-Gavras has been known as a political filmmaker. His latest picture, "Amen," a blunt look at how Pope Pius XII turned his back on the pleas of a Nazi SS...

Taking On Catholic Guilt.(Daniel Jonah Goldhagen)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... He's back. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, the author of the 1996 best seller "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," which ignited a furious debate among Holocaust scholars, is now tackling an even larger theme: the entire...

Korea's Dark Secret.(abortion)
April 8, 2002... They first met at the Christian Club when she was at university in Seoul. He was an architecture major, 26 years old like her, tall, clean-cut. They began dating, and after a year they had sex. She enjoyed it partly for the physical pleasure,...

How Many Minutes of Infamy?(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... The news cycle has turned on Europe's new class of celebrity CEOs. Percy Barnevik, formerly of ABB and the retired pioneer of this group, was forced by angry investors to return a chunk of his 100 million euro parting gift to himself. Class...

Clinking Bottles With God.
April 8, 2002... It's an unlikely combination: Bible plays from medieval England and amateur performers from South Africa's deprived townships. But together they make the new West End musical "The Mysteries" one of the most powerful and innovative productions...

A Tale of Lost Love.
April 8, 2002... How could I have loved him like that? That opening line of Duong Thu Huong's "Beyond Illusions" (247 pages. Hyperion East) and the passage that follows offer the kind of brutal, incisive honesty that leaves absolutely no doubt why Huong...

Seeing How The Other Half Lives.
April 8, 2002... Osaka housewife Tomomi Taguchi cautiously opens the door to Lee Won Tae's cozy three-bedroom apartment. Lee, 43, is a middle-class bureaucrat who lives in Seoul with his wife, mother and two children. The apartment's little entrance is...

Farewell To An Icon And An Era.(Queen Mother)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
April 8, 2002... Britain's Queen Mother was a piece of the ancient past, and she reveled in the role. She predated the modern monarchy, and was allowed to remain locked in a different era. That was the whole point of her: to remind the people that an...

Israel Is Not America's Greatest Ally.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Once again, conflict is raging between Israel and the Palestinians--and once again, the U.S. government can see fault only on one side. Even as Israeli soldiers were demolishing his compound and threatening his life, Palestinian Authority...

Rattle and Roar.(noise in New York City)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... I've always suspected that New York is the noisiest city in the world, but now I'm sure. I was walking down a Manhattan street the other day, trying to retrieve a message on my cell phone, when I realized I couldn't hear a word because men with...

A Novel of [Bad] Manners.(Ian McEwan discusses his latest novel "Atonement" and winning the Booker Prize)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 8, 2002... Ian McEwan began his career in the mid-'70s in Britain with a series of short, sharp shocks. His unimaginably dark, chilling stories and novels (like "Homemade," about a 14-year-old boy who loses his virginity by molesting his 10-year-old...

Mbeki as AIDS Dissenter.
April 8, 2002... Congratulations on your article "South Africa's Lonely Rebel" (World Affairs, March 4). It is time that African leaders were exposed for who they really are. Thabo Mbeki spends too much time chasing a dream instead of attending to important...

Perspectives.
April 8, 2002... "I want to be a martyr, martyr, martyr, martyr." Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, on Israeli troops storming his compound in Ramallah "This is not just terror. This is a massacre." Israeli Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, on...

Periscope.
April 8, 2002... PAKISTAN Presidential Problems President Pervez Musharraf has impressed the West with his resolve to crack down on domestic Muslim militants, making friends all over the world. But back home in Pakistan, he's got troubles. Two and a...

Europe's Orphan.(Turkey)
April 22, 2002... On the streets of Kabul, Turkish soldiers go on patrol, side by side with the British, an Islamic star and crescent on the shoulder of their NATO-issue uniforms. In Ankara, Turkish officers take lessons in local Afghan politics before assuming...

A Chilling Message.
April 22, 2002... Mohammed Rafiq Lalmiya is standing alone, in stunned silence, before the burned-out hulk of his former mosque in Naroda Patia, a community in the western Indian state of Gujarat. This is the first time the 32- year-old rickshaw driver has dared...

Blues Versus Reds.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Baron Gotthard von Winterfeld hadn't seen his ancestors' feudal estate in nearly half a century. When he finally did so 12 years ago, after the fall of the Berlin wall, his eyes filled with tears. His forefathers first settled in the tiny...

The Human Rights Blame Game.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Half a century after the notion was first proposed, the International Criminal Court last week became a reality. It is the first permanent tribunal empowered to try individuals responsible for the most heinous crimes a state can commit:...

Fishing Expedition.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... North Korea earned a place in the "axis of evil" partly with its exports--missile sales to such countries as Iran and Syria, methamphetamines to Japan, counterfeit money to Middle Eastern countries. But perhaps the world should worry about...

The Caudillo Clash.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Jose Manuel de la Sota is a party boss of the classic Argentine mold. With a blunt manner and natural flair for the backroom deals of local politics, the Peronist party stalwart seized the governorship of Cordoba province in 1999 by promising...

Schlock Goes East.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Tiandu isn't exactly a model city. The vice mayor's son dabbles in smuggling and other gangster pursuits, and his father uses his influence to protect him. His company employs murderous henchmen, who use jars of human fingers to scare up...

Inner Peace, Good Eats. yogasite.com yoga@20retreats.html yogafinder.com yogaeventsearch.cfm.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Pinney Dror, a New York investment banker, felt so overworked last month that he decided to slow down and take a deep breath--several deep breaths, in fact. Dror skipped town for a 10-day stretch in Costa Rica. He spent roughly $2,150,...

The Viking Vacation.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... It took the skins of 113 calves to record "Flateyjarbok," the thickest of Iceland's ancient sagas. The 14th-century manuscript and scores of others like it tell the stories of the ancient Norse cultures in the barren landscape better than any...

A Springtime For Techies.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Once upon a time, baby-faced Jonas Svensson was the very image of Sweden's new generation of information-technology entrepreneurs. He and a handful of other twentysomethings founded Spray, the hot Internet portal that, by 2000, was worth more...

The Great Escape.(film industry in India)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... As religious violence roiled India last month, one of the country's biggest film stars, Aamir Khan, was walking up a red-carpeted runway in Los Angeles to take his seat at the Academy Awards. Khan, a 36-year-old heartthrob, had received an...

Chaos in Caracas.
April 22, 2002... Until the last, Hugo Chavez and his closest supporters refused to acknowledge that anything might be amiss. Last Thursday afternoon, while more than 100,000 angry Venezuelans marched toward the presidential palace, Chavez's brother and...

Tough Love for Africa.(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 22, 2002... Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade's peaceful election two years ago ended nearly four decades of Socialist Party rule and thrust the French-trained economist into the front ranks of Africa's reformers. In recent months the longtime opposition...

Up From Down Under.(Glenn Murcutt)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 22, 2002... This week the jury of the 2002 Pritzker Prize--known as the Nobel of architecture--announced the honor will go to Glenn Murcutt. Glenn who? In years past the $100,000 prize has been snagged by such global design stars as Frank Gehry and Rem...

Secretary Of State Ariel Sharon.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... In sending Colin Powell to the Middle East, America finally appears to be taking control of its policy in the region. Since it came into office, the Bush administration has attempted a hands-off policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Got Game, Will Travel.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... I've come to the game developers conference in San Jose, California, as a media skeptic to play what designers here call a "quest game." Instead of seeking some magic sword, though, or the map to some ersatz treasure, I'm searching for a...

The Mideast Showdown.
April 22, 2002... In "A Rising Tide of Blood" you quote a top Arafat aide as saying, "Sharon has nothing to offer the Palestinians" (World Affairs, March 18). Maybe that is true from his perspective, but Sharon's predecessor, Ehud Barak, certainly had more than...

Perspectives.
April 22, 2002... "These are murderers. It's not suicide, it's murder." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, defending his use of the term "homicide bomber" "What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September...

Periscope.(Interview)
April 22, 2002... ECONOMY Oil Rivers Run Deep The world's oil market was hit again last week when Saddam Hussein drew another arrow from his quiver, announcing a 30-day halt of Iraqi oil exports in protest of Israeli military action against the...

Europe's Dirty Secret.
April 29, 2002... "Help, we're living in a banana republic!"--German weekly Die Zeit The smoke spewing from the Leuna oil refinery in eastern Germany is cleaner than it used to be. In the bad old days of communism, it stank up the air, polluted the water...

Jam Jar Politics.(Jacques Chirac)(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Some scandals are just too delicious, and those linked to French President Jacques Chirac are, well, especially juicy. As one of his rivals once said, "Chirac can have his mouth full of jam, his fingers covered with it, the pot can be standing...

Rotten to the Core.
April 29, 2002... Arne aus den Ruthen did something most Mexicans can only fantasize about: he struck back. For decades, people have complained of being bled to death by crooked cops, clerks and other civil servants. But aus den Ruthen swore to stop corruption,...

Hugo's Close Call.(Hugo Chavez)(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... People power it wasn't. Although more than 200,000 antigovernment protesters marched through the streets of Caracas--some to their deaths--the short-lived April 11-12 coup against President Hugo Chavez was secretly hatched by two small but...

Road Warriors.
April 29, 2002... His love affair with the car began when Wang Qishun was just a toddler. In 1966 he caught a glimpse of flag-waving Red Guards crammed into green Army trucks. Even at the uncomprehending age of 4, he thought the spectacle was "grand." Now 39 and...

A Comfy Ride.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Was it really a Chinese train? Instead of a grimy compartment filled with cigarette smoke and watermelon-seed husks, my first-class berth on the new luxury express train from Beijing to Shanghai was actually, well, first class. The two-person...

Asian War Games.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... The United States has had virtually no contact with the Indonesian armed forces, or TNI, for three years. Washington, fed up with the military's alleged human-rights abuses, has banned equipment sales and cut off military aid and training help....

Doctor of Hope.(Luigi Di Bella)(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Nothing about Luigi Di Bella stands out. He's not tall. His dark suit, by Italian standards, is rather plain. Even the restaurant where he's having coffee is unremarkable. But it is easy to see why a cancer patient would be drawn to this kindly...

Kings of Spray.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Judging from the crowd, it could have been any trendy gallery opening in New York or London. Rail-thin fashionistas clutched Gucci bags as they wobbled around on stiletto heels. Slender young men adjusted horn- rimmed glasses before cooing over...

Dutch Courage.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... How's this for bravery? Seven years after the event, the Dutch government releases a report on how its soldiers failed to protect Muslims in the infamous United Nations safe haven in Bosnia known as Srebrenica. Prime Minister Wim Kok...

'There Will Be Guidance'.(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 29, 2002... When the pope and American cardinals convene this week to discuss the sexual-abuse scandal plaguing the U.S. Roman Catholic Church, it will be a vindication of sorts for Bishop Wilton Gregory. As president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...

Surf's Up!(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... They say that moments before your death, your life flashes before your eyes. I'm here to tell you that this is not strictly true. I went to Hawaii because I wanted to learn how to surf. After living in Los Angeles for almost 14 years--most of...

In Search of History.
April 29, 2002... Thank you for your article "The Ties That Bind" (Asia, March 18), which noted the admission of the Japanese emperor that one of his ancestors was actually half Korean. Although this historical fact has been known since long ago, the Japanese...

Perspectives.
April 29, 2002... "They got too excited." A Canadian diplomat, suggesting that the U.S. fighter pilots in Afghanistan who accidentally killed four Canadian soldiers were "hot-dogging." The United States says there is no evidence to support such a theory. ...

Periscope.
April 29, 2002... SCANDALS American Cardinals Flock to Rome Pope John Paul II is finally getting involved in one of the biggest scandals in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Last week he called for an emergency meeting (to be held this week),...