Newsweek International articles from August 2005

Newsweek International archives from August 2005

Mail Call: Revolutionizing TV.(Letter to the Editor)
August 8, 2005... Readers of our double issue on TV's future did not go for the upgrades. One questioned the very need: "Spend the money on improvements to our world." Another warned against TV ads that mislead the unwary. Updating TV Technology? In...

'This Is Really Home'; A massive influx of migrants has created a new problem for city authorities--slums.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons A few years ago Yu Changhua measured the seasons by what was growing in his fields--rapeseed in spring, maize in summer, wheat in winter. He lived with his family in the countryside in China's central Sichuan province,...

A European Sahara? The great desert has leaped over the Med. Is climate change to blame--or man and his works?
August 8, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape (With Mike Elkin in Santander and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan) It looked and felt like hell. Swirling winds whipped flames along a 17-kilometer front of pine-forest scrub parched by the fiercest drought on the Iberian...

Nothing Is Forever; Is Antwerp fading as the world's diamond center?(Industry Overview)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll (With Eric Pape in Paris) There isn't a spot of shade, for trees would obscure the sightlines of the surveillance cameras. Guards patrol the streets, almost empty but for the Hasidim in their overcoats and black...

Germany's Odd Couple; With a new fringe party, the election is up for grabs.(Linkspartei )
August 8, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil It ain't over till it's over, especially in this quirkiest of German election campaigns. That there is an election at all is strange enough: the surprise call for next month's national vote by embattled German...

'Worry and Sacrifice'; It's a tough job trying to clean up a dirty country.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane Taufiequrachman Ruki suffers for his job. The self-effacing 59-year-old is Indonesia's corruption czar, charged with weeding out graft in one of the world's most corrupt countries. A former police general, Ruki must...

Join the Russian Army; Veterans of Chechnya set up a boot camp for tourists.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Kevin O'Flynn Crawling along in the mud, Alexei Makhov has already skillfully eluded the snipers in the field behind him. Now he has only to slip under the barbed wire a few centimeters above his head before he gets his reward: a...

Lula's Trial byFire; Will a mushrooming corruption scandal push the president to backtrack on hard-won reforms?(Cover Story)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis Brazilians have a soft spot for soap operas. But not even the most piquant telenovela could compete with the imbroglio that has gripped Brasilia lately. Barely three months have passed since a midlevel postal-service...

Money Talks; Major Western banks led by Citigroup are coming to dominate a booming global market in Islamic finance.(Industry Overview)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews You're a pious Muslim with few million in oil dollars to invest. You want to put your money to work--but the Qur'an forbids you to lend money for profit, or to sponsor un-Islamic activities such as gambling, tobacco...

The Next Petroleum; With oil prices going through the roof, so-called biofuels are at last becoming a viable alternative to gasoline and diesel.(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Mac Margolis in Rio, Jason Overdorf in New Delhi and Sarah Schafer in Beijing. Graphic Illustration by Stanford Kay. Graphic by John Sparks) A couple of years ago, when the cost of oil started to soar, Joel...

Pakistan: A 'Serious' Crackdown; Musharraf admits his efforts to fight extremism have failed, but vows to be tougher this time. Will he follow through?
August 8, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain Has Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf seen the light? He's been criticized for his ambivalent stance on extremism in his country--especially after it was learned that one of the London suicide...

Look Who's Talking; What's the best way to spread democracy in the Middle East? Maybe through homegrown reality and talk TV shows.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Reem Haddad in Beirut) From its opening credits, you'd never guess "Kalam Nawaem"--roughly, "Sweet Talk" in Arabic--is radical TV. Wreathed in soft pinks and grays, four women chat and giggle on plump cream sofas....

Gerry Adams; A Moment of Opportunity.(Interview)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mary Acoymo Apparently, time heals all wounds. just over 20 years ago, Gerry Adams was a prisoner and suspected terrorist, banned from entering Britain. Today the 56-year-old president of Sinn Fein--the IRA's political wing--is a...

A Monument to Rebirth.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor I didn't know quite what to expect when I stepped off the train at Hiroshima. Certainly not the spacious shopping arcade at the station, with its advertisments for cappuccinos and beer. Nor the sight, soon after my...

Media: The Glossy Treatment.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings (With Yepoka Yeebo in New York and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Richard David Story takes his window shopping very seriously. On a recent Manhattan jaunt, the editor of two luxury magazines published by American Express came...

Culottes Are Cool.(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Yepoka Yeebo Not quite a skirt and not quite pants, the conflicted culotte seems intent on making a summer comeback--and staying for the fall. Recent ready-to-wear collections saw them freed from their role as cop-out trousers for...

Music To Go.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Jaime Cunningham Have a few minutes to kill before your flight? If you're in Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, you can pick up an iPod Mini from a Zoom Shop while you're waiting to board. Made by the California-based Zoom...

Food: Comidas Latinas.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Ron Givens Grocers are stocking up on Latin and Spanish foods and you should, too. Here are the latest offerings from the recent Fancy Food show in New York: Palapa Azul ice cream. From the L.A. company that offers pops with...

Diamond in the Rough; At 64, Neil Diamond is a comeback kid, with a hot-ticket summer tour and a stripped-down new album.(Critical Essay)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali At least half a dozen framed works of needlepoint cover the office and bathroom walls of Neil Diamond's Los Angeles studio. Some are portraits of the singer sewn by fans, others are their homespun renditions of album...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN "A step of unparalleled magnitude." Tony Blair, on the Irish Republican Army's announcement that it was...

Periscope.(Britain and 7/7; extraordinary rendition; NASA's Discovery; and other briefs)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff, Mary Carmichael, Richard Ernsberger Jr., Karen Lowry Miller, Alexandra Silver, David Ansen, Karen Springen, Anna Kuchment, Elise Soukup, Benjamin Sutherland Britain: Why Shoot to Kill? In the wake of...

Mail Call: Dreams of Revolution.(Letter to the Editor)
August 15, 2005... Readers of Claude Smadja's June 20 essay on Europe responded excitedly to his suggestion for a cultural revolution. "Brilliant," praised one. But, said another, "even if Brussels junked our labor codes and safety nets, workers here can never...

Christendom's Return; Pope Benedict XVI espouses a muscular Christianity: Europe stands at an abyss, and only true belief can save it.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Edward Pentin in Rome) On the day before Pope John Paul II died last April, as the faithful and the curious gathered in St. Peter's Square awaiting word of his fate, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger visited the...

History: The Quality of Courage; For a sense of the Christian values Pope Benedict hopes to champion, look to the past and a little town called Nonantola.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Barbie Nadeau in Rome) In the end, there were 74 children--Jewish kids, from the ages of 6 to 18, who in 1942 and 1943 fled from Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia as their parents disappeared into the Nazis'...

The Lost Generation; The London bombings put a new face on Islamic radicalism. Angry voices from a troubled community.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Emily Flynn, Rana Foroohar and Mary Acoymo) As British police closed in on two of the alleged July 21 bombers in London, one suspect yelled out, "I've got rights!" That small detail speaks volumes about the...

Last Stand In Samaria; Disengaging from Gaza will be hard. The West Bank could be harder.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Joanna Chen in Sa-Nur and Dan Ephron in Jerusalem) Miriam Adler calls them the "tent people." For months they have been trickling in to Sa-Nur, a Jewish settlement of 75 families perched on a rocky West Bank...

The Devil You Think You Know; Saudi royals may have put a good face on the succession. But let's not delude ourselves.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Robert Baer (Baer, a former CIA officer, is author of "Sleeping With the Devil.") Ten days ago, in Damascus, I sat down with a Syrian official I've known for years and asked the question on everyone's mind. What's with the...

A Muslim Schism; Conservative Islamic leaders are flexing their muscles, putting pressure on SBY's largely secular government.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Eric Unmacht In dark trousers, batik shirts and traditional peci caps, Abdul Basit and his friends look like any other Indonesian Muslims. Basit, 52, is the head of Ahmadiyya, a splinter Islamic sect best known for its belief that...

A Long, Hot Summer; A split in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party could weaken it, along with 'cool' Prime Minister Koizumi.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Hideko Takayama The death of a politician early last week was a troubling sign for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)--and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Yoji Nagaoka, a 54-year-old member of Parliament and the LDP,...

Bush's Man in Beijing; In a canny move, the president entrusted Zoellick with the crucial China mission.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain The Bush Administration's point man on China is Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, a fierce and sometimes combative moderate who was handed the job largely by default. Last week in Beijing he wrapped up the...

Still Life of the World Markets; Global finance is now a thick network, with multiple circuit breakers. Yet these same links may prove too weak to contain the next crisis.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor at the Yale School of Management.) For all the talk these days of jittery traders, we live in a time of implacable serenity in the global markets. Consider the death of Saudi...

Tequila Sunset; The agave glut lifts distillers' fortunes, but threatens farmers.(Industry Overview)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras It is happy hour for Mexico's tequila industry, now on track to produce a record 210 million liters this year. Sales hit a new high in tequila's top export market, the United States, when tipplers consumed 8.5...

Richard Holbrooke; Dealing With The Disease.(Interview)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl News of the devastation caused by aids has been a steady drumbeat for decades now, and it keeps getting louder. The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations recently reported that 39 million people are expected to...

Letter From Hollywood; Getting (Really) Old.
August 15, 2005... Byline: Rob Long Here's what you need to bear in mind for this tale to pay off. First, I like to cook. The freezer in my garage is filled with obscure cuts of pork--pork belly, pig's feet, that sort of thing. Second, I just turned 40....

The Good Life; Our Weekly Guide to the Best in Travel, Fashion, Food, Design, Technology and More.(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Rukhmini Punoose, Sana Butler, Tara Weingarten, Yepoka Yeebo, Cornel Garfman HOTELS: MAY I SHINE YOUR SHOES? By Rukhmini Punoose The word butler still conjures up visions of a Wodehousean gentleman in coattails,...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: BBC, AFP, Guardian, CNN, New York Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times "He's saying, you know, leave." U.S. President George W. Bush, responding to Ayman al-Zawahiri's latest video threat. Bush added that...

Periscope.(Battling Over Tora Bora; Iraq: Language Barriers; Terror: Hunting for Helpers )
August 15, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Joe Cochrane, Mark Hosenball, Nicole L. Joseph, Craig Simons, Anna Kuchment, Elise Soukup, Benjamin Sutherland, Nicki Gostin EXCLUSIVE: Battling Over Tora Bora During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W....

Mail Call: Terrorists in Training.(Letter to the Editor)
August 22, 2005... Readers of our June 27 story on the insurgents in Iraq reacted angrily to what they called "Bush's war." "We are Osama's No. 1 recruiting agent," wrote one. Citing Iran and the Taliban, another said: "We created our two biggest enemies today."...

Disengagement's Fatal Flaw; Disengaging from Gaza will not profoundly change Israel's strategic situation vis-a-vis the Palestinians.(Cover Story)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Alon Pinkas (Pinkas, former policy adviser to four foreign ministers, was consul general of Israel in New York) Is disengagement a strategy? No. Israelis are entitled, after sustaining several untenable visions from both the right...

Politically Correct; A grisly crime recasts the old East-West divide--and sparks a political storm.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil They were hidden inside flowerpots, a sand-filled aquarium and a black handbag. Tiny skeletons of nine newborn babies, found by police recently in the east German village of Brieskow-Finkenheerd. The prime suspect:...

And Now, the 'Dacha War'; As always in the new Russia, the spoils go to the very rich and powerful.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Kevin O'Flynn The men in masks and camouflage came just after 10 a.m. on Aug. 4. Jumping over fences and wielding automatic rifles, they invaded the village of Yekaterinsky Val, beating and threatening residents. A special-forces...

Lighting a Fuse; With his party in turmoil, Junichiro Koizumi sets the stage for an epic election that could transform the ruling LDP.(Cover Story)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Hideko Takayama and Kay Itoi) In the end it all came down to a moment of near absurdity between two of the most powerful men in Japan. On the evening of Aug. 6, Yoshiro Mori, a senior parliamentary leader of...

Economics as Kabuki Theater; His efforts are short on substance but Koizumi embodies economic liberalization.(Cover Story)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Robert Madsen (Madsen is senior fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT.) While Junichiro Koizumi has transformed Japan politically and diplomatically, in economic affairs he has not managed to get much done. This may...

Latina Liftoff; From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, women are raising their political profile and breaking new ground.(Cover Story)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras (With Jimmy Langman in Santiago, Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Marina Artusa in Buenos Aires) For all its well-deserved reputation as the economic showcase of Latin America and a model of democratic rule, Chile...

China Slows Down; Falling prices, profits and oil demand signal that the breakneck boom is shifting to a safer speed.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Steve Glain in Washington, John Sparks in New York and Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing) These days the word "slow" is not often paired in the same sentence with the famously roaring Chinese economy. Indeed, Beijing...

Spyware Hits Business; Spyware used to mean annoying pop-up ads at home. Now it's a tool of corporate espionage.
August 22, 2005... Byline: R. M. Schneiderman Antonino Messana was confused. As the systems and technology director of information systems at Banca Fideuram, an asset-management firm based in Rome, Italy, Messana helped the company implement a 1.5 million...

Lessons of the Logan; As much as the French try to keep globalization at bay, they can't help but love the new 'world car': it's theirs.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll When the French voted no to the European constitution, they were rejecting the specter of a borderless world in which foreign goods, Polish plumbers and even British politicians would be handed a growing role in...

The Body Electric; Electrodes work for a range of ailments, from heart trouble and epilepsy to chronic pain and depression.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Temma Ehrenfeld (Graphic by Andrew Romano) Shelagh Leggett, a divorced mother of four, was only 38 when she took an overdose of painkillers. Doctors pumped her stomach in time, but afterward nothing, and no one, could restore her...

Argentina: Were I A Man; 'I believe in defending the rights of women, but not under the label of "feminist".'.(Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner)(Interview)(Cover Story)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, 53, wears a number of hats: senator, First Lady, mother of two children. She also serves as a roving ambassador for her husband, Nestor, as she did during a four-day...

Comic Relief; Take that, batman. Graphic novels are moving out of the hobby shop and into the mainstream.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Mary Acoymo in London, Mark Russell in Seoul and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) If you have any doubt about the power of comic books, consider that they are now required reading for the future...

Eric Anderson; Fly You to The Moon.(Interview)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Yepoka Yeebo Eric Anderson is CEO of the ultimate high-end travel agency. In 2001, Space Adventures was the first company to successfully send a tourist to the International Space Station. After a repeat performance in 2002,...

O So Cool. Not.(global warming and the business dress code)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi For Japanese salarymen, it's a fashion revolution. Just check out Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet meetings. Lately they're looking like a late-night card game among old-timers at a country club, with ministers...

Technology: Into The Wild Blue Yonder With a Monkey Wrench.
August 22, 2005... Byline: R. M. Schneiderman When an airplane paint shop ruined their 1959 Beechcraft Bonanza, which they'd nicknamed The Goose, Jeff and Shelby Edwards went shopping for a new toy. They weighed two options: spending almost $600,000 for a...

Memo To Self: Relax.(Family Robo FMC-5000)(Fuji Medical Instruments' Solution Premium VP-900)(Sanyo Electric's MasterHand HEC-DR6000 )(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi in Tokyo It's been another busy day at the office. Your feet hurt. Your neck is stiff. Who has time to get a massage? Busy Japanese are now turning to high-tech massage chairs for relief. Our top three picks: Family...

Gadgets: 'Mommy, Stand Still!'.(children's digital video cameras)(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Coming soon to a toy store near you: digital video cameras for kids. You can shoot a movie, download it onto a laptop and edit away like a young Spielberg. How do these new gadgets compare? We asked kids to try them....

In The News: Call Me, Dahling.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Byline: Silvia Spring in London Laser-cut curves and a steel-clad body aren't just for sports cars. With worldwide sales expected to reach $1 billion per year by 2009, mobile phones are getting sleeker designs, more gee-whiz features--and...

Perspectives.
August 22, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources, top to bottom: Reuters, New York Times, Guardian, New York Times, BBC (3) "Let's take the military option off the table. We have seen it doesn't work." German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, on U.S. President...

Periscope.(Iraq, Iran, Haiti, and other meshed briefs)
August 22, 2005... Byline: John Barry, Mark Hosenball, Malcolm Beith, Sean Smith, Ginanne Brownell, Andrew Romano, Marites Vitug, John Sparks, Charles Gasparino, Claudia Kalb, Nick Summers and Kevin O'Flynn, Nicki Gostin Iraq: Stepped-Up Scrutiny? If a...

Mail Call: A Return to Nature.(Letter to the Editor)
August 29, 2005... Readers of our July 4 report on Europe's return to the wild agreed with the thesis, but offered their own reasons for the phenomenon. Wrote one, "Rivers are clean, air quality is better, natural parks have been created." Said another, "The new...

Can Merkel Make It? Germany's likely next chancellor is the prisoner of her own party. Reform? Shush. Don't even think about it.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil Gerhard Schroeder was at it again. "Take the military options off the table," he roared at a campaign rally in Hannover. "We've all seen they're no good!" Bashing George W. Bush worked the last time the German...

Turkish Delight; After so many decades of trying to become Western, Istanbul glories in the rediscovery of a very modern identity. European or not, it is one of the coolest cities in the world.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews and Rana Foroohar Spend a summer night strolling down Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, the pedestrian thoroughfare in the city's old Christian quarter of Beyoglu, and you'll hear something surprising. Amid the crowds of...

My Secret Istanbul; Turkey's best-known novelist recalls a childhood in the city that has become his soul, rich in mystery.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Orhan Pamuk (Pamuk's most recent novel is 'Snow.' He is also the author of 'Istanbul: Memories and the City.') I was born in Istanbul. Except for the three years I spent in New York City, I've lived nowhere else. At the age of 53,...

Going Slow; Pyongyang knows that its best bet is to play for time in nuclear negotiations.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With B.J. Lee in Seoul and Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) This is an extraordinary moment in the relationship between the two Koreas. Last week, for the first time since 1945, North and South Koreans jointly...

Help Wanted; China has too many factories and too few skilled managers, a talent gap that could trip up its runaway economy.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Sarah Schafer Chief executive Li Hsu had a problem. The head of Fiber-xon, a manufacturer of components for communications networks that's headquartered in California but whose main operations are in China, spent three months...

CEO Showdown; The managerial edge goes to India, with its charismatic globe-trotters, but China has the high-impact 'pathbreakers.'.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Rukhmini Punoose India has precious few competitive advantages over China, but one is in the corner office. It produces far more business managers, and far more with global name recognition. Today's best-known Chinese CEO is...

The Great Grain Rush; Commodities are so hot, stocks and bonds could suffer.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Seven years ago, at the height of the Internet boom, Jim Rogers was telling friends to buy commodities. He remembers the typical response: "laughing and giggling" that was "full of derision." No matter that...

The King Has No Quotas; The backlash against Chinese textile makers has replaced old trade distortions with new ones.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll You know it's the silly season when British head-line writers are having this much fun. RETAILERS GO BRALESS FOR AUTUMN, BRA BAN LEAVES SHOPS SHORT OF SUPPORT or, simply, WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF CLOTHES. But behind the...

Of Criminals And CEOs; The difference between bold, creative visionaries and deluded psychopaths is not as big as it used to be.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper For a while, Brian Blackwell seemed to have it made. His girlfriend believed the cosseted only child from Liverpool was a professional tennis player, with a $125,000 Nike contract funding his jet-set lifestyle. He hired...

Plus-Size Problems; An obese author reveals a world of self-loathing, good intentions and mind-controlling refrigerator doors.(Book Review)
August 29, 2005... Byline: William Underhill William Leith is a literary heavyweight. On the fattest day of his life the British writer tipped the scales at a hefty 107 kilograms. His misery was of similar proportions. "Nobody accepts fat people," writes...

West Africa: The New 'Drug Triangle'; Cocaine now makes a detour on the way to Europe.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape (With Silvia Spring in London) A few weeks ago, Spanish authorities intercepted a rusty trawler, registered in Ghana, off the West African island nation of Cape Verde. Aboard, they seized 3,000 kilos of high-grade...

Failed 'Plan'; After five years and billions OF U.S. aid in the drug war, cocaine production still thrives.(Cover Story)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras Until recently, the U.S.-backed war on drugs seemed to be paying impressive dividends in the sparsely populated department of Putumayo in southern Colombia. Five years ago fully half of all the coca cultivated...

Tribute to a Life of Clay; Xu Dufeng made his fortune in ceramics. Now he's building an ambitious museum for artists who use it.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Duncan Hewitt As a former peasant who grew up in a traditional northern Chinese cave house, Xu Dufeng has always had close links to the soil. At the beginning of China's economic reforms in the 1980s, Xu would dig raw clay from the...

President Ilham Aliyev; Holding Forth, Or Holding On?(Interview)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Leonid Parfyonov After people power revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, speculation is growing as to whether Azerbaijan will be the next country to face street protests in the region. President Ilham Aliyev's grip is...

Brown-Out in Calcutta.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor My French friend Rene had just finished a three-year stint as a cultural attache in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta. During his medical exit-check, the doctor asked how many packs of cigarettes he smoked a day. "I've...

Good Life.(Technology: dress up in high-tech cloth; stone chic; facials: greatest skin wish)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper, Jacopo Barigazzi, Emily Flynn TECHNOLOGY: DRESS UP IN HI-TECH CLOTH By Tara Pepper Anyone who's worked in an office knows the uncomfortable challenge summer poses for stuffy, traditional suits. It's hard to...

Perspectives.
August 29, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, Reuters, USA Today, Guardian, Boston Herald "It is mud that has caused only trouble and hatred." Israeli Finance Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza, which he says is "not...

Periscope.(international news)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Ron Moreau and Hassan Shahriar, Christian Caryl, Kay Itoi and Walter Alarkon, Stryker McGuire and Mark Hosenball, William Underhill, Jennifer Barrett, Ginanne Brownell, Sean Smith, Andrew Romano, Ramin Setoodeh ...

Snap Judgment: Books.(The Whale Caller; Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires; Unfeeling)(Book Review)
August 29, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf, Brian Byrnes, Ginanne Brownell The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda Mda's fifth novel tells the story of the growing love between the whale caller, an old man whose kelp horn calls the migrating whales that bring...