Newsweek International articles from February 2002

Newsweek International archives from February 2002

Left? Right? Center?(European politics)
February 4, 2002... It's a new dawn for Europe. Across the continent, pragmatic parties of the center-right are storming back to power. Together they'll teach the self-important Eurocrats in Brussels to stay out of their citizens' business and leave nations to...

Walking the Tightrope.(India-Pakistan relations)(Interview)
February 4, 2002... L. K. ADVANI, HOME MINISTER ZAKARIA: How was your recent trip to the United States? ADVANI: The 11th of September has been a turning point [in Indo-U.S. relations]. But Indian citizens are baffled at the manner in which you are trying...

Charities That Hate to Just 'Give'.(new face of American philanthropy)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Bill Gates is not the only American entrepreneur with a business plan to save the world. There are thousands. Consider Steve Kirsch, who had just turned 35 when he concluded he had everything he could want. Adobe, the software giant, had just...

The Shock of Recovery.(United States economy after terrorist attacks)
February 4, 2002... Waking up in New York City on Sept. 12, it was hard not to believe morning-after warnings that the previous day's nightmare had "changed everything." The city, the country and much of the world quit working to watch replays of the suicide...

Sand in the Gears of Globalization.(international flow of trade, capital to slow)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Globalization is in trouble. One of its key premises--increasingly frictionless cross-border connectivity--is in doubt as the world responds to terrorism. The events of September 11 have imposed the equivalent of a new tax on trade, capital and...

Mormons and Moguls.(Salt Lake City, Utah)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Brigham Young, the pioneer 19th-century Mormon leader, predicted that "kings and emperors and the noble and wise of the earth" would one day visit the city he founded in 1847 in the valley of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Young, an avowed polygamist...

Catch Me If You Can.(lack of evidence on terrorist activity in Germany)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... The months since September 11 have been rather inconvenient for Mamoun Darkazanli. Three days after the terrorist strike, a platoon of German investigators smashed down the door of the Syrian-born businessman's Hamburg apartment. They seized...

Death Of The West.(Western civilization on the wane)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... You may remember him. The name's Buchanan. Patrick J. Buchanan. High- level adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Right-wing columnist and TV blowhard. Even fellow conservative William F. Buckley sadly concluded Buchanan trafficked in...

Perspectives.
February 4, 2002... "Making this test... sends out a very powerful signal." Indian defense analyst and Lt. Gen. V. R. Raghvan (retired), on his country's launching of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Friday morning "Very, very minor." Carol Thatcher,...

Periscope.
February 4, 2002... ASSASSINS How Israel Got Its Man On Jan. 14, Raed Karmi, head of a militant Palestinian gang in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, left his safe house to visit his pregnant wife and baby daughter at their nearby home. Accused by Israel of...

The Ways of a Warlord.(change in Afghanistan)
February 11, 2002... Like most Afghans toting assault rifles and grenade launchers, the men loitering beneath the walls of the mud-brick fort outside the northern town of Aliabad look like they're spoiling for a fight. But the turbaned warriors do little more than...

The Rites of Spring.(bulldozing houses in Sicily)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Spring has sprung in Sicily. The wildflowers are blooming, pale northern tourists are heading for the beaches--and bulldozers are showing up outside people's homes. Giuseppe Micciche can see one from his window. "I'm trying to save the house my...

Gay Egypt In the Dock.
February 11, 2002... Harassment of homosexuals is hardly a new problem in Egypt. But in recent months an unprecedented vilification campaign against gay men has drawn international opprobrium--and cast new light on the often violent collision between traditional...

Africa's Greatest Hope--And Danger.(Lagos, Nigeria)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... It did not require the ignition of a weapons depot packed with cluster bombs and tank shells to cement the reputation of Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, as a less-than- desirable address. Other West Africans dread its name. They try...

Turning the Page.(leadership in China)
February 11, 2002... His slicked-back hair is still ink-black, and his glasses are still as big as saucers. But insiders say Chinese President Jiang Zemin, 73, may be a changed man. Not long ago analysts were convinced that Jiang would try to emulate Deng Xiaoping...

Failing the Grade.(teachers as pedophiles in Japan)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... The crime itself was horrible. Last July a 12-year-old Japanese girl named Noriko Kamiie leapt from a moving car on an expressway in Kobe. Handcuffed and barefooted, she was run over by a truck and later bled to death from her wounds. Nearly as...

The Poor Speak Up.(at economic meetings)
February 11, 2002... They drew blanket press coverage and a watchful audience of New York police, but mainly on the strength of past protest performances. From Seattle to Davos, the riotous anti-globalization road show had pressed its case that rising trade and...

Waiting For Nukes.(nuclear waste products)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Patience is an important virtue if you work in the nuclear-power industry, as Jack Allen knows. Five years ago his company, British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), finished building a brand-new, state-of-the-art plant that would recycle radioactive...

A Tribute to Barren Shops.(Museum of Communism)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... The Museum of Communism is easy to miss, nestled among the foreign- owned chain stores in Prague's main shopping district. Housed in the elegant Palace Savarin, the museum is bordered on one side by a McDonald's and on the other by a casino....

Burning Out?(Germany's economic policy)(Statistical Data Included)
February 11, 2002... In Thomas Mann's epic novel "Buddenbrooks," a well-heeled family of German burghers slides into genteel decline. The first generation lays the foundations for a fortune, the second amasses it and the third squanders the family's riches on a...

No Place to Hide?(Review)
February 11, 2002... Michael Longo is a U.S. citizen. In late December, shortly after the bodies of his wife and three children turned up in Oregon, he flew to Cancun. He checked in to a thatched-roof beach hut in the low-key town of Tulum, told tourists he was a...

Who To Watch.(Olympic gold medal hopefuls)
February 11, 2002... TEAM USA Women's Hockey When women's ice hockey made its Olympic debut in Nagano four years ago, Team USA was an underdog. In a dramatic final match, the Americans upset archrival Canada to win the sport's first-ever Olympic gold...

The Importance of Having Friends.(Chancellor Gerhard Schroder)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 11, 2002... After September 11 German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder volunteered troops to fight with U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Now they are on the ground in Kabul, helping keep order as partners in the international peacekeeping effort. At home, he faces a...

Don't Bray for Me, Argentina.(Carlos Menem)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 11, 2002... Early in his tenure as president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999, Carlos Menem introduced sweeping economic reforms--from privatization to pegging the local peso to the U.S. dollar. The measures helped tame 5,000 percent inflation and boost...

Daughter Of The Revolution ?(narrative on an American Revolution historical reenactment)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 11, 2002... They say you can't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Andrew Batten has just walked not one but nine miles in the sort of shoes that American soldiers wore during the Revolutionary War--hard- soled, hobnailed, lacking arch...

Perspectives.(various; quotations)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... "States likes these... constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of this world." President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, on potential threats from Iraq, Iran and North Korea "Little Bush's accusation......

Periscope.(various; world news)(Statistical Data Included)
February 11, 2002... Periscope by Malcolm Beith with bureau reports; First Person Global by Ron Moreau INTELLIGENCE Overstatements of the Union? As President George W. Bush was preparing to give his State of the Union speech last week, White House...

Letters.
February 18, 2002... The Kashmir Conundrum I think that some of NEWSWEEK's articles lack depth. "Surviving the Storm" is one such example (War On Terror, Jan. 21). Kashmir was never a part of Pakistan, and the current Pakistani-administered region of Kashmir...

The Age of Gulliver.(United States militarism, foreign policy)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... There was George W. Bush's galvanizing State of the Union speech. Then came the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York--an occasion for a U.S. "power fiesta," with key officials of the Bush administration aligned on the...

Remaking The Army.(Russia)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... Sinking submarines, desertions within the ranks, suicides, corruption, decay and dissolution. Russia's generals are no longer running a superpower's military, but they still think Army life is fine--and are fighting fiercely to stave off...

Time to Get Religion.(Christian attitudes toward contraception hinder AIDS prevention effort in Africa)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... The Rev. Evatt Mugagura knows he's lucky to be alive. The 35-year-old Anglican priest grew up in Nyamifura, a western Ugandan village that has been ravaged by AIDS: "Most of the people my age, the ones I studied with, the ones I grew up with,...

Sowing a Vendetta.(ranchers protest land reform policies, Venezuela)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Jose Huerta is home from the hospital now, still recovering from an attempt on his life. You can count the holes from three .45 slugs in the side of the agronomist's battered old Dodge sedan. It's parked outside his modest ground-floor...

Taking Aim at the City.(paramilitary activity, Colombia)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... At 15, John abandoned his schoolbooks for the guns, motorcycles and designer clothes of a hit man. Working for the Medellin cartel in the 1990s, he whacked drug traffickers who owed money to cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, supplied getaway cars...

Trapped In A Chinese Box.(China's growing economic dominance in Asia)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... The Chinese teapot wasn't terribly impressive. "Cheap and bad," scoffs Jinichi Takahashi, mayor of Tsubame, a small industrial city in northern Japan famed for its precision knives and elegant tableware. He spotted the shoddy tin kettle--one of...

Tales of Woe And Wariness.(books focus on role of China in Asian economy)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Napoleon once predicted that China's awakening would "shake the world." It has certainly rocked the publishing world in Asia, where a slew of tomes obsessed with the economic clout of the People's Republic have been released recently. Many of...

Showtime in Salt Lake.(2002 Winter Olympic opening ceremony a success)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... Everybody was a little jittery before the 19th Winter Olympics opened last weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah. There were fears of terrorism, as well as concerns that America's desire to pay tribute to the victims of the September 11 attack would...

The Gene Bubble.(bioinformatics and the pharmaceutical industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... You've heard of the Internet bubble, and maybe even the telecoms bubble. But have you heard of the gene bubble? It grew in the late 1990s, fueled by excitement over the decoding of the human genome, announced with great fanfare in June 2000. By...

Combing for Nukes.(recovering abandonned nuclear materials)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... The hunt had been on for a month, held back by heavy snow and inaccessible mountain terrain. Finally, last week, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a team of local and international nuclear experts secured two highly lethal, radioactive...

Race in the Boardroom.(lack of minorities in executive ranks in European corporations)
February 18, 2002... Last month a team of NEWSWEEK reporters set out in search of ethnic minorities in the boardrooms of Europe, knowing full well we were treading on delicate and uncharted ground. We had no idea how delicate. Over the course of a two-week search,...

The End of 'Social Whitening'.(prospects for black Brazilians)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Brazilians often assume that blacks have just three ways to gain social standing: get a richer white family to "sponsor" you, marry someone fair-skinned or undergo "social whitening" by adopting mainstream (read: white) behavior, attitudes and...

Rethinking Black Leadership.(role of African American executives)
February 18, 2002... No one can pinpoint exactly when the ground shifted, when it became possible for a black American male to join the gods of the corporate universe. Like the moment when darkness yields to dawn, it crept up quietly, largely unperceived. We...

Watching the Cars Roll By.(Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany)
February 18, 2002... It's hard to imagine a less likely location for an auto plant than the center of one of Europe's oldest cities. But Volkswagen's sleek new $162 million Glass Factory sits smack in the middle of Dresden, Germany. It is the first successful,...

Why China Is a Paper Tiger.(entry into World Trade Organization)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Alone among developing nations, China commands attention and awe. The country is feared for its military might. It also alarms the world, and Asia much more, because of its growing economic and trade clout. True, the fabled "China market"...

'Stop the Hemmorhage'.(government of Robert Mugabe)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 18, 2002... After wrenching independence from Britain 22 years ago, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was a national hero. But in the last decade, as living standards have plummeted and his benign autocracy has turned to tyranny, many Zimbabweans have come to...

Hold That Rush To Judgment.(George W. Bush's foreign policy)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... "In the end the United States may find that it has done its cause, its friends and its own true interests little good." "I have nothing against the U.S. president's right to leadership. But one must know in which direction it is going." ...

Heavy Metal.(American obsession for working out)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Before coming to America, I had never set foot in a gym. This is not to suggest that gyms don't exist elsewhere in the world. They do, but people elsewhere are far more tolerant of indolence. Living in Asia and Europe, I used to cheerfully...

Perspectives.
February 18, 2002... "It's a chance for the world to see that in a time of war, we can come together in friendly competition." President George W. Bush, to members of Team USA before the opening ceremony of the XIX Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City "I...

Periscope.
February 18, 2002... TERROR Who Is Waiting in The Wings? Former Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil surrendered last week, and was quickly handed over to American forces. U.S. officials hope that Muttawakil will provide a wealth of information...

Letters.
February 25, 2002... Berlusconi vs. Europe Because your articles on Italy usually deal only with fashion, shoes, pasta and pizza, I must compliment you on your recent story "Bad, Bad Boy" (Europe, Jan. 21). Ever since Silvio Berlusconi's election as prime...

The Slobo I Know.(Slobodan Milosevic)
February 25, 2002... A hot day in late June 1992. Fighting had erupted around Sarajevo in April and, by now, has spread through much of Bosnia. I am standing on the platform of the old station in Subotica, a small town in northern Serbia. A train with 18 cars has...

No Pain, No Gain?
February 25, 2002... Last week, to mark the lunar new year, several hundred elderly South Koreans trekked northward to pay their respects to relatives they hadn't seen in 50 years. They rumbled by train up to a half-built railway station outside the demilitarized...

Seoul's Stiff Reed.(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... South Korea's opposition leader, Lee Hoi Chang, tells the story of a South Korean pastor who set up a free clinic in the North. "Every time he wanted to do anything, bring in pharmaceuticals or whatnot, the [North Korean] authorities would...

Smoke and Mirrors.
February 25, 2002... Ever tried to find the Maldives on a map of the world? They look like flyspecks on the Indian Ocean: coral and sand atolls where 270,000 people live at a maximum altitude of, oh, about five feet above sea level. Or maybe a lot less. In fact,...

The Melting Mountain.(Mount Kilimanjaro)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... When Wilbert Minja talks, people listen. In the Tanzanian village of Liyasongoro, 1,700 meters up the south slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, his neighbors call him Mzee--Swahili for "wise old man." Minja has lived here for more than 60 years, a very...

Will It Play in Harare?(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... Dare--"The Trial" in Zimbabwe's Shona language--is anything but subtle. "How I love my land of milk and honey, the breadbasket of southern Africa!" exclaims one character at the play's climax. "Breadbasket?" cries another. "How can that be,...

Pin-Striped Protesters.(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... Greenpeace activists are a colorful bunch. They chain themselves to doomed trees, ram whaling boats on the high seas and stand between harpoons and baby seals. Just last month, felony charges were dismissed against 15 members who tried to...

The Little Big One.(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... The Torre Mayor ("Biggest Tower") cannot be found in record books. That's because it is still not complete after eight years in the works, and because it will loom a mere 225 meters and 55 stories over Mexico City, not big enough to make an...

The Real and Present Danger.(economics/Japan)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... Who knows--maybe George W. Bush will be deeply moved by the welcome. After all, a U.S. president gets accustomed to red carpets, but it's not every day he has a stock market levitated in his honor. With Bush- administration officials openly...

Braving Land Mines to See Pol Pot's Grave.(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... Pol Pot, the murderous Khmer Rouge leader, died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old trash in Anlong Veng. Now Phnom Penh officials hope to turn that burned-out garbage pile--in the middle of a malaria-ridden jungle--into a tourist gold...

Cold Comfort.(ice hotel in Sainte-Catherine-de-le-Jacques-Cartier, Quebec)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... North American travelers who can't get enough wintry weather can now spend nights shivering in the continent's only ice hotel. Constructed from more than 11,000 tons of snow and ice, the frigid resort in the small town of...

State Of The Ice.(melting polar ice caps and climatology)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... The conventional wisdom about global warming holds that the polar ice caps are melting. Enormous chunks of ice will break off the Antarctic mainland and float into the sea to melt, sending water levels rising around the world, inundating...

Death and Politics.(Nanni Moretti, The Son's Room)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... The Italian film director Nanni Moretti walks into an empty conference room at the Miramax home office in New York City, and before he does anything, before he even sips his cappuccino, he takes an article on Silvio Berlusconi in The New York...

'Cold and Bloody' Chic.(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 25, 2002... Andrew Cheng has become one of the hot new faces at the Berlin Film Festival. After a decade studying moviemaking in Australia and directing spots for MTV-China, the 34-year-old represents a generation of mainland directors who make low-budget,...

Cambodia's Killers Win Again.(Khmer Rouge war crimes need an accounting)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... Ever since the largest U.N. mission in history arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s to supervise elections, it has been the friend that keeps on giving. The United Nations and donor nations continue to shell out millions of dollars each year...

The Continent's Misplaced Hysteria.(Europe on the War on Terrorism, 2001-)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... By whatever lingua franca, "unilateralist" has become Europe's latest dirty word. But there's also a word to describe European reactions to America's go-it-alone policy toward Iraq and possibly Iran or North Korea. That's hysteria, and it...

Putting Up With Dumb Americans.(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... A few weeks ago, I went to buy some paper for my printer. I use three- hole-punch paper, and at the small stationery store I frequent, it's always on the third shelf across from the creepy inspirational posters. You know the ones I mean:...

Perspectives.(celebrity quotations)(Brief Article)
February 25, 2002... "I do hope we get the bronze too, so we can get the entire collection." Canadian skater David Pelletier, at a news conference after being awarded a dual gold medal in the freestyle-pairs competition "I am deeply troubled about asserting...

Periscope.(various; news)
February 25, 2002... TERROR ARRESTS The Usual Suspects On Sept. 21, 2001, Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch raided the London home of flight instructor Lotfi Raissi. They immediately saw the Algerian's framed pilot's certificate on the wall, and...