Newsweek International articles from February 2005

Newsweek International archives from February 2005

Mail Call; One Man's Faith...(Letter to the Editor)
February 7, 2005... Most readers of our Dec. 20 cover story on Jesus offered passionately divergent views on the Christ legend. Insisted one, "Our God-given reason can inform our faith in God; the two are not at odds." Another demurred: "The whole [Christ] story...

Law of the Land; As soporific as it sounds, the challenge of reforming the country's Constitution is getting Japanese excited.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Hideko Takayama and Kay Itoi) Japan's twentysomethings don't have much of a reputation for caring about politics. But Mitsunori Shigeno, 27, is a fine example of how that's beginning to change. First he and his...

Man of Steel; The story of a backward industry that resisted globalization, until Lakshmi Mittal came along.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With John Sparks in New York) Lakshmi Mittal was the only steel baron tough--or crazy--enough to turn Kazakhstan's state steelworks into a going operation. When he first visited in 1995, he found a 1960s-style...

Creeping Unification; Quiet moves in bonds, stocks and cash reserves are bringing an Asian financial union ever closer.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain An auction for $12 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bills has gone from routine to catastrophic. Prices are cratering as demand plummets. Share prices and the U.S. dollar tumble in value. Panic builds as the cause for...

The Future of the Past; Auschwitz was liberated 60 years ago. Does the next generation of Europeans even care?
February 7, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper A sharp train whistle on the tracks leading to Auschwitz began last Thursday's ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp where more than 1 million Jews were killed. As...

Back From the Wilderness; After more than a decade of shock art, Charles Saatchi leads a revival of contemporary European painting. It's provocative even without the pickled sharks.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper There's a new show in town at Charles Saatchi's gallery, and it doesn't involve a single pickled shark. Indeed, Saatchi has sent many of the brash conceptual works that grabbed crowds and tabloid headlines throughout...

Rewriting the Role; Sylvia Chang shines as a rare female success in Chinese cinema--in front of the camera and behind.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Sitting on a swivel chair in her office, Sylvia Chang sips hot tea out of a mug bearing a childhood photo of one of her two teenage sons. The 51-year-old actress may be a proud parent, but that doesn't mean that's...

War Against The West; Face to face with Indonesia'smilitant--and eloquent--Muslims.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Juergensmeyer (Juergensmeyer is a professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of "Terror in the Mind of God.") When shots rang out in the streets of Banda Aceh recently, they showed...

A Militant's Allegiance; Jenin's brash Al Aqsa leader likes Abu Mazen's quiet style.(Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Abbas)
February 7, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Dan Ephron and Samir Zedan) Zakaria Zubeidi is a wanted man. As soon as he steps out the door of a concrete apartment block into the hardscrabble lanes of the Jenin refugee camp, he is besieged. Not by the...

Darwin's Revenge; Why are we getting fat? Because our genes date from the last Ice Age.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl (With Anne Underwood) Of nature's many guises, winter at the Arctic Circle would have to be one of the least subtle. It's hard to imagine that humans would have survived generations of frigid climate without some...

Taking On The Church; A raft of liberal reforms promoted by the country's ruling socialists is fueling the Roman Catholic Church's sense of siege in Europe.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape and Mike Elkin (With Edward Pentin at the Vatican and Alberto Letona in Bilbao) Pope John Paul II may be bowed, his speech slurred, his Spanish fading, but the 84-year-old pontiff still knows how to pick a fight. Last...

Strange Pair; The president has an ambitious ally.(Viktor Yushchenko)
February 7, 2005... Byline: Steven Paulikas Newly inaugurated Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is riding high, having soothed relations with a quick visit to Moscow last week. Political observers in Ukraine, however, wonder if Yushchenko hasn't already...

There Is No Trade King; Lamy on why he wants to run the 'medieval' WTO.(Pascal Lamy)(Interview)
February 7, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Pascal Lamy has been at the center of the globalization storm. As European trade commissioner the last five years, he was a key player when riotous protests disrupted the Seattle trade summit in 1999, and when...

The Last Word: Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Words from behind bars.(Interview)(Excerpt)
February 7, 2005... Since 2003, Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been jailed in Moscow on charges of tax fraud. His arrest--widely believed to have been retaliation for posing a political challenge to President Vladimir Putin--shook boardrooms from...

Letter from India: Rajah for a Day.
February 7, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor "The palace?" the excitement in my mother's voice was palpable. "We're going to stay at the palace?" "I suppose so," I replied. In booking my annual holiday in India, I opted this year for a change from the usual...

Perspectives.
February 7, 2005... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCE: Reuters, UPI, Reuters, New York Daily News, Newsday, Agence France-Presse, New York Daily News "I have been dreaming of this day." Lamaa Jamal Talabani, 60, in Amman, Jordan, after casting her absentee ballot...

Periscope.
February 7, 2005... Byline: John Sparks, Joe Cochrane, George Wehrfritz, Allan Sloan, Carla Power, Mark Hosenball, Ginanne Brownell, Andrew Romano, Jenny Barchfield, Jonathan Ansfield CHINA Not Ready to Be No. 1 Whoever said that small is beautiful...

Books.(Despite the System)(Small Mediums at Large)(The Memory of Running)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 7, 2005... Byline: David Gates, Vibhuti Patel, Susan H. Greenberg Despite the System By Clinton Heylin In this blow-by-blow account of the travails of Orson Welles, Heylin pits the visionary filmmaker against the philistine studios. After...

Mail Call; Faces of Moderation.(Letter to the Editor)
February 14, 2005... Readers of our Jan. 3 profile of the moderate Muslim leaders of Malaysia and Turkey reacted passionately to the report. "Kudos!" cheered one Malaysia-lover. But Turks were not so laudatory. "I found the premises underlying your article deeply...

EUROPE: Cozying Up to Condi; A new era of good feeling for the United States and Europe? Don't count on it.(Condoleezza Rice)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Michael Meyer (With Stryker Mcguire and Carla Power In London, Richard Wolffe and Eve Conant in Washington, Stefan Theil in Berlin and Tracy Mcnicoll in Paris) Everyone agrees. Condoleezza Rice came to Europe and made very nice...

GERMANY: Ostrich Politik; The latest unemployment numbers are nothing less than shocking--the highest joblessness since World War II. What's Germany doing about it? Not much. And that's smart politics.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil A black day for Germany. So trumpeted last week's newspaper headlines. According to the latest official numbers, German unemployment is the highest it has been since the Great Depression of the 1930s--more than 5...

The Economy: A Future Less Bright; The conservative Parliament has slowed moves toward reform, which could prove costly when oil prices fall.(Iran)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Richard Ernsberger Jr. and Emily Flynn (With Maziar Bahari in Tehran) A year ago, Iran's economic future looked relatively bright. The country's religious leadership had taken an isolationist, hard-line stance on most political and...

IRAN: THE SPYING GAME; Washington calls the MEK a terrorist group. But some administration hawks think its members could help provide intelligence on Iran's quest to develop nuclear weapons.(Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Holy Warriors))
February 14, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey, Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh (With John Barry and Richard Wolffe) This is a terrorist cult leader? Maryam Rajavi is dressed in a Chanel-style suit with her skirt at midcalf, lilac-colored pumps and a...

GADGETS: Window on Japan; A crop of Web sites and cool stores are looking to sell the latest Japanese gizmos to Western technophiles.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Douglas Krone can see the future. It's filled with lightweight notebooks boasting battery lives of more than eight hours, camera phones the size of credit cards and pocket MP3 players with the...

DIAMONDS: Romancing the Stone; Man-made diamonds are now so perfect they stump the experts. The diamond industry is hoping nobody notices.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings (With Henk Rossouw in Johannesburg, Joanna Chen in Jerusalem and Frank Brown and Nadya Titova in Moscow) Leo, a balding man with an Israeli accent, stands behind a glass counter in one of the hundreds of jewelry...

NORTH KOREA: Reluctant Partners; Increased trade is giving China and South Korea more pull with North Korea. But they don't want to use it.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With B. J. Lee in Seoul, Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Eve Conant in Washington and Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) The White House emissary was packing heat. As Michael Green, senior director of Asian affairs on the U.S....

Front and Center; ART: In London, it's the year of African art.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell and Sarah Sennott By Tony Blair's reckoning, 2005 is the year of Africa. The British prime minister and his chancellor, Gordon Brown, are keen to move the continent to the top of the international agenda this year...

VENEZUELA: Balance Of Power; President Hugo Chavez is fighting the "imperialist" United States with his most formidable weapon--oil.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Phil Gunson Hugo Chavez was the featured speaker last week at a football stadium hosting an antiglobalization conference in Brazil. The Venezuelan president dressed for the occasion, wearing a red shirt...

BOOKS: Killing Off Innocence; Why children serve in three fourths of armed conflicts.(Children at War)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland Everybody recognizes the photo. The child soldier wears the uniform of an adult and carries an AK-47. His skin is smooth, his gaze steady. From Burma to Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka, he fights without remorse, capable of...

JAPAN: Bucking the Baby Bust; Japan's birthrate is down, but older moms are on the rise.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi After 12 years of marriage, Ikuko Osada had resigned herself to oblique but endless questions about when she was going to have a baby. Then, at the age of 40, she unexpectedly became pregnant, and gave birth to a boy,...

ENVIRONMENT: Why Save the Forests? Fear of big waves is no reason to plant mangroves.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf and Eric Unmacht In the aftermath of a natural disaster like December's tsunami, some stories have happy endings. V. Selvam's began when the giant waves came crashing into the mangrove forest of Pichavaram on India's...

CHINA: Help From The People; Environmental activists are having an impact.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons The turnaround was, by Chinese standards, amazingly swift. On Jan. 18 China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) ordered 30 major construction projects--most of them massive power plants scattered...

FRANCE: The Mushroom Capers; Poachers are devastating France's beloved truffle fields.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland It looks like a lump of coal. But it is the king of French delicacies, a reputed aphrodisiac that lends an eyelid-fluttering taste to everything from butter to pasta. The treat is the truffle, and French farmers...

The Last Word: Shaukat Aziz; Reaching Out, Cautiously.(interview with Pakistan's prime minister)(Interview)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Lally Weymouth Pakistan's prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, 56, was a top banker at Citigroup before he returned to his country to become its minister of Finance under President Pervez Musharraf. Although he won widespread respect in...

Letter From New York: Hallmark Is on the March!(Valentine's Day)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Beith O woe should be me. yet another Valentine's Day approaches, and here I am, single. Apparently, I should be dreading the day. T shirts emblazoned with love is in pollutes the air stare at me from street stands;...

BRITISH INVASION; Detroit's brawny new look seems all-American. But many hot designers hail from across the pond.(car designers)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton (With Sarah Sennott in London) Nestled away in England's bleak industrial Midlands, General Motors car designers toil in obscurity in a nondescript studio. Unlike the automaker's Detroit design center--a postmodern...

Perspectives.
February 14, 2005... "As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you." President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, to Iranians living in what he called "the world's primary state sponsor of terror" "You and I, we have both...

Periscope.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain (Frank Brown Lorien Holland Steven Levy Mark Hosenball Tara Pepper Jenny Barchfield Sarah Childress) Arab World: Battling the Occupation Score one for the United Nations. A long-delayed U.N. report on challenges...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries)(Venomous Earth)(An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Vibhuti Patel, William Underhill Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries By Suad Amiry When it comes to winning sympathy, humor beats spluttering outrage. Sure, there's plenty of anger in Amiry's stories of life in the...

Travel: A Boat Away From Home.(houseboat vacations)(Australian wines)(digital video cameras)(Audi A6 )(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 14, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf (Michelle Jana Chan Peter Suciu Tara Weingarten Sandy Lawrence Edry) Tired of wearing yourself out resting up? There's one vacation that will force you to throttle back and relax: a houseboat holiday. Try meandering...

Brazil Is in a Class by Itself; While Lula has at times played to the galleries, opposing U.S. foreign policy, his actions have been pro-market and devoid of short-term populism.
February 14, 2005... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is co-head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) Following dismal economic growth in the '90s, it seemed that Latin America's leaders had convinced themselves that good economics...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 21, 2005... Mourning a Disaster Readers, like so many others, were stunned by the sudden ferocity and destruction of the tsunami. Many praised our Jan. 10 cover in particular: "It's a most meaningful image; it depicted hope," wrote one. Another...

Mexico: Ready For Prime Time? Mexico's political left has never had much power--but led by Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, it's poised to make its mark.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson (With Maria Amparo Iasso in Mexico City) Mexico's Guerrero state, which abuts the Pacific coast, has long been characterized by the gaudy luxury of Acapulco--a wealthy tourist town that caters to thousands of American...

THAILAND: An Annoying Neighbor; Thailand's prime minister has huge support at home, but his brash style is alienating other countries in the region.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane (With Lorien Holland in Kuala Lumpur) Thaksin Shinawatra was in his favorite situation last week: declaring victory. The superconfident prime minister of Thailand stood before television cameras to announce that he had...

EUROPE: Britain in the Dock; Harsh antiterrorism laws run afoul of time-honored traditions of liberty and human rights. Some warn of a new 'police state.'.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Friso Endt in The Hague and Edward Pentin in Rome) Is international terrorism an emergency threatening the British nation? Tony Blair's government says so, giving authorities the right to...

FRANCE: The Last of His Kind? Call it the 'Versailles syndrome.' The era of France's imperial presidency may be drawing to a close.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape The late French president Francois Mitterrand is everywhere these days: dissected in magazines, books, movies--even in court. His politics are rarely the focus; instead, French citizens are engrossed with the royal hues...

TAIWAN: The Cold Shoulder; Beijing is setting up legal cover for an attack on the island, and unnerving leaders in Taipei.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Adams (With Jonathan Ansfield and Craig Simons in Beijing, Eve Conant in Washington, Tracy Mcnicoll in Paris and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) The year of the rooster came in mild in Taipei, and the political climate seemed warmer,...

BALTICS: Brothers, Up in Arms; Perceptions to the contrary, there is no 'Baltic bloc.'.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Steven Paulikas Benelux. Scandinavia. Visegrad. Clusters of neighboring nations with similar values and interests have long been the engines of European integration. Which is why the unofficial dissolution of one of the continent's...

INVENTIONS: A Factory of One's Own; Rather than buying gadgets, toys and clothes ready-made, consumers may one day prefer to download the designs and make them at home.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Jason Overdorf in New Delhi and George Nayakene in Ghana) Neil Gershenfeld has boundary issues. As a teen, he irked his parents by asking to attend the local trade school rather than the mainstream academy for...

Speaking Up; A glimpse inside Saudi Arabia.(The Unfurling)(Book Review)
February 21, 2005... Byline: Anuj Desai Few contemporary writers can claim to represent a silent people in the same way as the Saudi poetess Nimah Ismail Nawwab. "Will the time come... For my voice to be sent forth," she asks in her poem "The Longing," "Crying...

KOREA: A Tussle Over Treasures; Who rightfully owns Korean artifacts looted by Japan?
February 21, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi and B. J. Lee Eisei Miki, the head monk of Kakurinji Temple in the western Japanese city of Kakogawa, still shivers with anger when he describes the robbery the temple suffered in 2002. Among the stolen goods: one...

ECONOMY: Out of Steam; A dip in U.S. productivity provokes anxious questions. The biggest: does it signal the end of the global boom?
February 21, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller By all accounts, the new economy died three or four years ago. Business cycles do exist. Share prices can fall. Companies eventually have to make money. Bubbles burst. But one aspect of the roaring '90s survived...

Opinion: Who Will Win the Prize? The world's best-performing economies change because each decade's problems are different.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Richard B. Freeman (Freeman teaches economics at Harvard University) Too bad the Academy of the Dismal Science doesn't hand out Oscars for economic excellence. Throughout the '90s, the United States would have won, hands down. As...

The New Orthodoxy; Eastern Europeans put their faith in the flat tax.
February 21, 2005... Byline: William Underhill Romania's new prime minister knows his priorities. His country may be struggling with a massive budget deficit, but Calin Popescu Tariceanu isn't asking for painful sacrifices: he's cutting taxes. Within 48 hours...

SUDAN: A Catalyst for Peace; Oil has played a major role in ending Sudan's civil war.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Alexandra Polier The peace agreement between northern and southern Sudan recently brought one of Africa's most protracted civil wars to an end. For years the mostly Muslim Arabs in the north, who run the government, battled largely...

THE LAST WORD: Daniel Vasella; The Right Prescription?(Interview)
February 21, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Drug companies seem to be under fire from all sides these days, whether it be for not revealing research data on side effects, or for neglecting the diseases of the developing world. Daniel Vasella, the medical...

The Last Word: Sam Rainsy; A Road Well Traveled.(Interview)
February 21, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape In 1994, Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was fired as Finance minister and then stripped of his seat in the National Assembly for accusing then Prime Ministers Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Ranariddh of corruption. He...

Letter From China: Driving Like the East Winds.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons Was I deranged or merely stupid? Given the choice of flying or driving from Beijing to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, 2,100 kilometers west of the capital, I considered the facts. Even though China has fewer...

Perspectives.
February 21, 2005... "Only powerful strength can protect justice and truth." North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement officially announcing that the country has nuclear weapons "The whole Iranian nation is united against any threat or attack....

Periscope.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar, Zahid Hussain, Sudip Mazumdar, Ron Moreau, Mark Hosenball, Tamara Lipper, Fred Guterl, Mark Starr, John Sparks, Marie Valla, David Ansen, Bret Begun, Ginanne Brownell The big deals are back. Companies are enjoying...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Book Review)
February 21, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf, Aaron Clark, Ginanne Brownell Q&A By Vikas Swarup Delhi's latest literary sensation, Swarup is a diplomat who earned a whopping six-figure advance for his first novel. Titled "Q&A," the book recounts the...

Tip Sheet.
February 21, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen, Michelle Jana Chan, John Barry, Sandy Lawrence Edry, Jac Chebatoris Health: The Miscarriage Maze By Karen Springen Jon Cohen and his wife, Shannon, never thought much about fertility. Their first child,...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
February 28, 2005... Freedom to Give Our Jan. 17 cover on tsunami aid led readers to share their gratitude. "The tsunami forced [enemies] to live together," wrote one. Another thanked U.S. kids: "Every little donation has helped." The conclusion? "People who...

How Do You Feel Now? Emotional States: Technology gives autistic kids a hand.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Temma Ehrenfeld To most people, the human face is a compelling object fraught with meaning. But for autistic children, who can't get a read on other people's emotions, eye contact is terrifying. When they do look at faces, they...

The Many Faces of Putin; Who is this man, isolated and increasingly paranoid? Few have a clear answer--in Russia or abroad. That could spell trouble.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown and Michael Meyer (With Sam Seibert in New York and Andrew Nagorski, Richard Wolffe and Eve Conant in Washington) After five years as Russia's leader, career KGB man Vladimir Putin has finally acquired the aura of an...

Double Vision; Having two leaders at the top has led not to confusion in New Delhi, but a newfound and welcome vibrancy.(Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh lead coalition)(Cover Story)
February 28, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar It looked like a formula for disaster. Against all odds, Sonia Gandhi led her Congress party and its 15 coalition partners to victory in India's parliamentary elections last May. Hindu zealots in the...

Brazil's Corporate Raiders; Forget the Americans. The country snatching up some of Argentina's most prized industrial companies is its neighbor to the north.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Peter Hudson (With Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro) Argentines have long feared corporate incursions by First World multinationals from the United States and Europe. But they don't need to look that far away to find hungry corporate...

Airlines: Brand India Is Taking Off; The $375 million Jet IPO last week is just the latest sign that gloom has given way to euphoria in the Mumbai stock market.(Cover Story)
February 28, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf The same day that "The Aviator" opened in theaters across India, homegrown flying entrepreneur Naresh Goyal debuted Jet Airways, India's first private air carrier, to rave reviews on the Bombay Exchange. In one of...

Name of the Father; Walid Jumblatt now leads a unified opposition to Syria.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland Five days after the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, thousands of people still stand vigil at his candle-bedecked grave site in Martyr's Square in downtown Beirut. One man is more than an...

The Myths of The Cheap Yuan; Even a doubling of the yuan's value is not going to begin to eliminate China's cost advantages.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Kenneth Rogoff (Rogoff is professor of economics and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University.) Politicians around the world seem convinced that if only China would stop tilting the scales of international...

Don Quixote Slept Here; Publishers and tourism boards are cashing in on literary anniversaries. And what's wrong with that?
February 28, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper (With Mike Elkin in Madrid and Ginny Power in Paris) The runaway success of Miguel de Cervantes's "Don Quixote" when it was first published in 1605 was a relief to the author, whose other works had languished. His...

Narain Karthikeyan; Fastest Asian On Wheels.(Interview)(Excerpt)
February 28, 2005... On March 5, 28-year-old Narain Karthikeyan will become the first Indian to compete in Formula One racing when he takes the wheel for Jordan Grand Prix, the F1 team started by Ireland's Eddie Jordan, in Melbourne. It's a huge achievement for...

Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski; Peru's Main Money Man.(Interview)(Excerpt)
February 28, 2005... No economic-policy czar in Latin America has a more glittering resume than Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski. A graduate of Oxford and Princeton, Kuczynski was not yet 30 years old when he was named deputy director of Peru's central bank in 1967. An...

Jean-Philippe Courtois; Selling More Than Software.(Interview)(Excerpt)
February 28, 2005... Microsoft has been something of a bete noire in Europe, slammed by Brussels last March for antitrust violations. But with governments backing off of the painful measures necessary to make Europe more competitive--German Chancellor Gerhard...

Can a Nerd Get the Girl?(Japanese anime, manga fans )
February 28, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi Pity the poor otaku. Obsessive-compulsive recluses, they are the diehard fans of Japan's world-famous subculture hobbies--anime (animated films), manga (cartoons) and videogames. More comfortable in a virtual world than...

Perspectives.
February 28, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, New York Times, Details Magazine, BBC "Syria is out of step with the progress being made in the greater Middle East." ...

Tip Sheet.(Latin American vacation properties)(ski packages)
February 28, 2005... Byline: Carolyn Whelan, Ginanne Brownell Real Estate: Lovely Latin Hideaways By Carolyn Whelan For North Americans and Europeans looking to buy vacation homes, few places are more alluring these days than Latin America. "Many...