Newsweek International articles from January 2001

Newsweek International archives from January 2001

A Bloody Christmas.(bombings of Christian churches)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... The bombs were well made, and terrifyingly efficient. On the evening of Dec. 24, just as many Christians were attending church services, nearly two dozen explosions rocked 11 churches scattered around Indonesia. The bombs contained digital...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 8, 2001... Finally, a New President At long last, the wait for a new American president came to an end. Not all were satisfied with the result, however, or the process in getting there. "This is a sad day for democracy," one reader said, while...

Women of the New Century.(impact of globalization on women)
January 8, 2001... When the great globalization epic is written or filmed, or perhaps pixilated, it will probably be spun as a Boys Own adventure story. Young men in T shirts fiddling with their computers. Older men in suits hustling into conference rooms to...

Gender Politics in the Age of Dot-coms.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Years ago, when the Internet was new, people said it would do a lot of things. It would make face-to-face communication obsolete. It would make it possible to live in Bali and work in Brussels. And by replacing real offices with faceless...

Back In The Spotlight.(Taiwanese singer A-mei banned in China)
January 8, 2001... When the doors open at 6 p.m., a mass of students rushes into the arena. As the small hall on the outskirts of Taipei fills up, shouts rise up from the crowd: "A-mei! A-mei! A-mei!" It will be an hour before the slinky Taiwanese pop star (whose...

Secret Weapon.(Z car to be unveiled)
January 8, 2001... As Nissan's new chief designer, Shiro Nakamura, walked among vintage Japanese sports cars jammed bumper to bumper into the Las Vegas convention hall, it was obvious how he earned the nickname "Fingers": he inspected each one of the sleek...

'We Will Not Go Retro'.(Nissan chief designer reveals strategy)(Interview)
January 8, 2001... Nissan's new chief designer, Shiro Nakamura, says it's time for Japan's major automakers, Nissan included, to stop copying designs from abroad and seek their own inspiration. His method: playing jazz bass in clubs. He spoke last week with...

Second Coming.(Vicente Fox's religion)
January 8, 2001... To most Mexicans, their new straight-talking, cowboy-boot-wearing, 6- foot-4-inch president is a practical businessman who will dedicate himself to fighting crime and poverty. But to the group of Roman Catholic seminary students seated around a...

Breaking Down Barriers.(Vietnamese-American football player Dat Nguyen)
January 8, 2001... If any other group of kids had won the Rockport-Fulton youth soccer championship in Texas, the parents of their opponents would surely have applauded. But most of the members of Dat Nguyen's team were the children of Vietnamese refugees. So...

The Other Side of Taiwan.(native peoples)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Returning to your roots is never easy--especially when you're on TV. So when a game-show host gives A-mei a rubber spear and asks her to perform a tribal dance, the aboriginal pop star has little choice but to comply. In her jean jacket,...

A Calendar for All Seasons.(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... In Brazil it's a great end-of-year ritual: the presentation of the coming year's wall calendar by Burti Graficos, a Brazilian publisher and printing house. There are few calendars like it in South America, or anywhere else, for that matter....

Saving a Beloved Muscle Car.(the 240Z)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Shortly after Nissan deep-sixed its near-legendary Z car in 1996, "Mad" Mike Taylor, head of the American Z-Car Club Association, paid a visit to Nissan's soon-to-be president Yoshikazu Hanawa. Few people mourned the demise of the bloated,...

Hope on Hollow Hill.(pro- Zapatista prisoners)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... The Mexican prison known as Cerro Hueco, or Hollow Hill, resembles a bustling market. One damp corridor--filled with taco stands and visiting toddlers--leads to a two-story dormitory. It is home to dozens of supporters of the Zapatista rebels,...

Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... "We are not looking for a pretext to say no. We are looking for a reason to proceed."Hasan Abdel Rahman, the Palestinian Authority representative to Washington, on the dwindling prospects of a Mideast peace deal "We've always said we...

Who Pays How Much?(United Nations' members dues)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Last month many of the world's top diplomats met in New York to grapple over money--specifically, how much each of the United Nations' 189 members should pay in dues. But the debate was really about Washington's relationship with the world body...

Flight of Fear.(British Airways)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... When passenger Paul Kefa Mukonyi stormed the cockpit and wrenched the controls from the pilot on a British Airways flight to Kenya last Friday, many of the 379 passengers awoke from their slumber screaming. The autopilot had been disengaged in...

E-griculture.(electronic farming)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Two British farms have set up plots online. Somerset Farm Direct lets you pick the tastiest lamb from a photo gallery. Details of the chosen one are posted -- what it was fed, even its date of slaughter. Or try www.myveggiepatch.com, where 495...

MAIL CALL.
January 15, 2001... Our Dec. 11 article on Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp.'s troubled marriage stirred up anger and bad memories among our readers. Business is bound to fail, one reader wrote, "when it becomes a matter of egos and gross mismanagement at the cost...

Propping Up the World : Asians look to the Fed boss for a lift, but they are still searching for their own god of prosperity.(federal chairman, Alan Greenspan)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... If Alan Greenspan is the guru of good times in the United States, he is even more revered in Asia. Never has that been more clear than in the hours after Greenspan announced his surprise rate cut. Suddenly the looming threat of a new Asian...

The Fall of Football : Crippled by a losing streak and charges of corruption, Brazilian football is in crisis. Can anything be done to save the national game.(Illustration)(Industry Overview)
January 15, 2001... When Wanderley Luxemburgo was named coach of the national football team in late 1998, Brazilians had reason to believe they had a winner. The nation was still stinging from its 3-1 loss to France in the World Cup finals. But Luxemburgo had led...

Numero Uno of the Cartolas : This time Vasco's Eurico Miranda may have gone too far.(football team Vasco da Gama's vice president)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Eurico Mirandais not the sort of man who goes unnoticed in a crowd. Big and burly, with a frown that could curdle milk, Miranda is the longtime vice president of Vasco da Gama, the famed Rio football team. But don't call him "No. 2." For as...

Moment Of Glory? : A populist tycoon seems to have won Thailand's election--but he may be kicked out of office soon.(Thaksin Shinawatra)
January 15, 2001... During Thailand's economic crisis in 1997 and 1998, financial analysts in the region jokingly described the country as the "Thaitanic." In the run-up to last Saturday's national election, political wags were using the same doomed-ship analogy...

A Bumpy Boat Ride : President Chen opens direct links to the mainland.(Taiwan's president Chen opens link to China)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... After 50 years of hostilities, no one expected a peace voyage to be easy. But for the handful of Taiwanese officials making the first legal, direct crossing of the Taiwan Strait in modern times, just getting started was a nightmare. The site of...

The Cold Facts of WIRELESS : Grandiose visions of a third generation are coming unraveled.(Forrester Research predicts General Packet Radio Service is best bet for the future)(Statistical Data Included)
January 15, 2001... Of all the new, new things that came to seem old over the last year, the near hysteria around the "mobile Internet" in Europe was in a class by itself. Techno-gurus and telecom companies proclaimed the coming of a "third generation" of mobile...

Arnault's Auction Bid : Scandal at Sotheby's may give him his big chance.(Bernard Arnault, owner of Phillips auction house)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 15, 2001... As a former diplomatic adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Lord Powell is far too civilized to gloat. But as chairman of Phillips, the 204-year-old but newly ambitious British auction house, he can't help but see opportunity in the woes of the two...

Breakthroughs On War Crimes.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The record is not perfect. There is no question that we have learned many lessons about the need to react far more quickly. --David Scheffer The past eight years have been marked by a new wave of genocidal terror and human-rights abuses in...

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall...: There are plenty of collapse-of- communism scripts for North Korea--too many, in fact.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... It's more than fitting that Bill Clinton announced recently that he won't make a trip to North Korea before leaving office, explaining that time was too short to hammer out an agreement to curtail that country's missile program. Yes, last year...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... "Can I hug you?" South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, 98, to Hillary Clinton after her swearing-in as New York's junior senator. He then did. "We are waiting for the president now." Israeli peace negotiator Gilead Sher, after a meeting at...

Hopes of Justice on the Horizon.(Cambodia)
January 15, 2001... Justice may finally be making its way to Cambodia. Last week the country's chief law-making body finally passed legislation for a U.N.- assisted court to bring to trial those responsible for Khmer Rouge atrocities between 1975 and 1979. ...

Terrifying Tally.(murder charges against Dr. Harold Shipman)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... The world was horrified last year when British general practitioner Dr. Harold Shipman was found guilty of killing 15 patients, and sentenced to life in prison. Last week the terror took on new proportions, as Britain's Department of Health...

Legal Trouble.(appointment of John Ashcroft)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... As liberal interest groups prepare to challenge John Ashcroft's appointment as U.S. attorney general, Bush officials fear confirmation could be delayed past Jan. 20, when Janet Reno leaves office. NEWSWEEK has learned that Bush aides are...

The Return of Europhoria?(the euro)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Remember the eurocrisis? Last autumn it looked like the single European currency, which had drifted steadily downward from its January 1999 launch, was set for a freefall. But now that America's go-go economy is starting to flag, making the...

Amazing Grace.(deaths of TAnaquil Le Clercq, William P. Rogers, Jose Greco)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 15, 2001... Ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq enthralled both audiences and George Balanchine in the '40s and '50s. She became his fourth wife and inspired him to create numerous ballets for her. Paralyzed by polio at the height of her career, she went on to...

MAIL CALL.
January 22, 2001... President-Elect George W. Bush George W. Bush's victory after a prolonged presidential battle left a negative impression on many readers. Several expressed dismay over what they viewed as a dubious process, but others focused on the...

Gunning for the Hunt.(opposition to fox-hunting)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Fox hunting is a dangerous pastime--and not just for the foxes. Ask Mark Sprake. Over the last five years his outings with the Surrey Union hunt have twice ended in the hospital. But don't blame the high hedgerows or ditches of the English...

A Nation Reacts to the Flames of Hatred.(anti-semitism in Germany)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Germany's perennial demon made an ugly reappearance last week. Sometime before dawn on Monday, vandals broke into the old Jewish cemetery in Potsdam, outside Berlin. They burned the wooden door of the memorial hall, leaving the interior a...

The Minister's All Right.(Joschka Fischer)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... The footage dates from April 7, 1973. The scene: a street riot in Frankfurt, at the height of Germany's militant student-protest movement. Suddenly one of the radicals corners a policeman. Wearing a tight leather jacket and a motorcycle helmet,...

Mbeki's Arms Ache.(Thabo Mbeki)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... They first met secretly in June 1998, in a Cape Town coffee shop a few blocks from South Africa's Parliament buildings. Terry Crawford-Browne, a banker turned peace activist, expected questions about his campaign to redirect the new black...

'High Noon' for Wahid.(Abdurrahman Wahid)
January 22, 2001... Indonesia's president Abdurrahman Wahid, who is nearly blind, moves among shadows. But in his mind, Wahid likes to think of high noon, when the sun shines white-hot, and it's easier for him to sense shapes and colors, especially blue. The...

'We Are Making Progress'.(Abdurrahman Wahid interview)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 22, 2001... Since he became president, Abdurrahman Wahid has been dogged by crises. He sleeps only about four hours most nights--one reason he's known to take catnaps during official meetings. Yet Wahid seemed alert in a rare predawn interview at Jakarta's...

A Very Strange Manhunt.(Tommy Suharto)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Where in the world is Tommy Suharto? Two months ago the fun-loving, youngest son of former dictator Suharto was supposed to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence. He was convicted of a land scam in which his company swapped worthless...

'The Empress' Deposed.(Biljana Plavsic)
January 22, 2001... In the end, Biljana Plavsic must have known that she had nowhere to run. Three days before Christmas, the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, Thomas Miller, paid a discreet visit to the 70-year-old former biology professor at her apartment in the...

Power Outage.(electrical power in India)
January 22, 2001... Prem Kumar doesn't consider himself a thief, but he steals electricity every day--as do each of his 3,500 neighbors in a south Delhi shantytown. A spider's web of wires, hooked to overhead power cables, thread into every shack. Kumar, a...

Talking Tough on Piracy.(illegal video games)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Few passersby would guess that the clean-cut, rucksack-toting students who ply the Jiaodaokou section of Beijing are trying to score their next fix. Here in the shadow of the Forbidden City, the nerve center of China's Communist Party, dealers...

Small Time Inventor.(James Dyson)
January 22, 2001... James Dyson's favorite sales pitch is a bit of a paradox: it's time to replace the standard washing machine, he says, because the future belongs to the past. His new invention, the Contrarotator, mimics the action of a human hand on a...

The Man Who Knew Too Much.(Norbert Vollertsen)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Norbert Vollertsen went to North Korea to help famine victims for the small organization German Emergency Doctors. Early on, his team won plaudits from Pyongyang. But as he learned more about the country's misery, he grew outspoken. Late last...

No Forgiveness For Fujimori.(Alberto Fujimori resigns)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 22, 2001... In 1990 novelist Mario Vargas Llosa lost his bid for the presidency of Peru to Alberto Fujimori. After Fujimori's 1992 "self-coup," in which he shut down Congress and suspended the Constitution, Vargas Llosa became a virulent critic of the...

CASTING PILLS BEFORE SWINE.(antibiotics in animal feed)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Recently the journal of the American Medical Association reported that the number of cases of drug-resistant salmonella in the United States is on the rise. The article did not make the headlines for the simple reason that it is not news....

Democracy's March Through Africa.(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... It was a day of celebration. on Jan. 7, when Ghana's chief justice administered the oath of office to John Agyekum Kufuor, the country's newly elected president, people across the continent cheered. With unintended irony, the Accra Mail had...

Perspectives.
January 22, 2001... "I'll be unleashing the box step."President-elect George W. Bush, looking forward to the Inaugural balls "So long as the game in Washington is a game of search and destroy, I think we will have very few people who are willing to do what I...

A New Fight.(Ted Turner vs. Vladimir Putin)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Media mogul Ted Turner leaked word last week that he's negotiating to buy a 25 percent stake in NTV, Russia's last independent network. The move would give NTV much-needed cash and strengthen Russia's flailing free-press movement. But it pits...

A Loss of 'Conscience'.(Anson Chan resigns)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Just before Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, a senior Hong Kong official told NEWSWEEK, "Anson [Chan] is like the canary in the mine shaft. If she goes, we will know things are going badly." Last week Chan flew the coop. The 60-year-old...

Blame Game.(No Gun Ri tragedy, South Korea)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... When President Clinton last week expressed "deep regret that Korean civilians lost their lives" at No Gun Ri in July 1950, he hoped to close the door on the tragic event. But after 15-month parallel U.S. and Korean investigations, Seoul...

Nabbing Nessie.(Jan Sundberg )(Interview)
January 22, 2001... Swedish journalist Jan Sundberg and his Global Underwater Search Team will launch Operation Clean Sweep--a two-week search in March for the mythical Loch Ness monster. With a large net and two powerful sonar systems, the team hopes to catch...

Paperback Rider.(London Undergound stations )(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Now approaching the platform: the written word. Starting this week, vending machines in London Undergound stations will spit out short stories by classic authors such as Evelyn Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse, for just [Pound sterling]1. But will it...

The Scoreboard.(economic growth in the New Economy)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Here are the Rules of the New Economy: innovation spawns new information technologies, technology raises productivity and rising productivity "raises the speed limit" on growth. By almost every measure and in every phase of the game, from the...

MAIL CALL.
January 29, 2001... Looking Toward The Year Ahead Our special "Issues 2001" edition on the people and topics likely to dominate the new year garnered letters from readers concerned about a dim outlook for the planet--many critical of the United States....

Only the Beginning.(new economy)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... How quickly things change!" exclaims Hal Varian, an economist in Silicon Valley, the nerve center of America's chip-driven New Economy. These days, every dot-bust, every deflated e-billionaire, every sign of imminent recession is knowingly...

Mystery Solved.
January 29, 2001... Wall Street bulls held this as an article of faith: computers inspire us to work better, smarter, faster. Their conviction survived plagues of crashing servers and swarms of frozen cursors. They spoke of the computer and its sister "information...

The Intel Economy?(interview with Gordon Moore)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon Moore is the cofounder of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. In 1965 he predicted that the speed of computer chips would double, or the prices would fall by half, every 18 months for the next...

A Run for the Money.(European companies good at business to business use of the Internet)
January 29, 2001... Much has been made of U.S. companies' lead in exploiting the Internet. Perhaps too much. The first major American business-to-business networks for older industries like autos and chemicals appeared only last year--and some of these B2B...

A Global Gap.(digital divide)
January 29, 2001... For all his adult life, Van Thavi, 33, and his neighbors in the remote Cambodian village of Robib had been cut off from civilization, courtesy of Pol Pot's ruthless army. Soldiers would hide in long-abandoned rubber plantations along the only...

CYBERCHARITY.(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... A year ago Richard Mugisha's aid organization, People With Disabilities, was doing such a good job counseling and training handicapped people in Uganda that demand for its services was threatening to overwhelm his small staff. So the Ugandan...

The Return of People Power.(the Philippines)
January 29, 2001... Just before noon on Saturday, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo arrived at the absolute center of power in the Philippines. It wasn't the palm-fringed oasis of Malacanang Palace, where presidents--including her late father--have ruled for decades. Nor...

Roll Over, Kim Il Sung.(North Korea)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The Buick assembly-line tour was not the most startling part of Kim Jong Il's unannounced trip to Shanghai last week. After all, the shock- haired North Korean leader has a well-known love for big, fancy cars. But what would the late dictator...

The Path to The Palace.(Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Bill Clinton crossed paths as classmates at Georgetown University. But the Philippines' new president actually has more in common with George W. Bush: they were inaugurated on the same day, they both succeeded...

Facing Down the Warlords.(interview with Somali Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... The New World Order was born in Somalia, and quickly died there. After dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, rival warlords vied for power. Bandits and militiamen robbed everything of value, down to the copper electrical wire....

Chasing A Man, Fixing A Nation.(interview with Afghan journalist)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... Last week the United Nations enacted sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban movement. The United States and Russia led the drive to block travel by and supplies of arms to Taliban members unless the ruling Taliban turned over suspected Islamic...

Trying To Keep Russia On Track.(interview with Clinton's deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... Deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott served as point man for Russia policy during the Clinton era. A former Time magazine columnist and author of several books on arms control, Talbott has been both praised and castigated for his...

How To Save 'Failed States'.(leaders of the global economy meet to discuss policies for alleviating poverty)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 29, 2001... The grand panjandrums of global capitalism are gathering in Davos this week, where, in between sessions of cerebral hockey, social skating and downhill skiing, they will undertake an annual assessment of the world economy. The conference's...

Perspectives.(brief quotations from presidents, government officials, ordinary citizens)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... "Mr. President--it's got a nice ring to it." George W. Bush, last week, anticipating his inauguration as the 43d president of the United States "You wonder when you leave the White House if you'll ever draw a crowd again." Former...

Please Return to Sender.(Republican Party return donation to diet company Essante)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 29, 2001... Was an international arms dealer attempting to buy influence with the new Bush administration? That question, NEWSWEEK has learned, recently prompted Republican Party officials to return $100,000 donated by Utah- based diet company Essante. The...

Forum Father.(Klaus Schwab on the World Economic Forum)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971. He spoke to NEWSWEEK columnist Pranay Gupte about the WEF's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland: On Davos's emphasis this year: It's very important to make globalization more...

A Dose of Reality.(reality-based television programs run into trouble with participants)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... One of America's most recent reality-TV hits is "Temptation Island," where unmarried couples are tested by being introduced to sexy singles. Recently, one couple was kicked off the show for not having disclosed that they had a child together....

Virtual Theology.(worshippers experience virtual dip in the Ganges via Webcam)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... These are modern times, even for the ancient Hindu celebration of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years millions flock to Allahabad, India, to bathe in the Ganges, an act believed to lead to salvation. But in anticipation of an expected record 30 million...

TRANSITION.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 29, 2001... Strummer With A Smooth Style Though his guitar rhythms were quiet and delicate, Luiz Bonfa was a guiding force behind Brazilian bossa nova. The musician and composer died at 78. Beat poet Gregory Corso's chronic misfitness played...

Military's In, Economy's Out.(Bill Clinton boosts military aid to Israel)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Bill Clinton bowed out last week with an effort to secure U.S.-Israeli relations, as the two nations signed an agreement to phase out U.S. economic aid to Israel while boosting military assistance to $2.4 billion a year by 2008. A CONTENTious...

A Survivor's Story.(Amelia Shields Guirola survives El Salvador earthquake)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Halfway up the slope, just to the west of a vast landslide that entombed hundreds of people, a white mansion stands unscathed. It is the home of Amelia Shields Guirola, a 78-year-old American-born widow who married into one of El Salvador's...