Newsweek International articles from January 2005

Newsweek International archives from January 2005

What He Left Behind.(Letter to the Editor)
January 10, 2005... Readers of our Nov. 22 story on Arafat's death shared their vastly different views of his legacy. One who hailed him as a hero said, "You resurrected Palestine in the hearts and minds of humanity." Another wrote, "We pray that Arafat's...

Domino Theory; Will Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' spread? Russia's Vladimir Putin and his men certainly think so.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Michael Meyer (With Frank Brown in Moscow) At a critical moment in Ukraine's Orange Revolution, the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, John Herbst, got a frantic phone call. The husband of Leonid Kuchma's daughter, Lena, was on the line....

Don't Sweat The Big Stuff; For the Muslim world, a democratic, European Turkey would offer a symbol of Western good will to contrast with carnage in Iraq.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik teaches politics and directs the European Union Program at Princeton University.) The new year will bring new faces to the administration in Washington, as well as a new European Commission in Brussels....

Succeeding at Sewing; The most sweeping reform in industrial history leaves China poised to rule the garment trade.
January 10, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Alexandra A. Seno (With Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) John Cheh sells the shirt on his back. As chairman of Esquel China Holdings in Hong Kong, he runs a top producer of men's woven cotton shirts--or category...

Picking Up the Pieces; The developing nations that grew prosperous on quotas fear their economies will unravel.(textile industry)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Dana Thomas (With Scott Johnson in Mexico City, Hassan Shahriar in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Joe Cochrane in Phnom Penh and B. J. LEE in Seoul) Mark Twain once wrote that "heaven was copied after Mauritius." It's easy to see why. Lush...

Lessons of Pirate Row; Beijing's aggressive defense of its cherished Olympic logo shows it can stop counterfeiters, if it wants to.
January 10, 2005... Byline: With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing On Silk Alley, a pedestrian lane in the center of Beijing, you can buy a fake leather Gucci bag stamped MADE IN ITALY for $15, or a North Face Gore-Tex jacket with a fleece liner for $12. There is,...

Building the Impossible; Don't tell designer Thomas Heatherwick that it can't be done.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Marie Valla On paper the sculpture looks like a fireworks rocket caught in full explosion, so light and ephemeral that it is hard to imagine how the 56-meter-tall structure can hold together on the windswept plain of east...

The Twists Of Fate; Economy: The waves battered 33,000 kilometers of coast, yet no major port or industry suffered catastrophic damage.(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Karen Lowry Miller in Brussels and Michael Hastings in New York) The Indian port of Chennai (formerly Madras) stood in the path of the wave, and disaster beckoned. The city is both the nation's second largest...

Rescued From Oblivion; The astonishing Marai revival.(Biography)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski Writing is the greatest power there is: the written word is greater than king or pope, greater than the doge," proclaims the title character in the first English translation of Sandor Marai's "Casanova in Bolzano"...

A Bill To Pay; Q&A: The United Nations' humanitarian-aid chief looks at the scope of the world's biggest relief operation.(Interview)(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Eve Conant As the world came to grips with the devastation caused by last week's tsunami, tens of millions in relief aid was pledged. But initially the money put up by rich countries appeared to some small, and slow to come. United...

Viktor Cherkashin; Making Sense Of Spying.(Interview)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown Word that Ukrainian president-elect Viktor Yushchenko had recently been poisoned with dioxin quickly fueled conspiracy theories involving KGB labs and Russian secret-service agents. But in his new book, "Spy Handler,"...

Hello, Manhattan? I Live Here!
January 10, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor So, what do you want for Christmas?" my friend Bob asked his teenage daughter, Ashley. "Daddy," she replied, "get me a 212 area code." Bob swears this is true. This being Manhattan, I don't doubt it. Ashley...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: SOURCES: Reuters (2), The Washington Post, Miami Herald, BBC, The Washington Post "What did we do to deserve this?" Construction worker Satya Kumari, of Pondicherry, India, mourning in the aftermath of the tsunami "It's...

Periscope.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Dan Ephron, Lisa Helem, Kathryn Williams, Stryker McGuire and Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball, Aaron Clark, Ginanne Brownell MIDDLE EAST A Familiar Power Play The similarities are uncanny. The late Egyptian president Anwar...

Snap Judgement: Books.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Gates, Arian Campo-Flores, Ginanne Brownell Honored Guest by Joy Williams This third collection of Williams's darkly comic stories still has the deadpan feel of the best '70s and '80s fiction. Like Raymond Carver, she...

The Tsunami Threat; Science: Though extremely rare, killer waves can be less predictable--and more destructive--than the quakes that cause them.(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Jerry Adler and Mary Carmichael (With Andy Murr in Hawaii, Jennifer Ordonez in Los Angeles, Kay Itoi in Tokyo, Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Lorien Holland in Malaysia and Fred Guterl in New York) It was late on the morning of April 1,...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
January 17, 2005... Going, Going... Gone? Readers responding to our Nov. 29, 2004, article "The Dollar Deluge" agreed that the currency's drop is due to what one called the "mere ideology" of the Bush administration. Another said Washington's pledges "to restore...

The New Activists: Voices on The Edge; Muslim feminists are braving death threats and demanding to be heard.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Carla Power (With William Underhill in London, Friso Endt in The Hague, Gameela Ismail in Cairo and Sarah Sennott in London) For more than 30 years, much of the Muslim world has been sliding backward, away...

Mission Creep; Well-meaning relief crews are landing in the middle of a low-grade civil war. Their intervention will have broad, unpredictable consequences.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Joe Cochrane (With Paul Dillon and Eric Unmacht in Banda Aceh and Eve Conant in Washington) Another kind of wave is sweeping the shores of the Indian Ocean. All along the 33,000 kilometers of coastline ravaged...

Worse Than War; The unimaginable shock of the disaster is already forcing the government and Tamil separatists to work together for the first time in years.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu In the wake of the tsunami, Sippiah Paramu Tamilselvan and his colleagues are scrambling to manage a massive relief operation. Soldiers, medics and even psychological-trauma counselors swung into action with impressive...

Living With Fear; HEALTH: Beyond the immediate threats looms the specter of long-term trauma, affecting more people than ever before.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar and Temma Ehrenfeld (With Jaime Cunningham in New York and Hindol Sengupta in Port Blair) The morning of Dec. 26 began like so many others along India's eastern coast, with the sounds of kids playing on the beach....

New Imams; European governments are trying to create a homegrown Muslim establishment.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Stefan Theil in Berlin and Marie Valla in London) It's easy to see why Dalil Boubakeur is the go-to guy for Islamic issues in France. In his wood-paneled study at Paris's Great Mosque, the...

Looking to the East; The Kremlin plays the China card. But is it really going to shift strategic ties? Not likely.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown In the suburbs of Vladivostok, they say darkly, you can't hear the frogs on a summer evening anymore. Why? Chinese immigrants ate them all. On the Russian side of the Amur River, people talk about the preponderance of...

'The Glass Has Broken'; New revelations, and a looming murder trial, may permanently disgrace former leader Augusto Pinochet.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jimmy Langman and Joseph Contreras Augusto Pinochet's twilight years have not been kind to him. The former Chilean dictator has long been scorned for alleged human-rights violations--political violence claimed the lives of some...

Stuck With a Lemon; GM is the world's biggest automaker. Fiat was once the pride of Italy. The story of a very bad deal.
January 17, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: CLARIFICATION: In "Stuck With a Lemon" (Jan. 17), we reported that General Motors owns 40 percent of Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ, and referred to GM's "pension time bomb." GM owns 41.5 percent of a joint venture with...

Nanny to the Rescue; She's efficient, fun and much better with the kids than mom or dad. On today's stage and screen, she rules. No wonder housewives are feeling desperate.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn (With Marie Valla in London and Mike Elkin in Madrid) It's been 40 years since Walt Disney's Mary Poppins told us a spoonful of sugar would help the medicine go down. Today's nannies may not be as syrupy, but they are...

A Tibetan Love Affair; Fascinated by its faith, young Chinese are flocking to the region. Could the Dalai Lama be close behind?
January 17, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons When Baimadanzen was growing up in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution, his Buddhist father sometimes played records of monks chanting. But he knew nothing about the religion until he moved in 1989 to a...

Korean to the Core; A film wrestles with the colorful life of Rikidozan.(Rikidozan)(Movie Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mark Russell Throughout the 1950s, the Japanese wrestler Rikidozan disposed of his American opponents in the ring with a dizzying array of pile drivers, head butts and thunderous karate chops. Still smarting from World War II, the...

Waiting for The Rain; A Masai village takes its fate into its own hands.(Masai: Warriors of the Rain)(Movie Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jenny Barchfield Animal carcasses litter the red earth of Masai country. Villagers scan the sky for signs of rain. With their livestock decimated by a drought, the inhabitants of a traditional Masai village know they can't survive...

Giver or Taker? An internal debate over aid underscores Beijing's struggle to cope with its new global role.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Ansfield (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) Two days after the seas engulfed their Asian neighbors, the Chinese hadn't offered much help: some $3 million in food and generators and a vague promise of more. With the body count...

Getting to Know You; Finding out which job candidate would make a savvy manager or a levelheaded cop used to be an art. Now it's cutting-edge science.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper (With Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop and Matt Hermann Graphic by John Sparks) Turhan Canli has an odd photo collection. It includes several shots of people's faces. He has photos of the words "death," "happiness" and others...

Fighting for Greenland; Kari Herbert returns to the tundra her father explored.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell In December, at the international climate-change conference in Buenos Aires, the 155,000 Inuit in Canada, Greenland, Siberia and Alaska announced plans to sue the U.S. government. They charge that since the United...

A Final Grade For Wolfensohn; Not all his calls were so successful. Indeed, the bank has followed so many fads that these days nobody is quite sure what it stands for.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Kenneth Rogoff (Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard and a former chief economist of the IMF.) When World Bank president James Wolfensohn steps down next June after 10 years in office, he surely will...

Television: Sex and the Suburbs; America's most uninhibited suburban housewives are about to titillate the rest of the world. What took so long?(Desperate Housewives)(Television Program Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Marc Peyser and David J. Jefferson) It's no coincidence that "Desperate Housewives" is moving to conquer the global culture market at the same moment that the heroic nanny is: they are, after all, flip sides...

An Army Adrift; Politics and scandal roil the country's military.
January 17, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee and Christian Caryl (With Jaimie Miyazaki in Tokyo) Two decades ago, South Korea's military had a clear enemy. Stalinist North Korea had triggered a fratricidal war that led to the death of millions. The South's...

Mark Malloch Brown; 'These Were Poor People'.(Tsunami disaster)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane Talk about a busy week. As head of the United Nations Development Program, 51-year-old Mark Malloch Brown has spent the past few days hopping from one disaster-struck region in Asia to the next. Meanwhile, he is also...

'I Have the Peach'.(English idioms)(Column)
January 17, 2005... Byline: David Ray I knew it was time to start home-schooling my 11-year-old daughter in English when she accused me of speaking French "like a Spanish cow." She had meant to say I murder French, which is completely accurate, but that...

Perspectives.(Quotations from around the world)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Reuters, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Times of London, Agence France-Presse, Daily Mirror "You wonder, where are the people?" U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, after a helicopter tour...

Periscope.(Britain: Trouble in the Ranks; Natan Sharansky; Bush and Clinton)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Stryker Mcguire, Dan Ephron, Craig Simons, Richard Wolffe, Tamara Lipper and Eleanor Clift, Tracy McNicoll, Steven Levy, Andrew Romano, Andrew Murr, David Gates, Tara Pepper, Bret Begun, Elise Soukup, Nicki Gostin Britain: Trouble...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jenny Barchfield, John Ness, Susan H. Greenberg Chicken With Prunes By Marjane Satrapi (in French) The author of the celebrated comic-book series "Persepolis" is back with another heartfelt adults-only graphic novel, though a...

Tip Sheet.(Travel: Riding the Rails in Style; Montreal: A Cold Bargain; Life of Luxury: A Singular Smell)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Adams, Ginanne Brownell, Marie Valla Travel: Riding the Rails in Style By Jonathan Adams Traveling by rail can be a great way to get to know a country. But the last place you'd want to be in many parts of the world...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
January 24, 2005... The World Gets Older Our Dec. 6 article on the growing number of elderly worried readers. "This is a big problem for us," said a Hungarian, speaking of his country. A young Filipino argued against sending grandparents to old-age homes: "...

Europe's Go-To Guy; Only a year ago, Gerhard Schroder was on the ropes, unpopular at home and unwelcome in Washington. Now look at him.(Biography)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Marie Valla in London, Eve Conant and Richard Wolffe in Washington, Frank Brown in Moscow and Corinna Emundts in Berlin) Could this be Gerhard Schroder's moment? A year ago politicians and diplomats everywhere...

A House Divided; The Orange Revolution is carving new fault lines between Old and New Europe that have nothing to do with war in Iraq.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Steven Paulikas At one time, they had a Union of their own. When the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth met its demise in 1795, its territory included not only those two countries but the entire western half of Ukraine. In Eastern...

The Gentleman Thief; A remarkable crime spree comes to an end. Or does it?
January 24, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll and Christopher Dickey In the end, the "gentleman thief" broke down like a boy. Stephane Breitwieser, 33, who carried out some of the brashest art thefts the world has ever seen, sat sobbing in a French courtroom...

Flying on The Sly; Why Beijing won't admit to hiring foreign pilots.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Ron Gluckman The voice coming over the pilot's intercom on a recent Hainan Airlines flight spoke with an Australian accent. A foreigner in the cockpit? "Absolutely not," insisted an airline spokesman, who said rumors of foreigners...

A Good Life For a Few; Critics say economic empowerment policies have created a black elite but done little to help the masses.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland (With Henk Rossouw in Johannesburg) They are the black princes and princesses of the new South Africa. They wear Armani to the office, drive late-model Mercedes or BMW sedans and buy vacation villas in Tuscany. The...

The Millionaire Mayor; A PRI scion is now trying to clean up Tijuana, one of the world's busiest, and grittiest, border towns.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Beith Jorge Hankrhon may seem an odd choice for mayor, even in Tijuana, the notoriously sleazy Mexican border town less than 20 kilometers south of San Diego, California. The 48-year-old Mexican millionaire owns the city's...

Angry Allies; Moves to Americanize the most sensitive defense technology is irking nations across the pond, as well as a certain Defense secretary.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain Donald Rumsfeld is hardly known as a friend of Europe. So it was a measure of how badly transatlantic relations had deteriorated when even the U.S. secretary of Defense felt compelled to speak out against a bill to...

Change of Scenery; Hong Kong's top filmmakers are heading to China in search of fresh material and new viewers.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno When Hong Kong film director Tsui Hark yells "Aaaactionnnn!" the 100 or so people on the set of "Seven Swords" fall silent. Actors dressed as ancient Chinese farmers scramble about in rehearsed chaos amid sheep...

Strange Trip; A great novel with talking cats and fish raining from the sky.(Kafka on the Shore)(Book Review)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones Reading Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Kafka on the Shore," is a little like listening to a kid make up a story at a campfire. The kind in which one thing leads to another with no apparent logic, where the monsters...

Wary Of Aid; As relief groups tackle the immense task of rebuilding, they're running up against a suspicion of do-gooders that's been growing at a worrying pace.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Paul Dillon in Jakarta, Jen Lin-Liu in Colombo, Rod Nordland in Baghdad, Eric Pape in Paris, and Sarah Sennott and Marie Valla in London) Nonpartisan aid has a funny way of becoming political. Just ask the...

Surprise Killers; Health: The post-tsunami challenge in Aceh isn't the contagious disease outbreak that many expected. It's cases of tetanus and pneumonia.
January 24, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Joe Cochrane Sabirin lays contorted on a hospital bed, writhing and delirious. "No! I can't believe it!" he screams as his wife pumps gruel down his throat with a syringe. The 38-year-old survived the massive...

Signal Lost; Internet telephony--digitally transmitted phone calls--could be the Next Big Thing. It's cheaper than the conventional system, and that makes the technology compelling.(Cover Story)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo and B. J. Lee in Seoul Graphic by John David Sparks) Jeff Pulver used to spend long hours in his basement hunched over his ham radio. The hobby was fun, but geeky. So Pulver did what many other...

One Click Away: TV Via the Web; Viewers have been waiting a long time for something new to do with the remote. They may have it soon.(Cover Story)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings (With Eric Pape in Paris) Mark Gray thinks that the future of television lies in giving couch potatoes less, not more. "You can plug in your cable box and get 500 channels, most of which you're not interested in,"...

Europe and America: Cold Peace? The transatlantic alliance has clearly seen better days. Under Bush II, the old allies will work together. But forget good feelings.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Dominique Moisi (Moisi is a senior adviser at the French Institute of International Relations.) Europeans are awaiting Bush's second term with a combination of resignation and moderate optimism. The feeling could be summarized as:...

Gordon Bethune; 'Learn to Live With It or Die'.(Interview)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras When Gordon Bethune was named president and chief executive officer of Continental Airlines in 1994, he took over a bankrupt company that consistently ranked last among major U.S. airlines in customer-satisfaction...

Inside the Hermit Kingdom.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl Call me crazy, but I've always wanted to go to North Korea. Impenetrable, enigmatic, a tantalizing blank spot on the map. As a longtime correspondent in Russia, I had watched the old Soviet Union open up. Could...

A Road Map to Making History; What lifts a president to greatness? The answers are not as elusive as you might think. Some lessons from those who have reached the pinnacle.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Jon Meacham The inauguration was a quiet affair. Sixty years ago this week, on Jan. 20, 1945, Europe had been at war for nearly six years, America for just over three. Three months away from death, Franklin Roosevelt decided the...

Perspectives.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, Reuters (2), New York Times, NBC News, BBC (2) " 'Bring it on,' was a little blunt." U.S. President George W. Bush , reflecting on his use of the gung-ho phrase in reference to Iraqi...

Periscope.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Frank Brown, Stephen Glain, Craig Simons, Alexandra A. Seno, Fred Guterl, Andrew Romano,Andrew Murr, David Gates, Nicki Gostin U.S. Affairs: 'Salvador Option' The U.S. Army may have closed the books on Spc....

Snap Judgment: Books.(Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China)(Palestine Israel)(French Women Don't Get Fat)(Book Review)
January 24, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Jenny Barchfield, Nicki Gostin Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China Edited by Seng Kuan and Peter G. Rowe Celebrating Shanghai's mix of historical and futuristic elements, Kuan and Rowe...

Tip Sheet.
January 24, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn, Craig Simons, Christopher Dickey, Tara Weingarten, Sana Butler Travel: A Ski Run For Your Money By Emily Flynn Forget the Alps. Eastern Europe is booming with trendy ski spots--and at a quarter of the price...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
January 31, 2005... The Future of Health Dec. 6 issue drew letters from readers interested in new ideas in medicine. A former brain-surgery patient hailed the "neurological science of improving memory." Another reader spoke of his elderly aunt's uncanny...

Dream On, America; The U.S. Model: For years, much of the world did aspire to the American way of life. But today countries are finding more appealing systems in their own backyards.(Cover Story)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (With Christian Caryl in Tokyo, Katka Krosnar in Prague, Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro, Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Paul Mooney in Beijing, Henk Rossouw in Johannesburg and Marie Valla in London) Not long ago, the...

The Streets Are Silent; Why Chinese seem sanguine about the death of Zhao Ziyang.(Biography)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei, Craig Simons and Lijia Macleod in Beijing and Alexandra Seno in Hong Kong) Late last week, the wintry courtyard of a quiet Beijing residence was awash in white, the...

Migrants' Rights: Opening Up the System; Fearing unrest among the work force, Beijing is moving to loosen some of the most despised Mao-era restrictions.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) Thanks to economic reforms that began in Zhao Ziyang's time, an estimated 140 million rural-born migrants now live and work in Chinese cities, lending energy and cheap labor to China's...

Money Pit; Reconstruction contracts in Aceh are ripe for corruption.
January 31, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Joe Cochrane Ari Asri is lucky for what she didn't lose in last month's tsunami: her family's construction business. Homeless yet eager to work on the reconstruction of her homeland, she traveled to the...

The Growing Calls for Change.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is dean of the Yale School of Management.) The pillars of the world economy are undergoing a fundamental re-examination, and change is in the air. The only question is whether we are in for a big bang or...

Distant Neighbors; Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe are feuding. But their trade ties should hasten a reconciliation.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Steven Ambrus and Phil Gunson (With Joseph Contreras and Malcolm Beith) It was not a banner week for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. During her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, U.S. Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza...

The Poor Problem; The war on poverty is gaining momentum, and will figure high on the agenda at Davos this week, against a sobering backdrop: the war is not going as well as many thought.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller (With Jason Overdorf in New Delhi) A different war is now competing for the world's headlines--the war on poverty. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made fighting African poverty a cornerstone of his...

Money to Be Made; An Internet ad pioneer on the e-commerce boom.(Interview)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings Kevin Ryan will forever be associated with the Internet's most annoying invention: the pop-up ad. His company, DoubleClick, basically invented the technique; he's been developing ways for companies to get your...

The Bubble Forecasters Are Back.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings With easy money still chasing fat returns, one of the hot discussions at Davos is likely to be Spotting the Next Bubble Before It Bursts. Panelist Martin Varsavsky, a billionaire Argentine-born investor, sold his...

Rotten Woods; To save its dying forests, Japan is encouraging loggers to cut more.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Hideko Takayama Japan is out of whack. A 61-year-old man in Nagano goes to walk his dog, and a bear comes out of the woods and kills him. In Toyama, astronomers are forced to close an observatory to visitors until the local bears...

Putin Retreats; Everyone knows there's no political opposition in Russia, right? Tell that to the less-than-omnipotent president.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown (With Nadya Titova in Moscow) Russia's political opposition is hopelessly feeble. Even if it weren't, a mass-media lockdown means ordinary Russians don't hear dissenting voices. So goes the received wisdom on Vladimir...

All Eyes on France; A litmus test for the European Union's Constitution.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape The season of Constitutional referenda is nigh, and the sun seems to be shining on Brussels. Spain votes on Europe's controversial new Constitution on Feb. 20, and the country's two main political parties have come out...

The Good for Something U.N.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor (Tharoor is the United Nations' under secretary-general for communications and public information.) In a hilarious early episode of "Seinfeld," Jerry convinces Elaine that Tolstoy's monumental "War and Peace" was...

How Cities Bounce Back; Rebirth often follows catastrophe.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Wasserstrom is a professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University.) During the great Chicago Fire of 1871, flames killed some 300 people and leveled close to 20,000...

Say Goodbye To Hollywood.(Interview)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Sean Smith "I never thought of myself as a suit," Sherry Lansing says. Neither did anyone else. Lansing, who began her career as a model and an actress, was named president of 20th Century Fox in 1980--the first woman to run a...

The Best Tinseltown Party Ever.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Rob Long Do you want to hear something sad? I've been a working writer and producer in Los Angeles for 15 years, but the only really great Hollywood party I've ever been to was my first, way back in 1991, after the Golden Globe...

International Perspectives.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources, from top: New York Times, New York Daily News, Corriere Della Sera, AP, Boston Globe, Newsday "The best hope for peace...is the expansion of freedom." U.S. President George W. Bush, in his Inaugural Address ...

Periscope.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Carla Power and Stryker McGuire, Malcolm Beith, Howard Fineman, Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee, Mac Margolis, John Ness, Ginanne Brownell, Andrew Romano, Jenny Barchfield, Aaron Clark, Jac Chebatoris Britain: A Cruel Britannia? ...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 31, 2005... Byline: Aaron Clark, Susan H. Greenberg, Malcolm Beith The Orientalist By Tom Reiss Before his untimely death at 35, Kurban Said was one of the Continent's most exciting, incisive and unwieldy writers. Born Lev Nussimbaum in early...

Tip Sheet.
January 31, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy, Jaime Cunningham, John Barry, Stryker McGuire, Emily Flynn and Ginanne Brownell, Anne Taulane Technology: Apple Does Some Downsizing By Steven Levy Every January, apple CEO Steve Jobs appears without...