Newsweek International articles from July 2002

Newsweek International archives from July 2002

What Bush Knew.
July 1, 2002... The hundreds of readers responding to our May 27 cover story-on what George W. Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks-debated whether Washington could really have averted the catastrophe. Many suggested ways in which the government...

The Man in The Hot Seat.(Jean-Pierre Raffarin)
July 1, 2002... France's new prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, didn't make it to the summit in Seville last week. As Europe's heads of state waited out an air-traffic controllers' strike that crippled the Continent, then braved Spain's marching workers,...

Epicenter of History.
July 1, 2002... Once it was the third largest city in Germany. It boasted an ancient university and a tradition of German scholarship that produced eight Nobel Prize winners. That was before the cataclysm of World War II. Don't look for Breslau on any of...

Saying Nyet To Russian.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Hardly anyone these days has a good word for the language of the former Soviet Union. Teenagers in Central Asia say they hate it; thousands have taken to the streets of Moldova and Belarus to protest it; former Soviet governments have deleted...

Battle of the Greens.
July 1, 2002... Indonesia has been viewed through a red lens lately--the red and white of its flag, hoisted proudly over a resurgent democracy; the red of the blood spilled in anger on several of its 17,000 islands. The country has twisted uneasily between...

The End Of Swag?(bribery)
July 1, 2002... Baksheesh. Kiti Kodogo. Swag. Most every language has its vaguely derogatory slang term for bribery. The King James Bible predicted long ago that the "the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of...

'Arrest Me First'.(Hamzah Haz)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2002... Even as the United States and other Western countries have criticized Jakarta for being complacent about its growing fundamentalist movement, Indonesian Vice President Hamzah Haz has gone out of his way to be seen publicly with Muslim...

Not a Ticking Time Bomb.(Indonesia)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Indonesia has always been critical to the stability of Southeast Asia not because of anything the country has done, but because of what everyone fears it might do--fall apart. Since September 11, that worry has only grown. Now Indonesia...

Escape From Zimbabwe.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The Air Zimbabwe flight from Harare landed at London's Gatwick airport. Sixteen single young black men and women filed off the plane and were met by immigration officials, who wasted no time poring over their papers. When the vetting process...

Trouble in the Mountain.(Vesuvius)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In the towns and villages that dot the side of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that buried the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, life seems normal enough, except there's expectation in the air. Ugo Corati, who has lived and worked on...

Saving Havana.
July 1, 2002... If you drive west along the sea in Havana, through Miramar, with its grand villas lining the boulevards, and into the chic leafy suburbs of Cubanacan--home now to embassies--you'll eventually come to a strange and magical place. Scattered...

A Nut Bin of One's Own.(U.K. house prices)
July 1, 2002... Britain's housing market has hit such dizzy speculative heights, it was perhaps inevitable that bookies would jump into the game. Last month IG Index, London bookmakers to the superrich, launched a novel bet on real estate. It offered clients...

The Grave Of the Giants.(World Cup 2002)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... If you listen to football purists, you'd think this World Cup has been a travesty. What, they grumble, has happened to their "beautiful game"? Teams with the noblest football pedigrees have been booted ignominiously from the tournament,...

It Came From Outer Space.(Jon D. Giorgini on astroids)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2002... Jon D. Giorgini says he isn't losing sleep yet over 1950 DA, the kilometer wide asteroid that he predicted in April might collide with the planet Earth. After all, if it hits, it won't get here for 878 years. But that doesn't mean we should let...

An American Abroad.(European politics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... During an exceptionally good dinner at a small Parisian restaurant, after the second set of plates had been dispatched, a French friend of mine leaned back in his chair, narrowed his eyes thoughtfully and said to no one in particular, "I think...

International Perspectives.(quotations)
July 1, 2002... PERSPECTIVES No Arabs, No Attacks. A message on T shirts sold in Itamar, a Jewish settlement town, after a Palestinian gunman burst into the home of Israeli settler Rachel Shabo, killing her and three of her children "This is a big...

Periscope.(News Briefs)
July 1, 2002... VENEZUELA Military Coup, Take II? Deposed and then miraculously restored to power after two turbulent days in April, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is taking no chances this time. Earlier this month, as coup rumors once again...

Tablet.(the new laptop)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... For more than a year now, Bill Gates has appeared at computer shows, captain-of-industry hoedowns and, for all we know, weddings and bar mitzvahs, waving what looks like a bulked-up Etch A Sketch, and saying that the tablet will smite the...

Desert Skylines.(Yemen)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Britain recently approved group visits to Yemen for the first time since 1998, but the U.S. State Department still warns its citizens against traveling there. A guide for the intrepid. What to See Start in the capital, Sana, whose crowded...

MOMA and Beyond.(the Queens location)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This week New York's Museum of Modern Art opens MoMA QNS, the temporary outpost that will serve artgoers until its new $800 million Manhattan building opens in 2005. While you are there, check out these other Queens hot spots. 1. Isamu...

Past Perfect.(retro fashion)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Do you love vintage high fashion but hate paying high prices for someone else's hand-me-downs? Luxury fashion houses have started reissuing their classic designs from the 1960s, '70s and '80s so consumers can get them hot off the runway. There...

Cleaning Up the Game.(business elite Russia)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... For Oleg Deripaska, life divides neatly into before and after, and the line that separates them is the rise to power of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Three years ago Deripaska was just another obscure businessman, slugging it out in...

Europe Isn't Ready to Lead.(economics)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Europeans have long aspired to end America's dominance as the world's economic leader. The single market and the euro are widely seen as essential steps in this direction. But is Europe ready to lead? Do Europeans understand what it would take?...

The Real Champions.(South Koreans and World Cup Soccer)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... The morning after South Korea's magical World Cup run came to an end last week, the streets of downtown Seoul were eerily quiet. Gone were the millions of delirious fans singing, dancing and embracing each other in a festival of patriotic...

Crying Crocodile Tears?(Mohamad Mahathir, Malaysia)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Mahathir Mohamad is nothing if not complex. Detractors say Malaysia's prime minister is a strongman who has ridden roughshod over the press, the judiciary and anyone else who has stood in his way. His supporters revere him as the man who made...

Perils of Power.(Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... The war on terror made the world glad that Pakistan had a dictator. On Sept. 12, Gen. Proves Musharraf did not need to consult any pesky politicians or civic groups before turning against the Taliban. In January he did not check with his...

Streetwise Paris.(photographer William Klein explores Paris, France)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Ten years ago, Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, asked American photographer William Klein to do a comprehensive study of the city. Klein, who broke into photography 40 years ago with his...

Soldier in the Wings.(Raul Isaias Baduel)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Twenty years ago, four young Venezuelan military officers swore an oath under the shade of a historic tree, where liberator Simon Bolivar is said to have camped during the 19th-century independence struggle. "I swear before you, and before the...

The Giants Stumble.(corporate trend to consolidate inflates stock market)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... Have you noticed something funny about the business pages these days? It's all one story. No matter who is in the headline, the tale follows with uncanny frequency the travails of an egotistical executive failing to deliver on a huge merger...

The Right Man for Latam?(profile of Otto Reich, assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs)
July 8, 2002... No one, it seems, is neutral on the subject of Otto Reich. To his partisans in the Republican Party and the Cuban-American exile community, the recently installed U.S. assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs brings a wealth...

A Hot Zone for Disease.(researches find correlation between global warming and increase in disease)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... Fishermen were the first to see the signs. A typical haul of oysters always includes a few empty shells, or "boxes," and usually each one is encrusted with barnacles. But fishermen in Delaware Bay in the summer of 1990 were pulling up boxes...

'I Think I'm Qualified'.(Otto Reich )(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 8, 2002... Assistant secretary of State Otto Reich recently spoke with NEWSWEEK's Joseph Contreras about his critics, his priorities and his native Cuba. Excerpts: CONTRERAS: What do you see as this administration's main policy concerns in Latin...

Going Back to School.(nostalgia for school days, desire to hook up with old friends fuel discos and Web sites)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... On a balmy Saturday evening in London revelers pour out of the tube station, peals of laughter flooding the summer air. This would seem exceedingly unremarkable in a city renowned for its nightlife, except for the way one crowd of...

The Epoch Of A-POC.(or A Piece of Cloth designed by fashion designer Issey Miyake)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... A few years ago Issey Miyake had a crisis of conscience. "I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition," the 63-year-old Miyake said recently, seated in his spacious, modern...

A Master of Elegy.(Lucian Freud)
July 8, 2002... For an artist who abhors glamour, Lucian Freud has painted an extraordinary array of well-known subjects. The likes of Jerry Hall and Kate Moss have prostrated themselves on the battered couch in his bare London studio. But Freud drew the line...

Films Flavored With Curry.(Ismail Merchant, Indian filmmaker)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 8, 2002... Since making their first low-budget film 40 years ago, Indian producer Ismail Merchant, American director James Ivory and German scriptwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have become known for their renditions of literary classics and their clearly...

The Meaning of Life.(author tracks down writer of fortune cookies)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Chinese cooking obviously isn't an American franchise. But what about fate, encapsulated in that bivalved wafer known as the Chinese fortune cookie? Made in U.S.A. Legend suggests it was invented in San Francisco by coolies shanghaied to build...

Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... "His colon will be ready." White House physician Dr. Richard Tubbs, on preparations for the colonoscopy performed on President George W. Bush last Saturday "This could threaten U.S.-Thai relations... I guarantee it." Boonsom Watanapanee,...

A Farewell to Foreigners.(U.S. foreign investment)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... Instead of celebrating the euro's approach to parity with the U.S. dollar last week, European investors and analysts were close to quaking in their boots at the news of an ever-weakening dollar. But perhaps their fears are premature. After all,...

Karzai Combats Chaos.(Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 8, 2002... When Afghanistan's Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly, voted for Hamid Karzai as president two weeks ago, many Afghans complained of strong- arming and backroom deals. In the coming months Karzai is likely to get many more complaints as he...

From Korea With Love.(Japanes investigation of possible spy ship)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... On Dec. 22, an unidentified vessel sank off the southwestern coast of Japan after a shoot-out with the Japanese Coast Guard. From the evidence found in the water, such as North Korean cigarettes, it was believed to have originated in Pyongyang....

Hand of God 2002.(evangelists at the World Cup)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... The world cup comes but once every four years, and everybody from advertisers and investors to players and fans passionately rushes the goal. No wonder, then, that missionaries should join in, too. This year evangelicals like the Southern...

The Littlest Bomber.(Palestinian baby terrorist)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... If the photo was indeed fabricated to bolster a propaganda move by the Israeli Army, as Palestinians charged, it was a sickening example of child exploitation. If dressing up the baby for a photo session of sorts was a "joke," as a member of...

From Reel to Reality.(life imitates science fiction)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Life imitates art--even Hollywood art. There have been several recent instances of Hollywood replicating itself in real life. First, Americans have been running scared from the possibility of a dirty-bomb attack--a plot James Bond and Pussy...

First Person Global.(fear of soccer hooligans in Japan)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... I was sitting in a coffee shop in the Susukino district of Sapporo, Japan, on June 6 talking with the owner about hooligans. England was scheduled to play Argentina the following day, so naturally our conversation turned to the possible arrival...

Buy Low, Rent High.(buy-to-let investments)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... With global stocks still riding the roller coaster, investors everywhere have been looking for havens. Internet start-ups are out; gold and bonds are back in vogue. And in major cities like London, buying a second home to let has become a...

The CIA's Troubles.
July 15, 2002... Our June 10 investigative cover story on the terrorists who eluded the CIA generated equal measures of praise for our reporting and anger at the federal agencies that missed the clues. One reader wrote: "I'm wounded to my heart and soul... [by]...

A Place to Call Home : The anger, tears and frustrating runarounds of a Guatemalan adoption case.
July 15, 2002... With dad proudly watching and the coach shouting his name--"Rico! Rico!"-- a scrawny 12-year-old crouches into position at second base. He is a head shorter than most of his teammates, and darker-skinned, too. The ball bounces toward him...

Road Wars : Despite its green rhetoric and vaunted rail systems, Europe can't wean itself from an addiction to big rigs.
July 15, 2002... The smoke has long since cleared from the narrow, two-lane tunnel beneath Mont Blanc where 39 people were burned to death or suffocated in March 1999. And the smoke has cleared, too, from the bonfires lit by protesters hoping to stop the...

Tony New Addresses : 'President' Blair's expanding real-estate empire.(Tony Blair)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... The story was a one-day wonder. On June 30 the London Sunday Times claimed to have got its hands on a confidential [Pound sterling]850,000 plan for a "lavish refurbishment" of Prime Minister Tony Blair's office-cum-residence at 10 Downing...

Sexism and the City : London's old-boy financial district wakes up to the new world.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... When Linda Davies began her investment-banking career back in 1985, "big bang" financial reforms were about to remake London's stuffy City. Women and "barrow boys"--young, working-class traders, hungry for the massive bonuses common in the...

A Fragile Friendship : Musharraf has asked his military to help the U.S. hunt Al Qaeda. Will it listen?(Perez Musharraf)
July 15, 2002... Many Pakistani men joined the Army to defend their homeland from India. They are ready and willing to fight and die, if necessary. The problem is, for many of these men, they are fighting the wrong enemy. Young officers, ranging in rank from...

Delhi's Dreamer : India's incoming president is a popular choice. Skeptics wonder if he pretends to be someone he's not.(A.P.J. Abdul Kalam)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Dreams have always played an important role in the life of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a poor boy from an ordinary Muslim family in southern India who grew up to become a national hero. Shortly after Kalam survived a helicopter crash last September,...

Gen X Invades Asia : Who needs culture when there's drugs, sex and parties?
July 15, 2002... Every year about 100,000 Americans, Brits and Australians between the ages of 18 and 35 hit a "circuit of work, travel and partying" that runs in a triangle from Tokyo to Goa to Bangkok. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, Karl Taro Greenfeld...

Taking a Dive : Europe's elite football clubs may be spending themselves into the ground.
July 15, 2002... This was the world cup the French would rather forget. Fans confidently expected the 1998 winners to bring home another trophy from Asia. Instead the Blues returned without a single goal to their credit--an ignominious first for a defending...

Death of a Strongman : The Kabul regime's challenges grow as a loyal friend and vice president is gunned down by assassins.(Abdul Qadir)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Abdul Qadir's first day on the job should have been routine. The newly appointed minister of public works arrived at work early Saturday and spent most of his morning greeting well-wishers and scheduling appointments with his staff. About 12:40...

The Mess on Wall Street.(Arthur Levitt)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 15, 2002... Interview with Arthur Levitt As chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 until last year, Arthur Levitt saw his share of financial scandals. Yet the scope of the recent Enron failure and the stunning string of corporate...

Weekend Warriors : Freedman is a lawyer and journalist.(author describes experience playing "paintball")(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... I was crouching behind a bunker, pinned down by hostile fire. The enemy position was about 30 yards away and heavily defended, but I had no choice: it was now or never. My buddy gave me covering fire while I tried a flanking maneuver. I ran...

The Young and the Feckless : Finally, a novel that is both entertaining and thought-provoking.(Prague by)
July 15, 2002... When we talk about beach reading, we usually mean trash fiction. But it wasn't always so. There used to be novels--they weren't common, but they did exist--that managed to be both entertaining and thoughtful. Think W. Somerset Maugham and those...

Perspectives.(quotations on world news)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... "Dig into life and be joyful." Yelena V. Koslova, whose daughter Darya died in last week's airline collision over Germany, speaking to her daughter's grieving classmates "The target list is so huge it's almost egregious." A source who...

Cracking Down on Israel?(rumors about anti-Israel boycotts in Europe)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... All sorts of rumors are being peddled these days about anti-Israel boycotts in Europe. Here's a tip: don't believe everything you hear. European activists are certainly upset about the military crackdown in the West Bank, but they're not having...

Arabic Advances.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 15, 2002... The United Nations' verdict is in: the Arab world has made "substantial progress" in human development over the past three decades, but much still needs to be done to provide future generations with an adequate political voice, better social...

A Pipe Dream Becomes Possible.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... President George W. Bush wiped his hands of the Kyoto Protocol in March 2001. But he did promise an American alternative. And now we have it-- California. Last week a bill to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles in California was...

Oil Overboard.(oil spills near Galapagos Islands)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... They say it's not worth crying over certain spilled liquids. Oil, however, isn't one of them. When nearly 240,000 gallons of fuel were dumped near the Galapagos archipelago in January 2001, international ecologists condemned Ecuador's...

Menem... Again?(Carlos Menem to run for president again, Argentina)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... When Argentina's caretaker President Eduardo Duhalde declared last week that next year's election would be held in March, seven months earlier than originally planned, a surprising name popped up as a possible replacement: Carlos Menem, the...

Same Old Diseases, New Fears.(Gennady Lepyoshkin spoke about smallpox)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 15, 2002... Recent revelations about an alleged 1971 Soviet field test of weaponized smallpox that accidentally killed three civilians and nearly caused a massive outbreak is raising alarms: does the world need new vaccines to protect citizens from...

First Person Global.(Bartholomew I redifines sin to include harming the earth)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Sin used to be simple to define: a matter of humans hurting other human beings. But Bartholomew I, the current Greek Orthodox patriarch, wants to extend sin to harming the earth, earning himself the nickname "The Green Patriarch." Earlier this...

Spit-Ups At 10,000 Feet : ="Some tips to make traveling with children easier.(air travel with children)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... You've just boarded a transatlantic flight with two kids, a stroller and a diaper bag. As you make your way up the aisle, other passengers avert their eyes, their body language shouting: "Please, don't sit here!" You know well the acute sense...

The Beat Goes On.(African djembe drums)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... An African drum replaces the acoustic guitar as the low-tech partymaker The West African djembe is to the new millennium what the acoustic guitar was to the 1960s: a low-tech partymaker. Young Parisians play it in parks, Californians tote...

A Beautiful Game.(World Cup Soccer)(Letter to the Editor)
July 22, 2002... Some readers praised our June 17 cover story on the business of the World Cup but many football lovers were frustrated that we chose not to recapture the excitement of the Cup. One of them gave us a "red card"! The World's Best-Loved Sport...

Gear on The Go.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Nowadays, well-equipped business travelers have so many metallic objects hanging from their bodies that a flight can take less time than passing through airport security. Too many of these gadgets sound great in theory but fall short in...

Planting New Seeds.(European agricultural reform)
July 22, 2002... It's a rare day that suited bureaucrats from the staid corridors of Brussels are accused of being threats to civilization. But Franz Fischler, Europe's commissioner for agriculture, is an exception. A few years back, when the Austrian...

Turmoil at the Top.(Turkey)(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... This was meant to be the year Turkey turned around, when sensible economic policies and an ambitious program of reform would heal a deep economic crisis and put the country on track for membership in the European Union. Instead, what the...

The Exiles Return.(Afghanistan)
July 22, 2002... Fawad Muslim knows how tough a life in exile can be. In 1984, at the height of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, he fled his homeland on horseback with his mother and older brother. The group traveled at night and hid by day, surviving...

'I Couldn't Turn My Back'.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... It was a risky decision. After fleeing the Soviet war in Afghanistan 17 years ago, Farhad Ahad, 32, left a comfortable life in the United States last week to come home. Like hundreds of other Afghan professionals, Ahad, a former Enron employee,...

Why Politicians Are Harmless.(economic cycles and politics)(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... The United States and the EU may have growing differences on everything from Mideast policy to the environment, but the past two weeks have proved that their markets, at least, remain as interdependent as ever. With fears of further terror...

Busy Little Buyers.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... It's a typical Sunday afternoon at Tokyo's Girl Is Girl store. Customers crowd into the mecca of Japanese teen fashion, combing through mountains of brightly colored T shirts, stylish designer jeans and hip fashion accessories. Holding up a...

Africa's New Deal.
July 22, 2002... Chad, like much of Africa, has long had enormous oil reserves. But tapping into them has always been a problem. Chad's first oil well was blown open in 1974, but a few months later, after a coup d'etat, the well was shut down. Since then the...

Europe's Crackdown.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Europeans love to tell Americans, "We told you so." But Bush's crackdown on corporate fraud produced more self-examination than self- satisfaction on the continent. The New Economy bubble that encouraged so many corporate high jinks in the...

Tour de Force.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... It was from his new home in 1950s New York that Alvin Ailey dared look back on his childhood in southern Texas. The African-American dancer had grown up impoverished, in a town where lynchings made frequent headlines, the Ku Klux Klan roamed...

Going Crazy for 'Go'.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... In recent years, the ancient game of Go had reached a dead halt in Japan. Its avid players were aging and their numbers dwindling (from an estimated 8 million to 5 million during the 1990s). Then, four years ago, out came the serialized comic...

Haute Cuisine In the Raw.(Interview)
July 22, 2002... Roxanne Klein, 37, is the owner and executive chef of the United States' first gourmet "living foods" restaurant, Roxanne's, in Larkspur, California. Her gastronomic creations have taken raw food to a new level: her noodles are actually white...

Rubber Chicken Again?(Column)
July 22, 2002... One evening in June, I found myself heading off to one of Manhattan's more elegant residential oases to be wined and dined for a good cause. My hosts had donated their hearth and hospitality to the Asia Society, an American organization that...

Perspectives.
July 22, 2002... "We are convinced that bin Laden is still alive." August Hanning, head of Germany's foreign-intelligence agency, on information gleaned from recent investigations "I believe very strongly such plans should not be made." Former Russian...