Newsweek International articles from July 2005

Newsweek International archives from July 2005

Mail Call: A Waking Dragon.(Letter to the Editor)
July 4, 2005... Our May 9 report on China's century led readers to muse on the dragon's awakening. "An insightful article," cheered one reader. Another compared China to "a tamed lion, fiery and strong, but with sharp claws and pointed teeth." A third said,...

A Mixed Message; Under pressure from the religious right, is Musharraf backsliding on civil reforms?(Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Zahid Hussain When Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he rather quickly revealed some reformist instincts. He pushed to enact a law reserving 30 percent of the seats in Parliament and local government for...

Sarkozy Makes His Move; Chirac's Interior minister and rival sees opportunity in the 'non' vote, and is hurrying to seize it.
July 4, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris) Among the few political giants left standing after France's overwhelming "non" to the European Union constitutional treaty was the famously pugnacious--and diminutive--Nicolas Sarkozy. The...

Into the Woods; Economics and declining birthrates are pushing large swaths of Europe back to their primeval state, with wolves taking the place of people.(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Mike Elkin in Madrid, William Underhill in London, Eric Pape in Paris,and Wojciech Rogacin in Warsaw) Germans are getting used to a new kind of immigrant. In 1998, a pack of wolves crossed the shallow Neisse River...

Hobby Farmers: The New Peasants; Spurred by a yearning for the rustic life, professionals are fleeing busy cities and revitalizing the British countryside.(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... Byline: William Underhill Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47-year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television producer and launching...

Bleak House, Moscow; Red tape and xenophobia block foreign adoptions.
July 4, 2005... Byline: Kevin O'Flynn From their farmhouse in New Hampshire, Dan and Joanne Berard e-mail Christina, the deaf girl in Moscow they hope will become their adopted daughter. Christina is 18 years old but has the mental age of a 6-year-old....

Saving Grace; Few had ever heard of Antonio Palocci when he became minister of the biggest economy in Latin America. But he's now the anchor of a scandal-plagued government.(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis Running Latin America's largest nation has never been for the fainthearted, but these have been especially vexing times for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Since late May the charismatic Brazilian president has seen the...

Cutthroat Classes; A new college-admissions system is fueling stress.
July 4, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee At the age of 16, Lee Hyuk Joon's life is a living hell. The South Korean 10th grader gets up at 6 in the morning to go to school, and studies most of the day until returning home at 6 p.m. After dinner, it's time to hit...

A New Kind of Company; Tata coddles workers, not managers, keeps its distance from Wall Street--yet thrives in brutal global industries as a uniquely Indian kind of multinational.(Tata Group)(Company Profile)(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Ron Moreau (With Sumeet Chatterjee in Mumbai) A new kind of multinational corporation is emerging out of India, the hot newcomer in the global economy. It is the Tata Group, a family conglomerate that has gone...

Family Feuds: Colliding Sons; As Ratan Tata banged his conglomerate into shape, others were falling apart.(clan Indian businesses)(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Sumeet Chatterjee and Ron Moreau Just because Tata Sons is thriving doesn't mean that Indian family conglomerates have a bright future. Indeed one key reason Tata works is that it's not really a family company. Chairman Ratan Tata...

A Latin Al-Jazeera? Chavez puts money into a regional news network.(Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Phil Gunson On paper, at least, Telesur sounds like an idea whose time has come. Until now, Spanish-speaking Latin Americans who wanted to watch an international all-news network broadcasting in their language have had a limited...

Big Brother Is Watching; A journalist retraces George Orwell's steps in Burma.
July 4, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones George Orwell spent five years as one of the British Empire's policemen in Burma in the '20s. The experience provided him with the raw material for his novel "Burmese Days" as well as several of his best essays. It...

The River Tells Its Story; China aims to preserve its Yangtze heritage with a compelling new museum showcasing relics from the Three Gorges.
July 4, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons The four-meter-tall gate that dominates the atrium of the new Three Gorges Museum has come a long way--through time, rather than over distance. Carved during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.- A.D. 220), it was erected among...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Byline: Rana Foroohar, William Underhill, Tara Pepper The Greed Merchants)(A Life in Secrets)(A Long Way Down)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar, William Underhill, Tara Pepper The Greed Merchants by Philip Augar In his last book, "The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism," Augar, a former investment banker, showed how American financial giants gobbled up the...

Fashionistas 1, Morals Police 0.(women's fashion in Iran)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Ladane Nasseri I've spent more than two thirds of my life in fashionable capitals: Paris, London, New York. For a time I worked on the Champs-Elysees, developing ad campaigns for an international clothes designer. As a 30-year-old...

Philippe Baudillon; Hitting the Homestretch.(Interview)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape Philippe Baudillon has had a varied career. He spent a dozen years in France's diplomatic corps, assisted in failed efforts to bring the Olympics to Paris in 1992, ran a French television channel and acted as a diplomatic...

Perspectives.
July 4, 2005... "They're very well treated. They're living in the tropics." U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, on prisoner conditions at Gitmo "All the means of the regime were used in an organized and illegal way to intervene in the election." ...

Periscope.(meshed briefs)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff, Allan Sloan, Michael Hastings, Rana Foroohar, Karen Lowry Miller, Joe Cochrane, Lorraine Ali, Eve Conant Terror: Wrongful Arrests? Since 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department has used a little-known legal tactic to...

Tip Sheet.(coffee vacations, boutique hotels in Southeast Asia, Bollywood dance classes, limited edition Versace designed mobile phones)
July 4, 2005... Byline: Sana Butler, Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Emily Flynn, Yepoka Yeebo Travel: In Search Of The Perfect Cup Coffee has come a long way since it was sold mainly freeze-dried in cans. So it was only a matter of time before coffee...

Mail Call: Your Child's Health.(Letter to the Editor)
July 11, 2005... Readers reacted strongly to our May 16 issue focusing on families and health. Many bemoaned the high number of medicated kids. "Doctors have medical skills but don't necessarily know your child," warned a teacher. Reminded another, "All...

Balkans Tragedy; Ten years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnia remains a country divided, plagued by mistrust and lingering, still raw animosities.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Rod Nordland (With Zoran Cirjakovic in Srebrenica) Nura Alispahic is a Srebrenica commuter. Twice a month she and her grown daughter Magbula take a bus from their home in Tuzla, three hours away, to the mining town in the Bosnian...

Gloria's Last Stand? Yet another embattled president is circling the wagons in Manila.
July 11, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Marites Vitug In Philippine politics, it's often the relatives who stand out in a crisis. In the 1980s Imelda Marcos's penchant for designer shoes defined the excesses of her husband Ferdinand's dictatorship....

Losing The Battle; A sharp spike in drug-related violence has some analysts worrying about the 'Colombianization' of Mexico.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Joseph Contreras (With Nick Carter in Mexico City) The hostages were found just before dusk in three houses on the southeastern outskirts of the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo. Most had their hands bound, some had been...

Getting Off Too Easy; Amnesty offers for paramilitary fighters is reviving talk that the country could again become a narcostate.(Colombia)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Steven Ambrus The dusty hills above the Colombian city of Medellin once crackled with the staccato bursts of automatic-weapons fire. Yuber Anderson remembers those days when he fought in the ranks of a right-wing paramilitary group...

Africa Leaps Forward; Forget Tony Blair and Live 8. The really amazing story is that Africa is starting to recover on its own.(Cover Story)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland Africa can seem hopeless. The continent's 850 million people are poorer today than they were 25 years ago. Largely due to AIDS, average life expectancy and the rate of infant mortality steadily worsen. Even nations like...

The Dark Side: Dead For Dollars; While free-market reforms spur growth, they've also created mining hellholes beyond even weak regulation.(Cover Story)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Tom Masland A kilometer down the narrow shaft, black dust fills the air. Sweaty young miners stoned on marijuana and the narcotic khat pick at the walls. They crawl without respirators, food or water, hunting in the light of...

Opinion: Falling Walls; South Africa's Finance minister sees a narrowing gap between activist and official strategies in Africa.(Cover Story)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Trevor Manuel (Trevor Manuel served on Tony Blair's International Commission for Africa.) No, Tony Blair's Commission for Africa won't immediately reach its goal to dramatically raise foreign aid to Africa. But it's not a failure....

Fate of the World; Tony Blair's goal for the G8 Summit: Get George Bush to fess up.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl and William Underhill Tony Blair inhabits a dangerous world. According to the British prime minister's trusted advisers, the planet is heating up fast. Temperatures in the northern hemisphere are rising more rapidly than...

China Buys American; Is CNOOC's bid for Unocal the act of an aspiring oil major, or a true threat to U.S. energy supplies?(China National Offshore Oil Corp.)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Sarah Schafer and Stephen Glain Fu Chengyu says Americans won't fear his company, once they get to know it better. Fu is CEO of the China National Offshore Oil Co., which recently placed an unsolicited bid to buy Unocal of...

Natalie Portman; The Force Is With Her.(Interview)
July 11, 2005... You know her best as Queen Amidala, the embattled senator in the new "Star Wars" films. But 24-year-old Natalie Portman has taken a lead role in a real-life saga: trying to get loans for women in the developing world. While not as romantic as...

Letter From America; The Nose Always Knows.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Shashi Tharoor My friend Sudhir is a refined, Brahmin-like fellow. He showers twice a day, sprinkles talcum powder on his toes and boasts an exaltedly delicate nose through which he ostentatiously sniffs, every few minutes, in...

The Picture of Death; Photographer Izima Kaoru likes his models as corpses.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Erin Zaleski Koike Eiko met her stylish end in an empty pachinko parlor. Clad in a low-cut turquoise Versace dress, the buxom Japanese model lay on the floor amid clusters of pachinko balls, her immaculately lined eyes staring...

Perspectives.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: MTV Networks/Newsweek London Bureau, International Herald Tribune, Reuters, BBC, Haaretz, Reuters "If America is outside the solution, there is no solution." British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on his...

Periscope.(meshed briefs )
July 11, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews, Joe Cochrane, Richard Wolffe and Tamara Lipper, Jonathan Adams, Ramin Setoodeh, Vibhuti Patel TURKEY Raising the Bar Again Could Turkey become the true victim of the twin "no" votes on the EU constitution in...

Snap Judgment: Books.(The Icarus Girl; Our Fathers' War; The Rescue Artist)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress, David Gates, Jason Overdorf The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi This chilling first novel by a 20-year-old Nigerian-born British author explores the mind of a bright but unstable 8-year-old. Jessamy Harrison,...

The Tip Sheet.(DVD players; Honda Accord)(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 11, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh, Tara Weingarten Technology Movies on the Move By Ramin Setoodeh What's showing on your next flight? Who cares. These days, more travelers are taking off with portable DVD players--8 million units were...

Mail Call: Vive la France?(Letter to the Editor)
July 18, 2005... Readers of our May 23 package on Jacques Chirac were divided on our view of the man. "Excellent article," cheered one; "absolutely on target," agreed another. But others demurred: "He's 1,000 times better than Bush," wrote one. "France is the...

The Greens Are Wilting; The ecoconscious party may be the foremost victim of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's decline. Can it survive?
July 18, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil Twelve months ago Germany's Greens were at the peak of their power. With 13 percent support in polls--their highest ratings ever--they had become the party of choice for a broad, educated elite. Observers saw their...

The Big Bank Chase; Global players are paying billions for stakes in a chaotic Chinese banking system. Are they getting a deal, or fool's gold?(Industry Overview)
July 18, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz Hardly a week goes by without news of a banking deal in China with lots of zeroes attached. On July 5 Singapore's official investment arm, Temasek, made headlines by confirming that it would invest $1 billion in...

Unclogging The Courts; The Indian justice system is legendary for its delays and diversions. But changes are finally on the way.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf Sunila Awasthi, a 36-year-old New Delhi woman, isn't a big fan of India's justice system. It's easy to see why: when Awasthi was 10, her father died. Her uncles then legally forced Awasthi's mother out of the family...

Rethinking Our View of China.(Column)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor at the Yale School of Management) The backlash against China has been surprisingly slow in coming, given how fast the Middle Kingdom has emerged as an economic power. Now, as...

A 'Tropical' Way to Fly; How unsung Gol of Brazil became a discount leader, more profitable than giants like Southwest or Ryanair.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis Back in late 2000, when Constantino de Oliveira Junior announced he was launching a budget airline in Brazil, the competition had a good laugh. With Wall Street's bubble bursting and the global economy slowing, some of...

People Problems; While exorbitantly expensive manned space programs languish, robot probes have had one spectacular success after another. So why are robotic missions getting axed?
July 18, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl (With Eric Pape in Paris and Eve Conant and Andrew Horesh in Washington, D.C.) In the 1950s, astronomer Fred Whipple theorized that comets were made of ice, with some rocks and dirt mixed in, and that their trademark...

A Fruitful Friendship; Cezanne and Pissarro get a new look in New York.("Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Vibhuti Patel Museumgoers have, in recent years, grown accustomed to art being contextualized. Curators now like to pair painters to show how they feed off each other's ideas. New Yorkers have seen Picasso alongside Matisse, and...

James Wolfensohn; An Envoy, Not A 'Prophet'.(former World Bank president)(Interview)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino James Wolfensohn arrived in Gleneagles, Scotland, last Thursday, hoping to press G8 leaders for billions of dollars in aid for the Palestinian territories. The former World Bank president unexpectedly found himself...

Letter From Singapore; Man's Most Pampered Friends.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Three-year-old Oscar can't write, but he already has his own e-mail account. He has an adorable Snoopy piggy bank that's almost as big as he is and holds more than $600. He's not sure what he's going to...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times (3), W Magazine, The Washington Post "They should not and they must not succeed." British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on the terrorists responsible for the...

Periscope.(U.S. Navy SEALs)(case against suspected terrorist Nurpashi Kulayev, Russia)(Bharatiya Janata Party's approach to relations with Pakistan)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Jamie Reno, Kevin O'Flynn, Sudip Mazumdar, Marites Vitug, John Sparks, R. M. Schneiderman, Tara Pepper, Lisa Helem, Elise Soukup U.S. Military: Sea, Air, Landlocked It was the worst setback in the 43-year history...

Tip Sheet; DUBLIN SMILING IRISH.(Dublin, Ireland)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell The Irish capital is so much more than the pubs in Temple Bar. TIP SHEET wandered in to check out some summer hot spots: Stay at the Morgan (below), a sophisticated boutique hotel with beechwood-furnished...

Offshoring, Anyone?(Letter to the Editor)
July 25, 2005... Outsourcing found staunch defendants among readers of our May 30 report on the threat to jobs in the West. "Racism!" cried one. Another reminded us, "The West invented globalization." A third insisted, "The bogey of irreparable damage to...

Politics of Paranoia? The Kremlin targets yet another political challenger.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Michael Meyer and Kevin O'Flynn The Kremlin has a reputation for using the courts to rein in--or bring down--rivals. Witness the demise of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former boss of Yukos Oil. So it's no surprise that Mikhail Kasyanov...

Charity Begins at Home; The middle class is starting to reach out to orphans.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Sarah Schafer Lei Rong, 32, and her husband, Fu Haitao, 40, had been trying to conceive a child for more than a year when Lei decided to consider adoption. But Fu had reservations. Traditionally in China, couples were supposed to...

L'Etat? C'est Moi... Not. Jacques Chirac's time has come--and gone. French ask: why doesn't he do a de Gaulle and step down?
July 25, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll and Christopher Dickey Revolutions aside, France on Bastille Day looks a lot like a monarchy. The head of state reviews his troops under the Arc de Triomphe and waves beneficently to crowds along the Champs-Elysees....

Small-Box Is Beautiful; With the rest of the world swamped by Wal-Marts, the humble 100 Yen shop is all the rage in Japan.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Hideko Takayama Sure, Wal-Mart may rule the retail universe in America, and big-box stores like Tesco and Carrefour are the rising powers in Europe. But Japan, as usual, is a little different. One of the hottest retail trends in...

Yangtze Highway; One widely overlooked impact of the Three Gorges dam is a new route to central China.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons The Three Gorges Dam wasn't built to create a river highway, and indeed none of the controversy and little of the debate that surrounded planning for the world's largest dam had anything to do with transportation. From...

Less Than Meets the Eye; Saudi Arabia is revealed as a fractured, tribal land.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Anuj Desai As an editor at Saudi Arabia's English-language Arab News, British journalist John R. Bradley was invited into the homes, offices, salons and even gay clubs of one of the world's most insular countries. During his two...

A Case of Roh vs. Reality; The president is using the power of the state to tame real-estate prices. But they're continuing to rise instead.(South Korea)
July 25, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee As a wealthy advertising executive, Park Sung Chul, 51, should be a target of South Korea's supposedly soak-the-rich president, Roh Moo Hyun. But since Roh took office in early 2003, the president's efforts to control...

Time to Deal; It's round four in the six-party talks. Is Kim Jong Il willing to put his nukes on the bargaining table?(North Korea)
July 25, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee and Hideko Takayama (With R.M. Schneiderman in New York) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korea's deputy foreign minister, Kim Gye Gwan, had a private dinner meeting in Beijing on July 9. Three...

Our Strength Is Our Diversity; Among those killed or missing were Poles, Turks, Americans, French, Italians, Iranians, Sri Lankans and British of many ethnic origins.(London, England)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Ken Livingstone (Livingstone is mayor of London.) Three months ago NEWSWEEK published a survey of global cities--with London on its cover. But no one could have foreseen the intensity of experience and emotions London lived through...

Ayman Nour; Out of Prison, In the Race.(Interview)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Dan Ephron Egypt is gearing up for a presidential election, the first contested one in its history. But while an amendment to the Constitution allows candidates to compete against Hosni Mubarak, opposition figures have accused the...

Letter From New York; Survival of the Richest.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Katherine Stewart I tried to laugh it off, but a dark cloud has descended over my family's future. As I watched my daughter play on the carpet with her developmentally appropriate magnetic sticks, I tried to understand what had...

Rustic Luxury; Who ever said getting back to nature meant roughing it? Now travelers can have their truffles and eat them under the stars, too.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Carla Power (With Mary Acoymo and Jason Overdorf) Travel used to be divided into two basic categories: luxury and no-frills. the former consisted of flying first class, dining at three-star restaurants and staying in decadent...

Castles in the Sand; For Gulf hoteliers, there's no such thing as too much.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey The race to over-the-top opulence among Arabian hotels began about 20 years ago when the Gulf Cooperation Council, that august assemblage of kings and emirs who rule the oil states of the Arabian Peninsula, was...

Sampling the Sake; Japan's breweries lure tourists a la Napa.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl Fumio Kamiya lifts the lid from a metal vat and a sweet, yeasty smell wafts up. Inside, an ivory-colored mash seductively bubbles away--a fermenting mixture of rice, water and the special rice malt known as koji,...

Beyond First Class; Want a three-star meal? Hindi TV? Poker? Choose the right flier and it's yours.(loyalty of first class airline passengers)(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: William Underhill It's the fantasy of every comfort-hungry air traveler. First a free champagne cocktail in a prole-free terminal; then a meal of cordon bleu quality, followed by a wallow in a leather armchair in the cigar lounge....

Joining The Club; If you can afford the membership fee, you can have vacation homes all over the world.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper London-based investment banker Doug Stolberg owns a holiday home in northern Michigan. But when the opportunity arose to buy a second vacation property, he and his wife hesitated to commit to maintaining a place that...

Designed By Hand; Forget the handbag du jour. True connoisseurs are fueling a revival of craftsmanship.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Anna Kuchment The fabric needs to rest." that's what the tailors will tell you in the little town of Penne, set in the rolling hills overlooking Italy's Adriatic Sea. When they touch the wools and linens, the...

Wealth on the Wall; Collectors crave contemporary art.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Peter Plagens If you count body painting and primitive jewelry on cavemen, art is probably the original luxury item. Pharaohs and popes, aristocrats and robber barons--and more recently, show folks and cyber-richies--have all...

The Bling's the Thing; Thanks to hip-hop, diamonds just keep getting bigger.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment It's a busy morning at Jacob & Co. jewelers. The shop's owner, Jacob Arabo, is about to sit down with a visitor when Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, the rapper turned fashion impresario, bursts through the front door with his...

DESIGNER DIGS; Want to buy a New York apartment created by a celebrity architect? It will cost you.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (With George Lyle IV) As you sit in the crisp white living room of the model apartment at 50 Gramercy Park North in New York City, check out the subtle details of the exorbitant minimalist decor: the sleek...

Gadgets for Road Warriors Are Getting Smaller and More Powerful.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn, Kay Itoi, Sandy Lawrence Edry, Ginanne Brownell, H. Lee Whack Jr. LASER KEYS This summer, keyboards the size of a pack of gum are replacing cumbersome fold-ups and tiny PDA keyboards--perhaps for good. These...

Getting There's All The Fun; Any billionaire can plop down $600,000 for a Mercedes SLR. A new breed of thrill seeker wants to be able to go where others cannot.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings and Walter Alarkon Steve Fossett's fastest toys don't fit in his garage. This fact is impressive when you consider what he does keep under the roof at his oceanfront mansion in southern California: a Ferrari 465...

Speed or Elegance? Business travelers want more of both.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Hilary Shenfeld and Dirk Johnson He spends about $1 million a year on corporate-jet travel. The 47-year-old suburban Chicago executive likes to be able to fly almost anywhere in the United States for a business meeting and be home...

Home, Secure Home; Cameras and bodyguards are yielding to high-tech military-style gear.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Emily Flynn Twice a day, a drone helicopter flies along the perimeter of the property, surveying the landscape with a pair of wireless camera "eyes." Robot security guards patrol the grounds. Visitors who show up at the enforced...

The Walls Have Ears; YOUR VOICE IS THE NEXT REMOTE CONTROL.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: R. M. SCHNEIDERMAN (With YEPOKA YEEBO in New York) Say the words, and a 360-kilogram concealed door slides open, like something out of the Arabian Nights, to reveal Tom Pirelli's indoor swimming pool. For the past nine years,...

No-Profit Zone; London may be the hip capital of design, but most of the sales go to New York, Paris and Milan. Now the British are seeking a bigger cut of the fashion pie.(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar Parisians and Milanese handpick their silk scarves and cashmere sweaters with the care hedge funds lavish on stock portfolios. New Yorkers, with their professional blow-drys and sleek power uniforms, are always the...

Sale of the Season; The Neiman buyout could be a sign of deals to come.(luxury store Neiman Marcus purchased by Texas Pacific Group, Warburg Pincus)(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain The Chair is a wrought-iron, polished throne designed to elevate customers to the cosmetics counter at Neiman Marcus. Redesigned two years ago after numerous trials, including test seatings by store staff, the Chair...

Coach vs. Goliath; How one hot brand got under the skin of LVMH, the world's largest luxury conglomerate.(Coach Leatherware Company Inc. challenges market dominance of luxury chain Louis Vuitton S.A.)(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo and Christine Mikolajuk in Paris) On the northeast corner of East 57th Street and Madison Avenue in New York there rises a bold challenge, or a colossal coincidence. You decide. It's a...

Turning To 'God's Time'.(concept and perception of time in industrialized society)(Cover Story)(Column)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey In Rome's magnificent Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs Basilica, what used to be called "God's time" is plain to see. Shafts of light penetrate holes in the vaulted ceilings, casting their rays on the days...

Maximum Luxury; As luxury brands move into the mass market, they need a new way to make the super rich feel special. Welcome to the 'experience economy.'(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro) The old lexicon of luxe hardly serves to describe Daslu, a venerable Sao Paulo store freshly rebuilt as a 17,000-square-meter temple to Mammon. Opened last month, it has a heliport...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: The Independent, Financial Times, The Washington Post, BBC, New York Times, Associated Press "He was proud to be British." Bashir Ahmad, expressing his disbelief that his nephew Shahzad Tanweer, 22, was one...

Periscope.(U.S. policy on interrogation of military prisoners, Taiwanese politician Ma Ying-Jeou, security on public transit)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Jonathan Adams, Mark Hosenball, Charles Gasparino and Nicole L. Joseph, Kevin Peraino, Vibhuti Patel, Ramin Setoodeh, Jac Chebatoris U.S. Military Clearer Rules for Gitmo Since the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal...

Snap Judgment: Books.(War and Peace in the Balkans)(Red Leaves)(The City of Tiny Lights)(Book Review)
July 25, 2005... Byline: Ginanne Brownell, Kristin Luna, Shailaja Neelakantan War and Peace in the Balkans by Ian Oliver Since the end of the Balkan wars, there have been a rash of books dissecting Yugoslavia's disintegration with varying degrees of...