Newsweek International articles from June 2002

Newsweek International archives from June 2002

Letters.
June 3, 2002... Chaos in Caracas A Coup in Venezuela I've been reading your magazine for the last 20 years and consider it to be both serious and accurate. But I was shocked to read your article about Hugo Chavez, which alleged that Gustavo Cisneros...

Europe Barks. But Does it Bite? : Its leaders criticize Bush and his policy. But are they more nervous about their own roles?(U.S / European relations)(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... Pick a political cause, and it was probably there. A pair of young South Americans lofted a bright orange banner demanding debt relief for Argentina. "Sharon, take your hands off Palestine!" shouted a contingent of Middle Eastern women wearing...

The Ruins of an Empire : Will Georgia ever emerge from Russia's shadow?(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... The place looked as if a storm had hit it. In the wreckage of a former Soviet military base, about 40 kilometers east of Tbilisi, Gen. Gia Uchava recently welcomed a team of U.S. Special Forces trainers to their new home away from home....

Very Thin Red Lines : As India and Pakistan teeter close to war, no one knows what they'll do with their nukes.(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... In most conflicts, the "fog of war" settles in after the shooting starts. Not so in strife-torn Kashmir. There, on what might well become a nuclear battlefield, India and Pakistan know the least about their most devastating weapons. Neither...

The Cost of Freedom : In booming coastal cities like Shanghai, pricey new apartments are being snapped up by young, single Chinese women looking to have a little room of their own.(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... You Yang was hanging out with friends in Shanghai last fall when she saw the television advertisement that would change her life. "Come, live in freedom," a voice beckoned, as images of neatly groomed young men and women with radiant smiles...

The Trouble With Tippling : Poverty, cheap booze and years of Soviet influence have spread alcoholism to epidemic proportions in Mongolia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... My name is Mongolmatur. And I am an alcoholic." He is a great bear of a man, as burly as the image of Genghis Khan on the wall behind him, almost too big for the tight circle of recovering addicts crowded into the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting...

Asia Takes Its Shot : South Korea and Japan both hope to prove they can compete--at least when it comes to staging one of the world's great sporting shows.(World Cup 2002)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
June 3, 2002... The opening kickoff of the planet's biggest single athletic event is still days away, but the 2002 World Cup is already setting new standards for cuisine. Consider: some South Korean restaurants will be offering free samples of the national...

Prepared for the Worst : At almost every World Cup, hooliganism rears its ugly head. But Japan and South Korea are ready for football's thugs.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 3, 2002... Just outside Yokohama stadium, several hundred policemen stare down the crowd. "Quiet down," booms a voice, in English, Spanish and Japanese, over the loudspeaker. "Disperse immediately." Some 150 screaming "hooligans," faces painted and armed...

Teaching To Win : East Asia turns to European coaches to rescue their lackluster teams from football's cellar. Can humor and 'happy soccer' really turn them around?(Guus Hiddink, Philippe Troussier and Bora Milutinovic)(Illustration)(Interview)
June 3, 2002... Scouting reports told Dutchman Guus Hiddink that his new squad lacked skills and stamina, but only after he had agreed to coach South Korea's national team did he discover their Confucian eating habits. At his welcome dinner last year, veteran...

China's Cup: Football takes hold in the world's biggest untapped market. Can sponsors sell 1.3 billion jerseys?(China and the 2002 World Cup)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
June 3, 2002... Chinese football star Li Tie shuffles across the lobby of his team's Shanghai hotel juggling a miniature soccer ball--and desperately trying to play it cool. On June 4, Li and his teammates will play in China's first World Cup finals match,...

The Dance of the Independents : During the worst music-industry recession in years, the small guys are outrunning the giants-and that's the beat of the future.
June 3, 2002... In Robert de Niro's new musical, "We Will Rock You," the music dies sometime around 2030, when a song played by musicians on real instruments is aired on the radio for the last time. From then on, all tunes come programmed on computers by one...

That's the Spirit : South Korea is more than dog meat and the DMZ. Why not make yourself at om?(the Temple Stay holiday)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Here's an idea for World Cup fans: a way to relax and escape the crowds for a mere $25 to $40 a night, meals included. The "Temple Stay" program, inaugurated just last week, is the brainchild of South Korean tourism officials who figured that...

Americans and Guns : Michael Moore's provocative new documentary triesto come to grips with a school massacre in Colorado.(Bowling for Columbine)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On the morning of April 20, 1999, two gun-wielding teen-agers walked into their school, Columbine High, in Littleton, Colorado, opened fire and killed 12 fellow students and one teacher--perhaps the most shocking recent example of gun violence...

Fun and Fidel : An alienated CIA man touts his ideological tours of Cuba.(Philip Agee)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... If nothing else, Philip Agee knows how to turn ideology into a quick buck. The product of an affluent Tampa, Florida, family, Agee wrote a best- selling 1975 memoir about his 12-year career as a CIA agent and then spent the succeeding years...

Death of a Spokesman : The assassination of moderate leader Abdul Ghani Lone closes off one of the few avenues for peace in Kashmir.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... The standoff between India and Pakistan is not the only battle brewing in Kashmir. Even among those locals opposed to Indian domination of the mostly Muslim state, fault lines between moderates and hard-liners are beginning to widen. The...

Our Lingua Franca : How football can heal animosities.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Christmas day, 1914. Facing each other in trenches separated by dead bodies and mortar holes, a group of British and Allied soldiers and the opposing German battalion laid down their arms and played one of the most famous football matches in...

The Marriage Counselor : British Prime Minister Tony Blair prides himself on (re)building bridges between Europe and the United States.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... America and Europe at odds? You'd be hard-pressed to find an odder couple than George Bush and Tony Blair. Lifestyles? It's Texas oil patch and Rangers baseball versus deep-think political chats in the Georgian salons of North London...

'Let's Just Have Some Fun'.(Jack Nicholson at the Cannes Film Festival)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 3, 2002... A chat with Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson has been a Cannes Film Festival regular since he smuggled in reels of the then revolutionary movie "Easy Rider" in hatboxes back in 1969. This year he was back in the French town to celebrate the...

Birding in Central Park : On how communing with nature prepares one for writing.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Lately, when asked what I do, I've found I prefer "I am a writer" to "I am unemployed." (Though in truth the two mean much the same thing.) And the part of being a writer that I like best is Preparing to Write. It's a wonderful pastime,...

Perspectives.
June 3, 2002... "I have no war plans on my desk." President George W. Bush, on his desire to use alternative methods to prevent Iraq from forming alliances with terrorists "We have no problems with their carrying out tests. The government of India is not...

Turning a Blind Eye.(U.S. relations with Central Asia)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... You'd think that U.S. military success in Afghanistan would bring stability to the rest of Central Asia. After all, the five former Soviet republics all have a common fear of Islamic extremism, and Osama bin Laden's armed allies in the region...

The Oldies Are Back.(retired executive Allan Gilmour returns to Ford)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 3, 2002... Seven years after retiring as vice chairman of Ford Motor Co., 67-year-old Allan Gilmour has been lured back--as the company's chief financial officer. The reason: the ailing automaker needed an experienced savior. The immediate result: Ford's...

Our Father, Who Ate a Big Mac.(church leases land to McDonald's)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... The Roman Catholic Church has overcome many evils in its time: the seven deadly sins, Satan--even vampires. But evidently, as residents of the sleepy town of Balayan in the Philippines are learning, McDonald's is made of stronger stuff. A new...

Wilting Wildlife.(extinction forecast)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Want to see a Siberian tiger or a Philippine eagle? Better do it quick. By 2032, they--and a quarter of the world's 4,520 species of mammals and one in eight bird species--will be extinct, according to a new report from the United Nations...

Married to the Mom.(adult children still living with parents)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Italy has always been famous for its adult mammoni, or mama's boys. But perhaps the umbilical cord has finally been stretched too far. A recent report says that seven out of 10 unmarried Italian men over the age of 35 still live at home; in...

Money Talks.(recovery of embezzled funds from estate of Sani Abacha)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... With his country's legal bills rising fast, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo admitted last week that the two-year fight to recover billions of dollars allegedly stashed offshore by his late predecessor Sani Abacha was no longer...

A Sinking Rescue Plan.(preventing flooding of Venice)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Venice is sinking, and so may the scheme to save it. Ever since scientists back in 1981 first proposed building floodgates at the mouth of the Venice lagoon to protect the island from the rising waters of the Adriatic, the plan has attracted...

Dysfunctional... But Very Lovable.(The Osbournes)
June 3, 2002... Ozzy Osbourne... The name alone conjures up distinctive images. Baby- boomer parents tend to see a bat-eating devil-worshiper who once drunkenly urinated on a historical landmark in Texas. For Generations X and Y, it's most often the image of a...

The Catholic Crisis.(Letter to the Editor)
June 10, 2002... Our May 6 article on rethinking the tenets of Roman Catholicism prompted readers to rebuke irresponsible church leaders. Regarding the sex-abuse scandals that have recently plagued the church, many thought that the institution should, as one...

View From Europe's 'Tijuana'.(refugees wait in Sangatte, France)
June 10, 2002... Tariq draws a finger across his throat. "If I go back home, Saddam will kill me." For now, however, his safety is ensured. A three-week journey by train and truck has ended with sanctuary in a Red Cross camp a few thousand miles from Iraq, in...

Law-and-Order Man.(Colombia's Alvaro Uribe Velez)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Dispirited by failed peace talks with leftist rebels, millions of Colombian voters decided last week to give civil war a chance to end Latin America's oldest conflict. They elected Alvaro Uribe Velez, a right-wing former state governor, as the...

The Phone's New Clothes.(wireless technology)(Industry Overview)
June 10, 2002... Remember "The New, New Thing"? The title of Michael Lewis's 1999 book captured the race to foretell the future of the Internet, and to invent the gadget that would deliver it. That was then. The new gizmo coming this July from Vertu, a...

Waterworld.(geology of Mars)
June 10, 2002... Bill Boynton was a young, hotshot scholar of Mars, with his first child on the way, when he got his Big Idea. It was a plan for finding out whether Mars was a barren, dry husk of a planet or was concealing in its soil what were once vast,...

'I Would Start a War'.(Shintaro Ishihara)(Interview)
June 10, 2002... Popular for his outspokenness and his outsider status, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is usually mentioned as a potential replacement whenever Japan's prime minister begins to falter in the polls. With current Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...

Europe Gets Rhythm.(the new jazz)
June 10, 2002... In the Pablo Neruda community center in the gritty Paris suburb of Bobigny, about 500 people, mostly under 30, sit quietly on the floor, waiting. Few would call themselves jazz enthusiasts, yet they have come to hear a new kind of jazz that is...

In With the Old.(singer Diana Krall )(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... At 37, jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall has become a star by reinterpreting classics by the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Sammy Cahn. She's been compared to Julie London and Ella Fitzgerald, has toured with crooner Tony Bennett...

Israel's New Militarism.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Israel has gone through some significant changes over the past 20 months, during its latest "war" with the Palestinians, but perhaps the most profound has been within the Israeli Defense Force. For much of the past 15 years, the IDF has been on...

Japan's Canary in the Coal Mine.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... It takes a clever man to get a laugh out of double-entry-accounting principles. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara managed that feat last Friday when he announced that the city would soon abandon Japan's national single-entry standard when balancing...

A Call for African Aid.(economist Jeffrey Sachs)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 10, 2002... Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs made a name for himself tackling tough economic problems around the world. In the 1990s he advised Russia on how to move to a free market. He helped Mongolia to privatize a herd of 24 million yaks, and Bolivia to...

Hard-Times Hollywood.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... I had lunch last week with a guy who has spent a Hollywood lifetime (roughly 15 years) in the TV business. He's been fired about three times in the past four years, which in Hollywood isn't all that bad. But in his unfortunate case, this meant...

Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... "[This] is a victory for all of Africa..." Senegal Lions player Papa Bouba Diop, whose game-winning goal resulted in Senegal's unexpected upset against France in the World Cup last week "Very good, the guy memorizes four words, and he...

Get U$ed to Gradual.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... What happened to the rebound? The latest U.S. economic numbers don't look good. First-quarter GDP grew 5.6 percent (slower than April's 5.8 percent forecast). Con-sumers increased their spending by only 3.2 percent (a mere blip, compared with...

Le Penism On the Rise.(Jean-Marie Le Pen, right-wing politician)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... French president Jacques Chirac easily brushed aside ultraright-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen in May's presidential elections. But it seems it will take more than a landslide to cleanse France of what Le Monde called "Lepenisation." Consider some...

As the Crow Flies.(airline travel between Taiwan and China)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The devastating crash of Flight 611 en route from Taiwan to Hong Kong nearly two weeks ago was China Airlines' fourth fatal accident in only eight years. Trusting that ongoing investigations will determine the precise reason 225 people died,...

His Last Punch?(Mohamed Al Fayed and British aristocracy)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... No matter how hard he's tried, Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed just hasn't been able to ingratiate himself with the British elite. Since taking over Harrods in 1985, Al Fayed has endured nothing but criticism over everything from the...

A New Gucci Curse.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... When Patrizia Reggiani Gucci got 26 years in jail for having her husband murdered in 1998, one of her accomplices, a sorceress named Giuseppina Auriemma, placed curses on witnesses and Gucci herself as she began her own 25-year term. Most...

Harried!(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Things are hectic over in Pottersville. Warner Bros. must replace director Chris Columbus for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," due out in 2004; Columbus says he's weary of never seeing his family. The shortlist of replacements...

Grannies Get It On.(safe sex classes for the aged)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... It could be a scene out of any U.S. high-school health class. An educator stands before a room of students, extolling the virtues of safe sex. But when Colette Vallee, a Florida public-health official, delivers her Condom 101 lectures, there's...

First Person Global.(comparing Israeli and American fears of terrorist action)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... I nearly stepped into Sbarro Pizza, just out of patriotism. A suicide bomber killed 15 people last August in the Sbarro near where I live. Once the bloodstains were cleaned up, eating there became a statement of national determination. The...

Acing Oxford--From Home.(utilising online learning opportunities)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Did you ever wish you knew more about marine biology than stock trading? Or that you'd paid more attention to that World War II history class in college? Or that you spoke Danish? Even if you live hundreds of miles from a decent university and...

Youngest Warriors.
June 17, 2002... Readers appreciated our May 13 article on Sierra Leone's child soldiers for drawing attention to "an underreported atrocity." Many were disturbed by the accounts of the young boys' experiences, and some blamed the United States for not doing...

Europe's Mr. Fix-It.(Javier Solana )
June 17, 2002... One night in January, Javier Solana went to dinner in Berlin with the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer. In the middle of the meal his cell phone rang. It was Colin Powell. Would the secretary of State mind being put on speakerphone,...

The Quiet Superpower.(Europe's strength internationally)
June 17, 2002... Moravcsik is a professor of government at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. It has become commonplace to think of the United States as the world's sole superpower, and to regard other great powers, mostly in Europe, as...

Purging Its Demons.(Holocaust survivors in Lidice, Czech Republic, remembers Nazi atrocities)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... A sloping expanse of grass and trees is all that remains of the old village of Lidice. In 1942, Nazi troops bulldozed its buildings, shot its men, gassed 82 children and sent its women to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. They were taking...

Ladies of the Mob.(women take prominent roles in mafia, Italy)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... It began as an argument at a beauty parlor in the mountainous village of Lauro, 40 miles northeast of Naples. It ended in one of the most astonishing episodes of mafia violence in years. Yet the striking thing about the shoot-out was not the...

Time Bombs Ticking.(guerilla forces in Pakistan may prove hard to control in conflict with India)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... Mohammad Atif was not the only angry man in the room. On May 27, at an Army base near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, Atif and some two dozen other guerrilla commanders met with one of their handlers, a major general...

An Empty Feeling.(Japan and South Korea host 2002 World Cup soccer tournament)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... It was a banner day for Asian football. Only hours after China's World Cup debut, Japan scored its first World Cup point ever by battling Belgium to a 2-2 draw. Then South Korea, a team that had not won a single Cup game in 48 years, capped the...

A Priest and a Crime Caper.(accused murders look to Catholic priest for asylum, Mexico)
June 17, 2002... In the summer of 1993, not long after a Mexican cardinal was killed at the Guadalajara airport, Father Gerardo Montano was contacted by some old acquaintances. Ramon and Benjamin Arellano Felix, brothers who headed a powerful family drug...

A Case of Hooligaphobia.(citizens of Sapporo, Japan, expect the worst of soccer fans)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... Employees at the Night in Tsuda hostess club voted to close up shop last Friday and hide. Located in Susukino--a famous nightclub district of Sapporo--the city where England was about to play Argentina in the World Cup. "We were afraid of...

Again, the Madness.(World Cup soccer fever)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Maria Luz Garcia faced a quandary on the first weekend of this year's World Cup soccer tournament. The 30-year-old Argentine homemaker had planned a party for her daughter's first birthday, but because of the time difference between Argentina...

The Bug is Back.(outbreak of dengue fever, Brazil)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... When Theodore Roosevelt journeyed through the Amazon rain forest a century ago, he marveled at the fearsome wildlife. But it wasn't the jaguar or the anaconda that impressed him. It was the bugs. The "multitude of insects that bite, sting,...

A County Fair for Intellectuals.
June 17, 2002... When a contemporary-art extravaganza announces that it's not limited to art but includes everything from the social sciences to architecture and commissions the vast majority of its works to be created on site, you know it's going to be a...

Inside the Land of Sheba.(Yemen)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The legend of the queen of Sheba runs like a glittering thread through the world's three monotheistic civilizations, embodying everything from religious allegory to love story. The Old Testament and Qur'an describe Sheba, the alluring ruler of...

Will We Ever Stop Global Warming?(realistic goals in the effort to stop global warming)
June 17, 2002... An aimless ramble through the countryside used to be about as far as you could get from the hurly-burly of politics. Half a century ago Richard Fitter strolled through Oxfordshire making notes on local birds and plants. He recorded the arrival...

The Power Of the Cliche.(Jean Plantu)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 17, 2002... France's leading political cartoonist, Jean Plantu, 51, skewers politicians and potentates every day on the front page of Le Monde and every week in L'Express. He has sketched some 15,000 political cartoons in his 30-year career. Now, with the...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... "No one can defeat the Palestinian people." Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, after an Israeli attack left part of his presidential compound in ruins "I didn't know who Osama bin Laden was... He could have been a character on 'Star Wars'...

Hidden on the Web.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... One day last October, a U.S. intelligence-community analyst noticed something strange about a radical Islamist Web site she had been monitoring. A previously open, innocuous part of the site was suddenly blocked. She checked her notes, found...

The Big Attack of the Killer Solar Flares.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Grade-school teachers like to say that all life on Earth depends on the sun's energy for warmth, photosynthesis and perfect beach days. It's a reassuring message. But as astronomers are all too aware, our neighborhood star can be fickle and...

Freedom's Brand-New Champion.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Think leadership in free markets, think United States. But a strong new force has emerged in Europe: the courts of the nine-year old European Union. On Tuesday the EU Court of Justice struck down "golden" shares, a widespread European device...

Duhalde's Woes.(Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde took a gutsy step last week, unveiling a plan to phase out a widely hated freeze on bank accounts. Under the scheme, Argentines would swap their savings for government bonds that would take up to 10 years...

Jumbo-Jet Mystery.
June 17, 2002... Investigators are anxious about the May 25 crash of a U.S.-made, Taiwanese-operated jumbo jet flying from Taipei to Hong Kong. According to Taiwanese authorities, the 23-year-old Boeing 747, operated by China Airlines, crashed about 20 minutes...

Taking a Chance.(Japanese attitude to gambling)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 17, 2002... With $3 billion expected to be spent on gambling during this year's World Cup, it's no wonder that risk-takers the world over are salivating. Except for those in co-host Japan--where gambling is illegal. But the Japanese already have an abiding...

All the World's at Summer Stage.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Cuba's Celia Cruz, Japanse drum troupe Kodo, Algeria's Cheikha Rimitti, Issa Bagayogo from Mali, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Alkinoos Loannidis and Kristi Stassinopoulou from Greece... where else could you hear all these greats and more free of...

An Enduring Legacy.(Editorial)
June 24, 2002... Readers of our May 20 report on the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn heaped high praise on our "unbiased" and "balanced" coverage. They tried to explain Fortuyn's popularity as an outgrowth of Dutch liberalism--and as an emblem of...

Season of SHOCK.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... It's all but official. After a landslide presidential victory, Jacques Chirac and his conservatives can look forward to controlling the Senate and the National Assembly. The dead albatross of cohabitation will fall from his neck, and with it...

The King and His Cars.(Giovanni Agnelli)
June 24, 2002... It's been a bad year for Giovanni Agnelli, the ailing king of Italian industry. This spring the Rome press was writing eulogies for the Fiat founder after he failed to appear in public for several weeks. Worse, false news of his death sent Fiat...

Landing Soon.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... It was a foundling mystery. Born in January 1999 as the currency of a newly united Europe, the euro steadily slipped and has remained dismayingly weak. Only in recent months has it started to gain weight, rising nearly 10 percent against the...

The Stars of Summer.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... When Francoise Gilot first entered Pablo Picasso's dark Paris studio during the Nazi occupation of France, she recalled in her book "Life With Picasso," "the most striking thing... was a glowing canvas by Matisse." The place was crammed with...

Reviving The Past.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Nostalgia blooms quickly in summer. Under the influence of long days, warm nights and soft ice cream, the mind naturally reels backward to earlier such seasons. This annual return to simpler times happens not just in the heart, but on stages...

Lost Treasures.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... The numbers looked bad enough for Japanese oil giant Idemitsu Kosan. But while watching its net profit plummet by 70 percent in 2001, the company lost much more than money. The struggling Idemitsu was forced to sell off most of its collection...

Beyond the Obvious.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Back in the dark reaches of the early 20th century, "blockbuster" was an ominous word. It signified a huge bomb capable of blasting away a whole city block of buildings. These days, it's a fairly nonviolent citizen of the dictionary, denoting...

Culture on the Cheap.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Paris Start the day with a cafe creme and a croissant at the Cafe de Flore, just as Hemingway did before you. (Stand at the counter--it's cheaper.) In the great Parisian tradition, stroll along the Boulevard Saint- Germain to the...

A 'Little Vietnam'?(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... He has been called a Colombian version of Ariel Sharon, a democratically elected hardliner who will fight the enemy first and extend the olive branch later. And like his Israeli counterpart, President-elect Alvaro Uribe Velez, 49, will take...

Testing Old Taboos.(Column)
June 24, 2002... It was as if I had never left. When I recently returned to Germany, where I had lived during the mid-1980s and the late 1990s, all anybody could talk about, it seemed, was anti-Semitism and the breaking of taboos. Terrorism, the Middle East,...