Newsweek International articles from June 2006

Newsweek International archives from June 2006

Analyzing Freud.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Readers of our March 27 report on Sigmund Freud's theories were split on the value of his legacy. Said one, "Freud was a true genius and a pioneer... who changed our world for the better." Another opined, "it takes more than psychological...

Beginning of the End? The murder of a respected judge touches off a secular, anti-Islamist backlash--and throws Turkey's government into crisis.(Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen The scene was sadly familiar, especially in the strife-torn Middle East. In the shadow of a great mosque, a crowd of 40,000 gathered to bury a victim of political violence--and vent their rage at the...

Germany: See No Evil, Say No Evil; Why can't Germans talk honestly about the hate in the east?
June 5, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Corinna Emundts in Berlin) Germany's official motto for this summer's football World Cup is "The World Hosted by Friends." And increasingly, some Germans fear it might promise more than they can deliver. As the...

Incumbents, Beware; Korean voters have turned on politicians--all of them. Voters relish the chance to toss them from office.
June 5, 2006... Byline: B. J. Lee Politicians are not very popular anywhere these days. But in South Korea, they are truly loathed. Two weeks ago opposition Grand National Party (GNP) leader Park Geun Hye, daughter of the former dictator Park Chung Hee,...

Off the Wall; An undiscriminating stampede raises an old question: what's the difference between the 'BRICs'?(Brazil, Russia, India and China)
June 5, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Mac Margolis in Sao Paulo, Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore) When Alan Skrainka discovered India back in 2004, its top companies were a bargain. As chief market strategist for...

Japan: Minor-League Spies; Asia's biggest economic power seems ready to take the game of espionage more seriously.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi The Japanese public has been on tenterhooks for two weeks--ever since media reports revealed that North Korea may be preparing to test-launch a ballistic missile similar to the one that flew over...

A Tale of Two Indias; On the cusp: The country stands on the brink of an Africa-style disaster. But things may be turning around in the south.(AIDS spreads)(Cover story)
June 5, 2006... Byline: Jaya Shreedar, Daniel Pepper and Geoffrey Cowley Thirty-five-year-old Rama Devi is not exactly an icon of good fortune. She and her five children live in a dusty, thatched-hut village called Kashiou, in the northern Indian state of...

Exporting Chaos; America talks about building democracy in the Middle East. In fact, it fosters mainly violence and failed states.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Rami G. Khouri (Khouri, a syndicated columnist, is editor-at-large of The Daily Star in Beirut.) Many of us in the Middle East instinctively hold our breath in fear when American and British leaders get together to discuss our...

Talent Is Optional; Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu steps behind the camera to direct a deadpan satire about Chinese pop stars.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Daniel Wu has already proven he's an actor of remarkable presence and versatility, playing everything from the passionate paramour in the Stanley Kwan Kam-pang drama "Everlasting Regret" to an assassin in...

The Last Word--William Browder: Fighting the Shadows.(Interview)
June 5, 2006... William Browder is the biggest foreign investor in Russia. He's a vocal defender of President Vladimir Putin. So it came as a surprise back in November when the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management was denied a visa to re-enter the country. Six...

Laying Enron to Rest; Convicted felons Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling may soon be trading their pinstripes for prison stripes.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan (With Carol Rust in Houston, Keith Naughton, Jennifer Ordonez and Judy Ganeles) Enron was the company that was going to change the world. And now, by God, it has--but not in the way that it had in mind. Once, Enron was...

The Good Life.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan (Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Anne Underwood Paul Tolme Jamie Huish Alex McRae) Camp: Beyond Arts And Crafts By Alex Mcrae Back when kids were kids, summer camp meant toasting marshmallows and singing around...

Perspectives.
June 5, 2006... "Mexico is our friend." California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, attempting to ease recent U.S.-Mexico tensions over immigration "This is what we have. We cannot talk about dreams." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on building a...

Periscope.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Sharon Stevenson (B. J. LEE Mark Hosenball Dan Ephron Elise Soukup By Rod Nordland By Mary Carmichael) Hugo Chavez: A Kiss of Death? Ollanta Humala and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have several things in...

Marriage by the Numbers; Twenty years since the infamous 'terrorist' line, states of unions aren't what we predicted they'd be.
June 5, 2006... Byline: Daniel McGinn (With Andrew Murr, Karen Springen, Joan Raymond, Marc Bain, Alice-Azania Jarvis and Sam Register) When Laurie Aronson was 29, she had little patience for people who inquired why she still wasn't married. "I'm not a...

BlogWatch; From Rodeo Drive to Washington to Katmandu, these three bloggers offer another perspective behind the day's headlines.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Want to know what's really going on in Hollywood? Deadlinehollywooddaily.com has the dirt on the biggest industry scandals. If you're looking for a big dose of wonkery, check out what the editors of the journal Foreign Policy have to say...

A Violent Wake-Up Call; After last week's riot, and with the Taliban resurgent, Karzai is under mounting pressure to take charge.(Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Joe Cochrane (With Zahid Hussain in Baluchistan) Urbane, dapper hamid karzai has always come off well in the international spotlight. But the Afghan president looked decidedly uncomfortable last week...

Dump and Run; The easy money is gone. Goldilocks has vanished. And the result, a frenzied sell-off in global markets, may be the harbinger of something worse to come.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller The United States had enjoyed a Goldilocks economy: not too hot, and not too cold, but just right. Growing, but not so fast as to spark inflation. Then the May mayhem ended that fairy tale. Emerging markets...

World of Wonder; Pele in 1970. Maradona in '86. Zidane in '98. Every four years, one World Cup player makes history. Henry A. Kissinger--Nobel Peace Prize winner, former secretary of State, soccer fan--shares his golden moments before this year's June 9 kickoff.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Henry A. Kissinger On June 9, host country Germany will inaugurate a month of football frenzy by playing Costa Rica in the opening match of the 2006 soccer World Cup. For two weeks there will be three matches a day, as the...

America Arrives; With the world's fifth-ranked squad, the United States could surprise the skeptics in Germany.(Soccer World Cup )
June 12, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr Had anybody but football diehards been watching when the United States opened the 2002 World Cup in South Korea--it was a 5 a.m. start in America--the game might have been memorialized as the "Miracle on Turf." The Yanks...

Hail to the Kings; The teams: Perennial favorite Brazil may have its strongest squad ever. But changes in the game mean no future team may ever be as dominant.(Soccer World Cup)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Joseph Contreras in Miami) For the record, anyone can win the 2006 world Cup. Whether it's three-time champion Italy or the debuting Angolans, 10th-ranked England or No. 61 Togo, once the ball begins to roll in...

Continental Crisis; Africa is often hailed as the footballing continent of the future. It looks like it always will be.(Soccer World Cup)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Beith Rising out of the sand near a residential suburb of Dakar, the Demba Diop Stadium was beginning to fill up. Thousands of Senegalese fans sporting green, red and yellow national football shirts waited patiently in two...

Painting Picasso; Spain celebrates the 25th anniversary of the return of "Guernica" with a dazzling tribute to its creator.(Pablo Picasso)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper When Pablo Picasso was asked to paint the centerpiece for Spain's pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair, no one expected him to create what remains one of art's most disquieting depictions of war. But stunned by an exhibit...

Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted; As East Timor and Afghanistan show, fixing failed nations is a slog under the best of circumstances.
June 12, 2006... Byline: MICHAEL O'HANLON (O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington.) Can nation-building work? A close follower of the news might be forgiven for thinking, no. East Timor, long viewed as an impressive example of...

'We Have No Illusions'.(Moktar Lamani, Arab League)(Interview)
June 12, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson The 22-member league of arab states was created to ensure a platform for Arab nationalism after World War II, and in a move intended in part to counter Iranian influence, the organization recently decided to reopen...

The Good Life.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Sana Butler (Kristin Luna Kris Anderson Kris Anderson Tara Weingarten) Travel: Beyond Room Service and a Movie When Belgian entrepreneur Kandy Tshibanda used to travel for work, he had a nightly routine: go to hotel, eat...

Perspectives.
June 12, 2006... "The epidemic continues to outpace us." U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the lack of global progress against AIDS "The Bush administration thinks the Iranian people are willing to lose their rights just to create a dialogue with...

Periscope.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Fred Guterl (John Sparks Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Jonathan Adams) Climate: The Big Meltdown Al gore is getting good reviews for "An Inconvenient Truth," a book and documentary film in which the former vice president...

BlogWatch; A MAINSTREAM-MEDIA SNAPSHOT OF WHAT'S HOT (AND WHAT'S NOT) IN THE EVER-WIDENING WORLD OF WEBLOGS. FOR FULL LINKS GO TO NEWSWEEK.COM.(Brief article)
June 12, 2006... You can't have a sporting event nowadays without its getting blogged--especially not the world's most popular event. For nonstop World Cup mania go to worldcupblog.org, which has blogs for each team. If the MSM isn't covering Africa,...

Silvio's Swan Song.(Letter to the editor)
June 12, 2006... Readers of our April 3 report on Italian politics shared their own strong views on Silvio Berlusconi. "He's a trickster," wrote one. But another claimed he's "a man who had the guts to embrace politics to solve some of his country's woes and...

They'd Rather Be in Philly.(political necrophilia)
June 12, 2006... Byline: DENIS MACSHANE (MACSHANE, a Labour M.P., was Tony Blair's Europe minister from 2002 to 2005.) Europe has a new fetish--political necrophilia. You might have thought that France and the Netherlands killed off the European...

Balancing Act; Vladimir Putin is a man of many faces. Publicly, he's the people's defender cracking down on corruption. Behind the scenes, he plays hard-nosed politics.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow) Vladimir Putin sternly told Russia's Parliament last month that the Kremlin was launching a drive to "stamp out corruption." Forgive the management of Motorola for cracking a wry smile....

Backsliding in Japan; With Koizumi drifting and his reform czar in political purgatory, the conservative bureaucrats are striking back.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi A senior official in the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is worried. "There are so many things we have to tackle," he says, asking not to be identified because of the...

Dangerous Road Ahead; Facing an eventual financial crisis, Tokyo should be pushing reform harder, not slowing down.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Robert Madsen (Madsen is senior fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies.) After four years of robust GDP growth, many Japanese reckon they've fixed the problems in their economy and that additional structural reforms are...

No Need for Soul-Searching.(presidential elections in Mexico)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Jorge G. (Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico, is now Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.) That Mexico has an election too close to call is in itself news:...

Don't Fear the Future; The global economy is disorienting, but full of opportunities, too.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Gordon Brown (The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown is the United Kingdom's chancellor of the Exchequer.) In the last year 1 million manufacturing jobs have been lost from America, Europe and Japan, and one quarter of a million service jobs...

East of the Louvre; Our annual tour of the summer's best art focuses on the brightly flourishing capitals of Eastern Europe.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Peter Plagens During the Cold War, it was called "Eastern" Europe. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, "Central" has become the designation of choice. Tourism marketers prefer "The Other Europe" to set off such countries as Poland,...

Blockbusters: Mass Appeal; Where the hordes are.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Peter Plagens While it's great to take the road less traveled, especially during the summer months, there are always a number of exhibits that are well worth their wait in line. Here are our top picks for the season's best and...

Entertainment: Reinventing a Classic; There's a surprising new art form for the summer crowds to enjoy: old-time big-top circuses, with a contemporary twist.(Giffords Circus)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper The crowds marching toward the twinkling lights and colorful caravans of Giffords Circus earlier this month were not your typical big-top devotees. For one thing, they were toting smart bags crammed with books and...

The Shadow of El Norte; The country is now so inextricably intertwined with the United States that whoever wins the tight election will find his actions constrained.("So Far From God: Modern Mexico in the Shadow of the United States")
June 19, 2006... Byline: Joseph Contreras (This story is adapted from the book "Tan Lejos de Dios: El México Moderno a la Sombra de Estados Unidos" ("So Far From God: Modern Mexico in the Shadow of the United States"), published last month in Spanish by...

Good News Is No News; Not much can help Tony Blair's numbers. Europe's looking to new leaders already.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Stryker Mcguire (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Kris Anderson in London and Stefan Theil in Berlin) News flash! Tony Blair meets Jacques Chirac in Paris! If you missed it, don't feel bad. A few days before last week's summit,...

The World's True Game.(Paul Crowder's "Once in a Lifetime" )(Interview)(Excerpt)
June 19, 2006... Byline: Jennie Yabroff With the world cup now underway, billions of fans around the globe are eating, breathing and sleeping football--all except the Americans. A new film, "Once in a Lifetime," documents the struggle to bring world-class...

Latin Leaders Follow No Boss; The latest bout of concern about Latin America is largely an overreaction to high oil prices, which make everyone a little dizzy.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Alfonso Prat-Gay (Prat-Gay was governor of the Central Bank of Argentina from 2002 to 2004.) Conventional wisdom has it that Latin American governments are leaning to the left, toward a new populism, to old-fashioned state...

The Good Life.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Alex McRae, Tracy McNicoll, Kris Anderson, Karla Bruning, Paul Tolme If the Suit Fits... By Alex McRae Bespoke tailoring used to be a luxury just for the guys. Now chic women are discovering that wearing a custom suit...

Perspectives.
June 19, 2006... "But we thank God for good things. Maybe this is the first step on the right way." Maitham Jawad, a Shia engineer in Baghdad, on the death of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi "We have reiterated always our commitment to the choice of jihad and...

Periscope.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Patrick White, David Ansen, Kevin Peraino, B.J. Lee, Keith Naughton, Mary Carmichael Middle East: A Low-Grade Civil War It isn't easy being Mahmoud Abbas. As if the Palestinian president weren't wrestling with enough problems,...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
June 26, 2006... Begging to Differ Spanish readers disputed our assessment of their prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (April 24). According to one, "Zapatero govern[s] only for his supporters." Another argued that the P.M. has simply taken...

Revving America; What GM in China, and Toyota in Kentucky, foretell for the future of the Big Three U.S. automakers. Hint: It's not the death of Detroit.(General Motors Corp.)(Cover story)
June 26, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) General Motors has an edgy new brand on its hands these days: Buick. From the leather-draped Royaum executive sedan to the peppy, Italian-designed Excelle hatchback and the...

Race for the Muddle; Left? Right? Whatever. He (or she) who would be France's next president plays to the messy middle.(presidential elections)(Segolene Royal, Jacques Chirac )
June 26, 2006... Byline: Michael Meyer and Christopher Dickey (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris) Will she? could she? What is she? As anyone not living under a stone knows by now, Segolene Royal is the new darling of French politics. With a stratospheric...

New Europe: Eastern Disillusion; Why are EU newcomers so profoundly (and increasingly) Euro-skeptical? The problem is the politics of high expectations.
June 26, 2006... Byline: William Underhill (With Kris Anderson in London) By the numbers, Latvians should be smiling. Two years after joining the European Union, the tiny Baltic republic has emerged as the bloc's economic front runner. Growth in the first...

Clouds on The Horizon; The 'Sunshine Policy' is slowly driving a wedge between the United States and South Korea.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee (With Stephen Glain in Washington) Talk about open secrets. For weeks now, North Korean technicians have been preparing a site for the launch of a ballistic missile. In Washington, national-security...

The Winning Strategy; THE ELITE: As the tourney heats up, the top teams are looking to strike first and often.(World Cup (Soccer))
June 26, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr There is a rare international consensus among coaches, players and fans that attacking football is the most attractive game. But in recent years and World Cups, there's never been anything approaching a consensus that...

Ecuador Exults; Latin America's ultimate banana republic is the first underdog to make the second round.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Carla D'Nan Bass In the capital city of Quito and the humid port of Guayaquil, thousands of rapturous Ecuadorans dressed in bright yellow jerseys joined long caravans of honking vehicles to salute the national...

Football's Future; If you haven't watched a game on HDTV or blogged the sweetest goal, you're missing out on '06.(high definition television)
June 26, 2006... Byline: Michael Hastings The 2006 World Cup is a football junkie's dream come true. From mobile blogging in the stands ("moblogging," for short--an activity wherein pictures from your camera phone are instantly posted on your Weblog) to...

Bullish on Bangladesh; The headlines are grim. But they mask what is shaping up to be one of the world's most amazing turnarounds.
June 26, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Hassan Shahriar These days, it's not easy to be bullish on Bangladesh. Last month militant labor unions declared war on the country's vital textile industry, attacking dozens of mills and torching several in a...

The Good Life.
June 26, 2006... Byline: José Pacas (Alex McRae Kris Anderson Karla Bruning) Travel: Staying at Sea By Karla Bruning Forget sailing around the world in 80 days. Try 126. That's how long Silversea's first luxury circle-around-the-earth cruise...

Seeing the Bright Side; A panel of international observers is cautiously optimistic about America's ability to weather global competition.(Discussion)
June 26, 2006... Byline: Reported by Stefan Theil in Berlin, Steven Ambrus in Bogotá, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi, Melinda Liu in Hangzhou, Anna Nemtsova in Tbilisi, Rana Foroohar in London and Tony Emerson in New York To get a sense of how the rest...

Perspectives.
June 26, 2006... "The government is on the attack now." Iraq's national-security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, on increased raids against insurgents after the death of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi "We shouldn't believe the Maoists too soon." Katmandu...

Periscope.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball (Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen Ron Moreau Barbie Nadeau Mary Carmichael Andrew Romano N'Gai Croal) Iraq: The Next Zarqawi? The death of abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is unlikely to have put much of a dent in the ranks of...

Ideas to Recharge America; Our team of experts weighs in on how to keep pace in changing times.(Cover story)
June 26, 2006... can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? NEWSWEEK asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges the country faces and to offer some solutions....

The Digital Dark Age.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration's digital data storage)
June 26, 2006... Byline: Patrick White and Michael Hastings When Richard Masters worries about how much digital information is lost to posterity every day, he thinks back to 1972. That year Landsat began transmitting a steady stream of infrared images of...

BlogWatch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not)in the ever widening world of weblogs. for full links go to Newsweek.com.(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Track the United Nations' daily drama at undispatch.com, a U.N.- sponsored blog that ran a post last week called "Tough Love from Mark Malloch Brown." If traveling, don't forget your laptop. The hundreds of bloggers at travelblog.org share...