Newsweek International articles from March 2009

Newsweek International archives from March 2009

Obama's People.(; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 2, 2009... Readers responding to our Jan. 26 cover story on "Obama's America" were still flush with elation. One marveled that though he grew up in "bigoted" Texas, he found himself voting for Obama without a thought to race. An adopted Korean said she...

The No-Risk Culture.(International Edition; FRANCE)(French attitudes toward entrepreneurship)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Tracy McNicoll The French have long held negative beliefs about entrepreneurship. A new law aims to change that. George W. Bush was mocked several years ago when he reportedly lamented that the French had no word for...

Going Back To the Farm.(International Edition; CHINA)(rural migrant workers are forced to go back to their farms)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Mary Hennock As China's economy slows, millions of out-of-work rural migrants are being forced to return home. Over the last 30 years, as its economy has raced ahead, China has witnessed the world's largest internal migration,...

Greenest Nation.(International Edition; ENVIRONMENT)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Stefan Theil A laggard no longer, America could soon out-innovate Europe and Japan. This is a trick question. What big country is, by most measures, greener than Japan and Germany and produces more geothermal energy than all...

TOXIC Paper.(International Edition; FINANCE)
March 2, 2009... The Obama administration must tackle a problem that has bedeviled the emerging markets for years. Wall Street harshly judged U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for saving the nation's banks. His televised remarks in...

Bring On The Credit.(International Edition; CHINA)(lending business in China)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Barrett Sheridan; With Lauren Hilgers in Shanghai Too much lending is bad, right? Maybe in the West--but China has the opposite problem. If there is a single lesson to have emerged from the current financial crisis, it is that...

The Lay of the Landscape.(International Edition; THE ARTS)(Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture art exhibition)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Christopher Werth Le Corbusier was a better architect than urban planner. Yet his blueprint for city life still reigns. In a short film that opens the new exhibit "Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture" at the Barbican Centre...

Why Baseball Is in Denial.(International Edition; GAME POINT)(drugs in baseball)
March 2, 2009... There's too much money in the game for a more aggressive approach on steroids. Drugs in sports are on the mind of just about every sports fan these days, at least in the United States. Earlier this year I was invited to speak at a high...

Blame It On The Bankers.(International Edition; THE ARTS)(portraying bankers in television, movie and theater)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Joanna Heath A popular villain returns to stage and screen: the financier. The global financial meltdown has given rise to a newly reinvigorated scapegoat, at least on stage and screen: the evil financier. In "Roaring Trade," a...

The Evolution of Art.(International Edition; THE ARTS)(relation of art and human evolution)
March 2, 2009... Byline: James Q. Wilson; Wilson has been a professor at Harvard and UCLA and is the author of "The Moral Sense." We may be genetically predisposed to appreciate listening to Sinatra or staring at a Seurat. Art suffuses our lives....

Will Climate Go Over The Edge?(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)(climate change)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Fred Guterl Even a miracle of diplomacy wouldn't put global warming back in its box. There is something compelling, in a ghoulish sort of way, about the notion that earth's climate may be headed toward a tipping point. The...

Beset By A Million Bureaucrats.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(interview with Igor Yurgens)(Interview)
March 2, 2009... In establishing the Kremlin's control, we lost our freedom of the press. Now the challenge is to expand democracy. In February a Moscow think tank run by Igor Yurgens, a liberal economist and one of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's...

Why Chavez May Outlast Us All.(International Edition; WORLD VIEW)(Hugo Chavez)
March 2, 2009... He used every instrument of the state and every trick in the book to stack the deck against his opponents. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez finally emerged from his electoral slump. After mediocre results in municipal and state governors' elections...

Keeping Stability at All Costs.(Global Investor)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Ruchir Sharma; Sharma is head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. The global crisis has thrown most states into a fink, but life's still a beach in Brazil, thanks to shrewd management. The current...

The Right Way to Write.(The Good Life; STYLE)(demand for style in pen design)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Nick Foulkes As someone who looks deeply beneath the surface of things, I have been obsessed for some years by the great philosophical question: when did expensive pens become "prestige writing instruments?" I trace this...

Putting It Down on The Page.(The Good Life; PAPER)(alternative material in producing papers)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Anita Kirpalani A fountain pen is only as good as the paper it's used on. Bleeding ink, floating stains and seepage through the page are just a few of the hazards that can befall even the most luxurious writing instrument....

NO HEADLINE.(International Edition; PERSPECTIVES)
March 2, 2009... "This is the end of Swiss banking as they knew it. Nobody will trust the security of the Swiss bank account." Offshore tax specialist Jack Blum, on the decision by UBS to disclose the names of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts, as a...

Moscow Makes Nice--For Now.(International Edition; DIPLOMACY)(United States and Russia foreign relations)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews To judge from the mating signals coming from both sides, you'd think a major thaw in U.S.-Russia relations was imminent. Barack Obama backpedaled on his predecessor's vow to put a missile defense system near the...

Cash Tide Reverses.(International Edition; IMMIGRATION)(emigrant remittances flow from developing countries to rich nations)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Sarah Garland America's immigrants have long been propping up family members back home (and by extension, developing-world economies) with remittances. Now they're asking for the favor to be returned. A new phenomenon of "reverse...

Taliban 1, Army 0.(International Edition; JIHAD WATCH)(Taliban extends their power through a one-sided deal with the government)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Ron Moreau; With Zahid Hussain Score another win for Pakistan's extremists. Last week the Taliban extended their control into the country's heartland when the government signed a one-sided peace deal that gave in to the radicals'...

Cephalopod To The Rescue.(International Edition; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Oktapodi animated short film)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Katie Baker Since Pixar burst onto the animated-short scene in 1986, it's always been the flashiest and funniest competitor in the Oscar category--until now. Sure, "Presto" has all the glossy panache we've come to expect from the...

He Can See Without The Crystal Ball.(International Edition; PAGE TURNER)(George Friedman)(Brief article)
March 2, 2009... Byline: Matthew Philips Forecasting is, to put it mildly, an inexact science. But George Friedman, a political analyst who launched the intelligence-gathering company Strategic Forecasting in 1996, has gotten pretty adept at it. His one-...

Follow These Two.(International Edition; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 9, 2009... As Barack Obama gets comfortable in his new job, our Feb. 2 cover package underscored why it will prove harder than he thought. A reader advised him to consider Abraham Lincoln's "sobering challenges," while another pointed to Franklin Delano...

HEADLESS IN TOKYO.(International Edition; JAPAN)(Taro Aso's leadership shortcomings )
March 9, 2009... Byline: Christian Caryl; With Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo Sure, Aso is atrocious. But so were his predecessors. Here's why Japan's politicians are so bad. It's hard not to pity Shoichi Nakagawa. By now it seems the whole world has heard...

Waiting For Barack.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(Barack Obama in the G-20 summit)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Denis MacShane; Macshane is a Labour M.P. and was Britain's minister for Europe under Tony Blair. Obama needs from Europe a Mozart symphony or a Beethoven 'Ode to Joy'--not a cacophony of voices. The red carpets are being...

What Hillary Didn't Do In Asia.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(Hillary Clinton's strategy for United States and Asia relations)
March 9, 2009... Clinton made no mistakes on her China trip. Yet there's no evidence of serious strategic thinking either. Why did Hillary Clinton lose the race for the democratic presidential nomination? Simple. She had a plan A: to romp through initial...

Europe's Danube Blues.(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)(Europe economic crisis)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Stefan Theil and William Underhill Once a growth engine, Eastern Europe has now become the continent's economic albatross. The parallels are eerie. In 1931, the collapse of an overleveraged, undercapitalized Vienna-based...

A Trillion Points of Data.(International Edition; BUSINESS)(use of data points from wireless technology)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Barrett Sheridan How tracking cell-phone users via GPS could do for the real world what Google did for the virtual world. Next time you glance at your blackberry, it may be useful to know you're not only checking e-mail, you're...

The Coming China Meltdown.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(China's overcapacity)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Michael Pettis; Pettis is a professor of finance at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. If China continues to force excess capacity onto a struggling world, it could result in a trade war. Economic crises...

The Forbidden Tongue.(International Edition; TURKEY)(use of native Kurdish language)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews Turkey's leader is in a tough spot after a Kurdish politician dares to speak his native language. For years, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has positioned himself as a champion of the ethnic Kurds who...

How To End A Genocide Debate.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(Armenian genocide dispute resolution)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Grenville Byford; Byford writes frequently on Turkish affairs and is a regular contributor to Newsweek.com. The frozen relations between Armenia and Turkey are now showing some signs of melting. It's almost April, so Washington...

Anti-Semitism In Araby.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(Arab-Israeli peace negotiation)
March 9, 2009... To achieve Arab-Israeli peace will mean dealing with a civil society on one side that is by no means civil. This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Israel and the West Bank, stepping into the longest-running show in...

Alexander Medvedev: 'We'll Be a $1 Trillion Company'.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(Gazprom)(Interview)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Michael Freedman Not long ago, Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom was among the world's largest companies in terms of market capitalization, and as it grew so did the perception--fervently denied by company...

A Generation Of Destruction.(Global Investor)(stimulus programs for banking industry)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Barton Biggs; Biggs is managing partner at Traxis Partners hedge fund in New York. Throwing money at the problem and propping up greedy banks is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it. I don't believe that an...

Swinging Shanghai.(The Good Life; NIGHTLIFE)(nightclubs in Shanghai)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Megan Shank On a recent night out in Shanghai, I found myself sandwiched between a busty, two-meter-tall, stiletto-heeled, Victorian-garbed transvestite and a dandy with a top hat singing Sinatra tunes atop a wooden bar. The crowd...

Dress the Part.(The Good Life; FASHION)(Buyers guide)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Megan Shank When partying in Shanghai, do as the Shanghainese do--go glam. To start: women, fear not the qipao, the snug-fitting, high-collared dress with side slits; its elegant lines work with a variety of figures, and today's...

Late-Night Nosh.(The Good Life; FOOD)(restaurants)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Megan Shank Street-side stands selling barbecued lamb skewers, fried noodles and spicy crayfish are no longer the only dining options in Shanghai after midnight. On the Pudong side of the river, the Grand Hyatt Shanghai's Grand...

Perspectives.(International Edition)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Sources: A.P., Huffington Post, BBC (3), U.K. Guardian "We are not quitters." American President Barack Obama, seeking to buoy the anxious national mood during his first speech before Congress, even as stocks plummeted last...

How Close Is Iran to a Bomb?(International Edition; THE NUCLEAR BALANCE)(Iran's nuclear capacity)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Christopher Dickey Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium to make one atomic bomb--at least theoretically. Independent analysts say that became clear after the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency issued its latest...

A Legal Litmus Test.(International Edition; SHOW TRIALS)(Mikhail Khodorkovsky's corruption case)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews How serious is President Dmitry Medvedev about repairing Russia's corrupt courts? A trial opening this week in Moscow could be a key test. Former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was jailed in 2004 on...

Why Tim Will Win It.(International Edition; THE CHINA BRIEF)(Tim Geithner on U.S.-China political relations)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Under George W. Bush power flowed away from the State Department, which never held the president's ear for long; and the Treasury Department, led by Sinophile Hank Paulson, took charge of China policy. Today,...

America's Fat Industry.(International Edition; THE BIG IDEA)(food industry)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Katie Baker Sixty-four-ounce soft drinks. Monster Thickburgers. Unlimited refills. Americans are overstuffed, no doubt about it: two thirds of the nation is overweight and the number's ballooning as fast as our waistlines....

The New Black.(International Edition; FASHION WATCH)(fashion trend portrays Barack Obama)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Kiki Von Glinow Wall Street may be losing faith in Barack, but the fashionistas are not so skeptical--Obamamania's all over the runways. At Milan's fashion week in February, designer Gattinoni showed off a kaftan gown with a...

La Vita Valentino.(International Edition; FAST CHAT)(interview with Valentino )(Interview)(Brief article)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Nicki Gostin Legendary designer Valentino is the subject of a new documentary, "Valentino: The Last Emperor." He spoke with Nicki Gostin about the fashionable life. Excerpts: Do you still design clothes? Not "fashion"...

The People's Data.(International Edition; TECHTONIC SHIFTS)(making government information available to the public)
March 9, 2009... Byline: Christopher Werth Government should make data openly available and then let outside talent reimagine how it can be used online. President Barack Obama has pledged to make the U.S. Government more open and transparent. As a...

A Winnable War?(International Edition; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 16, 2009... Readers were inspired--and provoked-- by our Feb. 9 cover analyzing Afghanistan as "Obama's Vietnam." One complained that the Vietnam comparison evokes defeat, another that "Bush's Vietnam" would be more apt. A third urged Europe, target of the...

The Weakest Link.(International Edition; EMERGING MARKETS)(Africa's economy)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Scott Johnson; With Karen MacGregor in Durban Commodity-rich Africa profited when the world was growing. Now that it's not, it will be the hardest hit. For the last decade or so, an economic uplifting in Africa has brought...

Sarkozy of Arabia.(International Edition; FRANCE)(Nicolas Sarkozy's foreign policy for the Middle East)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Tracy Mcnicoll The president revives French ambitions in the Gulf, with allies old and new. Rarely have real-estate taxes revealed so much about realpolitik as in a law passed earlier this year by the...

Pulled From All Sides.(International Edition; EUROPE)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews; With Anna Nemtsova in Minsk The economic crisis is starting to help Russia gain power in its near abroad. The West is fighting back. Russia is crumbling amid the economic crisis, but for its leaders there is a...

Britain's Nice Guy.(International Edition; POLITICS)(David Cameron )
March 16, 2009... Byline: Stryker McGuire; With David Merlin-Jones David Cameron looks set to be the next prime minister. But he'll have to put substance over style. You'd never know it from the graceful, self-confident address he made to a joint...

The House in Ill Repute.(International Edition; INDIA)(criminals in government office)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Jason Overdorf; With Sudip Mazumdar in Kolkata New rules have exposed just how many thieves and murderers sit in India's Parliament. Indian members of Parliament went home last week amid hoots and howls, derided as the sorriest...

Think Twice About Bashir.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(Omar Al-Bashir)
March 16, 2009... Should the President of Sudan, the notorious Omar Al-Bashir, go to jail? Last week the International Criminal Court at The Hague issued a warrant to arrest the Sudanese president for his role in the death of 300,000 people and the displacement...

God's Broken Machine.(International Edition; SCIENCE)(Large Hadron Collider )
March 16, 2009... Byline: Fred Guterl and William Underhill As Europe makes repairs to its shiny new particle accelerator, U.S. rivals prepare to steal the prize. Investors aren't the only ones feeling a pit in their stomachs lately. Physicists at the...

The Consumer Is Not Dead.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(consumer behavior)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Zachary Karabell; Karabell is president of RiverTwice Research As the equity markets take another huge step down, it's assumed that American consumers are so shell shocked by their loss of wealth in both homes and stocks that they...

CALMING THE BEAR.(International Edition)(bear market)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Barton Biggs A legendary Wall Street bull makes the case for how aggressive government rescue efforts and super-cheap stocks could revive markets, fast. I recently laid out in NEWSWEEK the bearish argument for why we should be...

Sheldon G. Adelson: We'll Always Have Vegas.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(interview with Sheldon G. Adelson)(Interview)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Rana Foroohar and Daniel Gross Before the global downturn, 75-year-old Sheldon G. Adelson, Chairman of The Las Vegas Sands Corp., was the ultimate high roller. For a time America's third-richest man, he helped rebrand Las Vegas as...

Home Cooking.(The Good Life; KITCHENS)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Tara Weingarten When it comes to cooking, good equipment can make even the feeblest of talents great. I learned this six years ago when I bought a fancy gas range with burners spewing heat like some kind of wild Hawaiian volcano....

Simple Doesn't Mean Bland.(The Good Life; COOKBOOKS)(Brief article)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Tara Weingarten The superslouching economy is spurring everyone to return to basics--including some of the world's best-known chefs, who are flooding the market with new cookbooks preaching the simple-is-better mantra. Ina Garten's...

A Star In My Kitchen.(The Good Life; ENTERTAINING)(chefs cook for homes)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Tara Weingarten When I moved into a swank mid-century Hollywood Hills pad last year, I wanted to throw a party befitting my excitement for my new dream home. That ruled out a wienies-and-beans shindig. Instead, I chose to blow my...

Perspectives.(International Edition)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Sources: WSJ, BBC (2), New York Times, Vogue via Times of London, U.K. Telegraph "Twice as many opportunities for business, twice as much prosperity and the biggest expansion of middle-class incomes." British Prime Minister...

Against the Rise of Unrest and Extremism, the Center Holds.(International Edition; CRISIS WATCH)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Stefan Theil It's easy to read the last few months as one vast refutation of self-regulating capitalism and the elites who nurtured it. Many observers have thus warned that Europe's voters will flock to far-left parties now loudly...

Green Machine.(International Edition; THE ARNOLD)(Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to contribute to green initiatives)(Brief article)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Michael Levitin; Michael Levitin Only last year, the idea of a U.S. politician lecturing Europe on green technology would have seemed bizarre. But that's exactly what California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did last week at the CeBIT...

The Chinese Disease.(International Edition; RECESSION)(trade protectionism)(Brief article)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Stefan Theil If Americans are in shock over the economic plight that the collapse of the housing bubble has wrought, Germans are simply baffled. In their view, they seem to have done everything right--they have a high savings rate,...

By the Numbers.(International Edition)
March 16, 2009... The politically motivated murder of Joao Vieira, president of Guinea-Bissau, attracted few global headlines last week. But was it a sign of change in a world where political stability is on the rise, and assassination increasingly rare, at...

Mommy Dearests.(International Edition; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Mother: Portraits art exhibition)(Brief article)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Ginanne Brownell The complicated connection between mother and child has been one of the most thoroughly deconstructed of relationships. That doesn't make it any less fascinating, especially when geniuses are involved: "Mother:...

Seeking A Samaritan.(International Edition; Social Networking)(Humanitarian Dating)(Brief article)
March 16, 2009... Byline: Katie Baker Are you an SWF at the WFP, looking for an LDR with an FWB who might be WTR to Angola or Brazil? If so, Humanitarian Dating could be the social network for you. The site's the brainchild of veteran aid worker Robert...

Do-It-Yourself Censorship.(International Edition)(self-censorship )
March 16, 2009... Byline: Evgeny Morozov U.S. firms, spooked by export rules, seem to be practicing a kind of self-censorship oddly similar to what Chinese firms do. Yaraslau Kryvoi was no stranger to censorship. After all, he grew up in Belarus, one of...

We're All What?(International Edition; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 23, 2009... Readers reacted with passion to our Feb. 16 cover, "We're All Socialists Now." Some scoffed at the idea of a "socialist" America, while others welcomed the prospect. One said the way forward is a balance of European "social capitalism" and...

Missile Creep.(International Edition; SOUTH KOREA)(ballistic missile defenses)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Fred Guterl A weapon built to defend ships from planes has morphed into Star Wars. Kim Jong Il is obviously uncomfortable. As tens of thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops staged an annual war-games exercise last week, he...

Cities Beyond the Pain.(International Edition; BUSINESS)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Mac Margolis; With William Underhill in London, Manuela Zoninsein in Beijing and Dina Fine Maron in D.C. As government gets bigger, so does a whole new class of public-sector boomtowns. Remember company towns? From Detroit to...

The Breadbasket Becomes the Basket Case.(International Edition; EUROPE)(Viktor Yushchenko )
March 23, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews; With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow Ukraine's president was once considered a hero. But his country has spiraled into chaos and despair. On an icy November night in 2004, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko stood in...

China's Money Flows West.(International Edition; CHINA)(plans for the economic-stimulus package)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Melinda Liu; With Craig Simons in Dongguan As exports plummet and coastal factories close, Beijing looks inland for a new economic model. Even if you follow news about China, it's possible that you've never heard of Chongqing,...

The only thing that can keep nuclear bombs out of the hands of terrorists is a brand-new science of nuclear forensics.(International Edition; TECHNOLOGY)
March 23, 2009... In 2007, at the very moment Washington was sitting at the negotiating table with Pyong-Yang to hammer out a nuclear deal, North Korean officials were supplying know-how, equipment and nuclear material to Syria to build a weapons-grade reactor...

The Plot Against The Castros.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(coup against Fidel Castro and Raul Castro)
March 23, 2009... Two of Cuba's star politicians seem to have been a part of a conspiracy or a coup to overthrow Raol Castro For years, two tidbits of conventional wisdom have dominated debates among Cubanologists (a tropical subspecies of former...

NO HEADLINE.(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Mac Margolis For the last four decades, international migration has been a one-way journey. Year after year, millions of people left poorer countries for wealthier ones and rural areas for cities. Today, 200 million people are...

Crops With Attitude.(International Edition; PROJECT GREEN)(genetically modified crops)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Mac Margolis; With Manuela Zoninsein in Beijing Poor nations are now starting to shake off the old 'Frankenfood' taboo. Africa is no stranger to scourges, but few cause as much ruin as maize streak virus. Spread by the tiny...

A Labor Of Love.(International Edition; ART)(Eugenio Lopez and La Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex supports contemporary art exhibitions in Mexico)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Alexis Okeowo Eugenio Lopez is helping Latin American artists get a little respect. The sticky, sweet smell of crushed fruit emanates from La Coleccion Jumex, the gallery housing the private art collection of Eugenio Lopez...

The Greening Of The Stimulus.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(interview with David King)(Interview)
March 23, 2009... Let GM collapse. Rather than waste taxpayer money, use it to fund small high-tech companies with new car designs. Sir David King has been a climate guru since the earliest days of global warming. The director of Oxford's Smith School of...

Defining Victory Down.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(U.S. and Afghanistan foreign relations)
March 23, 2009... Transforming Afghanistan will only create a backlash; best to focus on containing terrorists. President Barack Obama's decision to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan will push the United States deeper into a quagmire, since the mission...

Is The Euro At Risk?(Global Investor)(possible devaluatio of Euro)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Holger Schmieding; Schmieding is chief European economist at Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch. All economies in Europe are now contracting. In that sense, the euro area looks more and not less cohesive. Is the death of the euro...

Betting On Red.(The Good Life; Casinos)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Gambling is out. Few have the stomach anymore to risk their assets on the stock market, real estate or even a work of art, let alone the blackjack table. Casinos from Las Vegas to Macau are suffering as...

A Good Meal's No Gamble.(The Good Life; DINING)(food services in casinos)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop There's at least one thing you can bet on when you visit a casino: the food will be good. Gaming complexes typically offer some of the most highly rated cuisine in the world, in a variety of settings and...

NO HEADLINE.(International Edition)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Sources: New York Daily News, New York Times, BBC, New York Times, BBC, Times (London) "As the years went by, I realized this day, and my arrest, would inevitably come." Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, pleading guilty to...

Pro Trade, Pro U.S.(International Edition; LATIN AMERICA)
March 23, 2009... Byline: Mac Margolis Just three years ago the smart money was on a sea change in Latin American politics. A dozen countries had held presidential elections, and in contest after contest, politicians and parties on the left came out on top,...