Newsweek International articles from May 2005

Newsweek International archives from May 2005

Mail Call.
May 2, 2005... Spain's Muslims Many readers took issue with our March 14 report on Spanish Muslims. Wrote one, "You show an idyllic image of post-March 11 Madrid... but everyone in Spain has not forgotten those terrible events." Chimed another, "If one...

Report Card On Unity; The new European Union celebrates the first anniversary of enlargement. How's it doing?
May 2, 2005... Byline: William Underhill (With Eric Pape in Paris and Wojciech Rogacin in Warsaw) Teresa Wawer is happy as a pig in warm... well, let's just say she's that rare creature--a happy farmer. The market for her pork is booming. During the past...

A Slowly Sinking Silvio; Berlusconi-ism is dead. Long live Berlusconi. Italians oust a government, only to install another. Guess who?
May 2, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape and Jacopo Barigazzi Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi handed in his resignation last week--a year early. From afar, it looked like the end of a wild ride for the flamboyant Italian billionaire. His Forza Italia was crushed...

The Last Asian Tiger; Thirty years after the war, Vietnam's robust growth could stall unless the country gets serious about corruption and reform.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Ronald Moreau In the 1960s, Viet Cong guerrillas used to ambush U.S. Navy Swift Boats from the mangrove-lined shores of the southern Mekong Delta. Today, Vietnamese farmers rather than soldiers use the waters to grow shrimp, and...

The Shadow of Syria; Damascus pulls out its troops. But ghosts abide.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Leena Saidi in Beirut and Dan Ephron in Jerusalem) For 10 years, Mahassen Faddoul's downstairs neighbors were Syrian spies. The men moved in after she and her family fled Hammana, a village east of Beirut,...

Homebound Japan: The Rising Sons; Younger investors are starting to buck their nation's reputed aversion to foreign risk.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo) If anyone is going to change Japan's stay-at-home investment culture, it's probably Shinsei Bank. In 2000 the U.S. boutique investment firm Ripplewood Holdings bought the remains of Japan's...

Real Estate Gone Wild; How Cheap Dollars And Cheap Flights Are Bringing Average Joes To A Market Near You.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar Property, like politics, used to be local. After all, what demands more on-the-ground knowledge than buying a home? But over the last few years real estate has gone global. Already, there's a good chance you or...

Market Watch: Eyes On Shanghai; Do tales of rampant real-estate speculation signal the imminent bursting of a bubble? Arguably, no.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Sarah Schafer Shanghai's real-estate market is so strong, even tradition can't stand in its way. Young men used to buy large "marriage apartments" in which to live with a future bride, but can no longer afford them. So, they tell...

Playing With Fire; Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist the China craze.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Henry Blodget (Blodget is writing a series for Slate.com on the China gold rush, from which this article is adapted. A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Blodget was a party to the global settlement of a regulatory investigation...

Safe Haven? The Slippery Slope; Market watcher David Webb says shady China deals threaten Hong Kong's once sterling reputation.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz Hong Kong still enjoys a reputation for British standards of governance amid the investing chaos of China. Former investment banker and shareholder activist David Webb takes a different view. He warns that without...

The Grand Illusion; Global investors have yet to recognize the turnaround in developing countries or to price emerging markets accordingly.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is co-head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) Just like the prisoners in Plato's cave--who, having never seen sunlight, believed the shadows on the wall were reality--global...

Viva... er, Singapore? Asia's famously tough nanny state embraces casinos as a way to grab its share of tourism's 'pop dollars.'.
May 2, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Singapore's leaders have a well-deserved reputation for being a tad uptight. Wrigley's gum was contraband until recently; flogging remains a common form of punishment. So it came as a...

Money Travels; As barriers fall and fear of foreign markets diminishes, small investors go global in the search for big returns.(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller The admonition not to put all your eggs in one basket dates to 17th-century Italy, but it's only starting to catch on in global investing. Sure, financial advisers have been warning clients to diversify for...

Nothing Is as It Seems; A gripping new novel that explores postwar guilt.(Alibi)(Book Review)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski In his previous novel, "The Good German," which was set in Berlin in the immediate aftermath of Nazi Germany's defeat, Joseph Kanon offered an action-packed plot and an underlying theme of pervasive guilt. In his...

Ibrahim Jaafari; The Man Who Will Be King.(Interview)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria and Rod Nordland Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari and his fellow Shiite politicians scrambled last week to form a government, a process that has been stalled since elections on Jan. 30. Iraqis are increasingly...

Doin' the Downward Doggie.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Katherine Stewart (Stewart is the author of forthcoming novel "Yoga Mamas") You know spring has come to New York when the restaurants at last open up their outdoor terraces, the shops on Fifth Avenue fill their windows with filmy...

Perspectives.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: CNN.com, New York Times (2), AFP, Associated Press (2), New York Daily News "I was not part of 9/11. I'm not 9/11 material." Convicted Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, seeking to avoid the...

Periscope.
May 2, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar, Mark Hosenball, Allan Sloan, Joseph Contreras, Jonathan Adams, Jenny Barchfield, T. Trent Gegax, Alexandra A. Seno, Nicki Gostin, R.M. Schneiderman Outsourcing: Dot-com Do-Over If you thought Asian countries were...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Robert Louis Stevenson; Lucky Child; Les Girls)(Book Review)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Salil Tripathi, William Underhill, Dana Thomas Lucky Child by Loung Ung In 1979, as Pol Pot's murderous rule was coming to an end, Loung's brother Meng was forced to make the Indochinese equivalent of Sophie's choice: he could...

Tip Sheet.(Travel: X Marks the Fun Spots)(Book Review)
May 2, 2005... Byline: Sandy L. Edry, Frank Brown and Nadya Titova, Erin Zaleski, Joy Wang, Joan Raymond Travel: X Marks The Fun Spots By Sandy L. Edry If your idea of a fun vacation is a pleasant stroll down cobblestone streets or even something as...

Mail Call: The Dollar's Free Fall.
May 9, 2005... Our March 21 cover story on the devaluing dollar disturbed readers. One voiced the anguish of many retirees with dollar pensions living in Europe: "We've seen our incomes diminish by more than 35 percent in three years." Another reported,...

How to Handle Russia? A weird schizophrenia grips the nation, as Putin's power fades and new threats emerge.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown (With Nadya Titova in Moscow and Richard Wolffe and Eve Conant in Washington) World leaders--53 of them, with both notable inclusions and exceptions--will converge on Moscow next week to mark Russia's finest hour, the...

Blair's Final Act; Once the election is over, the real political game begins. The prime minister wants his legacy; Gordon Brown wants power.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn) Tony Blair doesn't sound like a man heading into retirement. The British prime minister has repeatedly said he will serve just one more term. But on the eve of almost certain re-election this week,...

Advertising: They Don't Kill Dragons, Do They? Western admen are thriving, yet struggling not to offend, in a complicated market.(Cover Story)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons Western admen have cut a long trail of missteps in Chinese markets, dating to a 1960 spot in Taiwan that translated "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead." More...

Capitalism? Nein! Schroder and his Social Democrats rediscover Karl Marx. Alas, it's more than election opportunism.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil Listen to some of Germany's most powerful politicians these days, and it's as if Karl Marx had risen from the grave. "The growing power of international capital" with its "unbridled greed for profit" represents nothing...

Dances With Robots; Japan is working on a new generation of humanoid robots that may change once and for all the way we relate to our machines.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl Norihiro Hagita recently put a 3-year-old girl and her mother into a room with a robot and kept them there for two hours. At first, the girl and the robot chatted and played. When the robot asked her to give him a...

Culture Shock; A flow of information from the outside world is changing the Hermit Kingdom.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) On a warm spring day, a small boat is maneuvering down a narrow tributary of the Yalu River that marks the border between China and North Korea. The sightseers in the...

Of Youth And Ghosts; A photo collection shows Vietnam's resilience.(Vietnam at Peace)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau Philip Jones Griffiths, who to my mind is Vietnam's pre-eminent photographer, rightly focuses many of the frames in his new book, "Vietnam at Peace," on the country's children. Vietnam is a very young nation indeed--70...

Vultures in the Storm; Savvy farmers know how to profit from disaster.
May 9, 2005... Byline: John Ness Hurricanes Charlie, Francis, Ivan and Jeanne all slammed Florida in 2004, tearing up the orange groves that produce the state's main crop. Then, locals say, the vultures swooped in. Brazilian growers, who had been gaining...

Flirting With Treason; A memoir by a master teller of other people's stories.(If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis Translators, by definition, are invisible heroes. A clumsy translation can wreck even the noblest prose or verse. Yet if the result is any good, the glory goes to the creator, not the interpreter. And while a writer is...

A Threat? No, An Economic Lifeline; The upside to China's rise is increased trade and investment, at least for some.(Cover Story)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane (With Marites Vitug in Manila, Eric Unmacht in Jakarta, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore) Hu Jintao could barely speak above the commotion. Fortunately, the president of China wasn't...

Toyota Triumphs; Toyota has become the corporate equivalent of a second-generation immigrant: fluently, aggressively American.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton (With Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama in Tokyo and John David Sparks in New York) When U.S. automakers teetered on the brink of collapse 25 years ago, Japan-bashing in Detroit was in full swing--literally--as...

Corporate Culture: The J Factor; Toyota's sales have shifted overseas, but its spiritual center still lies in Japan.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama Not long ago, Toyota Motors president Fujio Cho welcomed 1,700 new employees at a traditional Japanese "joining-the-firm ceremony." Last year was stellar for Toyota, but Cho skipped through the...

True Teamwork; Diversity is essential to the success of any endeavor, from scientific research to Broadway musicals.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl President George W. Bush has won plaudits for the diversity of his cabinet officials, most notably when he promoted Condoleezza Rice, an African-American woman, to secretary of State in his second term. Is this the kind...

Hayder Daffar; Iraqi Mission Accomplished.(Interview)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali Hayder Daffar may still be a night clerk at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, but he's also the director behind the first Iraqi-made documentary out of post-Saddam Iraq. In "The Dreams of Sparrows," which is currently making...

The Politics Of Plebiscites.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik is a professor of government at Princeton University) Political life has ground to a halt. Pundits and politicians can't stop talking about it. Yet more and more, it seems, ordinary folk want nothing to...

Tapping the Force of Fusion, Again.
May 9, 2005... Byline: Temma Ehrenfeld Scientists have long felt that the ideal source of energy would have to be nuclear fusion. It's the same process that powers the sun, and there's something elegant about the notion of two atomic nuclei joining and...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, Financial Times, Arizona Republic, New York Times, BBC, Reuters, Boston Globe "The door has been opened." Chinese President Hu Jintao, on meeting with Lien Chan, leader of the opposition...

Periscope.(Iraq's political situation, FBI's view of Guantanamo Bay questioning tactics, John Bolton's U.N. nomination)(Correction Notice)
May 9, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Headline: Newsweek Statement On Qur'an Story From Editor Mark Whitaker: DATELINE: NEW YORK May 16 NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali, Malcolm Jones, Mark Starr You Can't Get There From Here By Gayle Forman It's clear from Forman's travelogue that globalization isn't just about Starbucks' spreading from Boulder to Bangkok. It's also about...

The Rise of a Religion.(Letter to the Editor)
May 16, 2005... Readers of our March 28 cover story on the rise of Christianity praised Jon Meacham's nuanced report. "Congratulations!" said one, who appreciated Meacham "for not proselytizing... not editorializing." But another, who'd had enough of Jesus,...

A Grim Time; Russia has reverted to the Wild East. But these days the crooks are the government.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown (With Nadya Titova in Moscow) The May 9 celebrations are over. Global luminaries have gone home. Now comes Act II: the endgame in the takedown of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founding CEO of Yukos Oil and once Russia's...

Rising to the Top; After enduring decades of discrimination, South Korean women are surging into positions of power and influence.
May 16, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee (With Christian Caryl in Tokyo) When the Grand National Party triumphed in parliamentary by-elections last week, it was more than just a victory for South Korea's conservative opposition. The win also marked a milestone in...

Wounded Winner; A weakened Blair faces a much tougher third term.(Tony Blair)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn) A single photo tells it all. Tony Blair is standing with his challengers in Sedgefield, in northern England, as the results of last week's election are announced. He's won, but he and his wife,...

Notes From a Genius; Feynman's letters reveal his irrepressible personality.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl Richard Feynman was a particularly American sort of genius. He was born in 1918 into a middle-class Jewish family and grew up in, of all places, Far Rockaway, Queens, an outer borough of New York City. His father was...

Is It Back to the '70s? The market buzz in America evokes the age of gas lines, stagflation, and the woebegone misery index.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain As if the survival of leisure suits and Lava lamps weren't bad enough, the '70s retro theme is now the talk of the financial markets, too. American economists are warning that stagflation--the high-inflation,...

A Tarnished Mercedes; Now the German half of DaimlerChrysler is faltering.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil These days auto giant DaimlerChrysler is a two-family house divided between function and dysfunction, with all the trouble on the side everyone thought was perfectly well adjusted. In the United States, former money...

Waiting for Democracy.(Natan Sharansky)(Interview)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino Natan Sharansky became a celebrity in Washington, D.C., earlier this year after President George W. Bush endorsed his second book, "The Case for Democracy." But Sharansky is not always so popular in his own nation of...

No One Loves a Thorn.(writing for television shows)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Rob Long I once met a guy who said he was a writer. This happens a lot in Los Angeles, and mostly the kinds of people who say, proudly, "I'm a writer" are also the kind of people who wear mauve uniforms with name tags and ask "Do...

Family Matters; We don't get sick or stay well by ourselves. The people closest to us affect every aspect of our health--and our own well-being affects theirs.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley (With Claudia Kalb, Anne Underwood, Karen Springen and Tara Pepper) Tom began acting up when he was 3 years old. He would refuse to go to bed and insist on having the television on all night. His mother, worried...

And Now, the Hard Part; That sweet little thing is about to commandeer your life. Be prepared.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Lauren Picker Amber Krystallis isn't getting out much these days. She spends every waking moment at someone else's beck and call, performing a dizzying blur of tasks that never seem to satisfy her commander, much less elicit a...

Couples: Happily Ever After.(coping with children)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Amanda Robb A new baby is an enormous challenge to the mom, the dad--and the marriage. It's hard to keep a relationship strong when you're stressed, but experts agree on some basic advice. The keys: Get a Babysitter Research...

High-Tech Birth: Do You Need a C-Section?(cesarean sections)(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Fredric D. Frigoletto Jr., M.D., and Christine Junge (Frigoletto is the Charles and Robert Montraville Green Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and chief of obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital....

Finding What Works; Medication helps many kids. But it's hard to know which drugs for which kids.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Peg Tyre Hunter Walrath's parents were hopeful when a child psychiatrist prescribed Concerta for their 9-year-old son. A bright, highly verbal boy, Hunter has a laundry list of disabilities: he suffers from ADHD, faulty executive...

Psychiatric Drugs: The New Pharmacopoeia.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Steven Schlozman, M.D. (Schlozman is associate director of training for child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate director of medical-student education in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. For...

A Peaceful Adolescence; The teen years don't have to be a time of family storm and stress. Most kids do just fine, and now psychologists are finding out why that is.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz and Karen Springen (With Julie Scelfo and Jason Overdorf) At 16, Purva Chawla holds good rankings in schooland loves competing in drama and elocution contests. The New Delhi student is "head girl" of her school...

Teen Depression: When Should You Worry?(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Jeff Q. Bostic, M.D., Ed.D., and Michael Craig Miller, M.D. (Bostic is director of school psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Miller is editor in chief of the...

When Cultures Clash; A growing medical challenge: doctors and patients often can't communicate.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler (With Eric Pape in Paris) Urdu, Mandarin, Haitian Creole... By the thousands each week, they pass through the doors of Elmhurst Hospital in a part of New York City that is home to perhaps a greater...

Heredity and Health: Tracking Family History.(Cover Story)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Howard LeWine, M.D. (LeWine is chief editor for Internet publishing at Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School. For more information, visit health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Elevated cholesterol is always a cause for...

Perspectives.
May 16, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: AFP, CNN, BBC, AFP, Las Vegas Review- Journal, New York Times, German Television via AFP "People want to move on." British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who endured repeated attacks on the...

Periscope.(various snippets)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Stephen Glain, Jonathan Adams, Christian Caryl, Eve Conant and Jaime Cunningham, Mac Margolis, Allan Sloan, Aaron Clark, Vibhuti Patel, Ginanne Brownell, Jenny Barchfield, Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Karen Springen, Nicki Gostin ...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Jacob's Gift; The Red Carpet; Tokyo Cancelled)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Marie Valla, Aaron Clark, Shailaja Neelakantan Jacob's Gift by Jonathan Freedland As a boy, British journalist Freedland envied his schoolmates' family trees. His went back only to 1880 and was full of holes. Now the proud...

Tip Sheet.(vacation souvenirs; Santa Fe, New Mexico; blend your own wine; personal travel blankets)
May 16, 2005... Byline: Erin Zaleski, Ginanne Brownell, Sandy Lawrence Edry, Sue Caporlingua, Steven Levy, Linda Stern Travel: A Long Trip To The Mall By Erin Zaleski Like an afternoon of lounging on the beach or a decadent five-course meal,...

Mail Call: And the Winner Is...(Letter to the Editor)
May 23, 2005... Readers of the April 4 cover story on Jack Welch took him--and us--to task. "Shame!" cried one. "What a sad commentary on the state of U.S. business--and journalism." Said another, "Those used to NEWSWEEK's take on world events won't be happy...

Delusions of Grandeur; French President Jacques Chirac has made a career appealing to the glories of his country's past. But his people are wondering if he knows how to lead them into the future.(Cover Story)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Eric Pape (With Tracy McNicoll in Sarran) Deep in rural France, the ancient village of Sarran (population: 300) boasts a strange museum. It's a 4 million euro building, constructed at the expense of today's...

A Failure to Communicate.(Jacques Chirac)(Brief Article)(Chronology)
May 23, 2005... Every statesman and lowly pol, it is said, has his Achilles' heel. For Jacques Chirac, it could be hubris, or his opportunistic streak. Or simple cluelessness. May 1968 'MAN IN A HURRY': Charming and down to earth, Chirac rises...

The Icemen Cometh; Name Europe's latest 'tiger.' Hint: look toward the Arctic Circle.
May 23, 2005... Byline: William Underhill It's beautiful, but the climate is vile. Resources are few and history books tell of dismal poverty. Yet tourism booms, the capital swarms with the international clubbing crowd, housing prices are soaring and...

Rolling in the Dough; A dozen companies in South Korea now make over a billion dollars in profit, thanks to their new, Westernized profiles.
May 23, 2005... Byline: B. J. Lee (With John Sparks in New York) Hyundai Asan was in big trouble. In 2003 chairman Chung Mong Hun committed suicide while under investigation for money transfers to North Korea. The company, which focuses on tourism and...

Chirac, Europe's Weakest Link.(Jacques Chirac)(Cover Story)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Denis MacShane (MacShane, a British M.P., was Europe minister from 2002 to 2005. He is the author of a biography of Francois Mitterrand.) The scene: one of those interminable wrangles in the cold, bunkerlike building in Brussels...

Tales of a 'Mafia Mamma'; Breaking with tradition, the Cosa Nostra chose a woman to become a top crime boss. Now she's taking revenge.(Giuseppina Vitale)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Jacopo Barigazzi and Eric Pape Giuseppina Vitale wasn't just another strong Italian woman in high heels. She was the twentysomething kid sister of Leonardo and Vito, reputedly princes (of sorts) in the Sicilian mob, the Cosa Nostra....

A Black-Bean Nation; Latino sprawl is transforming American culture.(Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States)(Book Review)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Anuj Desai Sometimes the heart of a story about the rise of a nation can be found in a bean. Such is the case in Hector Tobar's "Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States" (307...

A Peace Plan? Exclusive: Thailand has enlisted a Muslim cleric in Malaysia to resolve the revolt in its southern provinces.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Joe Cochrane and Lorien Holland The amateur video looked like something that would appear on Al-Jazeera: a group of men with long, gray beards and white Muslim robes sitting in a spartan room at a hidden location, discussing Islam....

The Soul of a New Brazil; Barbosa, a soft-spoken scholar and former prosecutor, is the first black high-court justice in a country where race and class still matter.(Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Ellis Cose Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to take Brazil in a radically new direction when he was elected president by a landslide in 2002. The high-school dropout, labor leader and onetime shoeshine boy declared war on hunger and...

Kemal Dervis: A Fireman's New Blaze.(Interview)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews Recently named head of the United Nations Development Program, Kemal Dervis is the first of what U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan hopes will be a series of prominent outsiders brought in to head U.N. agencies under...

Equality, of a Sort.(Kuwaiti democracy)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Carla Power Getting to the heart of Kuwaiti democracy seems hilariously easy. Armed only with a dog-eared NEWSWEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week. Unscanned, unsearched, my satchel could easily...

Perspectives.
May 23, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, AP(2), CNN, NBC/Chris Matthews Show, BBC, GQ, New York Times "Protect our holy book!" Muslim protesters in Afghanistan, demonstrating against reports of desecration of the...

Periscope.(Abdullah Ocalan Kurdish separatist leader, Chinese consumer habits, Malcolm Glazer and Manchester United Football Club)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen, Craig Simons, Ginanne Brownell, Daniel Klaidman, Stefan Theil, Holly Bailey, Vibhuti Patel, Jenny Barchfield, Karen Springen, Nicki Gostin Ah Turkey: Old Hatreds Die Hard Could Kurdish separatist...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Dining With Terrorists; The Threat of North Korean Special Forces; The Bright Forever)(Book Review)
May 23, 2005... Byline: William Underhill, Hideko Takayama, Susan H. Greenberg Dining With Terrorists by Phil Rees The frivolous title misleads. During his 20 years as a British journalist, Rees has indeed met--and eaten with--a great many militants...

Tip Sheet.(health of men and women by age group, Granada, Mercedes Slk350, wedding wear, designer jeans)
May 23, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen, Carla Power, Tara Weingarten, Emily Flynn, Ginanne Brownell Health: Who's The Weaker Sex? By Karen Springen Men may earn more than women, run faster and buy more wide-screen TVs. But when it comes to...

A People's Pope.(Letter to the Editor)
May 30, 2005... Our April 11/18 cover story on Pope John Paul II moved readers to share their sense of loss. "He touched the hearts of young and old, inspiring millions by his very presence," said one. "He taught us how to live and how to die," wrote another....

How Markets Misread Putin.(Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic policies)(Column)
May 30, 2005... Byline: Browder manages the $1.3 billion Hermitage Fund, the largest Russia-dedicated investment fund Global equity investors are taking their cues on russia from the headlines about Yukos, which portrays President Putin as a dictator...

Life of the Party; With a glitzy new cadre school and a 'rejuvenation' campaign, the Chinese Communist Party is scrambling to remain relevant in a fast-changing society.(Cover Story)
May 30, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield (With Craig Simons in Beijing and Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) At first, the place looks like an American business school. The new China Executive Leadership Academy dominates a manicured campus...

Why a 'Oui' Is Not Enough.(significance of French vote on European Union constitution)(Cover Story)(Column)
May 30, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is dean of the Yale School of Management) This Sunday, France votes on a new European Union constitution that few voters have read. It's 300 pages long. Instead, they'll be venting on the European project...

Unexpected Baby Boom; What can Europe learn from the 'exception francaise'?(possible reasons for expected population growth in France)
May 30, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape Here's a little test. Which European country will have the largest population in the middle of the 21st century? (And remember, this is likely to give the nation added political heft in the European Union.) Could it be...