Newsweek International articles from May 2006

Newsweek International archives from May 2006

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Cheney Under the Gun If Dick Cheney had answered his country's call to military service with something other than multiple deferments, he might have acquired better firearm-handling skills and judgment along with an honorable discharge...

Don't Worry ... Be Happy! Germans seem to prefer inaction from their not-so-new chancellor.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil The Italian paparazzi had a field day. Staking out German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her Easter vacation on the island of Ischia, one of them caught her bare-bottomed as she changed into her bathing suit. In a...

Italy: Dreams of La Dolce Vita; Italians are also living in denial, say economists. And like the Germans, they see no reason to stop, despite a new leader.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau If you read about Italy in the financial press, you might be excused for thinking that the days of la dolce vita, literally the sweet life, have gone very sour. The numbers are terrible: zero growth, record deficits...

Bulgars; As the EU prepares to admit two new members, doubts are setting in. How far should 'Europe' go?
May 1, 2006... Byline: William Underhill For a Bulgarian, Vasil Ivanov made a risky career choice. He became an investigative reporter for a national TV station, learning plenty about corrupt officialdom and the country's flourishing underworld. Too much...

The Truth About Sugar; The buzz says a dizzying price spike is all about sugar for biofuels. But the reality is more complicated.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno The surprising thing about the price of oil, which hit a new record of $75 a barrel last week, is how little visible impact it has had on a booming global economy. But that hasn't stopped market watchers from...

Diplomacy: Has the Dealmaker Lost His Touch? For a time, Zalmay Khalilzad was America's indispensable man in Iraq. Caught up in factional politicking, he may now be less so.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson (With Michael Hastings in New York) Once again, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is basking in the limelight of another deal done. He arrived in Baghdad with all the glad-handing style of a politician on the campaign...

Keeping China Quiet; Hu Jintao isn't berating Washington about Taiwan much, maybe because he thinks its next leader could ease relations.
May 1, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams Of all the points of friction that could have roiled last week's summit meeting between George W. Bush and Hu Jintao--trade, North Korea, human rights--one caused hardly a ripple. The U.S....

The New State Capitalists; Governments are getting back into the business of business.
May 1, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore, Owen Matthews in Moscow, Tracy McNicoll in Paris and William Underhill in Dubai) Until late 2004, the world hadn't heard of the ChemChina Group for one simple reason: it...

Waiting For Action; In his new novel, a Middle East correspondent skewers the blood-thirsty, self-obsessed war reporter.(The Sand Cafe)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Byline: John R. Bradley (Bradley is the author of "Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis.") When an Iraqi scud missile shakes the Saudi hotel of American wire reporter Angus Dalziel, the hero of Neil MacFarquhar's debut novel...

Nepal is Burning; Returning power to civilian politicians, even abolishing the monarchy, may not be enough to restore stability to the Himalayan kingdom.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Amitabh Dubey (Dubey is an analyst at the Eurasia Group.) King Gyanendra's decision last week to restore power to Nepal's democratic parties was long overdue. But it hasn't ended the country's volatile political crisis. At the...

Culture: A Matter of Style; The world's premier collection of Chinese antiquities may be getting a politically motivated makeover.
May 1, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams Clad in jeans and a black sweatshirt, Taiwanese singer Lim Giong croons his rendition of a golden oldie. Elvis? The Beatles? Try Sung Dynasty poet Huang Ting-chien, who composed his greatest hit...

Japan: A Delicate Balance; With the price of oil skyrocketing, Tokyo may have to make friends with some of Washington's enemies.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Akiko Kashiwagi) For most of the past century or so, Japan has enjoyed remarkable popularity within the Muslim world. In stark contrast to European countries or the United States, Japan has no burdensome...

Hillbillies and Haute Cuisine. (Seriously.).(Encyclopedia of Appalachia)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores Mention Appalachia, and you'll often hear snickers about an area full of backward inbreds. Here to dispel such caricatures is the recently released Encyclopedia of Appalachia, a 1,800-page, four-kilo...

Where Big Is Beautiful; Investors used to favor small, flexible Asian markets. But their tastes are shifting to the major blockbusters including, possibly, Indonesia.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is a co-head of global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management) It's a scene familiar to moviegoers: as fires burn, bombs explode and shrapnel flies, the ash-smeared hero marches on, undaunted...

The Good Life.(Barker Black)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Hastings (Lauren Mack Hallee Berg Mark Starr) Fashion: Formal But Funky By Michael Hastings Tucked away in a small shop in SoHo, Derrick Miller calmly explains a pair of $4,880 shoes. "These are our Lancer side...

Perspectives.
May 1, 2006... "President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong!" Falun Gong practitioner Wenyi Wang, interrupting a White House meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao "Executive power of the Kingdom of Nepal,...

Periscope.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball (Stephen Glain Michael Hirsh Melinda Liu and Richard Wolffe Rana Foroohar Karen Springen Tara Pepper Nicki Gostin) Iran: New Pressure Points In recent weeks, Washington has been trying to turn up the heat on...

The Ties That Bind; Handy genetic-testing kits have ordinary folks seeking out distant ancestors, and scientists looking for mankind's.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Claudia Kalb (With Karen Springen, Mary Carmichael and Karen Macgregor in Durban, South Africa) Our blood holds the secrets to who we are. Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical; we are far more similar than diverse. But that tiny...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... The Promise of India Most readers of our March 6 cover story on the new India were full of lavish praise. "An excellent cover story," cheered one. "Informative, balanced and objective," said another, who found we "conveyed India's contrasts...

Kurdistan: Dangerous Passage; Turkey embraces 'hot pursuit' in northern Iraq.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Sami Kohen in Istanbul, John Barry in Washington and Scott Johnson in Baghdad) Could another front be opening in the Iraq war? Over recent weeks, some 200,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and helicopter...

Egypt: Taking On the Wrong Enemy; Mubarak has devoted more effort to crushing secular political opponents than to fighting Islamic extremists.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Joshua Hammer They moved under cover of darkness. Batons in hand, visors over their faces, black-uniformed troops charged toward the Judges' Club, a social gathering spot for magistrates in downtown Cairo. For a week hundreds of...

Partner, or Bully? Should Europeans worry about their growing dependence on Russian energy? For a not very reassuring answer, they need only look to Georgia. It's a case study in intimidation.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Vladimir Putin was feeling indignant. Why don't Europeans trust Russia? "I constantly hear complaints" that Europe is "overly dependent" on Russian energy, he griped last week to German Chancellor...

A New Kind of Pride; The president's anti-Japanese tirades play well with his core supporters. But a new neocon movement is arguing for greater openness to the world.
May 8, 2006... Byline: B. J. Lee South Korean president Roh Moo Hyun minced no words in his tirade against Japan last week. Angered by Japanese moves to survey a contested range of islets currently occupied by Korea, he blasted Tokyo for essentially...

Back in the Black; Japan's once-powerful trading firms have revived, thanks to the commodities boom.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi When the verdict finally came for Akihiko Takada, sitting in a Tripoli auditorium amid an assembly of business rivals, his sense of relief was intense. "It was a close call," he says, recalling...

In With the New; The stage is set: The world's greatest sporting event returns to Europe, whose traditional dominance is fast being eroded.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr (With Stefan Theil, Ginanne Brownell and Sam Register) None of the 32 countries that qualified to play in next month's World Cup can boast of an especially easy path there. But the one that received an automatic...

Football's Big Fear; Chased from matches, hooligans now tend to look for 'off site' fights. But the Cup is a big target.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Beith (With Stefan Theil in Berlin) They descended on Briesen in the middle of the night, about a hundred in all. In the cold of late November, in the woods surrounding the little German border town, the rumble began. By the...

An Irishman Goes Back to His Roots; Brian O'Doherty gets a show in Dublin.(Dublin City Gallery )
May 8, 2006... Byline: Peter Plagens For more than 30 years Brian O'Doherty has lived just off New York's Central Park in a landmark building built about a century ago with sunlit two-story studios especially for artists. His wife is the renowned...

An Army of One; Iraq's Moqtada al-Sadr on his men, his mind-set and when America should go.(Interview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson Variously described as a kingmaker, a radical cleric and a violent militia leader, Moqtada al-Sadr could well be all of them. What's clear is that over the last three years, Sadr has emerged as one of the most potent...

Mexico's Sinking Front Runner.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Jorge G. Castaneda (Castaneda, a former foreign minister of Mexico, is Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.) Mexico's July 2 presidential election has all of a sudden become...

Is Doha at Death's Door?
May 8, 2006... Byline: Stryker McGuire The World Trade Organization's Doha Round of trade talks has seemed endangered al-most since the process began in Qatar in 2001. And never more so than now, with only a year remaining before U.S. President George W....

The Untold China Story.
May 8, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: Clarification: In Stephen Roach's May 8 column, "The Untold China Story," it was incorrectly stated that China's private consumption fell to a record low of 50.7 percent of GDP. In fact, private consumption fell to 39.8...

The Good Life.(wine, chocolate and Copenhagen)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (Alex McRae Kristin Luna Michael Hastings Lauren Mack) Legend has it that at the end of the 17th century, when the French Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Perignon first sipped his newly created wine, the effervescent...

The Quest for Rest; Millions of women suffer from sleeplessness at stages throughout their lives. Researchers are beginning to understand why--and to develop new ways to help.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz (With Anne Underwood and Karen Springen) Like many mothers of young children, Martha Yasso was tired all the time--so tired that whenever her 3-year-old son went down for a nap, she grabbed the chance to rest as...

The War on HPV; A new vaccine that prevents cervical cancer could be available soon.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Claudia Kalb and Karen Springen Amelia Togba-Addy, a nurse at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, had always been in good health. But last October her gynecologist called with disturbing news: Togba-Addy's latest Pap smear...

Is Estrogen for You? At menopause, the risks of hormonetherapy are not the same for everyone.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Joann E. Manson, M.D., DR.P.H., and Shari S. Bassuk, SC.D. (Manson and Bassuk are affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. They are the authors of "Hot Flashes, Hormones and Health" (McGraw-Hill), to be...

Menopause: Anatomy of a Hot Flash.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Carolyn R. Schatz and Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D. (Schatz and Robb-Nicholson are the editor and editor in chief of the Harvard Women's Health Watch. For more info on hot flashes, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Hot flashes are...

Breast and Ovarian Cancer: New Hopes, Longer Life.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Carolyn M. Kaelin, M.D., M.P.H.; Arlan f. Fuller Jr., M.D., and Francesca Coltrera (Kaelin and Fuller are on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Kaelin is the author, with Coltrera, of "Living Through Breast Cancer" (McGraw-Hill,...

Not Always 'The Happiest Time'; Understanding pregnancy and depression.(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Lisa Miller and Anne Underwood (With Joan Raymond and Emily Flynn Vencat) Let's just say that you are among the millions of women for whom pregnancy was not bliss. You may have felt cranky or anxious, exhausted or fat, moody,...

Perspectives.
May 8, 2006... "We are dealing with a psychopath of the worst kind." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after Iran defied international demands to halt its uranium-enrichment program "We have been tolerant...

Periscope.
May 8, 2006... Byline: B.J. Lee (Dan Ephron John D. Sparks Robert J. Samuelson Elise Soukup Elise Soukup Brad Stone) Korea: The Reform Storm Hyundai was supposed to be a standout among the "billion profit club," a group of a dozen South Korean...

The Closing of the American Internet; A sizeable portion of the unwired simply have no interest in what the Internet has to offer.
May 8, 2006... Byline: John Sparks When the U.S. Census Bureau proclaimed the American frontier closed in 1890, it signaled the end of the boom-and-bust era and the beginning of a more stately pace of growth. Now that the dotcom bubble has come and gone,...

BlogWatch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs.(globalvoicesonline.org )(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... The editors at globalvoicesonline.org highlight "bridge bloggers," who write about their communities. The site focuses on bloggers from outside the United States and Western Europe. Find reviews of solar-powered MP3 players, the latest news...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
May 15, 2006... Decoding Diet Hype Many readers thanked us for our March 13 report about media hype over diets. "Your article encapsulates my observations," wrote a nutritionist. But another reader asked, "What makes us eat what we know is not good for...

Why Iran Is Driving Oil Up; Tehran could calm jitters by toning down its nuclear rhetoric--if the regime didn't need the money more.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Maziar Bahari Shahpour Madani, feeling flush, was cruising electronics shops on Tehran's Jomhuri Street earlier this month for a flat-screen digital television. He figured he could afford either a sleek new...

Let's Not Play The Oil Game; We know what needs doing. By not acting, we leave ourselves at the mercy of the market and those who would manipulate it.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Richard N. Haass (Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course") No doubt it's a sign of the times. Today's war games have more to do with the...

New 'New Labour'; After its worst election loss in a decade, will the party look beyond Blair?
May 15, 2006... Byline: Stryker Mcguire Tony Blair's press aide, Alistair Campbell, scribbled four words on a piece of paper: "New Labour, New Britain." It was September 1994, and Blair's inner circle had gathered to map out the final steps in their...

Will We Hit $100? Such forecasts, once the province of the enviro-fringe, now come from the likes of Goldman Sachs. Here's why.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller (With Michael Hastings in New York) The first oil shock of the 21st century is now upon us, even if it has not (yet) hit the global economy. This time, the early fallout is measured in largely political terms--in...

A Boeing Of Asia? It could happen, now that airbus and Boeing build planes in global factories.(outsourcing of aircraft manufacture)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With Christian Caryl in Tokyo) The prototype of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is being built in a virtual factory so big, it effectively spans continents. Engineers in Japan build the wings, Koreans add the raked...

Down On the Farm; A rural crisis is forcing Beijing to reconsider the idea of private property.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield The minutes of the March 4 meeting--ostensibly convened by Communist Party policy advisers to discuss economic reforms and rural poverty--were supposed to be secret. But last month they leaked out...

The Rewards of Rivalry; Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach have been friends for 50 years. A new joint show at London's V&A shows just how fruitful that relationship has been.(exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper The art world is studded with well-known rivalries. Matisse and Picasso, van Gogh and Gauguin--all found that their envy sparked creativity. But few artistic pairs have enjoyed such a fruitful and fond friendship as...

Economy: What China Threat? Mexico's manufacturing slump was the result of its own problems, not rising competition from the East.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Joseph Contreras Sinophobia was short-lived in Mexico. As the only big manufacturing exporter to the United States in Latin America, Mexico was uniquely worried about the threat posed by cheaper labor in Asia. More than 800...

DejA Vu All Over Again.(European-US relations)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik is director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.) Recently I attended the Brussels forum, a new Davos-like event organized by the German Marshall Fund. The idea was to bring Europeans...

Shock Opera; A veteran actor steals the 'Threepenny' show.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Nicki Gostin Jim Dale's doberman, Georgie, enthusiastically greets every visitor to her master's cozy dressing room, begging all who enter to partake in a game of fetch. She accompanies Dale every Wednesday and Saturday and, to his...

The Gift That Keeps On Giving.(The Drowsy Chaperone)(Theater review)(Brief article)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Marc Peyser Some guys get wasted at their bachelor party. Some hire a stripper. At Bob Martin's stag, his buddies gave him a musical. It was called "The Drowsy Chaperone," and it was a perfectly wholesome show about a 1920s actress...

The Internet Splits Up; The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Florence Villeminot in Paris and Sarah Schafer in Beijing) Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping...

The Last Word--Efraim Halevy: Matters of Intelligence; One big mistake is to believe that once the Iranians have [nuclear] capability, they'll think like people think when they're in Washington.(Interview)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino Few know more about the behind-the- scenes machinations in the Middle East than Israel's notorious Mossad intelligence agency. Of course, the Mossad has inspired its fair share of conspiracy theories as well. As the...

Going Places; The rich used to flaunt their roots. Now they prefer wings--and not just the ones on their private jets.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Alex McRae in London and Mac Margolis in Rio) Once upon a time, being rich meant being rooted. A wealthy family would build a grand home in the city, have a second one for weekends in the country, then stock...

Giving It All Away; For young high fliers, philanthropy is just another form of business.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar Philanthropists Used to Dole Out charity from the comfort of their leather armchairs. Not so John Wood. A Microsoft millionaire and head of business development for the company in China, Wood decided to start his own...

The Lessons Learned; Parents can now live globally without having to ship their kids off to boarding school for a good education.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell with Quindlen Krovatin Students scurry down the freshly painted hallways, past crayoned drawings and quotes from various Shakespeare plays. They wear navy blue blazers emblazoned with the Harrow insignia, ties and...

A Walk In The Park; Thanks to generous tax laws, nomads like to call London home.(Cover story)(Brief article)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Rana Foroohar London has long been a hub for wealthy expatriates. Its proximity to the United States, Asia and the Middle East make it perfect for globe-trotters. It's got culture, history and some of the world's most gorgeous real...

A Year of Cappuccino; Lifestyle sabbaticals give busy lives a whole new perspective.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau (With Ginny Power in Paris) Adjacent to the picturesque Piazza Santa Maria in Rome's medieval Trastevere district, the San Calisto coffee bar is the quintessential local haunt. Marcello, the owner, serves spectacular...

Don't Do It, Rob; It's no midlife crisis. I just want to take a break and see the world.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Rob Long I was having lunch with an agent friend, and I had just finished telling him about my plan for a two-year sabbatical from Los Angeles, and from the entertainment business in general. "Ohhhhhh... kay," he said slowly....

Keeping in Touch; The web is helping forge a footloose population into a true community.(Mark Devlin)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl For the past 13 years, Scotsman Mark Devlin has been building up a miniature publishing empire targeting English-speaking foreigners in Tokyo. His flagship has been Metropolis, an 80-page glossy magazine that...

A Week in the Life of ...(Cover story)(Diary entry)
May 15, 2006... ANDERSON COOPER The anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360A[degrees]" spends so much time on the road, he was hard pressed to come up with a firm schedule. I've stopped making plans--like dinners with friends, vacations--because my...

Building Recognition; The star system spurred insatiable global demand for serious architecture. Only the next generation can satisfy it now.(Critical essay)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan When the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened "On-Site: New Architecture in Spain" earlier this year, it showcased Spain as the hotbed of cool design. But besides the cutting-edge projects on display by the...

At home in the world; Norman Foster pairs dynamic innovation with respect for history. No wonder everyone wants a piece of him.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper with Anna Nemtsova With more than 30 new buildings in varying stages of construction around the world, it's surprising that the jet-setting British architect Norman Foster ever touches down. And the stream of...

City of Dreams.(Interview)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis Last month Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, 78, won architecture's highest accolade, the Pritzker prize. The Brazilian is famed for gravity-defying slabs of raw concrete and steel, sweeping belvederes and delicate restorations...

Objects of Desire; Gehry joins Peretti and Picasso at Tiffany.(Tiffany & Co hires modish architect Frank Gehry)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper Is there any correlation between designing a great building and creating a stunning necklace? In Frank Gehry's case there is; last month the modish architect became the first outside designer hired by Tiffany & Co. in...

Behind Closed Doors; The appeal of gated communities is spreading across the world.(All over the world, high-end planned communities are springing up)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews Along the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway outside Moscow, a riotous jumble of mansions poke out from above the high fences: the gabled mansards of French chateaux, the pointed tops of Gothic castle towers and baroque...

A High Life on the High Seas; Asians embrace marina culture, from yachts to scuba diving.(a host of new marinas are popping up throughout the region, including China)(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Some subset of the elite population has always taken to the water, living part or full time on their yachts and traveling among glitzy ports in the Caribbean or Mediterranean. But increasingly they are...

Shaping The New Looks; The new rich of the developing world are not only attracting posh brands but helping determine luxury trends.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With Quindlen Krovatin in Beijing) At a swish Paris dinner on the eve of L'Oreal's annual financial-results announcement in February, guests drank champagne and mingled over canapes--but that's where the...

Hot Properties; Edgy, hip and still relatively cheap, contemporary Chinese art is in high demand from Hong Kong to New York.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Peter Plagens For the past few weeks, the smooth, ghostly and haunting face of Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline Series: Comrade No. 120" (1998) has been almost as ubiquitous in contemporary-art circles as, say, an Andy Warhol "Marilyn"...

+Fashion Forward; The freshest new clothes are coming not from cities like London and Paris but from some of the world's hottest emerging markets. NEWSWEEK profiles four local designers to watch.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar and Sumeet Chatterjee (Owen Matthews Melinda Liu Mac Margolis) SHAHZAD KALIM When Kalim went to school in the Indian state of Bihar, many in his small town could barely afford proper clothing, let alone worry...

Living At Jet Speed; When you travel all the time, you may not build attachments--but you do get to see beauty everywhere.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Joshua Cooper Ramo (Ramo is managing director of Kissinger Associates.) If you ever sit near the cockpit on a commercial airliner during takeoff, you might just be able to overhear the non-flying pilot calling out reference speeds...

Holiday Shopping; Consumers from Russia, China and India tend to look local but buy global.(Cover story)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat The Chinese may be en route to becoming the world's top luxury-goods consumers, but luxury sales in China are still shockingly low. That's because the resident rich do almost all their shopping abroad. For every...

How U.S. IPOs Lost Their Pop; One factor depressing the IPO market is competition from corporate buyers, whose offers with a lot less regulatory hassle.(initial public offering)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Henry Blodget (Blodget, a former securities analyst, writes for Slate and other publications.) Google's much-ballyhooed initial public offering was supposed to spark a return to the vibrant U.S. IPO market of the 1990s. Instead,...

The Good Life.(suits aimed at the international traveler)(high-end destination club Tanner & Haley offers membership)(jet-lag-specific treatments are offered by many)
May 15, 2006... Byline: With Lauren Mack in New York (Jaime Cunningham Lauren Mack Stefan Theil) Travel: Sitting Pretty BY MICHAEL HASTINGS Alan Flusser thinks dressing well is a simple art--a good wardrobe, he says, "leads the viewer up to the...

Perspectives.
May 15, 2006... "America, you lose." Convicted September 11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, as he was sentenced to life in prison "The remarks are completely incomprehensible for us." Kremlin deputy spokesman Dmitry Peskov, reacting to a...

Periscope.(Bolivian leader wants foreign companies to renegotiate their contracts)(China's state-sanctioned Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association ordained two bishops)(outsourced operations of McKinsey & Company)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth (Mac Margolis Melinda Liu Mark Hosenball, Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff John D. Sparks Patrick White Ramin Setoodeh Ginanne Brownell Jamie Reno) Latin America: A Continental Rift On May 1, when Bolivian...

BlogWatch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs. for full links go to xtra.newsweek.com.
May 15, 2006... Nader Davoodi, an award-winning photojournalist, tackles subjects as diverse as Iran's nuclear ambitions, its government's enforcement of Muslim law, and football, on naderdavoodi.net. Former CNN reporter Rebecca MacKinnon sounds off on the...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
May 29, 2006... Reviving Old Values Readers of our March 20 report on China's return to Confucianism shared their views on the sage's philosophy. One reminded China of "the leader's [Confucian] responsibility to promote the well-being of all"; another...

Catch a Falling Star; The pope tries to beat back an ugly nationalism in once-open Poland.
May 29, 2006... Byline: Andrew Nagorski For many, the turning point in the cold war was Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland in 1979. He went to lift the spirits of his weary countrymen, urging them to not despair or lose hope for change--indeed, to take...

March of the Populists; The movement is spreading beyond its Latin roots, as leaders from Paris to Beijing respond to rising public worries about jobs and inequality.
May 29, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Stefan Theil (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi, Marites Vitug in Manila and Christian Caryl in Tokyo) A populist rebellion against globalization is going global. This self-destructive...

Lost in Translation; Poor English skills threaten the Philippines' dreams of becoming a new call-center magnet in Asia.
May 29, 2006... Byline: Marites Vitug With one out of 10 citizens unemployed, many of the country's best and brightest gone off to work elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East, and millions still living in poverty, the Philippines can boast few economic...