Newsweek International articles from November 2004

Newsweek International archives from November 2004

MAIL CALL.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... Readers of our Sept. 20 report on the nastiness of the U.S. presidential campaign were dismayed. One said both men must "behave with more pride, dignity and honor." But some said equating the attacks on President Bush with those on Senator...

The Swing Vote: Coming of Age; America's largest minority, Latinos are clustered in key states and could well decide the election.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores If Sen. John Kerry winds up winning Florida in November, he can thank people like Marta Torres. A former tomato picker from Mexico who once had no clue what a Democrat was, Torres is now a foot soldier in the...

The Proxy War; Corruption scandals are a battleground for jousting among the nation's top leadership.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Jonathan Ansfield and Craig Simons in Beijing) "Before the Gates of Hell" has all the makings of a Chinese best seller. The new book tells of a provincial tax-bureau boss who gets promoted several times and goes...

Not Made For Walking; Why won't Europeans move to where the jobs are? That reluctance is one of the biggest barriers to a more dynamic EU.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Marie Valla and William Underhill in London and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan) There's a scene in Michael Moore's "Roger & Me," the 1989 documentary featuring GM factory closings, in which a...

Another Head to Head; A presidential race again pits Russia against the West.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Frank Brown It's a shadow war reminiscent of cold-war conflicts in Third World countries. Russia and the United States are going head to head in Ukraine, the former Soviet republic that holds a pivotal presidential election on Oct....

Elvis Grows Up; At 50, rock's most eloquent nerd isn't getting older, he's getting bolder. Just check out his two new albums.(Elvis Costello)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Carla Power Plenty of stars grow old with rock and roll. A rare few continue to experiment beyond its borders, pushing the limits of their range. Elvis Costello may not be a global celebrity like aging rockers David Bowie and Mick...

Snap Judgement: Books.(Maximum City; The Last of the Celts; Viviant!)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Shailaja Neelakantan, John David Sparks, Jenny Barchfield Maximum City by Suketu Mehta Readers in the know have awaited this nonfiction paean to Mumbai, India's financial and film capital, since Mehta signed a two-book...

Seeing Is Believing; A roving photojournalist documents global suffering.(iWitness by Tom Stoddart)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Ginny Power The neutral gray cover of "iWitness" (347 pages. Trolley ) leaves readers unprepared for the horrors that lie within: searing black-and-white images of some of the world's worst suffering, from the famine in Sudan to...

Bill Gates; Can Bill Clean Your IN Box?(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy As much as three quarters of the electronic mail sent over the Internet consists of unwanted and certainly unloved spam--everything from offers to buy Vicodin to shocking porn to messages with viruses embedded in them....

Don't You Hate SUVs?(Sport Utility Vehicles)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Barbie Nadeau Even for the quick and the nimble, driving in Rome has never been anything but a chore. At the best of times, it's a smog-choked labyrinth of buzzing mopeds, toddling grannies and chugging Fiats vying for cobblestone...

Look the Robot in The Eye.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Melissa Roberts Few things would be more offensive than a computer that nags when you're not paying attention. Alex Zelinski is aware that his technology--which gives computers the ability to read a person's gaze--"could be...

Perspectives.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Sources from top to bottom: AFP, AP (2), AFP, BBC (2) "I will die like Mr. Bigley." Margaret Hassan, a kidnapped British aid worker, comparing her fate to that of murdered hostage Kenneth Bigley, in a plea aired on Al-Jazeera...

Periscope.(Israel, Russia, Libiya, Intel, Burma, vaccines, art of illusion, books, pop music, Lauren Bacall)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Dan Ephron, Frank Brown, Michael Isikoff, John Hail, Eve Conant, Ginanne Brownell, Nicki Gostin, Andrew Romano Israel: Yea or Nay on Gaza? Why does Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fear a referendum on his controversial Gaza...

Tip Sheet.(musical vacations, osteoporsis, New York City restaurants)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper, Mary Carmichael Travel: Vacationing With Verdi By Tara Pepper Want to take a musical holiday? A variety of tours allow music lovers to build vacations around concerts, and specialist travel agents can make...

Mail Call.
November 8, 2004... Wanted: More Babies Readers of our Sept. 27 cover story on depopulation were not worried about the growing birth dearth. One called it "a gratifying trend that needs to be celebrated." Another added, "It is our only hope of achieving...

The New Crusade; Fighting for God in a secular Europe, conservative Christians, the Vatican and Islamic militants find a common cause.(Cover Story)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Carla Power (With Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Mike Elkin in Madrid, Joanna Kowalska in Warsaw and Marie Valla in London) Once upon a time, when the European Union was a simple common market, matters of faith were left to individual...

European Commission: Power Play? The Buttiglione affair highlights a political imbalance.(Cover Story)
November 8, 2004... Byline: William Underhill (With Marie Valla in London) It was a battle waiting for a battlefield. In one camp: the European Commission, the widely distrusted executive that steers the European Union. In the other: the European Parliament,...

The Mexican Paradox; High oil prices should be great news for the country. So why are officials fretting about its economy?
November 8, 2004... Byline: Scott Johnson Spirits have been high and coffers full in commodity-rich developing nations from West Africa to East Asia recently, thanks to record-high oil prices. Countries like Nigeria, Venezuela, East Timor and, of course, the...

Coming Out of the Cold; A new acceptance of whistle-blowers is bringing much-needed corporate accountability to Asia's biggest economy.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Christian Caryl and Kay Itoi For the past 30 years Hiroaki Kushioka has languished in corporate Japan's equivalent of Siberian exile. In 1974 he put his own conscience above company loyalty by going public with revelations about...

Slouching to Brussels; It's one thing to pass more liberal laws. It's another to enforce them. A progress report on the path to Europe.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Owen Matthews Eren Keskin may not look like a battle-hardened fighter, with her towering beehive hairdo and Cleopatra eyeliner. But the walls of her dingy legal office in downtown Istanbul are filled with mementos from 20 years of...

Stem Cell Rip-off; Moscow beauty salons are offering bogus stem-cell treatments for wrinkles, gray hair and other so-called ailments.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Nadya Titova and Frank Brown Vladimir Bryntsalov, a Moscow pharmaceutical tycoon, decided last year on the advice of a friend to seek a treatment for the gray hair and wrinkles that come with being 58 years old. He had a potent...

Selling Out for Science; Research: The shrill debate over stem cells in the United States has forced some scientists to hype their potential for cures.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Fred Guterl (With Jaime Cunningham, Joan Raymond and Ginanne Brownell) By the time Californians go to the polls this week, they will have endured months of Biology 101 lectures from celebrity activists such as eBay founder Pierre...

Singapore's Bling; The government's wealthy investment arm is moving billions offshore--and taking Singapore Inc. global.(Cover Story)
November 8, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop (With Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) You've heard of Singapore airlines. You've heard of Raffles hotels, and the telecoms giant SingTel. But have you heard of Temasek Holdings? It's the...

Stocks: Red Chips Rule; New York and London want their piece of Asia's biggest market.(New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange)(Cover Story)
November 8, 2004... Byline: William Underhill Singapore Inc. may be well placed to invest in Chinese companies, but when it comes to Chinese stock listings, the real war is being waged among the global majors: the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and,...

'Chill Breezes From the Past'; An incisive work explains Putin's shift toward centralized authority.(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Anna Kuchment Andrew Jack could hardly have picked a better time to come out with a book on Vladimir Putin. In the past two months, the Russian president has faced the worst string of terror attacks ever to hit Russian soil, from...

Under the Volcano II; Italy's new 'eco-mafia' makes garbage into gold. Along the way, it's turned Mount Vesuvius into a toxic dump.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Barbie Nadeau The view from Mount Vesuvius is one of Italy's finest. The Bay of Naples shimmers beyond lush olive groves and vineyards that cascade down the mountain's flanks. The ruins of ancient Pompeii remind tourists and locals...

Closing the Cybergates; Iran is trying to lure Internet users to a government network with the promise of five gigabytes of storage.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Maziar Bahari Hey world! Pay attention to us!" Hossein Derakhshan is tired of listening to the debate over Iran's nuclear-weapons program while the world turns a blind eye to oppression inside Iran. So he's making this plea--on his...

An Island Of Hobbits; A one-meter-tall human skeleton shocks scientists.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Adams One year ago, in a room in the Indonesia Center for Archeology in Jakarta, seven scientists huddled around a table and swore themselves to secrecy. In front of them, still dirtied by sediment, lay a skeleton the size...

He's Gone Out Of Fashion.(Tom Ford)(Interview)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Dana Thomas During the 1990s, Tom Ford was fashion's superstar, making hedonism hip again as he helped turn Gucci from a family-run Italian leather-goods company into a global luxury conglomerate. But in April, after a year of...

Dawn's Early Light.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Shashi Tharoor The doorman regarded us with undisguised skepticism. It was 3:30 a.m.--not the usual hour for visitors to drop by, even in Manhattan. "They're expecting us," I told him firmly. "Buzz upstairs and see." He did,...

Perspectives.(political quotes)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top: New York Times, Washington Times, BBC, AFP, Reuters, BBC, Sun-Sentinel "Your security is not in the hands of Bush or Kerry..." Osama bin Laden, in a taped broadcast aired on Al-Jazeera on Friday ...

Periscope.(Interview)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Mark Edmond Clark, Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball, Richard Wolffe, Tamara Lipper, Zahid Hussain, Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Allan Sloan, David J. Jefferson, Carla Power, Steve Friess, Zoran Cirjakovic, Nicki Gostin...

Snap Judgement: Movies.(Movie Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: David Ansen Birth Directed by Jonathan Glazer A wealthy Manhattan widow (Nicole Kidman) is about to remarry, a decade after her husband's death, when an intense 10-year-old (Cameron Bright) appears, insisting he's the...

Snap Judgement: Books.(In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Matthew Hermann, David Ansen, Andrew Nagorski In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue De Bellaigue may be married to an Iranian and speak flawless Farsi, but thankfully that hasn't dulled his outsider's...

Tip Sheet.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Emily Flynn, Sandy Lawrence Edry Style: The Bachelorette Pad By Emily Flynn Bridget Jones isn't the world's most enviable style icon. But if you can overlook her bunny ears and granny underwear, the hapless, overindulging...

Mail Call: The Healing Mind.(Letter to the Editor)
November 15, 2004... Readers of our Oct. 4 cover story on new discoveries about the mind-body connection were full of praise. One complimented us on coverage that's "more than helpful: it is a public service." A doctor thanked us for "sharing the information......

How the World Sees It: The world may have high hopes for the new administration, but the EU at least should look to its own house first; Today Europe's standing in the United States is so low that it scarcely figures in election rhetoric, let alone in U.S. geopolitical calculations.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik is director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.) Europeans were right. It was a world election. They favored Kerry, roughly 6-1. Now they must live with the result. Europeans opposed...

How the World Sees It: The world may have high hopes for the new administration, but the EU at least should look to its own house first; Asians do not want to be lectured. At the same time, unlike Europe, they do not lay down a standard to which America must conform.
November 15, 2004... Byline: Shekhar Gupta (Gupta is editor in chief of The Indian Express.) The new Asia knows how much it matters to America. So the first thing the region would expect is that the new White House would appreciate how differently it thinks...

Carlos Fuentes; A 'Community Of Interests'.(Interview)
November 15, 2004... Byline: Scott Johnson Carlos Fuentes is an accomplished Mexican novelist, journalist and essayist. He has spent many years in Europe, serving as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1974 to 1977. He's also been a teacher and fellow at...

What's the Difference?
November 15, 2004... Byline: Rob Long A friend from Paris called to gloat. "It looks like your side is losing." "What do you mean?" I sputtered defensively. "We're only down three games, and we've got four more to go." "What are you talking about?" ...

How Bush Did It; Exclusive: A team of NEWSWEEK reporters unveils the untold fears, secret battles and private emotions behind a historic election.(Cover Story)
November 15, 2004... Byline: This story is based on reporting by Eleanor Clift, Kevin Peraino, Jonathan Darman, Peter Goldman, Holly Bailey, Tamara Lipper and Suzanne Smalley. It was written by Evan Thomas. In the winter of 2003-04, Jenna Bush, one of the...

Talking the Talk; The Debates: As many as 62 million Americans watched as Kerry's skillful performance got him back in the game.(Cover Story)
November 15, 2004... Byline: This story is based on reporting by Eleanor Clift, Kevin Peraino, Jonathan Darman, Peter Goldman, Holly Bailey, Tamara Lipper and Suzanne Smalley. It was written by Evan Thomas. The BC04 high command, Karl Rove and Karen Hughes and...

Persicope.(Interview)
November 15, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Beith, Rich Thomas, John Barry, Frank Brown, Emily Flynn, Brian Braiker IRAN A Temporary Truce Has one of the world's hot spots begun to cool off? In the run-up to the U.S. election, both George W. Bush and John...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 22, 2004... An EU Contender Readers of our Oct. 11 story on the Turkish miracle shared their own views on the subject. One praised "visionaries like Ataturk and Dervis"; another deplored the Armenian genocide. As for joining the EU, a third said,...

Commies vs. Capitalists; Manmohan Singh's economic ambitions could be strangled by the leftists in his governing coalition.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Jason Overdorf In a pitch at the New York Stock Exchange in September, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked U.S. investors for $150 billion in foreign direct investment. His country desperately needs the money for...

The End of Shangri-La; A political vacuum and government incompetence are weakening resistance to the longstanding insurgency.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Jenny Dubin Last Tuesday the residents of Katmandu were jarringly reminded that their nation is not the idyllic redoubt it used to be. An enormous bomb blast ripped through a downtown government building still under construction....

Clash of Civilizations; Europeans talk of ethnic tolerance. But events in the Netherlands show how dangerously they are divided.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Friso Endt in The Hague, Eric Pape in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and Emily Flynn and Marie Valla in London) What's wrong with this picture? The airspace over the city is declared off-limits to all unauthorized...

Latinos And Lucre; The race is on to win America's Hispanic consumers.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Beith Four Latinos--a Dominican, a Mexican, a Cuban and an Argentine--walk up to the bar. Each asks for the best beer in the house in his own colloquial Spanish, and the bartender--the maestro de idiomas, or master of...

The Americas: Don't Expect Too Much; The new administration isn't likely to pay any more attention to Latin America in its second term than it did in its first.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Riordan Roett (ROETT directs the Western Hemisphere program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.) The newly crowned Bush administration will grab the spotlight in Latin America this month. The president...

Living a Fairy Tale; The bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen's birth brings a spate of new works revealing his darker side.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Emily Flynn Once upon a time there was a lonely writer from Copenhagen whose stories were filled with tragedy. His heroines died or suffered dismemberment, and critics panned his conversational writing style. Soon, however,...

India Kicks the Habit; Local drugmakers have built a thriving industry on pilfering patents. The party ends in January.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Seema Singh When Anglo-Swedish drug giant AstraZeneca launched its anti-ulcer drug Losec in 1989 in Europe and the United States, it was an instant blockbuster. Before the company had a chance to sell the drug in India, however,...

Swords Into Vodka; Kalashnikov, a legendary symbol of the declining small-arms trade, turns to new lines of work.
November 22, 2004... Byline: John Ness (With Bryon MacWilliams in Izhevsk and Stefan Theil in Berlin) If he had designed an athletic shoe, Lt. Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov wouldn't have to be hustling so hard at his age. Kalashnikov's gift for guns made him a hero...

Living With America; It's four more years. Here's how the world can turn them to opportunity--in partnership with America.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Timothy Garton Ash (Garton Ash is professor of European Studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His new book is "Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the...

Grover Norquist; We Will Crush Them Again.(Interview)
November 22, 2004... Byline: Michael Hastings If you're still looking for someone to blame for the U.S. election results, look no further than Republican strategist Grover Norquist. As a key architect of the modern conservative movement, he's spent the last...

The Price of Caring.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Rick Perera "Excuse me, Mr. White Man." The guy sloshing past me might be perplexed to see a group of foreigners with a TV camera, standing on the one dry spot in a giant puddle in the middle of an intersection. But if so, he...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
November 22, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: BBC, AFP, BBC (3), Craigslist.Org, Bloomberg "[He] incarnated our dignity and our honor." Muhammad Ebeid, a Palestinian living in Gaza, mourning the death of Palestinian leader Yasir...

Periscope.(TU Media)
November 22, 2004... Byline: Tracy McNicoll, Frank Brown and Mariya Rasner, Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai, Karen Springen, B. J. Lee, Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, Ginanne Brownell, Tara Pepper, Malcolm Beith, Nicki Gostin Cote d'Ivoire: France's...

Tip Sheet.
November 22, 2004... Byline: Ginanne Brownell and Brian Braiker, Sandy L. Edry, Alexandra A. Seno, Peter Snowdon, Jennifer Barrett Ozols, Michael Hastings, N'Gai Croal Business Travel: A Spa With Every Room By Ginanne Brownell and Brian Braiker The...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 29, 2004... The Dylan Legacy Our Oct. 18 story on Bob Dylan prompted fans to share their memories of growing up with his music. "He showed us that songs could have complexity," recalled one. "He stirred my imagination and challenged my world view,"...

Europe: Russian Rumblings; Forget an ever-closer union. The EU's giant neighbor is growing less and less interested in joining hands.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Frank Brown in Moscow) European diplomats called it "the Polish path." In this rosy view, Russia would--like Poland and other post-communist countries before it--proceed down a slow but steady path of...

Russian Governors: All the President's Men; Vladimir Putin says he can do a better job than the voters in picking regional leaders. But his talent pool is far too limited.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Frank Brown Earlier this month the people of the southern Russian republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia rebelled against their locally elected governor, Mustafa Batdyev. More than 3,000 of them ransacked Batdyev's offices, refusing to...

A Place to Call Home; Should all ethnic Hungarians be granted citizenship?
November 29, 2004... Byline: William Underhill History has been hard on Hungary. Just ask Miklos Patrubany. Like more than 1 million other ethnic Hungarians, the 52-year-old computer scientist lives in Transylvania, a scenic patch of Romania severed from the...

Getting Up to Speed; Once a backward target of Western ridicule, Slovakia is now widely seen as Europe's fastest reformer.
November 29, 2004... Byline: William Underhill (With Katka Krosnar in Prague) For a politician, Ivan Miklos exhibits a rare honesty. "This may be the most unpopular government in our country's short history," says Slovakia's Finance minister and a principal...

Fuel to the Fire; Rising tensions with China may add impetus to Japan's gradual shift to a more assertive military.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Hideko Takayama and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Few world leaders can pass up the temptation of a nice photo op with the men and women in uniform, and Junichiro Koizumi is no exception. So there was the Japanese prime...

Thaksin the Tough Guy; Is the hard-charging leader exacerbating separatist tensions?(Thaksin Shinawatra)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Joe Cochrane Thaksin Shinawatra, the confident Thai prime minister, spent last week doing something he undoubtedly hates: taking advice. It seems everybody, from the media to leading academics to the revered royal family, is urging...

The Longest Journey; A novel hidden since World War II sees the light of day.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Eric Pape "I am going on a journey," Irene Nemirovsky told her two young daughters on July 13, 1942, before leaving their village with French gendarmes. By then, Nemirovsky, a writer and a Jew, had no illusions about French...

The Dollar Deluge; The Bush team signals that its 'strong dollar' policy will be a reflection of its military policy: ideological and unilateral.(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Jeffrey E. Garten is dean of the Yale School of Management.) There was one telling sign about U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's trip to Europe this past week. Everywhere he went he reaffirmed that the Bush...

Speculators: The Play Is a Fantasy; Traders are betting that the Hong Kong dollar will come unstuck from the greenback, but we've seen this fail before.(foreign exchange outlook)(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong) They're back! Those soulless movers of hot money who toppled Asian currencies in 1997 are again betting that the Hong Kong dollar will abandon its long-held peg to the...

A Painter of Stories; Paula Rego's works are packed with layers of meaning.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper When artist Paula Rego was growing up in Lisbon in the 1940s, her grandparents and great-aunt would spin vivid stories rooted in Portugal's folklore tradition, thrilling and terrifying her with their embellished tales....

Africa, Police Thyself; Conflicts in the Ivory Coast and Sudan are raising the question of whether local forces can keep the peace.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Tom Masland (With Alexandra Polier in Nairobi) A mob raged through Abidjan's richest neighborhood, hunting whites. French tanks rolled out of a base near the airport to confront the militants. French warplanes had destroyed the tiny...

Green & Mean; Forget about those puny gas sippers. Carmakers are coming out with new hot-rod hybrids that promise to shake up the industry.(high performance hybrid vehicles)(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller and Keith Naughton (With Michael Hastings in New York, Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Hideko Takayama in Tokyo and Ginny Power in Paris) Avnish Bhatnagar has always lusted after fast cars like racy BMWs. But when the...

Customer Placement; The latest marketing trend makes the consumer a player inside the commercial.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Sarah Sennott During the summer of 2001, Mitsubishi's American dealerships were suddenly flooded with puzzling requests for the Lancer Evolution. Mitsubishi had never marketed this flashy compact sports car with a 271-horsepower...

Latin America: Shedding Bad Habits; The falling dollar should have the region in a funk. But trade flows remain strong, and a weak greenback cheapens debt.(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Mac Margolis For Latin Americans, the dollar has always been a mixed blessing. When the greenback is cheap, consumers splurge on imported goodies and take their holidays in Paris or Disney World--even as the region's trade balances...

Juggling Two Worlds; Richard Jefferson is bringing together scientists from rich and poor countries to fuel the interplay of ideas.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller It takes a pretty odd molecular-biology student to spend hours each day juggling in a troupe, but that's only one of many ways Richard Jefferson has demonstrated his independence. (Like performers, "really great...

Benita Ferrero-Waldner; Building a 'Ring Of Friends'.(Interview)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Emily Flynn Leaders from around the world will convene this week in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, to discuss the future of Iraq. Joining them will be the European Commission's new External Relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner....

Blue in the Reddest State.(political divide in Salt Lake City, Utah)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Andrew Ehrenkranz The booming tenor of the announcer's voice rose above the singing of a tabernacle choir, jarring me from my afternoon nap. "Get ready... for America's original gridiron holy war... the BYU Cougars invade Salt Lake...

Perspectives.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: AFP, The Scotsman, Associated Press ,Reuters (2), BBC "I want to avenge my comrades." Iraqi commando Abu Mustafa, who participated in the U.S. siege of Fallujah, vowing to kill Iraq's...

Periscope.
November 29, 2004... Byline: Phil Gunson, Peter Snowdon, Tracy McNicoll, Allan Sloan, Temma Ehrenfeld, Craig Simons, David Ansen, Peter Suciu, Andrew Romano Venezuela: Locking Up Liberty Venezuelan stability took another big hit as a car bomb exploded in...

Snap Judgement: Books.(The Lone Samurai)(Wild East)(Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 29, 2004... Byline: Hideko Takayama, Jenny Barchfield, Jeffrey Wasserstrom The Lone Samurai By William Scott Wilson Asked to name the best swordsman ever, most Japanese would pick Miyamoto Musashi, the famous 17th-century samurai turned artist...