Newsweek International articles from October 2001

Newsweek International archives from October 2001

Mail Call.
October 1, 2001... Bargain Vacations In the Balkans Many readers liked our Aug. 20 report on cool Balkan vacation spots. "Congratulations on an excellent article," said one. "How gratifying, after years in the wilderness, to see the Adriatic back on the...

Down the Tubes.(international economy)
October 1, 2001... Two weeks is an eternity in politics. In economics, major changes usually unfold over years. So the terrorist attack that triggered an eight-point political earthquake around the world has in some ways dealt the global economy a mere tremor....

Nightmare or Reality?(Review)
October 1, 2001... Much of post-Communist Europe appears to be suffering from an acute case of selective amnesia. Preoccupied with new problems and new traumas, many people remember only the alleged "stability" of the old system, the guarantees of full employment...

Keep on Truckin'.(international trade)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Overnight, it seems that our borderless world has become all about bottlenecks. The shock waves from New York have put international mergers on ice, rocked the travel and insurance industries and brought the U.S. operations of numerous overseas...

'Total Solidarity'.(War on Terrorism)
October 1, 2001... The persuader, as the British press has dubbed him for his high-profile role in the current crisis, was indefatigable last week. On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Tony Blair dined with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in Berlin; on...

A Fight Against The Faceless.(War on Terrorism, 2001-)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... In the first day after the attack on America, it appeared that there was almost a global constituency instantly built in favor of a war against terrorism. But for how long will Le Monde's headline of midmonth--we are all Americans now--serve as...

The Battle Ahead.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... In the coming months, years and perhaps decades, America's global war against terrorism will demand radical thinking on how to fight an enemy whose goal is to instill fear and confusion, whose armies are militia networks strewn across the globe...

Boots on The Ground.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Last week Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri added her voice to the chorus of leaders supporting America's war against terrorism, pledging the solidarity of the world's largest Muslim country "in this hour of grief." But back home...

Not Just for Kids Anymore.(comic books)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Rasim, an elderly Bosnian Muslim, describes a grim night in 1992 when Serb forces came to the town of Visegrad. They rounded up his Muslim neighbors and took them to a bridge on the Drina River. "Sometimes they shot them, but they preferred to...

The Germ Hunters.
October 1, 2001... In his camouflage fatigues and mud boots, and with a hunting knife at his hip, Luiz Eloy Pereira looks ready for jungle combat. He is a burly, broad-backed man with rubber gloves over outsize hands. But the enemy today doesn't look like much of...

A Rebel's Last Yell.(Ahmed Shah Massoud)(Interview)
October 1, 2001... Ahmed Shah Massoud, the charismatic resistance fighter and head of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, might have played a key role in any U.S. assault on the Taliban regime. But earlier this month two suicidal assassins posing as journalists--and...

The Show Must Go On.(New York after September 11)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... "Make New York City the place it ought to be." New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is urging us all to go out, to a show, to a bar, to a restaurant... Anything to return life to normal. It hasn't been easy. Everything enjoyable in the city now has...

Go Ahead, Use the Web. Just Keep Your Mouth Shut.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Singapore has invested $856 million since 1977 in making government more accessible online. Most motorists now register their vehicles on the Web, job hunters browse the civil-service offerings and students explore career prospects at the...

Perspectives.
October 1, 2001... "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." U.S. President George W. Bush, giving all nations of the world a choice last Thursday during his address to Congress "They want to be a prosecutor and an executioner all in one."...

An Attack on the World.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The acts of Sept. 11 were truly an attack on the world. Last week more than 6,000 were missing in the rubble of what was once the World Trade Center; President George W. Bush estimated that citizens of 80 countries were lost in the tragedy,...

Cleaning Up.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The list of suspected contaminants at "ground zero," now considered the worst environmental disaster ever in a major city, is growing: asbestos and other carcinogenic fibers in the blanket of dust, freon from the air-conditioning system (the...

Water Lily.(Typhoon Nari , Taiwan)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Nobody needed last week's Typhoon Nari less than Taiwan. The island is in its worst recession in 30 years, unemployment is skyrocketing, the stock market is in shambles and too many businesses are moving to China, land of low wages, cheap...

Cashing In on Acts of Horror?(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Did terrorists cash in on the atrocities of Sept. 11? Securities regulators in Europe and the United States are investigating reports of unusual stock trading prior to that date, specifically in the airline and insurance industries, likely to...

Peace Now!(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... September's IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington were expected to be a hotbed of protest. But now that they've been canceled, the protesters have a new call to arms: peace. Robert Weissman, an organizer for Mobilization for Global Justice,...

Periscope.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Sami Ul-haq, head of Pakistan's biggest religious school responsible for training many of Afghanistan's Taliban leaders, is considered Osama bin Laden's closest ally in Pakistan. He founded the Afghan Defense Council, which has taken to the...

Mail Call.
October 8, 2001... 'We Are All in This Together' After the Sept. 11 terrorist hijacking attacks, more than a thousand people wrote to share their sorrow and outrage with us. Everyone offered sympathy and condolences; many blamed U.S. foreign policy and...

Reading the Leaders' Minds.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Vladimir Putin Sept. 11 represents a golden opportunity to cement Russia's standing in the West. Military types bridle at NATO's using Russian airspace and stationing forces in former Soviet republics. But for Putin it's a no- brainer. The...

Give More U.S. Aid...(United States and foreign policy)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... A couple of years ago I had a conversation with Paul Nitze, one of the last living "Wise Men," the generation of policymakers that gave America its successful cold-war containment strategy. Nitze, white- bearded and frail, recalled a moment a...

... No-Trade, Not Aid.(third world development)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 8, 2001... For good and ill, foreign aid is back--a weapon in the new war against terror. First comes debt relief for Pakistan, which owes $37 billion. What next? A flood of new development funds for Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India and others seems almost...

Turning Tragedy Into Art.(artistic self-expression and war in history)
October 8, 2001... Within minutes of the attacks on the World Trade Center, one artist- photographer, whose show of arctic landscapes sold out last year, rushed into the smoking ruins to take pictures of the hellish scene. His photographs will presumably find...

The (Not So) Simple Lessons.(the economy)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Should the United States government be spending money to avoid a recession, particularly in the wake of the terrorist attack? The lessons from abroad would suggest, at least superficially, that the answer is a resounding "no." In Japan, 10...

Politics on Fast Forward.(Poland elects Democratic Left Alliance)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... For anyone who tuned out of Polish politics after the triumph of Solidarity and the downfall of communism in 1989, the results of the latest elections in Poland must have been bewildering. The Democratic Left Alliance, as the former communists...

Storming the Fortress.(freezing terrorists bank accounts)
October 8, 2001... Even before President George W. Bush unveiled his "most wanted" list of suspected terrorist financiers last week, bankers around the world were rushing to make sure they weren't holding the wrong money bags. Accounts had already been frozen in...

In the Hot Zone.(United States freezes terrorist bank accounts)
October 8, 2001... He's never given an interview. Few images of him exist. His most detailed biography fits comfortably on a single page. And he moves like a wraith through one of the world's most inaccessible regions. His name is Juma Namangani, and he is the...

Take That, Gringos.(public opinion on United States from Latin America)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... The smoke was still thick over lower Manhattan when Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso started working the telephone. Like millions of Latin Americans, Cardoso had watched America's morning of infamy in horror, and was convinced that...

Quivering Heights.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... From New York to Shanghai, cities have raced for decades to erect the world's tallest skyscrapers. Structures like Chicago's 443-meter-tall Sears Tower or Kuala Lumpur's 452-meter-high Petronas twins have served as powerful totems, shouting out...

The Price of Patronage.(Pakistan's role in War on Terrorism)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 8, 2001... Benazir Bhutto served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. Since 1996 her husband, Asif Zardari, has been imprisoned in Pakistan on charges of corruption, and Bhutto herself has lived in exile. The...

'No Victors, No Defeated'.(Haruki Murakami)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 8, 2001... Following the 1995 sarin-gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in the Tokyo subway, the noted novelist Haruki Murakami moved back to Japan from America and wrote an oral history of the event. "Underground" is a peerless examination of the way...

A Washingtonian Looks At His City.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Perhaps it's just me, a Brit living in America. But Washington had a distinctly orphaned feeling as September drew to its unhappy close. The nation's heart bled for those burned and buried in New York, and for the all-American heroes dead in...

International Cyberscope.(includes multiple articles)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... DOT-COMS Fame and Failure It was only a matter of time before Europe's dot-com poster children rose from the ashes of their worthless stock options and made another grab at fame and fortune. Just as books like "Burn Rate" and films...

The Real World of Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... If you read Washington's newspapers and magazines these days, you'd think that we have just passed the D-Day of this war. Pundits, editorialists and television commentators are busy mapping out our strategy for the war on terrorism after we...

Perspectives.(terrorism)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... "I wonder what Osama bin Laden did in his cave in Afghanistan yesterday?" New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, proud of the fact that he, like many Americans, managed to enjoy the weekend with his family "We are not with you. At the...

The Running of the Bulls.(United States economy)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... By most accounts, the United States was in a recession before Sept. 11. And the news seems only to get worse. U.S. jobless claims have soared to 450,000 from 392,000 just two weeks ago--in part due to massive airline layoffs. It's the...

Welcome to Word War I.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... The "war" against terrorism has become a semantic minefield. President George W. Bush even called it a "crusade," to the consternation of his staff, which quickly issued a retraction lest the boss be seen as declaring war against all Islam....

The Most Fortunate People in the World.(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... For the past two weeks, it's been all bin Laden, all the time. He diverted the attention of the world's most outspoken media and critics, allowing several scandal-ridden politicians around the globe to escape an unwelcome glare. PERI's gallery...

Clashing Realities.(CBS Inc., Cable News Network)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... Who'll win the first "real" battle? CBS, maker of the hit reality show "Survivor," or CNN's likely 24-hour war coverage? So far, it looks like reality has reality TV scared silly. CBS had looked to Jordan as a location for the fourth season,...

What a Nice Afghan!(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)(Brief Article)
October 8, 2001... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is speaking out about a war against Afghanistan in its new ad (below), to be published in U.S. magazines this month. Wait a minute. Doesn't PETA represent animals? That's still its main focus,...

Mail Call.
October 15, 2001... The Deep Roots Of Terrorism The week after the Sept. 11 tragedy, 2,000 readers wrote in, looking for explanations. Some faulted U.S. arrogance and lack of understanding; others blamed fundamentalist narrowness or lack of Muslim...

Picking One's Friends : Just as the world seems to be waking up to the threat of Muslim extremism in South Asia, the region's awkward giant is feeling left out in the cold.
October 15, 2001... For the last couple of years, India has liked to describe itself as the "natural ally" of the United States. The term is meant in part to distinguish the country from Asia's other massive, nuclear-capable state--undemocratic China. And it...

Bringing Up The Rear : An embarrassed Japan tries to join the fight.(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... To this day Japan remembers the allied victory during the gulf war as a national humiliation. Hamstrung by public opinion and its American-imposed "peace constitution," the country's Self-Defense Forces couldn't join the military campaign that...

The Future Is a Flying Fortress : After the terror, aircraft regulators and manufacturers begin planning the 'post-Sept. 11 airplane'.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... The world's largest jetliner is being redesigned so that it won't become the world's largest suicide bomb. On the drawing board long before Sept. 11, Airbus's double-decker A380 will be much larger than the Boeing 767s that took down the towers...

Holy War On the Web : Islamic militant groups turn to the Internet to promote their cause.(Laskar Jihad)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... The Muslim militants engaged in a blood feud with Christians in Indonesia's fabled Spice Islands arm themselves with spears and machetes. But their leaders are literate, media-savvy--and wired. The Laskar Jihad, a Java-based group that claims...

Pining for a Breakthrough : Despite years of ostracism, a small and dwindling army of cold-fusion faithful are ever hopeful.(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Twelve years ago researchers at the University of Utah claimed to have found a cheap and easy way of producing energy from a nuclear-fusion reaction. This was one of the holy grails of physics. Scientists at the big energy laboratories had been...

The Secrets of a Mosque : Does a little corner of north London have links to a wide world of terror?(Reda Hassaine)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Reda Hassaine fancies himself a spy. Like the terrorists who struck at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he has been undercover for half a decade, living a nondescript and outwardly unremarkable life, except perhaps in his own...

An Art Tour of the Tacky : Leave the Louvre behind, avoid the masses at the Met. Here's our guide to some truly weird museums. See New Jersey trash, Swiss frogs and more.
October 15, 2001... Who says a museum has to be about art? With worldwide museum attendance higher in the past decade than ever, curators are realizing they don't need a Picasso to bring in the crowds. Mummies, or shoes--or even bananas--will work just as well....

The Quagmire That Awaits.(Vladimir Pesterev)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 15, 2001... Col. Vladimir Pesterev (Ret.) shares his experiences and reflects on the dangers of a ground war in Afghanistan Col. Vladimir Pesterev (Ret.) was the commander of a motorized rifle division during the unsuccessful 10-year Soviet occupation...

Divided Lives : An Arab Journalist Living in America Reflects on Terrorism.(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Estrangement. Incomprehension. Schizophrenia. As an Arab journalist in America, I have lived a deeply divided life since terror struck down the Twin Towers. And I fear the consequences, for me and my two peoples, Arabs and Americans. I was...

Cyberscope.(includes multiple articles)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... SECURITY How Do I Know You're You? The need to find better ways of ensuring that people are who they say they are is a hot topic these days among not only government agencies but private businessess as well. "Companies are really...

Perspectives.
October 15, 2001... "You can call those numbers the bin Laden numbers." U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, noting that American businesses cut 200,000 jobs in September, the largest layoffs in more than a decade "Don't repeat the terrible mistakes of 1938,...

Is There Room for Optimism?(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... We knew things were bad before Sept. 11--and worse after. The latest U.S. figures for last month showed the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in a decade; in addition, shipments of capital goods sank to the lowest level in 25 years, a dismal...

What's Under Your Burqa?(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... The Taliban has relaxed rules on having women wear the all-covering burqa, especially near Afghanistan's borders. A victory for modernism? Nah. The Taliban is moving to prevent another Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist who recently sneaked...

Lift Off!(Juan Pablo Nigita)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Name the first tourist in space!" Nineteen-year-old Juan Pablo Nigita, from Argentina, did--identifying U.S. businessman Dennis Tito. Nigita's prize from his Internet provider: a trip to... you guessed it. But he's only going as far as the...

Cronyism Is.(Indonesia)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Still King As if Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri didn't have enough problems. While she was out of the country last month trying to entice wary foreign investors, militant Muslims at home threatened to storm the U.S. Embassy and...

Osama's Day In Court.(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... In 1995, while preparing his trial defense for Timothy McVeigh, lead counsel Stephen Jones tried to come up with alternative suspects. Osama bin Laden was one, prompting Jones to joke, "Just imagine how difficult it would be for us if the...

Viva the.(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... Crusades? After the pope recently supported measures to "bring those responsible [for Sept. 11] to justice" and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi decreed that the West is "superior to Islam," Italians may have been feeling nervous. Then...

Has Dubya Become a Diplomat?(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... He was the missile-slinging cowboy, a "cartoon oilman belching out carbon fumes," as London's Guardian put it. But since Sept. 11 George W. Bush has grown. The boy president has come to be seen as a man--indeed, a statesman. Adjectives PERI...

Nuances.(accountants respond to crises)(Brief Article)
October 15, 2001... How do accountants respond to crises? Like accountants, obviously. Though unusual, the WTC attack was nothing "extraordinary," the Financial Accounting Standards Board ruled last week. That's a big issue for the bean-counting set: an...

A True American Original.(Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
October 22, 2001... When Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was finally awarded a gold medal in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1904, he said to the academy president, "You've got a heap of impudence to give me a medal." (Eakins had been dismissed from...

His Big Gamble.(Vladimir Putin)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Vladimir Putin has been enjoying the limelight. He's been lionized by NATO and feted by Tony Blair. His speech to the German Parliament got raves. Even President George W. Bush seems to be taking a softer line on Moscow's military campaign in...

A Fine Balance.(Pakistan's anti-Taliban campaign)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 22, 2001... When the United States went to war against the Taliban in Afghanistan last week, Pakistan launched a simultaneous anti-Taliban campaign as well--within its own borders. President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, has made it clear...

Vive La Mode!(Paris fashion shows)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 22, 2001... What's French for "The show must go on"? Ask the kings and queens of the rag trade. Even as the bombs dropped on Jalalabad last week, fashion's top designers strutted their spring collections in Paris--and they did it with gusto. At Chanel's...

With a Wave of God's Hand.(Shinichi Fujimura admits hoax)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 22, 2001... Shinichi Fujimura once boasted that he could "see 500,000-year-old landscapes." An amateur Japanese paleontologist with an uncanny knack for finding buried relics, he was rumored to have supernatural powers, and colleagues gave him the nickname...

Taking From the Poor.(financing terrorism)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 22, 2001... The Muslim orphanage in the southern Philippine town of Cotabato is an unprepossessing place. The building is decrepit, its doors rusted halfway open. Inside, three times a day, its 34 orphans sit in a tight circle reciting the Quran for an...

A Voice for Dire Times.(V.S. Naipaul)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Literary oddsmakers were caught short last week with the announcement that V. S. Naipaul had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Sir Vidia has long been thought unofficially ineligible, not least because of the rudeness and thorough-going...

How We Buy Our Lemons.(Nobel Prize in Economics winners)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Whom to trust? That question had become so hard to answer by the middle of the scam-riddled 19th century that governments began licensing doctors, writing building codes and generally laying down the broad web of rules and warranties that now...

Seize The Day!(Prime Minister Tony Blair, foreign relations)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Tony Blair is at peace with war. He's the architect who helped George W. Bush build a broad coalition in the war on terrorism. He's the globe-trotting geopolitician who's covering about one country every two days, schmoozing presidents and...

A Friend of America.(Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 22, 2001... Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose ego matches his enormous fortune, should have known better. Before the billionaire investor (Citicorp, Disneyland Paris, Four Seasons Hotels) went to visit Ground Zero last week, friends had cautioned him...

Facing Our Fear.(aftermath, September 11th, 2001)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... We just concluded a decade in which the most prominent sitcom, "Seinfeld," was a show about nothing. There was a magazine called George, which ran probing interviews on things like what Madonna would do if she were president. We had an...

International Cyberscope.(various; semiconductor industry, Internet developments)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... TECHNOLOGY Chip Chemistry When it comes to computer chips, smaller means cheaper, faster and better. One day engineers expect to reach the limit on how small they can make chips, and they'll need something new. Recently carbon...

How Powerful Should He Be?(Tom Ridge)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Even as George W. Bush released an executive order detailing the job of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, the plan hit a snag: Congress. The House and Senate were already at work on competing organizational approaches that would radically...

Sending the Wrong Message.(United States Navy)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Bush last week called Osama bin Laden's accomplices "thugs and criminals." The U.S. Navy used a different term. The Associated Press transmitted a photo of a "Navy officer" signing a bomb bearing the inscription high jack [sic] this fags. After...

Lost Artwork.(aftermath, September 11th, 2001)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... When the world Trade Center towers came crumbling down, so did nearly $100 million of art, including dozens of sculptures by Auguste Rodin and a painting from Roy Lichtenstein's "Entablature" series. A complete inventory hasn't been released,...

Talk About Foresight.(Here is New York by E. B. White)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
October 22, 2001... A Riddle In Steel and Stone" is how E. B. White once famously evoked New York, the city he loved. But even then its beauty was oddly fragile: "The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no...

The Onion.(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 22, 2001... After taking a week off, the online news parodists at The Onion have seen weekly traffic nearly double in the wake of the attacks. Why? "You're the first people that have made any sense of this," e-mails one fan. NEWSWEEK's Bret Begun talked...

Mood Swings.(best selling books reflect state of nation)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Last week, Americans inched closer to normalcy. The Empire State Building--now New York's tallest--prepared to reopen; airline ticket sales rose, and the Dow Jones industrial average closed at its highest level since Sept. 10. But the truest...

Bert bin Laden.(Osama bin Laden poster)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Normally paired with Muppet pal Ernie, Bert, the cantankerous "Sesame Street" muppet, popped up on pro-Osama bin Laden posters in Bangladesh last week. It seems poster makers had downloaded the image--a doctored photo of the beloved muppet with...

Slipping Through The Net.(Osama bin Laden network)(Brief Article)
October 22, 2001... Bush officials are publicly praising Europeans' help in investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, but in fact continental law-enforcement agencies have stumbled in pursuit of the bin Laden network. * German investigators are belatedly chasing...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
October 29, 2001... Struggling to Make Sense of Terrorism In response to our ongoing coverage of terrorism, many readers sent in compliments. "Congratulations on your comprehensive coverage," wrote one who believed that "reporters should be treated as...

The Jihad Next Door.(Pakistanis recruited to fight for Kashmir)
October 29, 2001... Murad Khan's journey from schoolboy to prisoner of war began in a dirt- poor village in Pakistan's North-West Frontier province five years ago. At a government secondary school in Khanpur, he recalls, nearly all the boys in his class were...