Newsweek International articles from October 2004

Newsweek International archives from October 2004

Mail Call: Greece's Games.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2004... Readers of our Aug. 16 cover story on Olympics 2004 shared their views on the Games. One related how Athens was transformed in the "extraordinary atmosphere of that 17-day-long party." Another said, "Greek citizens paid a high price for hosting...

A Question of When; Tony Blair prepares to go for his third term. After that, does he step aside?
October 4, 2004... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn and Peter Snowdon) Nine words you will never hear at 10 Downing Street: "I hope to go on and on and on." On a political high in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made the mistake of uttering them, and three...

Smoking Grass; A U.S. study of Frankenfood crops spells trouble for Europe.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Carla Power (With Emily Flynn in London, Tracy McNicoll in Paris and Stefan Theil in Berlin) Wind blows pollen. That's not news, unless the pollen in question happens to be genetically modified and blowing across Europe. In that...

Workers for the World; The country's prime export is people. But is migration a real development strategy?
October 4, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Marites Vitug Galicano Solares lives beneath a highway overpass in a dank Manila slum. His on-again, off-again construction job pays $4 a day, considerably more than he earned in the gold mines of Bicol before...

The Almighty Yuan; Beijing inspires a new Asian mercantilism.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Stephen Glain Old habits are hard to kick, particularly profitable ones. The Asian practice of fixing currencies to the American dollar at rates that boost exports is back, seven years after it collapsed in the currency crises of...

Making the Most of It; An impressive debut by a 19-year-old novelist who takes an upbeat view of immigrant life outside Paris.(Book Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jenny Barchfield Poverty, inequality, racism-- generally speaking, these are not the subjects of comedy. But in her debut novel "Kiffe Kiffe Demain" (193 pages. Hachette Litteratures. French edition) , 19-year-old Faiza Guene...

Journalism Onstage; David Hare dissects the lead-up to the war in Iraq.(Stuff Happens)(Theater Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper Talk about biased reviewers. When British playwright David Hare's latest controversial offering, "Stuff Happens," previewed at London's National Theatre earlier this month, The Guardian newspaper broke with protocol and...

Pervez Musharraf; 'I Have Yet To Decide'.(Interview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth In spite of his close alliance with the Bush administration in the war against terror, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf last week made clear he has some policy disagreements with the White House. In a...

Sand-Trap Diplomacy.(South Koreans play golf in Japan)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Hideko Takayama A couple of my South Korean friends called me recently, a few weeks apart, from obscure towns in Japan. Neither was attending a business conference or scholarly seminar. They were playing golf. Both had flown...

Brain Check; Scientists are mapping the pathways that link emotion to health. The challenge for the rest of us is to put the discoveries to work.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Herbert Benson, M.D., Julie Corliss and Geoffrey Cowley (Benson is the Mind/Body Medical Institute Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston. Corliss is...

Relaxation: Ways to Calm Your Mind.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... (For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Over the past three decades scores of studies have confirmed the benefits of what we call the "relaxation response," a state of mental calm during which your blood pressure drops,...

Buddha Lessons; A technique called 'mindfulness' teaches how to step back from pain and the worries of life.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Claudia Kalb (With Clint Witchalls in London) At the age of 39, Janet Clarke discovered that she had a benign spinal tumor, which caused her unremitting back pain. Painkillers helped, but it wasn't until she took a meditation course...

Forgive and Let Live; Revenge is sweet, but letting go of anger at those who wronged you is a smart route to good health.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Of all the extraordinary events in the life of John Paul II, few can compare with the 21 minutes he spent in a white-walled cell in Rome's Rebibia prison. Just after Christmas, 1983, the pope visited Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who 30 months...

We All Need a Dose of the Doctor; The healing relationship between patient and physician plays a vital role in medical care.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... (Miller is editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter (health.harvard.edu).) You're the doctor. Your patient feels ill, but you don't have anything curative in your medicine bag. What do you do? That question has long stymied...

Digestion: Soothing a Sensitive Gut.(stress related digestive problems can be treated with mind body medicine)(use of relaxation therapy, hypnotherapy and biofeedback)(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... (Adapted from "The Sensitive Gut," a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School. For more info, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) It's probably happened to you. You're driving to work and suddenly remember that a neglected...

Combination Therapy; Mind-body techniques may not cure cancer, but they make living with it a whole lot easier.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Peg Tyre (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo) Akiko Negishi is no ordinary mountain climber. Fifteen years ago doctors removed a malignant lymphatic tumor from her abdomen and along with it her stomach, gall bladder and part of her...

A New Fertility Factor; Stress is just one of many obstacles to pregnancy, but it's one you can control.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Alice D. Domar, PH.D. (Adapted from "6 Steps to Increased Fertility" by Robert L. Barbieri, M.D.; Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., and Kevin R. Loughlin, M.D. (Fireside. 2001). For more information about mind-body techniques and fertility go to...

Menopause: Easing the Transition.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Nancy Ferrari; Leslee Kagan, N.P.; Bruce Kessel, M.D., and Herbert Benson, M.D. (Adapted from "Mind Over Menopause: The Complete Mind/Body Approach to Coping With Menopause" (Free Press. 2004). For more information go to...

Altered States; Hypnosis can help with problems from anxiety to pain. How it works, and what it does in the brain.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: David Noonan (With Sarah Sennot in London) Christina Bodie, 48, was driving with her parents seven years ago when her car was rear-ended. All three suffered whiplash and bruises. Long after the physical pain was gone, Christina...

This Is Serious Fun; Can videogames equipped with neurofeedback help kids deal with their learning disabilities?(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: N'Gai Croal A stitch in time saves nine. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And videogames will rot your brain. Conventional wisdom? Maybe, but psychologist Dominic Greco is determined to prove that at least one of those sayings...

How to Think About the Mind.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Steven Pinker (Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the psychology department at Harvard. His books include "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate.") Every evening our eyes tell us that the sun sets, while we know that,...

For a Happy Heart; Depression, loneliness and anger take a toll on cardiac health. New research shows how to help.(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood The Japanese have a word for it--karoshi, or "death by overwork." But can stress on the job really do you in? Finnish researchers decided to find out. The years 1991 to 1993 in Finland were as bad as it generally...

Pain and Mood: Depression Hurts.(research on the link between chronic pain and depression)(Excerpt)(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: James Bakalar (Adapted from the Harvard Mental Health Letter. For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Every child knows that a scraped knee can bring tears as well as blood. Physical pain always has emotional...

No Place is Safe; Life in Baghdad: Some suicide bombings don't even get headlines anymore.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland (With Joseph Contreras in Baghdad, Eve Conant in Washington, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Emily Flynn in London and Eric Pape in Paris) Bricks and plaster blew inward from the wall, as the windows all shattered and I fell to...

The Ground Game; 'F2F': Yes, debates are key. But the real action is in the trenches, getting bodies to the polls.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Tamara Lipper and T. Trent Gegax in Washington, Arian Campo-Flores in Florida, Rebecca Sinderbrand in Wisconsin, Holly Bailey in New Hampshire, Richard Wolffe with Kerry and Susannah Meadows in New York) The...

Perspectives.(quotations )(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom: The Washington Post, CNN, BBC News, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press "Nothing's perfect in life." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , discussing the...

Periscope.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Dan Ephron, Mark Hosenball, Eric Unmacht, Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, John Sparks, Kathryn Williams, Ramin Setoodeh, Lisa Helem, Nicki Gostin ISRAEL Withdrawal Symptoms The closer Israel gets to withdrawing from...

Snap Judgment: Books.(The War for Muslim Minds)(Essay on Lucidity)(Lilla's Feast)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Michael Meyer, Jenny Barchfield, Ginanne Brownell The War for Muslim Minds by Gilles Kepel For radical jihadists, the "triumph" of 9/11 was not the downing of New York's Twin Towers but its ability to attract sympathizers to...

Tip Sheet.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Barbie Nadeau, Michelle Jana Chan, Ginanne Brownell Home: Throwing It All Away By Barbie Nadeau For anyone living in cramped quarters, the No. 1 enemy is clutter--you know, the stuff that falls on your head when you open a...

Mail Call: European Prejudice.(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... Our Aug. 23 story on racism evoked bitter resistance. "Oriana Fallaci's a rare voice of truth," wrote one. Complained another, "Muslims identify with Islam and their old country, not with their new homeland." Racism in Europe? In your...

A Good European? Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan has transformed his country. But is he ready for a global stage? Doubts abound.(Cover Story)(Biography)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Owen Matthews (With Sami Kohen in Ankara) Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come a long way in a short time. Just five years ago he was considered a dangerous subversive, sitting out a nine-month jail term for inciting religious hatred. Now...

And Now, the Turkish Model.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Graham E. Fuller (Fuller is a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA. His latest book is "The Future of Political Islam.") While violence seems to consume so much of the Muslim world, a different kind...

Literary Leaders; How do French politicians prove they've got what it takes to hold public office? They write lots of books.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Eric Pape (With Jenny Barchfield in Paris) Americans running for office tend to head to the local bar; image makers suggest U.S. voters favor the candidate they can envision sharing a beer with. But in France, the pen has long been...

Return of the PRI; The old guard is making a political comeback, but have the 'dinosaurs' really changed?(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras (With Maria Amparo Lasso in Mexico) Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has regained its political swagger, and Fidel Herrera thinks he knows why. The governor-elect of Veracruz state is the latest in a...

Economy: New Age 'Gastarbeiter'; Should Europe fear unchecked immigration from Turkey? No. In fact, it ought to pray for it--along with the rest of the EU.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Rana Foroohar and Owen Matthews Turkey may be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. It may have cleaned up its banking system, simplified its tax code and become the darling of emerging-market investors everywhere. Yet...

Kamal Kharrazi; We Are Proud Of Our Missiles.(Interview)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth Bush administration worries over Iran are mounting: about its nuclear program, about Iran's murky role in the mayhem of Iraq, about ties to terrorists. What does Tehran have to say for itself? Iran's foreign...

Spread Your Legs, and Smile!(airport security)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Shashi Tharoor I've been a frequent flier since I was 6, when my parents packed me off to a boarding school far from home. Working at the United Nations for the past 20 years has only confirmed my blase attitudes toward air travel....

Digital Hotels.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Forget fruit baskets. Now, the only apples luxury Asian hoteliers want to talk about are the iPod kind. Hong Kong's five-star Le Meridien Cyberport loans the digital music players to guests working out in the gym....

DIGITAL MASTERS; Inside story: How South Korea's Samsung rose from also-ran to leader of the worldwide race to digitize your life.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Rana Foroohar and B. J. Lee Lee Jong Jin, 51, is no couch potato. But lounging in his apartment overlooking the mountains of Seoul, the international trader has little reason to leave his sofa. As he watches an interactive game...

Wafer War; Computer chips: Taiwan is challenging America at the cutting edge of chipmaking technology.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Adams Back in 2002, engineers charged with making the next generation of computer chips due out in 2010 found themselves staring into the abyss. Corporate strategies were already being mapped out on the assumption that...

The Field Of Biotech Dreams.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Within the shiny new glass and metal buildings of the Biopolis complex in Singapore, computers are hard at work on the Encyclopedia of Life. Building on the Human Genome Project, which took a decade to catalog...

Agents Of Gear; Military research: Turning out 007-like gadgets in Singapore.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Lee Shang Ping's radio is dead. So he jogs in place, jumps up and down, and the radio hidden in his camouflage suit springs to life, blaring Mandarin pop. It runs on energy generated when he steps on cells...

Seeds of Invention; Research: These are boom times for Asian R&D. But can Chinese and Indian scientists get their ideas into the marketplace?(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar and Melinda Liu (With Fred Guterl in New York and Arvind Padmanabhan in New Delhi) The only thing a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science did for Amit Nanavati was make him overqualified for most of the available jobs...

First Lady; In Asia: India's top biotech CEO begs to differ with those who say Singapore leads the field.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar When Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, now 51, set up a little operation in 1978 extracting an enzyme from papayas in her garage in a leafy neighborhood of Bangalore, few in India had ever heard of biotechnology. Her ambition: to...

Doctor Visits; Like software: Indian hospitals are outsourcing care.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Seema Singh For Gregory Bates a holiday on the sunny beaches of Goa ended abruptly--in the hospital. The 54-year-old British weightlifter checked into the Wockhardt Heart Hospital in Bangalore in July with chest pains. His first...

Spreading The Know-How.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Sudip Mazumdar Long before American companies started outsourcing jobs to Bangalore, entrepreneur Rajendra Pawar made an audacious proposition to IBM, the world's largest trainer of IT professionals. He offered his company's...

Asia Bound; E-commerce: As growth slows at home, firms like eBay, Yahoo and Amazon head east.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller In some ways, China is an unlikely hotbed for e-commerce. Only 38 percent of online buyers pay with credit or debit cards, using instead a cash-on-delivery system powered by armies of bicycle messengers. There's...

Mary Redux.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Michael Hastings Mary Meeker made and later unmade her reputation as an analyst with "The Internet Report," a path-breaking 1995 tome that claimed making money in this exciting new sector was like "shooting fish in a barrel." We...

Phone Power; On the cheap: Asians are buying up U.S. digital networks.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing and Jason Overdorf in New Delhi) Pity the poor western telecom. The digital networks on which American carriers spent billions in the late 1990s are being snapped up in fire sales by...

The Commissar's Not In Town.(e-government in China)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu When Guangzhou resident Ma Yiyong, 57, went to renew his unemployment certificate last month, something extraordinary happened: he did so efficiently and discreetly, with a few keystrokes. "It used to be really...

The Third Fool; Pioneers: A tiny German outfit seeks to extend the Internet to Pyongyang, which is not quite ready for it.(Gunter Unterbeck to provide North Korea with Internet service)(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Ron Gluckman Gunter Unterbeck's eyes mist as he describes an outsourcing market that really excites the imagination. Skills are high, labor cheaper than in India or China. Best of all, Unterbeck seems to have this dreamland all to...

Legend of the Fall; Gaming: Nintendo and other Japanese firms used to dominate the industry. But the world changed, and they didn't.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: N'Gai Croal (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Nintendo's press conferences at the Los Angeles Electronic Entertainment Expo have always been more raucous than those of its competitors. But recently the company seems to be trying a bit too...

Gray Market; New industry: Scavengers collect virtual booty in online games and sell it for real cash.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Mark Russell K. sits in front of his computers for 12 to 15 hours a day, playing games for a living. He is a scavenger in the kind of online games that involve as many as 200,000 players building or battling in elaborate virtual...

Right At The Drawing Board.(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Having worked on some of the Matrix films, "Shrek" and "Stuart Little," Nikson Fong is very much in demand in Hollywood as a digital-animation specialist. Yet when he decided to set up his own production...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: CNN, BBC News (2), Guardian, Agence France Presse, MSN Slate, Reuters "We should not wait any more than we have already." Person identified on a videotape as Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's...

Periscope.
October 11, 2004... Byline: John D. Sparks and Eve Conant, Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama, Malcolm Beith, Allan Sloan, Peter Suciu, Malcolm Jones, Lorraine Ali, Nicki Gostin Oil: Beyond the Horizon As oil prices breached the $50 mark again last...

The Tip Sheet.(fake fur fashion)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Emily Flynn (Marina Suponina-Calland) Fashion: Faking It With Fall Fur By Emily Flynn Fur may be big in the United States and on the catwalks, but Europe's animal-rights activists aren't having any of it. Fake fur? That's...

Mail Call: Archeology or Faith?(Letter to the Editor)
October 18, 2004... The subject of our Aug. 30 report on the looting of archeological sites in the Middle East rattled many readers. "What would surviving physical evidence be? Sandals used by Jesus? A table made by him?" jeered one. Said another, "Impact on...

Rich Man's Crusade; Money wars: George Soros is spending millions to defeat George W. Bush. His critics say it's bad for democracy. Soros says Bush is worse. Inside one man's crusade to change America.(Cover Story)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Marcus Mabry (With Malcolm Beith in New York) It was a long way from Davos. Instead of conversing with central bankers and prime ministers about affairs of state, George Soros found himself last Tuesday standing before students and...

Europe's Southern Shadow; Immigration from North Africa is the problem of the coming decade.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Eric Pape and Christopher Dickey (With Tracy McNicoll on Lampedusa, Mark MacNamara in El Foqra and Marie Valla in London) Most of the tragedies go almost unnoticed, like the disaster that descended last week on El Foqra. It's just a...

A $3 Trillion Gamble; Koizumi aims to privatize the world's largest bank. Will consumers go along?
October 18, 2004... Byline: Christian Caryl and Hideko Takayama When 83-year-old Tsuma Miyagawa wants to get her pension money or deposit cash in a savings account, there's only one place for her to go--the local post office. Most people in her hometown of...

Markets: The Little Guy Is Back; Burned by the bust of 1999, individual investors are now returning to the Tokyo bourse, drawn by signs of recovery.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Kay Itoi Kaoru Muramatsu is surprisingly typical of the new Japanese market-mom. After packing her three kids off to school, the 37-year-old housewife in Hamamatsu, in central Japan, rushes to finish the chores so she can get to...

Scaling Down; A new spirit of frugality is shrinking many grand Asian building projects from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur and New Delhi.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Craig Simons in Beijing, Lorien Holland in Kuala Lumpur, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi and Jonathan Adams in Taipei) From the Taj Mahal to the Great Wall, the Asian landscape is littered with monuments to imperial...

Innovation Sails Free; The open-source idea is moving beyond guerrilla software.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Extreme windsurfers in Hawaii might not seem to have much in common with the community of geeks who tinker with Linux software as part of the open-source movement. But in the late 1970s pioneers of the sport...

Conflicting Signals; Brazil's market-driven economic policies have paid off, but some top government officials still favor state intervention.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Mac Margolis When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office as Brazilian president 20 months ago, he knew he had a tough sales job ahead of him. The once-militant Workers Party (PT) leader bent over backward to show the world that his...

Hard Work, Hard Times; Europe's fears over outsourcing look to be overblown.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Carla Power (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Malgorzata Bogusz in Warsaw and Stefan Theil in Berlin) It's close to midnight in Warsaw, and Marzena Beresciuk has taken a taxi straight from work to a 24/7 convenience store to buy...

Night Shift; In a 24-hour society, when are people supposed to get a good night's rest? Scientists have made great strides in figuring out how the body regulates the sleep cycle, and they're coming up with ways of circumventing it.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper (Graphic by Stanford Kay) The machines at Volkswagen's sprawling Wolfsburg factory are relentless. Lined up in the cavernous building, row upon row of tall, skinny robots dip and clamp car parts in place, cutting sheets...

Woes of a Do-Gooder; Beijing has effectively silenced SARS whistle-blower Jiang Yanyong using an old tool, house arrest.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu The Chinese government does not like being embarrassed. In April 2003 Dr. Jiang Yanyong became a Chinese folk hero after disclosing the true extent of Beijing's SARS epidemic and exposing a government cover-up. The...

Is Video Art Really Art? London's Tate Modern certainly seems to think so.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Tara Pepper Forget images of scantily clad MTV babes or zealous art students producing grainy films with handheld cameras. A new exhibit at London's Tate Modern--its first to be devoted to video--lays to rest the debate over...

Building Ties With Verse; Japanese and Korean poets team up to publish a joint anthology.(Voices Across the Strait)(Book Review)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Hideko Takayama In ancient times--unlike today--there was no cultural border between Japan and Korea. People traveled back and forth across the Sea of Genkai, between Japan's southern island of Kyushu and the southern ports of the...

Jon Stewart; 'I Have No F---ing Idea'.(Interview)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Beith Since taking over "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central in 1999, 41-year-old Jon Stewart has turned the satirical news show into a comedic hit--and a major media player. The program is broadcast around the world on CNN...

Sleeping With Deepak.
October 18, 2004... Byline: Rob Long Ok, let's begin. Sit comfortably. Eyes closed. Hands in a relaxed posture. Now slowly, effortlessly, begin silently repeating your mantra. Do this for 30 minutes, twice a day and you will, if the gurus and experts are...

Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times (2), BBC, Newsweek (2), BBC, AFP, CBS "I'll take responsibility for them; I'm human." George W. Bush, saying that history would judge whether he'd made mistakes, after being...

Periscope.(world briefs)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras, Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, Zahid Hussain and Ron Moreau, Alexandra Polier, Emily Flynn, Sarah Sennott, Devin Gordon, Eve Conant, Nicki Gostin THE MEDIA Mission: Impossible Foreign journalists have...

Snap Judgment: Books.(The Warlord's Son)(The Seventh War)(When the Nines Roll Over)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Jason Overdorf, Dan Ephron, John Ness The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman In this thinking man's thriller, Fesperman, a war correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, turns his sharp eye to Afghanistan. A reporter named Skelly is...

Tip Sheet.(style and travel)
October 18, 2004... Byline: Sana Butler, Jaime Cunningham, Ramin Setoodeh TRAVEL Sunny Little Secrets By Sana Butler More than 60 percent of tourists to the Caribbean visit only three countries: the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica....

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
October 25, 2004... A Genuine Leader? Most readers of our Sept. 6/Sept. 13 profile of George W. Bush dismissed the positive traits ascribed to him. "To lack the humility to change course when all your assumptions prove wrong is reckless," wrote one. Said another,...

A Savvy Horse Trader; Critics say America's ambassador to Kabul is too cozy with Karzai, but he may have saved the election.
October 25, 2004... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai (With Eve Conant in Washington) Surrounded by a bevy of bodyguards, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad quickly strode out of the house of Afghan presidential candidate Yunus Qanooni and through a gaggle...

Hard Nose; Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Duro Barroso has stared down soldiers and tamed Portugal's budget. His greatest challenge lies ahead.(Cover Story)(Biography)
October 25, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller (With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Stryker Mcguire in London and Tracy McNicoll in Paris) Chaos reigned in Portugal through the summer of 1975, when Jose Manuel Duro Barroso was 19 years old. An oppressive dictatorship...

Rousing the Giant; Can a new leader revive Asia's biggest laggard?(Indonesia )
October 25, 2004... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Joe Cochrane When Bandung's desperate textile bosses met Indonesian presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in September, they lamented the sorry state of the economy. Mill owner Eddy Soekwanto...

Redesigning the World; An emerging generation of architects in Japan has begun exporting their talents and unique approach to space and materials.(Cover Story)
October 25, 2004... Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo) If you stroll down the chic boulevard of Omotesando in Tokyo, you'll find plenty to catch your eye. Nearly every major fashion house has a boutique here, and the hip kids in fabulous...

Making Buildings Disappear; MoMA: New York's great modern museum is reborn in the image of Yoshio Tanaguchi.(Museum of Modern Art)(Cover Story)
October 25, 2004... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan Early one evening last spring, on the edge of the Inland Sea in Japan, architect Yoshio Taniguchi was showing off the construction site of a small museum he'd designed. Taniguchi, 67, is silver-haired and tall...

Exporting Local Culture; Singapore takes new measures to market its artists overseas.
October 25, 2004... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Name a Singaporean artist. You can't? Don't worry; neither can most people. But that could soon change. As part of its ongoing organized quest to establish itself as a first-rate creative city, Singapore is...

Are China's Buildings Safe? Construction Boom: Competition For Lucrative Contracts Is Breeding Ever More Radical Designs.
October 25, 2004... Byline: Craig Simons The National Grand Theater in Beijing should become a symbol of Chinese pride. When the $360 million structure opens next year, its shimmering titanium and glass shell will reflect the Great Hall of the People and...