Newsweek International articles from October 2008

Newsweek International archives from October 2008

Mail Call: A Different Dixie.(International Edition; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 6, 2008... Our Aug. 11 chronicle of America's South in a year of a historic election fascinated many. A longtime denizen cringed and cheered for his "confounding and alluring" region. A Northerner wondered why talk of "the old Confederacy, a lost cause"?...

Mr. More-Of-The-Same.(International Edition; ASIA)(Japan's prime minister Taro Aso)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Christian Caryl; With Akiko Kashiwagi in TokyoWith in Japan's new leader favors big government projects and pork-barrel spending. Sound familiar? Consider the situation in Tokyo today. Japan's economy is teetering on the brink...

Moving Beyond Mrs. Thatcher.(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)(Margaret Thatcher of Conservative Party )
October 6, 2008... Byline: Stryker Mcguire Cameron wants to change the Tory image, even if that means giving Britain a slight Swedish accent. The attention of the British political class is focused on the slow political death of Prime Minister Gordon...

Help From People Of Faith.(International Edition; COLUMNIST)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Tony Blair; To find out more about Tony Blair's campaign against malaria, go to tonyblairfaithfoundation.org. It is simple to prevent malaria with bed nets and medicines. Where they're used, they save lives. Last week marked...

Don't Dump The Deal.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)(United States-India nuclear deal)(Viewpoint essay)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Philip Gordon; Gordon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Should Congress abandon the nuke pact now, Americans, not Indians, will end up isolated. More than three years after it was first negotiated, the U.S.-India...

Russia Hit The Rocks Hardest.(International Edition; BUSINESS)(Sochi Economic Forum )
October 6, 2008... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova The market crash is due in part to Georgia, even if Putin doesn't think so. By rights, this year's Sochi Economic Forum should have been a victory lap for Vladimir Putin. Russia's president...

On The Trail Of A Ferocious Killer.(International Edition; SOCIETY)(campaign against malaria )(Essay)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Mary Carmichael and Jaime Cunningham; With Jason Mclure in EthiopiaWith in Ethiopia Health officials are mounting the boldest campaign against malaria in 50 years. Will it work this time? Last week, everyone who's anyone in...

'We Should Join Hands'.(International Edition; CHINA)(Interview)
October 6, 2008... China's prime minister speaks out in his first interview with a Western publication in years. By Fareed Zakaria In New York last week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave a rare...

Lech Kaczynski: How The West Got Georgia Wrong.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(Interview)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Andrew Nagorski 'The Russians showed a helplessness in the West. That's terrible, because the West is much stronger than they are.' During the war between Georgia and Russia, no European leader denounced Russia as strongly as...

Spending More To Save More.(International Edition; TOP SHELF)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy The trappings of ecological elitism include hydrogen--powered cars, grass skirts and recycled gold jewelry. Between the upcoming launch of Brad Pitt's biodegradable body wash for Kiehl's and the recent "green"...

Style: Beyond Time.(The Good Life; GOOD LIFE)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Elisa Mala In the age of the multi-tasking gadget, even analog watches can do a lot more than just keep time. The two-faced Explorer by Shanghai Tang features a facade that flips open to reveal a compass, set against a map of the...

Hot Spot: Adour, New York.(The Good Life; GOOD LIFE)(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy In his latest venture, the Michelin-starred celebrity chef Alain Ducasse decants his elitist impulses into a more accessible wine-focused eatery in the historic St. Regis Hotel. Ambience Reflecting the restaurant's...

4 Hours In Toulouse.(The Good Life; GOOD LIFE)(Toulouse, France)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Amber Haq Steeped in history, "La Ville Rose"--so called for the pink color of its stone buildings--lies in the sunny southwest of France, and combines Latin warmth with Gallic charm. Wander the maze of cobblestone lanes,...

Taking It to the Streets In Style.(The Good Life; SPORT)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Morgan Brennan Once the toys of rowdy teenagers, skateboards have grown up alongside their riders. Companies are now creating high-quality, technologically savvy skateboards that are both ecofriendly and easy to ride. The American...

A Meeting with Rachel Whiteread.(The Good Life; ACCESSORIES)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Joanna Heath There never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. These diaries won't add time, but they will inspire users to pay closer attention to their calendars. The upmarket British stationer Smythson of...

Perspectives.(International Edition; DEPARTMENTS)(Quotation)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... "Of course she doesn't have that." First Lady of the United States Laura Bush, telling an interviewer that GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lacks foreign-policy experience. Bush quickly added that Palin is a "quick study." ...

In Search Of The Tycoons Who Lost The Largest Fortunes.(International Edition; THE MARKET MELTDOWN)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Barrett Sheridan The credit crisis has taken many barons of Wall Street (and their $10,000 suits) to the cleaners. Who, though, has suffered the biggest losses? One way to get at that question is to look at leaders of the...

Replacing The Big Five.(International Edition; DEALS)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Stefan Theil; Stefan Theil The market chaos has left no top investment bank standing. Of the Big Five, Lehman, Bear and Merrill are gone, while Morgan Stanley and Goldman are becoming commercial banks, which means they can no longer...

In Golda's Footsteps.(International Edition; WOMEN IN POLITICS)(Golda Meir)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Kevin Peraino and Joanna Chen To Israelis, the fuss about Sarah Palin, lipstick and pigs seems a little passe. After all, Golda Meir cracked the glass ceiling some 40 years ago, and now another woman, former Mossad agent Tzipi...

By the Numbers.(International Edition; PERISCOPE)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... A new Pew survey asked Americans which nation poses the greatest threat to U.S. security, then compared the answers to those given in the past three years. The results show sharp shifts in the chief targets of concern: 21 Percentage of...

Betting Big On Hirst.(International Edition; THE AUCTION HOUSE)(Damien Hirst)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Sophie Grove As the bidding started at Damien Hirst's historic auction in London on Sept. 15 (Sotheby's first ever of a single living artist), the specter of failing financial markets hardly discouraged collectors: Hirst's...

Candidates' Wheels.(International Edition; CAR CULTURE)(Barack Obama and John McCain )(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton and Hilary Shenfeld After the controversy over the exact number of homes owned by each U.S. presidential candidate (McCain: seven; Obama: one), it seems fitting to note that the GOP nominee also bests the Dem when it...

Food For The Fishes.(International Edition; FAST CHAT)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Charlie Ferro Danish artist Marco Evaristti is famous for his subversive art installations, like one in which visitors were invited to puree live goldfish in a blender. His next project: inheriting the corpse of Gene Hathorn, a...

Lost Without Cash.(International Edition; TECHTONIC SHIFTS)(use of prepaid card)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi As soon as I started using e-cash, I was hooked. But Japan supports six cards, each incompatible with the others. Commuters in Tokyo's crowded trains and subways need any advantage they can get. For about a...

Hail to the Chief?(International Edition; LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 13, 2008... Readers expounded on the lackluster legacy of the Bush years, despite our positive cover story. One asked, why the "last-minute spit shine"? Another added, "America will take years to recover," while a third compared Bush to Harry Truman, who...

A New Age Of Global Capitalism Starts Now.(International Edition; BUSINESS)
October 13, 2008... With the American model in tatters, its European and Asian rivals make their move. It was a week for dramatic words and even more dramatic gestures. as the U.S. congress debated, then vetoed, and then revised and ultimately passed a $700...

The Perils Of Thrift.(International Edition; ASIA)(Chinese economy)
October 13, 2008... Byline: George Wehrfritz China's crisis is the opposite of America's. The subprime-mortgage crisis laid bare America's decadence. The world's largest economy is rife with overconsumption of everything from McMansions to tchotchkes from...

You Call That Art?(International Edition; THE ARTS)(Turner Prize)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Rod Nordland Britain's Turner Prize does, and makes no apologies for it. Just don't touch that garbage on the floor. At the press preview for Britain's prestigious and ever controversial Turner Prize, a photographer began...

All The Country's An Art Exhibit.(International Edition; THE ARTS)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Duncan Hewitt Eager to cash in on the boom, Chinese authorities relax restrictions on contemporary artists. Are they for real? Some of the hottest tickets in China of late were not for the Olympic Games, but for major...

Designed To Chill.(International Edition; THE ARTS)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Ginanne Brownell The cold war wasn't just about space and weapons but about who could design the best plastic chair. In hindsight, it was one of the more fitting locales for a cold-war standoff. While touring a mock-up of a...

A World Gone Blind.(International Edition; THE ARTS)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Eric Pape Fernando Meirelles turns Jose Saramago's dark novel about lost vision into a provocative film. In an unnamed megalopolis, citizens are going blind. A milky whiteness gradually blots out everything, so they lose sight...

Charging To The Right.(International Edition; EUROPE)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Rod Nordland Austria's far-right parties may have modulated their tone, but their message is increasingly familiar. Throughout Europe, the far-right parties have been largely banished, consigned to the dustbin of history. In...

Pulled From Two Directions.(International Edition; THE LAST WORD)(Interview)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Rana Foroohar Turkey's president Abdullah Gul is one of his nation's most polarizing figures. Western-oriented and pro-EU, his Justice and Development Party has roots in Islam and pushed to abolish the ban on headscarves in...

A Wave Of Love.(International Edition; TURNING POINT)(Jet Li)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Jet Li; Li is an actor and the founder of the One Foundation (www.onefoundation.cn). Chinese action star Jet Li talks about the role of his lifetime: giving back to the community. On Dec. 25, 2004, I arrived very late at night...

A Lesson From Stockholm.(Global Investor)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Holger Schmieding; Schmieding is chief European economist at Bank of America. All hurricanes are different, but each shares common traits. The same holds for financial storms. Few advanced economies had been battered as badly, and...

No Logs Required.(The Good Life; HOME)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Joanna Heath With the cold weather rolling in, nothing seems more appealing than curling up in front of a toasty fire. But cozy doesn't have to mean kitschy. With these ultracontemporary gas fireplaces, the style-conscious have...

SUPPERCLUB, SINGAPORE By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop.(The Good Life; HOT SPOT)(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... A 21st-century twist on the ancient Roman practice of reclining to eat, Supperclub has just opened a branch of its restaurant-cum-club in Singapore. Setting: A dimly lit bar overlooks the legendary Raffles Hotel through red-tinted windows,...

AUSTIN, TEXAS.(The Good Life; 4 HOURS IN)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Kristin Luna Texas's thriving epicenter and a mecca for music lovers, this moderate-size party town has heart, attitude and plenty of south-of-the-border flavor. Tour the opulent Driskill Hotel (driskillhotel.com)--a staple...

The Maximalist.(The Good Life)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... In These Grim Economic Times, Here's A Gamble That's Tough To Resist. Cartier's Handsome Poker Case, Made Of Sycamore Wood And Decorated With Red And Black Marquetry, Comes With 360 Chips In Five Different Colors, Five Dice And Two Decks Of...

New Signs Of The Old Times.(The Good Life; STYLE)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Elisa Mala All designers are saying is give peace a chance. The hippie symbol of the '60s has become the fashion statement of the '00s, adorning all manner of jewelry, clothing and accessories. A studded peace-sign applique...

Snacking With Sapphires.(The Good Life; SHOPPING)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Elisa Mala "Breakfast At Tiffany's" can be experienced only on the silver screen, but purveyors of high-end jewels offer more to feast on than candy-colored gems. On Oct. 13, Mauboussin opens a New York flagship that houses a...

A Piece Of The Peace.(International Edition; WORLD AFFAIRS)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Kevin Peraino; With Joanna Chen in Yitzhar and Nuha Musleh in Hebron The one thing Mideast talks are producing is more settlements. Hazem Maali's only warning was his wife's clipped scream. The 34-year-old Palestinian salesman...

PERSPECTIVES.(International Edition)(Quotation)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Quotation Sources: BBC, NEW YORK TIMES, AP, TIMES OF LONDON, AP "I have decided that the cost of doing nothing is greater than the cost of doing something." U.S. Democratic congressman from the state of Georgia John Lewis, who...

How Obama's Star Could Fall.(International Edition; THE NEXT IRAQ)(United States President-Elect Barack Obama)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Tepperman; with Tracy McNicoll Barack Obama is leading the polls at home, but he's downright beloved abroad, where he's seen as a Kennedyesque star who could quickly heal the damage America's done to its image with Iraq,...

China's First Medal?(International Edition; NOBEL PRIZES)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Melinda Liu The Nobel Foundation has been known to pick dark-horse candidates to drive home an ideological point (see Al Gore). How intriguing, then, that the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute is fingering Chinese...

Why Russia Plays Nicer.(International Edition; GEORGIAN FRONT)(Owen Matthews)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Owen Matthews Is the Kremlin turning dovish in its most recent confrontation with the West? After two months of high tensions following Russia's invasion of Georgia, there are signs that President Dmitry Medvedev is finally trying...

BY THE NUMBERS.(International Edition)(interbank lending rates)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... The credit crunch is so tight, banks are no longer lending even to one another. The most striking sign of collective mistrust: key interbank lending rates are spiking all over the world. The numbers, from RGE Monitor: 32 Percentage...

Of Prophets And Profits.(International Edition; HOLIDAYS)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Eric Pape For the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims have long indulged in nights of earthly pleasures after daylong fasts. But as the 2008 holiday draws to a close in Europe, participants and experts there say those pleasures are...

Proper, at Last.(International Edition; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Katie Baker In Britain, Clive James is known as a jack of many trades: TV presenter, critic, radio host, novelist. He's also been churning out poems for the past 50 years, but by his own admission, the title of "proper professional...

Blinding Beauty.(International Edition; FAST CHAT)(Julianne Moore)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Julianne Moore stars as the doctor's wife in "Blindness," based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Did you ever worry about going blind in real life? Of course, you especially...

Lessons in Leadership: Dalia Itzik, Speaker of the Knesset, Israel.(; WOMEN & LEADERSHIP)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Dalia Itzik Mother is uneducated, but knows everything I remember the trauma of my early years, after our family arrived in Jerusalem from Iraq in the late 1950s. We were eight children living in a tiny two-room apartment. Four...

Awaking From the All-American Dream.(Business)
October 20, 2008... Remember the ownership society? It was a vision woven by President George W. Bush when he was running for re-election in 2004, which saw every American family in a home, and a government that stayed out of the way of the American Dream. The...

The Realist Resurgence.(International; WORLD AFFAIRS)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Christopher Dickey, John Barry and Owen Matthews; With Barrett Sheridan in New York and Anna Nemtsova in Moscow Russia is weaker than it looks, which is why NATO's soft-power strategy can still prevail. High over the Bering Sea...

The Art Is Trash.(Arts; PHOTOGRAPHY)(Vivan Sundaram)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Vibhuti Patel Vivan Sundaram's photos of garbage make a beautiful statement. Mountains of garbage have never looked more beautiful than in Vivan Sundaram's photographs. His exhibit "Trash," now on view in Manhattan's Sepia...

Keeping It Green.(International; ENVIRONMENT)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Melinda Liu It wasn't all for show. China opts to keep in place some of its Olympics Games pollution control. One of the big questions hanging over this summer's Games was whether the measures China took to clean up its...

'This Makes No Sense'.(Business; WORLD BUSINESS)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Christian Caryl; With Akiko Kashiwagi Japan has little tie to America's toxic securities, but its market melted down anyway, as fear ran wild. How could the Nikkei have plunged 24 percent in the course of the past week, the...

Dark Days For the City of London.(Business; WORLD BUSINESS)
October 20, 2008... Byline: William Underhill The U.K. financial industry soared thanks to complex products and lax rules. Now it's payback time. In the words of Gordon Brown last week, it was "not a time for outdated dogma or conventional thinking." Too...

The Storm Clouds Spread.(Business; WORLD VIEW)
October 20, 2008... The economic crisis will produce a system with greater stability, at the cost of productivity and flexibility. It was deja vu all over again for officials from more than 180 countries gathering last weekend in Washington, D.C., for the...

Shimon Peres: The Gaps Have Narrowed.(The Last Word)(Interview)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner He has served in a dozen cabinets, shared the Nobel Prize for his part in the Oslo accords, and twice been prime minister. So after more than 65 years at the center of Israeli history, Shimon Peres was prepared for...

We Need a New Road Map.(Global Investor)
October 20, 2008... Don't assume that the sum of national crisis-management activities will create a desirable framework for the longer term. Despite officials' best efforts to fight raging financial fires, it is a good bet that the capital markets will remain...

Creeping In Style.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Barbie Nadeau; Barbie Nadeau Forget cute orange pumpkins and pop-culture costumes. A truly eerie Halloween begins in a medieval crypt. Siena, along with 32 other spooky Italian cities, is introducing Halloween itineraries called...

Hot Spot: Sydney.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)(Ivy)(Brief article)(Hotel review)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Joanna Heath IVY | SYDNEY A self-contained island of hedonism, this $120 million megaplex has 18 bars, nine restaurants, a ballroom, and a hotel and day spa, all owned and operated by wunderkind developer Justin Hemmes. ...

Four Hours in Swansea, Wales.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)
October 20, 2008... The poet Dylan Thomas called his birthplace an "ugly, lovely town." But with centuries of history to its credit, and some cutting-edge construction, this fishing village (called Abertawe in Welsh) is as picturesque as its English name suggests....

NO HEADLINE.(The Good Life)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: E. M. Villa Caribe Situated on the Rodney Bay Marina in Castries, St. Lucia, the four-bedroom residence features a two-meter Swarovski chandelier, marble walls in its five-and-a-half bathrooms, a 700-bottle wine vault in the...

Displaying Watches For All Time.(The Good Life; STYLE)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Watch collectors can showcase prized possessions in equally luxurious temples. Crafted by Pinel & Pinel, the Piaget Collector's Trunk houses 51 timepieces. Made from leather-covered poplar wood and brass, it...

Tasteful Treatments For Homes.(The Good Life; DECOR)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Elisa Mala If home decor is a matter of taste, some designers satisfy appetites with wares that resemble food. A banana-peel stopper can prop open the door ($28; moma store.com) to a culinary-themed room, which might include a...

Perspectives.(International Edition)(Quotation)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Sources: Financial Times, AP, Independent (U.K.), New York Times (2) "We have not received the kind of support that we were requesting from our friends. So in a situation like that, one has to look for new friends." ...

How India's New Nuke Deal Might Set Off an Arms Race.(International; PROLIFERATION)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner When Congress finally approved the U.S.-India nuclear deal this month, it sailed through the body with scarcely a peep. Most analysts in Washington and New Delhi hailed the move. But some observers worry the United...

Why Crisis Is Common By Rana Foroohar.(Business; Finance)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... As world leaders try to restructure the global financial system, it's worth reflecting on how we got to this point. A new database created by economists at the IMF tracks financial crises over the last 30 years, and it may come as a surprise...

No To the Afghan Plan.(International Edition; THE U.S. IN AFRICA)(Africom)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Scott Johnson The United States is backing away from a plan to extend its Afghan strategy to Africa. When the idea for Africom, a new U.S. strategic command base in Africa, was first floated in early 2007, it envisioned using...

NO HEADLINE.(International Edition)(sovereign wealth funds)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
October 20, 2008... Sovereign wealth funds are shifting focus away from U.S. financial institutions and into real estate abroad. Numbers from the Monitor Group: 0.3Percentage of SWF investment dollars channeled into North America in the second quarter (Q2) of...

Literary Jewel Under Fire.(Books; ARTS NEWS)(The Jewel of Medina)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Rod Nordland Sherry Jones, whose historical novel about the Prophet Muhammad's favorite wife, Aisha, was dropped by Random House in August over fear of reactions from Muslims, may yet become another Salman Rushdie. The book, "The...

Fewer Bundles of Joy.(International Edition; adoption)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Pat Wingert If Brangelina is any indication, American interest in adopting foreign children is stronger than ever. So why is the United States adopting fewer of them? According to early projections by the U.S. State Department,...

A Salve For Wall Street.(International Edition; FAT CATS)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: ANDREW MURR Feeling blue because You're an embattled CEO getting blamed for wrecking the global economy? Jerry Levin understands your pain. The deposed Time Warner chairman, who oversaw the disastrous 2000 merger with AOL and is...

NO HEADLINE.(International Edition)(global competitiveness rankings)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... the digit In the latest World Economic Forum rankings of global competitiveness, the U.K. dropped to No. 12 (from No. 9 in 2007), due in part to concerns about its banking system.

Dell Shifts Gears.(International Edition)
October 20, 2008... DELL COMPUTER SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE PC INDUSTRY IN THE 1980S AND 1990S by innovating not so much on the machines themselves but on the way they're made and sold. Michael Dell started the company in his dorm room at the University of Texas at...

Lessons in Leadership: Marta Vieira Da Silva, Football.(International Edition; WOMEN & LEADERSHIP)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Marta Vieira Da Silva Now all the girls want to play, and there's always a game When I was growing up in Dois Riachos, a small town in the poor, backlands of Alagoas, in northeast Brazil, girls didn't have a lot of choices....

Lessons in Leadership: Zaha Hadid, Architect.(International Edition; WOMEN & LEADERSHIP)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... I've never really thought of myself as a woman architect. I'm an architect. There's always been a bit of misogyny in certain architectural circles. They can't deal with a woman. They think you're second fiddle. The way I've dealt with it...

Lessons in Leadership: Baroness Patricia Scotland, U.K. Attorney General.(Culture)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Baroness Patricia Scotland WOMEN & LEADERSHIP W hen I came to the bar in 1977, diversity was still seen as an obstacle, not an asset. People told me there were two impediments that would prevent me from becoming a successful...

Lessons in Leadership: Yuriko Koike, Former Cabinet Minister, Japan.(Culture; WOMEN & LEADERSHIP)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Yuriko Koike There aren't many female role models, not in Japan I faced a big challenge as environment minister. Global warming is an important issue, but it's also abstract. My way of doing things [as a leader] is to break...

Lessons From the Front Lines.(Culture; WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP)
October 20, 2008... After years in the trenches, these women have learned a few things about what it takes to succeed. Here, they share some savvy trade secrets. Mireille Giuliano, author "French Women Don't Get Fat" Life is lived in phases and episodes....

Madame Vp?(International Edition; Letters)
October 27, 2008... Sarah Palin remains a curiosity for readers. "She came out of near obscurity with no real agenda but to win this for the Republicans," one said. Another questioned the choice given other "smart and experienced women." And one gushed of having a...

The First Disaster Of The Internet Age.(International Edition; BUSINESS)(Cover story)
October 27, 2008... Alan Greenspan lit the fuse of the credit crisis when he extolled the revolutionary virtues of the 'Net--and redefined risk and responsibility. Sometimes a brief exchange can capture an essential truth better than reams of explanation....

India's Terrorist Problem.(International Edition; POINT OF VIEW)
October 27, 2008... The main focus of the bush administration's war on terror has been countering the threat posed by Al Qaeda and the Taliban to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now, the latest evidence indicates that Islamist extremists have broadened their offensive...