Newsweek articles from April 2005

Newsweek archives from April 2005

The Culture Of Each Life; There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love is to force them to live.(Column)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen Please, I imagine myself saying to the editor, don't put that picture of her on the cover. Use the picture from years ago, the one in which she is wearing the print blouse, her hair long, her dark eyes stars behind...

Like Lambs to Slaughter; Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his new novel, a beautiful and chilling book about the hands of fate and science.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jeff Giles Years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro was giving a reading at a Barnes & Noble in New York City when a helicopter suddenly appeared in the window behind him. It was not a police action, nor was the author, despite "The Remains of...

Putting It All on the Table; Career chowhound Ruth Reichl has no reservations.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones Eating lunch with Ruth Reichl at a New York City sushi restaurant, you can see right off why she's so good at what she does. When the former food critic for The New York Times and current editor of Gourmet magazine...

How To Be a Good Leader; During his long career, Welch mentored a generation of future CEOs. In an exclusive excerpt, his rules of the game.(Cover Story)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jack Welch with Suzy Welch One day, you become a leader. On Monday, you're talking and laughing with colleagues about life and work, and gossiping about how stupid management can be. Then on Tuesday, you are management. You're a...

Jack on Jack: His Next Chapter; Newly wed and beyond the scandals, Welch is starting fresh with a smart new book.(Jack Welch)(Cover Story)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn During 21 years as the chief executive of General Electric, Jack Welch handwrote elaborate appraisals of his subordinates, reviewing what they did well--and what they didn't. Then, upon his retirement in 2001, Welch...

A Piggy Bank for Social Security; A trust fund invested only in Treasuries is of no real use. Under the Sloan plan, we'd invest the surplus in mortgages and corporate bonds.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Allan Sloan (Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com.) Yes, it must be spring. Lawns are turning green, baseball season is almost here--and Social Security's trustees have just issued their annual...

'The President on Line 1'.(Cover Story)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn When NEWSWEEK last sat down with Jack Welch, in December 2000, he'd just picked Jeff Immelt as his successor, and the U.S. Supreme Court had just cemented George W. Bush's presidential victory. At one point, Welch...

On Hiring, Inspiring.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jack Welch with Suzy Welch Hiring good people is hard. Hiring great people is brutally hard. Yet nothing matters more in winning than getting the right people on the field, then guiding them on the right way to succeed and get...

On Work and Family.(Cover Story)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jack Welch with Suzy Welch If there was ever a case of "Do as I say, not as I did," this is it. No one, myself included, would ever call me an authority on work-life balance. For 41 years, my operating principle was work hard, play...

Conventional Wisdom; Sunshine State Edition.
April 4, 2005... It's Florida, Jake. Like Elian Gonzales and Bush vs. Gore 2000, the Schiavo case brings out the worst in everyone. At least hurricanes have some heroes. CW Bush = Makes grand gesture flying to D.C. for Terri, then...

Mail Call: A Currency Affair.(Letter to the Editor)
April 4, 2005... The Uncertain Future of the American Dollar Readers sounded off on the prospect of an economic crisis brought on by the falling American dollar, as examined in our March 21 issue. Many placed blame for the currency's decline. "The shrinking...

Follow The Money; Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
April 4, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh (With Babak Dehghanpisheh) By many accounts, Custer Battles was a nightmare contractor in Iraq. The company's two principals, Mike Battles and Scott Custer, overcharged occupation authorities by millions of dollars,...

'I'm Not a Unilateralist'; Paul Wolfowitz wants the world to understand him.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Lally Weymouth With a vote on his nomination to head up the World Bank scheduled for this week, Paul Wolfowitz attempted to calm foreign jitters by speaking out. In an interview with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth, he discussed his...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker Why is it that, four years after his retirement, people still pack lecture halls to hear Jack Welch speak? Why do America's top CEOs still call the former head of General Electric for off-the-record advice? And why,...

Snap Judgment: Music.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali, Bret Begun Beck 'Guero' Far more vibrant than the mostly acoustic 'Sea Change' and far less affected than the awkwardly experimental 'Midnight Vultures,' 'Guero' is Beck at his best. (Except for that one ballad...

My Daughter Is a Vietnam Vet, Too; After overcoming incredible odds to get here, Carly has shown us how to survive the toughest times.(Column)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Dick Kurth (Kurth lives in Laguna Beach, Calif.) My recollections of the 13 months I spent as a young Marine in Northern I Corps have long since ceased to be inflated or diminished by the decades-long public discussion of Vietnam...

The Legacy of Terri Schiavo; One woman's journey from marital bliss to medical darkness--and the forces that made her story a political and ethical watershed.(Correction Notice)
April 4, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "The Legacy of Terri Schiavo," we said that Karen Ann Quinlan's feeding tube was removed in 1985. Quinlan was hooked up to a respirator, not a feeding tube, and the respirator was removed in 1976. She remained comatose...

Take a Look In the Mirror; The pols confused law with theology and allowed tabloidism to trump privacy.(case of Terri Schiavo)(Column)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Alter When he was governor of Texas, George W. Bush presided over 152 executions, more than took place in the rest of the country combined. In at least a few of these cases, reasonable doubts about the guilt of the...

Look Who's Not Talking--Still; A new report says U.S. intelligence agencies haven't learned to share information, despite lessons of 9/11.(Terrorist Threat Integration Center)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman The Terrorist Threat Integration Center had an imposing name, and a tough mission to match it. Headquartered in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., the agency was created two years ago by...

Tending to Wayward Shepherds; A new group seeks due process for accused priests.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress Joe Maher never knows what to expect when he picks up the phone. Sometimes there's a trembling pause before a priest, choking back tears, tells him a disturbingly familiar tale: an accusation of sexual abuse, exile...

A Bloody Day on the Rez; A Columbine copycat shatters the calm in Minnesota.(boy kills members of family, teachers, classmates, Red Lake Indian Reservation)(Biography)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Dirk Johnson (With Chris Julin and Shawna Widdel in Red Lake) Jeff Weise's school notebook was covered with swastikas and a picture of Adolf Hitler. He scrawled images of bloodied bodies and guns and showed them to classmates. He...

Chicago: Home to One Killer Poet.(J.J. Jameson a.k.a. Norman Porter)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Dirk Johnson In Chicago poetry circles, J. J. Jameson, 65, was known for his flamboyant ties and hats, and his vivid writing. He was a regular in the city's Poetry Slam competition at the old Green Mill tavern, where his edgy verse...

Newsmakers.(actors Cameron Diaz, Kathleen Turner, Cheyenne Jackson)(American Idol judge Paula Abdul)(Interview)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Cathleen McGuigan, David Gates Q&A: CAMERON DIAZ On her new MTV show, called "Trippin," Cameron Diaz and cool celebrity friends go to cool places like Nepal and Chile. Diaz chatted with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. ...

Perspectives.(quotations)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: The Washington Post, washingtonmonthly.com, referencepoint.com, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Baltimore Sun "You can't condone this,...

Terror: The Hunt for Zarqawi's Webmasters.(Qaeda leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi)(investigation into Dutch Web hosting service 357Hosting)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are learning that tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year,...

Wall Street: Stand by This Man.(Merrill Lynch investment banker Dan Bayly)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino When they haven't been apologizing publicly, Wall Street execs have remained silent during the crackdown by regulators on corporate crime. But the recent conviction of Dan Bayly, a Merrill Lynch investment banker,...

People Power: Bouquets of Worry.(peaceful revolution in the former Soviet Union)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown Dictators across the former Soviet Union are bracing for the next people-power revolt. The question is how soon and where it will erupt. Last week's Tulip Revolution in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, inspired...

Threats: IRA Splinters.(Irish Republican Army)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball As if Al Qaeda weren't enough to worry about, British security agencies are nervous about the possibility of renewed terrorism by the Irish Republican Army. Scotland Yard recently warned a London business group that...

SAT: What's Your Score?
April 4, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh It's lunchtime in Iowa City, and after a bite of her veggie sandwich, Wendi Winkie starts reading student papers. But these aren't just any classroom essays--they're from the new SAT, which launched in March with a...

Americana: Crawford Comes Alive.(sound recording captures sounds of Crawford, Texas)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Bret Begun A little more than halfway into "Diner," the second-to-last track on a new CD called "The Environmental Sounds of Crawford, Texas," a man is heard ordering the catfish. A waitress says, "You want the coleslaw that comes...

Collecting: Juiced Out.(market for baseball cards)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano Thanks to 'roid rumors, the market for some sluggers' rookie cards is looking sluggish. In 2000, dealer Andy Madec sold a 1985 Mark McGwire for $8,016. Now with Big Mac's rep in a slump, the same card fetches only...

The Dawn of a New Oil Era? China is the world's second-largest consumer of oil. It has about 20 million cars and trucks now. By the year 2020, that may be 120 million.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The interesting question about the advent of $50-a-barrel oil is whether it signals a new era in the economics and politics of energy. To sharpen the question: have we entered a period when, owing to...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Ghosting)(Splendour in the Short Grass)(Small Island)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg, Malcolm Jones, David Olivenbaum Ghosting by Jennie Erdal In this irresistible memoir, Erdal recounts the nearly 15 years she spent ghostwriting for the wealthy British publisher she calls "Tiger" (otherwise...

Solo Against the Sea; How Ellen MacArthur fought waves, wind and exhaustion to break the round-the-world record.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Susannah Meadows (With Emily Flynn on the Isle of Wight) Thirteen days into her attempt to set a new record for sailing alone around the globe, Ellen MacArthur discovered that her boat's generator had been burning so much oil it...

A Very Dangerous Supremes Rerun.(entertainment industry challenges file-sharing services in the U.S. Supreme Court)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy According to Cary Sherman and Dan Glickman, the last thing that the record labels (for whom Sherman lobbies) and movie studios (for whom Glickman lobbies) want is to stifle the development of awesome new gadgets that...

BlogWatch.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... A weekly mainstream media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs. Whether you bought a PSP last week or you're just salivating, pspworld.com and engadget.com demystify Sony's new device. Terri...

Health: Rules To Live (And Die) By.(living wills)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment and Eve Conant (With Ramin Setoodeh) Mary Sherry-Connolly, 62, had been meaning to write a living will for the past seven years. But it wasn't until the Terri Schiavo case made headlines last week that she finally...

Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... WATCH Stephen Sondheim on PBS, Thursday, at 8 p.m. The composer grants a rare interview after a live broadcast of his musical "Passion," to mark his 75th birthday. BUY 'Revenge of the Sith' merchandise, on sale Saturday. Toys...

Road Test: Honda Ridgeline RTS; The road warrior.(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten Honda's new Ridgeline five-seat pickup is so big and bold-looking you'd think it was made in America. This truck wears an Erector-set-like boxy frame and a menacing, aggressive front end. Pretty, it's not....

Ask Tip Sheet.(tennis terminology)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Anne Taulane Why is the word "seed" used to rank tennis players? --Anne Paparone, Ambler, Pa. Tennis pros like Venus and Serena Williams may not grow on trees, but you'll certainly find them seeded at any Grand Slam match....

Technology: A Breath Of Fresh Air.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Peter Suciu Spring is in the air, and so are pollen, mold spores and other allergy-causing particles. Air purifiers can suck them up to help you breathe easier. For small spaces, like bedrooms, the Blueair Model 201 ($299;...

Education: Remote Learning.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Cornel Garfman A slew of online programs have cropped up for students who are too busy to attend a brick-and-mortar university. (One such program, Kaplan Higher Education, is owned by The Washington Post Company, as is NEWSWEEK.)...

Travel: Om Away From Home.(yoga on the road)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jenny Hontz Maintaining a regular yoga practice can be a hassle for business travelers, but several hotel chains are making it easier to strike a pose on the road. Kimpton Hotels (kimptonhotels.com ) supply guests with a...

Money: Is a Hybrid Worth It?(hybrid automobiles)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern The higher gas goes, the better those hybrids look, right? If you're still having trouble justifying the price, or those long dealer waiting lists, here's some help. The Web site 40mpg.org features a calculator that...

Pimp My Kitchen.(home appliances on show at International Home and Housewares Show)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley Last week's International Home & Housewares Show had acres of iconic kitchen gear tricked out in colors so bright we thought we were in Tahiti, not Chicago. Even if you never cook at home, these gadgets will look...

Family Reunion; Three years after it was canceled, a cartoon sitcom returns to prime time. The people have spoken. They could've asked for world peace. They wanted more 'Family Guy.'
April 4, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon On the night that Fox's animated sitcom "Family Guy" premiered in 1999, its creator, Seth MacFarlane, was one of the network's guests of honor at the Super Bowl. MacFarlane's show had been given the most coveted launch...

Conventional Wisdom; St. Peter's Edition.
April 11, 2005... An already sad week gets even sadder as one death watch follows another. The CW is more than ready for spring. CW Pope + The legacy of the People's Pope: Helps end communism, heals rift with Jews, inspires billions...

Mail Call and Correction: From the Passion to the Resurrection.(Letter to the Editor)
April 11, 2005... Readers were passionate about our March 28 cover story on Jesus' resurrection. "I'm glad Jon Meacham let the Bible say what it says," one wrote. A Christian appreciated the "evenhanded treatment that did not write off my entire world view as...

The Pope and The Surgeon; It used to be said that a person who dies 'gave up the ghost. ' But are we still confident that there is a 'ghost in the machine'?
April 11, 2005... Byline: George F. Will A concatenation of three events last week--two protracted deaths and one literary birth--was, as a stimulus to reflection, remarkable. Or, some will say, providential. In a utilitarian, if humane, place, a...

Terror Broker; Bin Laden needed a role in the Iraqi insurgency, and Zarqawi needed outside support. How a deadly deal was made.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau (With Mark Hosenball in Washington) Hardly anyone was more surprised by Iraq's insurgency than Osama bin Laden. The terrorist chief had never foreseen its sudden, ferocious spread, and he was likewise...

The Editor's Desk.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Jon Meacham To the end, he was true to the words he spoke in the beginning. On Sunday, Oct. 22, 1978, at his inaugural mass as the 264th Bishop of Rome, John Paul II prayed: "Christ, make me become and remain the servant of your...

'Tutoring' Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams; It took me a while to figure out what my boss already knew: I had been hired to do their work.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Nicole Kristal (Kristal lives in Los Angeles.) For three years, I was an academic prostitute. I ruined the curve for the honest and ensured that the wealthiest, and often stupidest, students earned the highest marks. I was a...

A Wicked Curveball; No judgments on Iraq were changed due to political pressure, the report said. But just how hard did the commission look?
April 11, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff When a Senate panel released a report last year on the disastrously bad intelligence on Iraq, it included an intriguing e-mail that showed how intensely the administration was looking for damning evidence against...

Hi-Tech's New Day; As the technology industry recovers from the dot-com bust, the next generation of entrepreneurs is making its mark. Led by Google's young billionaires, a hungry group of Web wizards is using new--and not-so-new--ideas to transform the Internet and actually make money.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Josh Felser and Dave Samuel should be sailing the tropical seas in luxury yachts. The pair lived the dot-com dream, selling Spinner, their Internet radio start-up, to America Online for $320 million in 1999. After...

Living by Google Rules; Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy (Graphc by Andrew Romano) A couple of weeks ago, a prominent dot-com warrior gave me a hot tip about Google: the next big move of the search phenom would be an assault on eBay. Think about it. Millions visit the Google...

Leaders of The Pack; Many on the front lines of the tech revival are back for a second chance. Others are newbies who learned from the mistakes of the Internet bust. A gallery of people with some big ideas.
April 11, 2005... Ben and Mena Trott Cofounders, Six Apart The husband-and-wife team who developed Movable Type, a tool for power bloggers, are entrepreneurial inspirations for the 'Web 2.0' crowd. The former high-school sweethearts (born six days apart...

Newsmakers.(Johnny Damon)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Mark Starr, Johnnie L. Roberts, Devin Gordon Q&A: Johnny Damon His grand slam in last year's playoffs helped the Red Sox beat the Yankees--and their own 86-year curse. Outfielder Johnny Damon tells about that historic home run...

Perspectives.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Reuters, New York Times, CBS News--"60 Minutes," Associated Press, CNN.Com, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press (2), Austin American-Statesman, Britneyspears.Com "We all feel...

Did Bolton Try to Intimidate Spies?(John Bolton)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball Bush critics in the Senate are hunting for evidence to derail or delay confirmation of State Department official John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Foreign Relations Committee staffers are looking...

Mixed Signals on MEK.(Mujahedine Khalq (MEK))
April 11, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball President Bush irritated some of the government's top spies with recent comments about Iran's nuclear ambitions. At a March 16 press conference, the president said Iran's hidden nuclear program had been discovered...

Scouts: A Surprising Plea.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: T. Trent Gegax and Mark Hosenball They're called the three R's: Recognize, Resist and Report. It's what Boy Scouts of America teaches its 4.5 million troops in one of the country's strongest programs for protecting kids against...

Punk-Rock Resistance.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Daren Briscoe Military recruiters are already scrambling to enlist enough soldiers to meet wartime demands. Now they're facing a new obstacle: punk rockers. With militaryfreezone.org, an antiwar band from Pittsburgh, Anti-Flag, has...

Finance: A Marriage Turns Ugly.(Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino It was a storybook marriage--the 1997 merger of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter combined Morgan's blue-chip banking clients and Dean Witter's vast brokerage. During the boom, its stock and profits soared, and CEO...

Wall Street: Some Tough New Rules.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino There was a time, not long ago, when Wall Street firms could provide "financial accommodations" to companies and even municipalities to help plug budget holes or improve the look of earnings. These short-term...

A 'Striking' Fragile X Finding?
April 11, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael The genetic flaw called Fragile X has a suite of tragic symptoms--mental disabilities, autism and seizures among them. Like most developmental defects, it's permanent, or that's what doctors have assumed. Tom...

Food: The New Frozen Dinner.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup If you haven't heard of Super Suppers or Dream Dinners, you will soon. They're among the fastest-growing franchises in the United States. Here's why: the stores provide recipes and ingredients for family-size meals;...

Transition.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup JOHNNIE COCHRAN, 67 Cochran will be best remembered for successfully defending O. J. Simpson in the football star's 1995 murder trial, and for his plea to the jury: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Cochran's...

Bread Baking? Party!(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: William Lee Adams Beach, beer and bikinis--for many college students, this is the ideal recipe for spring break. But for Julia Manian, a sophomore at the University of Missouri, Cancun simply wouldn't do. Instead, Manian and 14...

Lord of The Rings.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Steve Friess In this nation of ever-widening waistlines, it'll come as welcome news to some that there is finally a supersize toilet seat. The Big John is five inches wider than the standard 14-incher, handles more than 1,200...

Fast Chat: New York City at Its Nadir.(1997)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Bret Begun Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning," Jonathan Mahler's new city history, borrows its title from a line Howard Cosell delivered during the 1977 World Series, when ABC broadcast images of a raging fire in the...

A Cool Head For Hot Tech; Why would you buy (or hold) eBay at 65 times earnings, Apple at 67 times or--giggle--Google at a multiple of 125?
April 11, 2005... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) For investors in tech stocks, what's the "next big thing"? Giving up, I'd say. Google-mania rules the headlines (the company went public in August and the stock doubled in five...

Beloved and Brave; Priest, evangelist, poet. Protector of the poor and defender of the faith. John Paul II's legend and legacy.(Correction Notice)
April 11, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "Beloved and Brave" (April 11) we reported that Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to visit a pope at the Vatican. In fact, her great-grandfather Edward VII did so in 1903. We also wrote that Pope John...

Touching America; He was both a critic and an inspiration. How John Paul II divided our nation with his bold stances.(Cover Story)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Melinda Henneberger For all of his grandfatherly warmth, Pope John Paul II was a dependably harsh critic of American culture. He disapproved of our consumerism. He opposed our wars. And though fiercely anti-communist, he argued for...

Freedom Matters; This reporter who covered the Pope had a front-row seat, and he watched communism fall.(Cover Story)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski The assessments are already rolling in, so let me be blunt about my own: I'm convinced John Paul II will go down in history as one of the greatest popes ever, whose intense spirituality, intellectual brilliance and...

Remembering 'The Old Lion'; From presidents to rabbis, personal perspectives on the pope they knew.(Pope John Paul, II)(Cover Story)
April 11, 2005... Byline: George H.W. Bush, Salah Kuftaro, Maciej Zieba, Mohammed Abtahi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Meir Lau, Daniel Ortega, Edward Kennedy, Corazon Aquino, Billy Graham George H.W. Bush, Former American President 'I always sensed his spiritual...

Awaiting White Smoke; Now comes the conclave, a blend of prayer, piety, politics and intrigue.(electing a new pope)(Cover Story)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski (With Edward Pentin and Barbie Nadeau in Rome Graphic by Andrew Romano) Forget trying to guess who the next Pope will be because no one, including the 117 cardinals who will elect him in their conclave, knows at...

The Pope in Private; A serious philosopher, John Paul II also had a serious sweet tooth. A very personal portrait.(Cover Story)
April 11, 2005... Byline: George Weigel (Weigel is the author of "Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II.") All lives run along a set of rails: family background, native abilities, education, interests and habits. Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul...

Riding Out Rising Prices.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern Here's a scary word: inflation. The fear that prices will get out of hand is spooking stock and bond traders, economists and anyone who doesn't want to see the price of a gallon of gas double and the buying power of his...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.
April 11, 2005... 'Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection' ($39.98) Though the two CDs neglect her classic collaborations with Lester Young, an interactive DVD with film clips makes this set essential. 'Sesame Street' Sunny day! The 36th season starts...

Road Test: Maserati Quattroporte; Italian Stallion.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten I spent the weekend with a seductive Italian--masculine but not macho, and as chic as a GQ model in an Armani suit. I'm talking, of course, about the Maserati Quattroporte. Zooming on a Santa Barbara, Calif.,...

Ask Tip Sheet.(penguins)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Anne Taulane Do penguins ever freeze to death? --Anita Bonney, North Syracuse, N.Y. Not usually. The emperor penguin, the largest penguin species, relies on scale-like feathers, huddling behavior and abundant body fat to...

Stocking Up On Ink.(refurbished ink cartridges for printers)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Christine Y. Chen Affordable printers are easy to find, but ink cartridges don't come cheap. To save money, shop for refurbished ones online. It's best to use them for plain text, rather than color printing. Here's where to buy:...

Ease Your Sneezing.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Joan Raymond April is the cruelest month. Especially if you're one of the 35 million Americans dealing with the drippy nose and itchy eyes of seasonal allergic rhinitis, a.k.a. hay fever. Dr. Sandra Gawchik of the American Academy...

Meal Ticket: Best Of Europe.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Planning a summer vacation in Europe? (Hey, you never know when the dollar might recover.) If so, you're probably already stocking up on restaurant recommendations. Here are a few you definitely won't want to miss. BARCELONA CA...