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Newsweek archives from April 2007
The Weight Of What-If.(militarism and the social costs of war)(Column)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen
In the summer of 1971 I stood at the wire ticker and watched as my college boyfriend's lottery draft number came up 365. Only his cousin, born in a leap year, did better. It made it a certainty that neither would have...
Blackstone Is Hiding Its Private Parts.(investment company Blackstone Group L.P.)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Allan Sloan
What a letdown. Blackstone Group, the giant "private" equity firm, finally filed its going-public documents last week--but left out what Wall Street's financial voyeurs most wanted to see: how much of the firm...
Letters; Mail Call: What Set Us on the Road to Becoming Human?(Letter to the editor)
April 2, 2007... Readers of our cover story were full of questions about the new approaches to studying evolution--like paleoneurology. "So we're not descendants of Neanderthal man after all? Species developed quickly, not gradually by natural selection?" one...
The Editor's Desk.(correspondence of American soldiers, Iraq War)(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham
The handwriting on this week's cover belongs to Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis L. Youngblood, who was deployed to Iraq in March 2005. The full sentence, from a letter Youngblood wrote his wife, Laura, reads: "I...
Our Soldiers' Stories; The War in the Words of the Dead.(American soldiers in the Iraq War)(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham
He was exhausted, but he wanted to talk to his daughter, and the only way to do that in Fallujah was to write a letter. "This war is not like the big war--there are no big sweeping maneuvers with hundreds of tanks...
A Day Of Death; For every soldier or Marine who dies in Iraq, at least 20 Iraqis are killed. Some of their stories.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Salih Mehdi and Ahmed Obeidi in Baghdad)
Describing Jalal Mustafa to a reporter, the first thing his family mentions is "that long love story of his." The young mechanic's dream was to wed...
What the Warriors Cannot Do; It's Time To Call Iraq's Leaders To Account.(Column)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria
In the last weeks, the violence in Baghdad has moved from ghastly to merely grim, and we are told that the tide has turned. President Bush says the surge of U.S. troops is producing "encouraging signs." Many of his...
To Topple a Tyrant.(correspondence from American soldiers, Iraq War)
April 2, 2007... It's easy to forget how daunting and dangerous everything seemed on the eve of the Iraq War. U.S. forces were braced for the worst. Hardly anyone believed Iraq's claims that it no longer possessed any weapons of mass destruction--untold...
Hidden Enemies.(Iraq War)
April 2, 2007... As 2004 dawned, Saddam was in jail and his sons had been killed. But the initial, heady sense of victory continued to crumble. Iraq's civic and economic order had all but ceased to function--and many Iraqis blamed America. In Sunni-dominated...
A Glimmer of Hope.(correspondence of American soldiers, Iraq War)
April 2, 2007... By the third year of the war, the white house focused on turning Iraq into a showcase of Middle Eastern democracy. In the first of three elections in 2005, millions of jubilant Iraqis waved their purple-stained fingers for the cameras--a rare...
Things Fall Apart.(Iraq war)
April 2, 2007... The air changed early on the morning of Feb. 22, 2006. That day a gang of saboteurs, presumably Sunni, destroyed one of the holiest shrines of Shiite Islam, the gold-domed Askariya Mosque in Samarra. The restraint that Shiites had demonstrated...
'If You're Reading This . . . '.(goodbye letters from troops in Iraq)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Combat troops live every day with the specter of their mortality. Usually, they ignore it and do their jobs. But at some point, heading for a war zone or shaken by a close call, many of them write letters to be read only if they don't make it...
GRAPHIC: THE HUMAN COST OF WAR.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Text and Reporting by Jessica Ramirez; Graphic by Stanford Kay
Four years after President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, U.S. armed forces have served a combined total of about 1 million tours of duty. More than 3,200 have been...
We Protect Kids From Everything But Fear; With hand sanitizer and long-sleeved swimsuits, we're teaching our children a dangerous lesson.(Viewpoint essay)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Paula Spencer (Spencer lives in Chapel Hill, N. C.)
Four 11- and 12-year-old girls stood in front of my open pantry, mouths gaping wide. "Look! Fruit Roll-Ups!" "Oh, my God! Chocolate-chip cookies!" "You have regular potato chips?...
Perspectives.(quotations )
April 2, 2007... "I will veto it if it comes to my desk."
President George W. Bush,on a bill passed by the House to withdraw American troops from Iraq by September 2008
"Frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create...
Executive Privilege Edition.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... When Nixon invoked this privilege during Watergate, the Supreme Court nixed him. Will they be as tough on the guy they elected?
Bush (down) Conditions for aides to meet Congress: No oath or transcripts. Sounds like one of Cheney's covert...
A Test for Gonzales.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Richard Wolffe
When dispirited Justice Department officials assembled for a senior staff meeting last Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales surprised them. "I just got off the phone with the president," he...
A New Struggle for Edwards.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman
Early last Friday morning, John Edwards was back at work. A day earlier, the Democratic presidential candidate had shocked the nation with the sad news that his wife, Elizabeth, had suffered a recurrence of breast...
A Sign of Rising Tensions.(Iranian navy takes British sailors into captivity)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas, Mark Hosenball, John Barry and Michael Hirsh
The Iranian navy may be no match for the blue-water fleets of America and Britain, but at a breakfast with reporters last year, Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. chief of Naval...
What Breast-Cancer Survivors Can Expect.(Interview)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz
Last fall, Elizabeth Edwards was the guest speaker at a conference sponsored by NEWSWEEK and Harvard Medical School. Although she spoke about the sorrows in her life, she conveyed an inspiring optimism. Now she...
Taking a Hard Look at CIFA.(Counter-Intelligence Field Activity)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball
The Pentagon is reviewing the charter of a controversial counterspy agency set up by former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld after 9/11. The Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) was supposed to "coordinate"...
Two Shots For Chicken Pox Now.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen
Like 100 of their peers at Orchard Park Elementary in Ft. Mill, S.C., Emily Rivers, 9, and her sister, Olivia, 6, contracted chicken pox this year--despite getting immunized when they were a year old. The girls got...
The List: Choosing the Chosen.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller
Michael Lynton was on a conference call recently when his assistant interrupted: Sen. Chuck Schumer was on the other line. Normally Lynton, who is chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, would take a call from the senator....
Destination Earth.
April 2, 2007... Byline: Devin Gordon
Could any TV program sound more boring than an 11-hour nature documentary? Lions. Tigers. Bears. Oh my. But "Planet Earth," the Discovery Channel's breathtaking new wildlife series that globe-trots from caves to...
What's Your Food Footprint?(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Karen Breslau
As if counting calories weren't enough, now you can calculate the "carbon cost" of your food. Starting next month, Bon Appetit, a food-service company that operates corporate and university cafeterias, will test a...
A Life In Books: Walter Mosley.(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... All writers lie about their favorite books, says Walter Mosley, author of 28 novels, including "Devil in a Blue Dress." He says the most important books are read before the age of 12, so any list of books read later must be arbitrary. He...
Was It Business Or ... Personal?
April 2, 2007... Byline: Daniel McGinn
Lawsuits are always written to make the target look guilty. But even by those standards, the countersuit filed last week by Wal-Mart against Julie Roehm is a devastating narrative. It alleges that before being fired...
Who's Your Comrade?(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler
Once, the FBI would have loved to see this stuff. Actually, they probably did see it, but now everyone will get a look at the files of the Communist Party USA, which the party is donating to the Tamiment Library of New...
Mail Call: Exercise Might Just Aid What Ails You.(Letter to the editor)
April 9, 2007
The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
April 9, 2007
AP Harry's College Try.(advanced placement)
April 9, 2007
Why Sanctions Are Working.
April 9, 2007
Babes in the Holy Land; Israel flirts with a racy new public-relations strategy.
April 9, 2007
Swindler's List; Clifford Irving wrote a phony autobiography of Howard Hughes, but 'The Hoax' is the real deal.
April 9, 2007
'I'm Not Praying for God to Save Me'; Elizabeth Edwards talks about cancer and how the death of a son gives her the perspective she needs to cope.(Interview)
April 9, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter
After disclosing that her breast cancer, first diagnosed before the 2004 election, had spread to her bones, Elizabeth Edwards became a symbol of how to cope with recurrence. The wife of Democratic presidential...
Newsmakers.(Heath Ledger)(Interview)
April 9, 2007
Perspectives.
April 9, 2007
RAPSHEET EDITION.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
CAMPAIGN 2008: Meet the 'Law & Order' Candidate.
April 9, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey
It looks as if Fred Thompson is getting ready to run for president. Friends of the former Tennessee senator turned actor (anonymous to protect their relationship) say he's increasingly tempted to enter the 2008...
Rove: A Moving Target.(Karl Rove)
April 9, 2007
GIULIANI: What Did He Know About Kerik?(Bernard Kerik)
April 9, 2007
Beliefwatch: Marriage.
April 9, 2007
Fast Chat: The Risk of Opting Out.(Leslie Bennetts)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Culture: Oh Bother! It's Darby.(Christopher Robin)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
The Gulf: The New Hostage Crisis.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
The Military: Out, and On the Lam.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Mormons: With Cheney, Even the Faithful Protest.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
'American Idol': The Power of the Brand.
April 9, 2007
A Life In Books: Dana Gioia.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Higher Rates! Bigger Fees!(subprime borrowers)
April 9, 2007
Is God Real?
April 9, 2007
In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains.
April 9, 2007
My Life with Cancer.(Cover story)
April 9, 2007
Memoir: It Was Love at First Shift; My first car was a cute foreign beauty with mysterious ways.
April 9, 2007
The Need for Speed; For some, the ultimate fantasy car was a cartoon.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing?(global community of friends and strangers)(Column)
April 9, 2007
BlogWatch; A mainstream media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Environment: For A Greener Garden.
April 9, 2007
Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Green: Clean Up your Act.(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
Wildlife: Where's Mommy?(Brief article)
April 9, 2007
'Sopranos' Swan Song; Just eight more episodes. The end may not be pretty.
April 9, 2007
Pumping Hormones Into GM's Nest Egg.(General Motors Corp.)
April 16, 2007
And the Beer's Better.(ballpark-view condos)(Brief article)
April 16, 2007
Can You Beat Sliced Bread?(exhibition of top 25 inventions of 2007)(Brief article)
April 16, 2007
uick Read.("Mergers and Acquisitions")("The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.")("Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company")(Book review)
April 16, 2007... Byline: John Sparks
Mergers & Acquisitions by Dana Vachon It's a pity his publisher couldn't think up a four-word title beginning with B for this first effort by investment banker turned novelist Vachon. In one slim volume he updates the...
Pandora's Music Box; Labels may not like it, but radio on the Net is catching on.(Interview)
April 16, 2007