Newsweek articles from April 2009

Newsweek archives from April 2009

The Columbine Generation.(Entertainment; ESSAY)(Essay)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh A decade later, the school shooting is still causing collateral damage. Just before noon on April 20, 1999, high-school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 kids and one teacher before killing...

Obama's Nobel Headache.(Business; COVER STORY: THE ECONOMY)(Paul Krugman's criticism iof Barack Obama and his economic policy)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Evan Thomas; With Pat Wingert, Daniel Stone, Michael Hirsh and Dina Fine Maron Paul Krugman has emerged as Obama's toughest liberal critic. He's deeply skeptical of the bank bailout and pessimistic about the economy. Why the...

The Education of Timothy Geithner.(Business; COVER STORY: WASHINGTON)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Michael Hirsh For weeks he's looked like a deer in the headlights, flubbing speeches and rattling markets. But the Treasury chief retains the support of his boss--and he's starting to hit his stride. Tim Geithner can't stop...

A Few Rays Of Hope.(Business; INSIDE BUSINESS)(United States economy)
April 6, 2009... Economy: The stock market is up. Housing numbers are improving. But NEWSWEEK's Business Roundtable doesn't see a bottom yet--and gives mixed reviews to Obama's early moves to fix things. Confidence Is the Key to a Turnaround Mark...

Mad Man.(Business; MARKETING)(Arnell Group's Peter Arnell)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Daniel Lyons; With Nick Summers in New York Brand genius Peter Arnell says one design flub won't tarnish his rep. Rivals aren't so sure. It's a gray Wednesday morning and I'm chasing Peter Arnell through the streets of midtown...

The Peril Of Financial Linguistics.(Business; THE MONEY CULTURE)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Daniel Gross Apparently, 'legacy' derives from an ancient root meaning 'it wasn't my fault and I should still get a bonus this year.' In his timeless 1946 essay, "Politics And the English Language," George Orwell condemned...

Laments From a Fearless Laureate.(Business; THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL)(Paul Krugman's works)
April 6, 2009... Krugman savaged Bush, but his twice-weekly criticisms of Obama's team and its economic plans are just as pointed. It was just two decades ago that Paul Krugman's writing was aimed at the handful of Ph.D. readers who subscribe to the Journal...

Rage Against the Art Gene.(Darwinism)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Jeremy McCarter Darwin revolutionized our understanding of mankind's origins. Now scientists think they can apply his theories to the source of our creativity without it sounding like a lot of monkey business. The notion that...

The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution.(; CULTURE)
April 6, 2009... Sure, discuss Darwin's 'strengths and weaknesses.' Just not in biology textbooks. Mention the name "Texas" and the word "schoolbook" to many people of a certain age (such as my own) and the resulting free association will come up with the...

Uncle Sam Wants You to Open Your Wallet.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
April 6, 2009... 'I Want YOU to Start Spending!': Readers were skeptical of the March 23 cover recommendation that spending more would improve the economy. Easier said than done, many wrote. One reader, whose husband's salary was cut, said spending more isn't...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Jon Meacham During a Democratic fundraiser at the Warner Theatre near the White House last Thursday night, the president offered one of his periodic--and true--assessments of the vicissitudes of the culture of the capital. "I know...

Spring Brain Training.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(baseball trivia)(Column)
April 6, 2009... Byline: George F. Will In which we solve the mystery of how a team hit into a triple play without any fielder touching the ball. Spring training for a fan requires limbering up that lobe of the brain devoted to baseball arcana. Not...

The Return of the Baathists.(International; IRAQ)(Saleh al-Mutlaq)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Larry Kaplow For years this man has spoken out for members of Saddam's old party. Now Iraqis are listening. Grinning with vindication, Saleh al-Mutlaq says he knew this day would come. For years the amiable, disheveled...

Hello, Cleveland!(Entertainment; MUSIC)(James Hetfield)(Interview)
April 6, 2009... Metallica rocks and rolls into the hall of fame. Metallica has already received the ultimate pop-culture seal of approval: a guest-starring role on an episode of "The Simpsons." On April 4, the thrash-metal band takes another step toward...

Digital Dad Versus the Dinosaurs.(My Turn)(Barry Bingham, Jr.)
April 6, 2009... My father, a third-generation newspaper publisher, warned of the industry's demise. None of us listened. Sometimes, being right hurts the most. I imagine that's how my father, Barry Bingham Jr., would have felt about the crisis that could...

Caught In the Act Of Thinking.(Nation; BETWEEN THE LINES)(Barack Obama)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Jonathan Alter Obama is following Roosevelt's approach of making early down payments on big ideas. Mid-tweet in last week's press conference, reporters were already complaining that President Obama wasn't making news. And by...

An Awkward Obituary.(Nation; THE MEDIA)(Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Kurt Soller ***** Correction: In "An Awkward Obituary" (APRIL 6), we failed to properly attribute a quote from a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter. The quote, "A little bit of the enamel ground off my teeth on that flight,"...

Say Hello to Emily's Cello.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Emily Blunt)(Interview)
April 6, 2009... In "Sunshine Cleaning," Emily Blunt's job is even worse than being an assistant at a certain fashion magazine. She scrubs up bloody crime scenes. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Hi, Emily. Hi. And I now have my mouth full of a bar I'm...

Hollywood's New Odd Couples.(Newsmakers)(Hollywood weddings)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Someone must've poured love potion in the Hollywood punch bowl, because everybody's getting married this spring. It's one thing to be a blushing bride, but some of these newlyweds should be ashamed: (1) Tom Brady and his Mrs. Brady, Gisele,...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
April 6, 2009... "This will be seen as tacit acceptance of the president's abortion views." New York GOP Rep. Peter King, on the news that Notre Dame University, his alma mater, will give President Obama an honorary degree when he delivers the Catholic...

There's Plenty Of Blame For All.(Periscope; CHINA)(China on United States economy)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Melinda Liu The latest recession-fueled outburst of America-bashing in China might worry Washington, but it's even scarier to the rulers in Beijing. Millions of ordinary Chinese are in trouble, and they're asking why their...

A Detainee Dilemma.(Periscope; GITMO)(Shaker Aamer and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Mark Hosenball The case of a Guantanamo detention-camp detainee named Shaker Aamer, an alleged former associate of Osama bin Laden, has evolved into a perfect example of the dilemmas facing the Obama administration as it tries to...

A Gun Ban Gets Shot Down.(Periscope; POLITICS)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Michael Isikoff Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now the second member of President Obama's cabinet to get shot down by the White House over the politically sensitive issue of assault weapons. After meeting with Mexican...

Let Me Share My Top-Secret Plan.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(dubious behavior)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... A weekly mathematical survey of a dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. RNC chair Michael Steele says his feeble apology for daring to cross Rush Limbaugh was "all strategic." Score: 11 ...

Apocalypse Then And Now.(Periscope)('Hearts and Minds')(Interview)
April 6, 2009... FAST CHAT When Peter Davis's account of the Vietnam era, "Hearts and Minds," won the Oscar for best documentary at the 1975 Academy Awards, coproducer Bert Schneider took the podium and read a telegram from the Viet Cong delegation to the...

Clawback Joe Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM)(AIG executive pay)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... As the congressional fever to tax AIG bonuses fades, let's not forget the Brooklyn guy who caused the crisis and still has his dough. Obama UP-First prez to host online video chat, and the big question is about weed. Talk about wasted. ...

South of the Border.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT MEXICO'S DRUG WAR)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Kidnappings in Phoenix, gun battles in Tucson, 6,000 deaths in Mexico last year alone: the drug trade is out of control. Now what? H. Clinton UP-Says American guns, drug demand are fueling Mexican violence. Accion, por favor. F....

'There's No Glass Ceiling For People Who Are Good'.(Periscope)(Obituary)
April 6, 2009... TRANSITION John Hope Franklin, 94 Author and Historian Born into a world of segregation and a history of race written by whites, Franklin made himself into a great public intellectual-- a bespoke black historian who put...

The Other Love Guv.(Periscope; CLOSURE)(Jim McGreevey)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Eliza Gray In the mass-media age, news stories captivate us, then vanish. We revisit those stories to bring you the next chapter. Starting Point Aug. 12, 2004: New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey announces his resignation and...

No, Really, You Shouldn't Have.(Periscope; DIPLOMACY)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Katie Connolly and Holly Bailey In the world of international diplomacy, small missteps can cause big problems. When George W. Bush gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel a quick shoulder rub--in what he thought was a friendly...

Michael Chabon.(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is blessed with literary chops and a Hollywood touch. The film version of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," Chabon's 1988 debut novel, hits theaters on April 4. His...

One 'Everlasting Moment': A Picture Within A Picture.(Periscope; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Malcolm Jones Visual acuity is at the heart of "Everlasting Moments," the beautiful new film by Sweden's Jan Troell ("The Emigrants"). Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) is the working-class wife of an abusive drunk. After winning a...

A Gamble On Art Doesn't Hit Jackpot.(Periscope; LAS VEGAS)(Las Vegas Museum of Art)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Steve Friess It was always an odd combination: Sin City and serious art. A decade ago, Las Vegas was full of brio about becoming the next Miami--a cultural mecca and art-tourism destination. But with the closure of the Las Vegas...

No Rest For An AIDS Veteran.(Periscope; HEALTH MATTERS)(Patricia Nalls)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Claudia Kalb Three percent of D.C. residents are living with HIV or AIDS. Three quarters of them are black. When the District of Columbia's health department released its shocking statistics in March--3 percent of the city's...

Dial 9 to Speak With An Imbecile.(Periscope; PAGE TURNER)(Brief article)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Matthew Philips After death, taxes and inclement weather, it's one of life's most inescapable downers: the customer-service call. Getting help can be an automated hell, an eternity of Muzak, code punching and security questions....

Watching For Supreme Surprises.(Periscope; THE VERDICT)(Supreme Court)
April 6, 2009... Institutional penchants for privacy and drama mean there is rarely warning of big news. Washington is obsessed with the Supreme Court right now, scrutinizing every judicial cough and comment for hidden evidence of illness or retirement...

The Myth of Early Detection.(Society; ON SCIENCE)(cancer screening)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Sharon Begley The (false) message that cancer screening cuts mortality is 'in our bone marrow.' Talk about missing the point. In the fortnight since two studies, taken together, showed that the PSA test for prostate cancer does...

A Ceasefire in the Culture War.(Society; OPINION)(Barack Obama's domestic policy)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Lisa Miller By making 'abortion reduction' a priority, Obama courts his frenemies. How does a democratic, pro-choice president avoid engaging in a culture war? This is the question that faces Barack Obama as he begins to shape...

Tales of a Modern Diva.(Society)(vanity; early obsession with beauty)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Jessica Bennett; With Aku Ammah-Tagoe Call it the high-maintenance generation. How our obsession with beauty is changing our kids. There's a scene in "Toddlers & Tiaras," the TLC reality series, where 2-year-old Marleigh is...

Stealth Health For Kids.(Society; HEALTH)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Sarah Kliff Forget banning junk. Try 'X-ray vision carrots.' What's the best way to make sure a kid eats an apple? Ask him if he wants one. It's really that simple, according to a recent Yale University study in which cafeteria...

Poehler's Opposites.(Entertainment; TELEVISION)(Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation)
April 6, 2009... Byline: Joshua Alston If you take your comedy as seriously as your politics, the 'SNL' alum's new sitcom is for you. Of all the television characters to emerge in the era of Obama, none captures the zeitgeist quite like Leslie Knope....

A Walk In The Dark.(Entertainment; BOOKS)('Don't Cry' and 'Pygmy')(Book review)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Seth Colter Walls Mary Gaitskill doesn't do pretty, but her new stories are still gorgeous. Like all underground art movements, the world of "transgressive fiction" comes with a built-in defense against critical scrutiny. If...

Saturn was Supposed To Save GM.(Business; BUSINESS: THE AUTO INDUSTRY)(Saturn Corp. and General Motors Corp.)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Paul Ingrassia; With Julie Halpert In Detroit Instead, GM crushed Saturn. Here's how. It's hard to remember a time when the top man at GM was the most celebrated industrialist in America, maybe even the world. But that was the...

'There Will Be Bankruptcies'.(International)(Oleg Deripaska)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova A year ago he was Russia's richest oligarch. Now he's a warning to the others. Oleg Deripaska had no time for empty formalities. By his 40th birthday he had risen to be the wealthiest man in...

A Message of Hope From a Pile of Bones.(International; AFRICA)(John Rucyahana)
April 13, 2009... If Rwanda can recover, says an Anglican bishop, others can, too. Rwanda is one of the most enchanting places on earth--and one of the most haunted. With its rolling hills and lush greenery, it could easily pass for paradise--if not for...

Slouching Toward Fatherhood.(My Turn)(Essay)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Joel Schwartzberg; Schwartzberg is a writer and PBS producer living in Montclair, N.J. I thought being a dad would come easily to me. But soon after my son's birth, I was looking for a way out. Nearly every night of the first...

The End of Christian America.(Nation; RELIGION)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Jon Meacham; With Eliza Gray The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now--and what, as a nation, we are about to become. It was a small...

Suddenly Seeking Specter.(Nation; POLITICS)(Arlen Specter)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Katie Connolly and Daniel Stone Why both parties have to be super-nice to a senator who can be kind of prickly. In his 28 years in the Senate, Arlen Specter has been accused of many things. Some of his Republican colleagues...

What Else Are We Wrong About?(Nation; THE BIG IDEA)(Column)
April 13, 2009... Homeownership encourages longer commutes. And at least one study says it makes you fat and unhappy. A lot of premises have turned out to be wrong lately. I'm not talking about evanescent bits ofaconventional wisdom, but about overarching...

What Was That About?(Nation; LIVING POLITICS)(Judd Gregg)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Howard Fineman Only two months ago, Sen. Judd Gregg embodied a new spirit of bipartisanship in Washington. To the surprise of everyone (and the dismay of his Republican colleagues), he cut a deal to join Barack Obama's cabinet. The...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
April 13, 2009... "If there's just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easier negotiation. But that's not the world we live in, and it shouldn't be the world we live in." President Obama, during a news conference with the...

Bracing For Blago's Trial.(Periscope; JUSTICE)(Rod Blagojevich)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Michael Isikoff Rod Blagojevich's run as Illinois governor may be over, but the political fallout from his 16-count corruption indictment last week is just beginning. Blago's trial is likely to feature a number of high-profile...

Mehsud's Pals In High Places.(Periscope; PAKISTAN)(Baitullah Mehsud)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Mark Hosenball Baitullah Mehsud, the brazen jihadist operating along the violent, lawless border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has a curious gift for escape. On several occasions over the past couple of years, security forces...

The Best Waterboarding in the Caribbean!(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... A weekly survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the latest tax headache for Team Obama, pays $8,000 in back taxes and interest two days before her...

Mark-To-Market My Words.(Periscope; CHEAT SHEET)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Matthew Philips To most people, it's an arcane accounting rule. But to bankers, it's the whole ballgame: "mark to market" pricing is the practice of requiring banks to value their assets based on their current market value. Not...

The Senator Who Saw This Coming.(Politics; FAST CHAT)(Interview)
April 13, 2009... Future historians rummaging through the archives of the Washington Monthly might stumble upon a chilling article about a coming "financial conflagration -- [E]very taxpayer in the country is on the line." The author was not some alarmist wacko,...

Take Me Out Edition.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT THE 2009 BASEBALL SEASON)(Brief article)
April 13, 2009... Change is the watchword for the sport this year, and it's more than just the switch from Moneyball to Recession Ball. Aging vets down--Pedro, Big Hurt can't find jobs; Gary Sheffield dumped, one HR shy of 500 (but Mets pounce) Young...

A (Designer) Dog's Life.(Society)(Essay)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Suzanne Smalley If the Obamas choose a hybrid, unethical breeders will try to cash in--and puppies are likely to suffer. The White County sheriff's department noticed the stench from a mile up the road. By the time rescuers...

Free At Last.(Technology; ENVIRONMENT & LEADERSHIP)(energy independence)(Essay)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Fareed Zakaria How to achieve genuine energy independence. Energy independence sounds like such a great idea. If only we could be free -- of what, exactly? The single biggest energy exporter to the U.S. is Canada. And even the...

Our Tanks Are On Full.(Technology; DRILL, BABY, DRILL)(Viewpoint essay)
April 13, 2009... The energy crisis is an artificial one, created by bad policies. For the past 30 years, America has grown increasingly dependent upon foreign sources of energy, sending American dollars to countries that are hostile to American interests...

Pulling The Plug On Oil.(Technology; CONSERVATION)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Steven Chu; Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, is the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Buy a hybrid, join a carpool. Why we should consume less. It's no accident that we've become dependent on oil, which is one of the...

It's Still The Motor City.(Technology; BEYOND THE BAILOUT)(Michigan)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Jennifer M. Granholm; Granholm is the governor of Michigan. Even as automobiles go electric, Michigan wants to build them. In the 20th Century, the road to the American Dream began in Michigan. Our state not only put the nation...

The Lioness In Spring.(Technology; POLITICS)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Michael Hirsh A kinder, gentler Carol Browner is backing Obama's green agenda. Carol Browner is in a better place than she was a decade ago. Back in the '90s, Browner was the agitator on the ramparts, the true-blue protege of...

GETTING RID OF 'GREEN'.(Technology; INTERVIEW)(Tom Friedman )(Interview)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Sharon Begley Why columnist Tom Friedman thinks we're dumb about energy. In his bestselling book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded," New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman argues that countries that pioneer renewable-energy...

Grey's Anatomy.(Entertainment; TELEVISION)('Grey Gardens' and 'The Surreal Life')(Television program review)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Steve Daly Before reality TV, before dysfunction became chic, there were the Beales of 'Grey Gardens.' If a bizarrely dysfunctional family chooses to bare itself on camera--perhaps without grasping how bizarre they are--who's...

Judy, Barbra, Liza--And Little Edie.(Entertainment; DRAMA QUEENS)
April 13, 2009... Byline: Alan Cumming; Cumming will next be seen in Julie Taymor's "The Tempest." How the 'Grey' ladies, and their ilk, became the gays' ladies. If you're a friend of Dorothy, are you duty-bound to idolize Judy Garland? If you're not...

Why Is It A Sin To Read For Fun?(Entertainment; BOOKS)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Jodi Picoult makes lots of people love books--but has she become too successful to be taken seriously? The young woman with blonde ringlets has a question: where did Jodi get her green-velvet hair scrunchie?...

It Doesn't Have To Hurt.(Business)
April 20, 2009... Government should use the lessons of behavioral economics to get us to invest more for retirement. Aging Americans are facing a perfect storm when it comes to retirement. Many have done little saving over the past two decades and have now...

The Debt Crusader.(Business)(Elizabeth Warren )
April 20, 2009... Byline: Daniel McGinn Inspired by Dr. Phil, Harvard's Elizabeth Warren has gone to D.C. to change the way America borrows. The stereotypical image of Harvard law school is of a crowded lecture hall dominated by a crusty, intimidating...

Debt Be Not Proud.(Business; THE MONEY CULTURE)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Daniel Gross One moment the government is solicitous of bondholders. The next it tells creditors to go jump in a lake. At a conference earlier this month on the panic of 2008, a group of distinguished academics tried to puzzle...

We Are Not In This Together.(Business)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Zachary Karabell; Karabell is president of River Twice Research. Young, minority men who didn't earn much to begin with are hit hardest by unemployment. More than 4 million Americans have been fired since last fall, and the...

Power Up.(; THE GLOBAL DOWNTURN)(China's economy)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Rana Foroohar; With Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Jason Overdorf in New Delhi The world has long expected China to emerge as an economic superpower, but the downturn may cause it to happen sooner. As Chinese Premier Wen...

How A New CEO Took A Crash Course In Biology.(; LEADERSHIP)(Kevin Sharer )(Interview)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Richard M. Smith Amgen's Kevin Sharer on the lessons of General Custer, nuclear subs and asking good questions. There are many differences between overseeing the nuclear reactor on a Navy submarine and running a $15 billion...

The New Shopping Superpowers.(; POINT OF VIEW)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Jim O'Neill; O'NEILL is chief economist at Goldman Sachs. As U.S. consumers flag, foreigners are picking up the slack. China's February trade surplus plunges, industrial production falls to record lows, electricity consumption...

The Real 'Green' Innovation.(; ENTERPRISE)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Daniel Gross Alternative energy depends more on financial tricks than simple engineering. Amid this withering contraction, at least one clean-energy company is booming. The 380 employees of SolarCity, based in Foster City,...

Mail Call: From the Left, an Attack on Obama.(Letters)
April 20, 2009... 'Obama Is Wrong': Readers responding to our April 6 cover story were divided--and often passionate--in their views about the Nobel Prize-winning economist. "I am not a very religious person, but I thank God for Paul Krugman," one wrote. Another...

Epilepsy in America: What Must Be Done.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Jon Meacham It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday. on Feb. 16, 2008--a cool but not cold late winter's day--my wife and I had plans for a late breakfast with a colleague of mine in New York when the call came. The bright,...

The What Of Nations?(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)
April 20, 2009... Byline: George F. Will A pandering Obama praised Europe's 'leading role in the world.' Actually, Europe exercises almost no leadership, even in Europe. "He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when...

'The Real Spinal Tap'.(Entertainment; CULTURE)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Jennie Yabroff 'Spinal Tap' made mockumentaries the art form of our time. It also made life hell for every struggling hair-metal band--just ask Anvil. True story: when "This Is Spinal Tap" premiered in 1984, audiences thought...

A Fighter Disarmed.(Entertainment; MOVIES)(Mike Tyson)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Allison Samuels Mike Tyson is done with being a poster boy for bad behavior--but don't ask him what comes next. When "Tyson" debuted at the Cannes film festival last May, the audience jumped to its feet--and stayed there,...

The Other Love of His Life.(My Turn)(Short story)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Amy Paturel; Paturel is a writer living in Murrieta, Calif. My fiance's first marriage ended in tragedy. Before we could be happy, he had to make peace with it. So did I. When I woke up to my boyfriend's kisses on a warm morning...

Obama Gets Gun-Shy.(Nation; POLITICS)(barack Obama)(Essay)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Suzanne Smalley Despite a recent spate of killings, the president and fellow Democrats choose not to wage war on assault weapons. On the morning of April 4, Richard Poplawski had a quarrel with his mother....

Let's Get Ready To Reconcile!(Nation; BETWEEN THE LINES)(Column)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Jonathan Alter Republicans are shocked that a tool they used might now be used for Obama's agenda. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Sounds fun, except that this column is about reconciliation, obfuscation and cap-and-trade. A...

Faith, Fear and the Wages of Columbine.(Nation; NATIONAL AFFAIRS)(Biography)
April 20, 2009... Byline: Matthew Philips and Lisa Miller Two pastors from opposite ends of the theological spectrum are still haunted by the school massacre. How do you preside over the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who went to school one Tuesday...