Newsweek articles from August 2001

Newsweek archives from August 2001

Southern Lady, World-Class Storyteller: Eudora Welty, April 13, 1909-July 23, 2001.(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 6, 2001... In 1999 the author Willie Morris described a drive he took with his friend and fellow Mississippian Eudora Welty through the spooky, kudzu-choked back roads of Yazoo County, about 40 miles north of her home in Jackson. "At the crest of a bosky...

The Fight for the Future Of the Boy Scouts.(US Bylines)
August 6, 2001... The Fight for the Future Of the Boy Scouts When the Supreme Court ruled last year that the Boy Scouts could exclude James Dale because he was gay, the case appeared closed. Yet since then protests over the policy and the impact it could...

The Right Economic Medicine? The first tax-rebate checks are arriving, and Bush says the $38 billion will give the ailing economy a needed shot in the arm. But with growth slowing, layoffs climbing and CEOs increasingly grim, it may not provide much of a boost.(Business)
August 6, 2001... Raymond Herbst, a New York firefighter, is going to splurge. He's taking his wife to dinner at Windows on the World atop the World Trade Center. Coren Claborn, a bank teller in Spring, Texas, plans to spend the cash on a CD player for her car....

CEOs Sound the Warning.(corporate earnings forecasts reflect weakening economy)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Every newspaper reader has a first stop, whether it's the sports page, the funnies or a gossip column. For business types, it's the front-page "What's News" summary of The Wall Street Journal--and as 2001 turns into an annus horribilis for...

Cyberscope.(computer innovations)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... HOT PROPERTY Microsoft's Saucy Swiss Side Do monopolies make you horny, baby? If so, expect Office XP to sell a ton of copies in Switzerland thanks to this ad, in which a frisky fellow discovers that his date's bra has been...

Correction.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
August 6, 2001... Correction The photo on our July 16 "Jesus Rocks!" cover was taken at a Christian-rock festival in Dallas, not Tulsa. We regret the error.

Mail Call.(Letters)
August 6, 2001... Jammin' With Jesus Many teenage fans of contemporary Christian music were among the readers responding to our July 16 cover story. "I was very glad to see that CCM is finally getting some positive feedback from the secular media," wrote a...

Smoke Signals.(use of satellite images to aid workers containing damage from eruption of Sicily's Mt. Etna)(A Thousand Words)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... From the Spot 4 Satellite 515 miles above the earth, the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily seems peaceful enough: a gentle, gray plume of smoke and ash billowing toward the firmament. The photo could pass for abstract art. But scientists used...

Bush's America Is Working: And how. Forty percent of vacationers are in daily--yes, daily--contact with their offices.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 6, 2001... Washington's conventional wisdom, which often is the wishful thinking in its media culture, is that George W. Bush's presidency is floundering. But as he passes the six-month mark, only one eighth of the way through his term, his serenity seems...

The Bandanna Is Back: Daniel Ortega was a giant thorn in the side of George W. Bush's father. Now the former Sandinista leader is favored to become Nicaragua's next president.(International)
August 6, 2001... The air shakes with the rhythm of campaign jingles, the explosion of fireworks and cries of "Daniel! Daniel!" There he is, perched on the bed of a pickup, winding through the potholed streets, waving to the crowd as it swells around him. He...

America's New Balancing Act: Is the world ganging up on us? Henry Kissinger says yes--and Bush should begin to take heed.(World View)(International)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 6, 2001... For the last dozen years scholars of international politics have pondered a puzzle--why is no one ganging up against the United States? Throughout modern history countries have regularly resisted a rising global power. The world mobilized...

A Bad Bet in Monte Carlo: How the cops let billionaire banker Edmond Safra die.(CRIME)(International)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Autopsy photographs of the late billionaire Edmond Safra do not show a man who was terrified at the moment he died. Nor do the pictures, examined by NEWSWEEK, show bullet wounds, as some reports have suggested. The official autopsy concludes...

Free at Last: 'I'm Not a Spy': Scholar Li Shaomin tells of his harrowing five months in a Chinese prison. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(CHINA)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Confined in a Chinese prison, Li Shaomin was stripped of virtually everything that would bring him comfort--letters from his daughter, the Bible his wife sent him, books and newspapers with information on the outside world. Referred to as...

The Road Rave: A generation travels the world in search of the perfect party.(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Here's a quick quiz to see if you're ready for a rave vacation. Does dancing in the blazing Mediterranean sun at high noon in a cotton-candy-pink wig, vinyl chaps and melting body paint sound appealing? Is a sleepless week filled with pounding...

Back to the Mountains: Too country for country radio? What's a girl to do? Patty Loveless's answer: make a great bluegrass record.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 6, 2001... Back in 1992, when she was still about the hottest item in Nashville, Patty Loveless made the country-music equivalent of a pilgrimage to kiss the Pope's ring. At the invitation of mountain-music patriarch Ralph Stanley, she and Emory Gordy...

The Trouble With Hairy: It's the people vs. the primates in 'Planet of the Apes'.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 6, 2001... The apes in Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" look tremendously regal, but the heavy makeup makes the actors sound thick-tongued and muffled: it's like they're all wearing retainers. Fortunately, you can follow the plot without subtitles. An...

Revenge of The Nerds: Living in 'Ghost World'.(MOVIES)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 6, 2001... Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) hate everyone, except for the people everyone else hates. They've just graduated from high school and are forgoing college in order to concentrate full time on rolling their eyes and making...

She's Getting the Royal Treatment: A face to watch: Anne Hathaway.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 6, 2001... Shy, frizzy-haired Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is struggling through teendom in San Francisco when her grandmother (Julie Andrews) shows up and spills a family secret: Mia is the princess of a tiny country named Genovia. ("Shut up!" cries...

Our Way--But for How Much Longer? 'When we get too old' is no longer a distant concept, and suddenly we're forced to rethink how we live.(My Turn)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... It was a scene that had occurred often over the past 30 years. I was standing in the bed of our pickup truck and my husband was on a tall farm wagon, pitching bales of hay to me to stack. But after a few minutes he stopped. "Whew," he...

[inverted question mark]Como Se Dice 'Realignment'? Immigration and trucking spur Bush's Hispanic outreach.(POLITICS)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Here's this summer's trend in politics: Spanish lessons. Republican Rick Perry, George W. Bush's successor as governor of Texas, could barely sound-bite his way through a tamale at Cinco de Mayo. So he enrolled in two weeks of total-immersion...

The House of Grubman: Why is everyone gunning for Lizzie? Let's start with her take-no-prisoners dad.(SCANDALS)(Business)
August 6, 2001... When Allen Grubman's daughter got kicked out of prep school years ago, the high-powered music lawyer knew just what to do: he made a few phone calls and got her enrolled in another (and still another when she flamed out of that one--and another...

Fighting the HMO Meanies: Managed care is the only industry in America that can't be sued. That makes no sense.(Between the Lines)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... President Bush believes he's getting the hang of things in Washington. "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier--there's no question about it," he said again last week, repeating what appears to be his favorite quip. "But dealing with...

A Steely Southerner: Growing up in Alabama gave Condi Rice a core of strength. Just ask the Russians.(National Affairs)
August 6, 2001... As a girl growing up in Birmingham, Ala., Condoleezza Rice sat quietly in her music class as the other children made a ruckus, blowing on their instruments and ignoring the teacher. "I'm waiting for my instructions," piped up little Condi. "And...

Newsmakers.
August 6, 2001... Return of a Refugee Rumors of Lauryn Hill's breakdown have been greatly exaggerated. By her. "I'm crazy and emotionally disturbed," she sarcastically admits. "People don't mess with you when they think you're crazy." It's been three years...

Perspectives.(US Perspectives)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 6, 2001... Publisher Correction: August 07, 2001 ________________________________________________________________________________ In our August 6 PERSPECTIVES section, a jocular quote about Secretary of State Colin Powell was attributed to former...

Periscope: NEWSWEEK'S look behind and beyond the news.(Column)
August 6, 2001... CHANDRA LEVY Nonexistent Phone Calls (and Other False Tales) Was Chandra Levy frantically trying to reach Rep. Gary Condit in the days before she disappeared? A flurry of last-minute calls has been widely reported--but it didn't happen....

Discounts on Your RX Drugs: Where to find lower prices--and why Bush's senior-discount plan could change Medicare.(Capital Gains)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Pay close attention to the drug-discount cards for seniors just announced by President George W. Bush. At first blush, they sound like a small, stopgap way of cutting the cost of prescription drugs while you're waiting for "real" drug benefits...

Scouts Divided: Since a Supreme Court ruling against gays in the Boy Scouts, Americans are increasingly torn over a beloved institution.(Society)
August 6, 2001... Jeff Moran and some friends from Troop 1320 dropped onto the lawn near Trading Post 13 last Tuesday, a sweltering morning during the 15th Boy Scouts Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, Va. Despite the heat wave, over the next 10...

Where the Girls Are: The Girl Scouts try a version of 'don't ask, don't tell'.(Society)
August 6, 2001... Nine years ago long-time Scout and adult volunteer Kristen Renn was slated to run a Girl Scout counselor-in-training program in Rhode Island when the local council there told her that her help wasn't needed. Renn, then an assistant dean at...

Whatever Happened to...? After Sydney, Marion Jones searches for the limelight.(OLYMPICS)(Society)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... If there was one thing you'd think Marion Jones wouldn't need after three Olympic gold medals in Sydney last year, it would be more recognition. What greater laurel could fame bestow than to sit down with that American triumvirate of Leno,...

Trials--and Errors: Experiments on human volunteers are crucial to biomedical progress. But do they pose an unacceptable risk?(Science and Technology)
August 6, 2001... Gretchen Stewart thought she was doing the best thing for her 3-month-old boy when she allowed the doctor to include him in a human experiment. Little Gage was a fussy baby who seemed to be filled with as much gas as a balloon. The doctor,...

My Life as a Guinea Pig: Clinical trials are inherently risky, but one saved me.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... On a sunny San Diego afternoon in the winter of 1996, I was jogging on the beach near my home when I reached up to scratch my neck and discovered a walnut-size lump. Ignoring it for a few weeks, I finally decided a few days before Christmas to...

Waterworld: Fishing, not pollution, has decimated the seas.(ENVIRONMENT)(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... What do sea grasses in the Florida Bay, blue crabs in the Chesapeake and sea otters in the North Pacific have in common? While scientists have tried to pin the blame for their decline on causes from pollution to climate change, a new...

The All-Stars' Lost Essays: A lit-crit treasure trove.(BOOKS)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... At a time when people like Cynthia Ozick and John Updike are still going strong--as well as such younger critics as Albert Mobilio and Francine Prose--you won't catch me getting all elegiac over the decline of vigorous writing about books for...

Asking Tough Questions With Sensitivity.(Bylines)
August 13, 2001... Asking Tough Questions With Sensitivity Celebrities bearing babies in their 40s may get lots of press, but that doesn't mean the rules of biology have changed. "Fertility doctors say they want their patients to understand that technology...

Shooting With Live Ammo: With Microsoft introducing its most important new product in years, AOL Time Warner is fighting for position on the battlefield.(Business)
August 13, 2001... Computer gamers are familiar with desktop scenarios that put them in the role of military generals. Surveying a field of battle on their monitors, they wage war by manipulating icons that represent weapons or regiments. This summer the hottest...

Virgin Loses Its Innocence: A record label copes with turmoil at the top and the meltdown of a big star.(EMI Group and Virgin Records)(MUSIC)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... It's a rock-and-roll saga tailor-made for VH1's "Behind the Music." A distinguished British record mogul shepherds his 19-year-old girlfriend into a powerful position at his label, provoking the ire of several colleagues. The two marry, but the...

Building a Better Bulb: They last seven years and use 75 percent less electricity.(ENERGY)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... It sounds like the setup for a joke: how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? But to the nation's lighting manufacturers, the answer is serious business. For decades they tinkered to perfect an energy-efficient bulb that would...

A Simple Social Security Solution: If the trust fund bought federally backed mortgages instead of Treasury bonds, we'd all win. Except for people who don't want the problem solved.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... When business types talk about picking low-hanging fruit, they don't mean, heaven forbid, doing actual physical labor. They mean finding easy solutions. Which brings us to the Social Security trust fund. The problem is that the $1.2 trillion...

A Masterful 'Car Guy' Rolls Into GM.(Robert Lutz hired by General Motors)(AUTOS)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... For decades general Motors has watched its market share slide, and many observers blame it on a single, overriding problem: since it's run by "bean counters" instead of "car guys," it's doomed to produce boring, unstylish vehicles. "GM has...

Cyberscope.(news about personal digital assistants and web sites)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... HOT PROPERTY Like R2D2, Only Less Annoying Now, this is a personal digital assistant. The latest in space accessories from NASA talks, understands and monitors temperature and atmospheric pressure like the Tricorder on "Star Trek." But...

Don't Look Down.(roller coaster accident at amusement park in Dalton Township, Michigan)(A Thousand Words)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... In Dalton Township, Mich., last week an amusement-park ride called Chaos suddenly spun off its axle and crashed, leaving dozens of terrified passengers trapped for hours until rescuers could pull them out. Fearing that the wreckage would...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
August 13, 2001... Corrections In our Aug. 6 PERSPECTIVES section, a jocular quote about Secretary of State Colin Powell was attributed to former secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The quote was actually a line uttered by a Russian official playing...

Critical Moment.(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... CRITICAL MOMENT Our Opinionated Guide From one to five Stars MOVIES The Others Nicole Kidman and two terrific kid actors holed up in a haunted mansion after WWII. Arty but--after "The Sixth Sense"--thin and familiar. J.G.** Hedwig and...

LETTERS.(US Letters)
August 13, 2001... Condit Takes the Heat Although there's no evidence linking Rep. Gary Condit to Chandra Levy's disappearance, readers of our July 23 cover story had few kind words for him. "If Chandra were my daughter, Condit would be hanging by his thumbs...

Rock 'n Roll Mama: In the '70s everybody fell for rock stars--and the rock stars all fell for Bebe Buell. She tells all in the raucous 'Rebel Heart.'.(Arts and Entertainment)
August 13, 2001... Before you judge Bebe Buell--before you dismiss her as merely the mother of Liv Tyler, or the ex-girlfriend of Steven Tyler, or the ex-girlfriend of Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren--you really...

The Ghosts of S-21: It was a chamber of death. Now, as Cambodia prepares to prosecute 'those most responsible' for the Khmer Rouge genocide, how deep does the guilt go?(International)
August 13, 2001... The black-and-white photograph, stapled to a yellowed document deep in the archives, is evidence of a past that Khieu Ches would rather forget. The picture was taken in 1977, soon after the peasant boy, then 16, arrived at a school called S-21...

Uneasy Hawk: Peacemaker Peres squirms as Israel steps up assassinations.(Shimon Peres tries to reduce response to Palestinian violence)(ISRAEL)(International)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Outwardly, Shimon Peres is his usual picture of elegance and control. The previous day Israeli helicopter gunships had struck ferociously at the West Bank town of Nablus, killing several Hamas figures but also two Palestinian children. Now...

Israel's Best Plan: Build More Walls: If the nation continues along its current path, it will eventually face a demographic disaster.(Israeli-Arab relations)(World View)(International)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... In rejecting Ehud Barak's proposals at Camp David, Yasir Arafat did more than shatter the hopes for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. He also shattered the Israeli left. For a decade the Labor Party had a solution to Israel's biggest...

Snagging a Piece of the 'Pie': With a sequel on the way, the kids from 'American Pie' tell how the 1999 gross-out hit changed their lives.(MOVIES)(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... JASON BIGGS, 'Jim' BEFORE: I used to sleep on a futon--which I actually never pulled out into the bed position. And I ate a lot of fast food. I went from home-cooked meals in New Jersey to eating McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner....

When the Boob Tube Goes on Vacation: Now parents sick of hearing 'Are we there yet?' can pop in a video. They don't know what they're missing.(My Turn)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 13, 2001... I saw the commercial again the other day and was just as perplexed and saddened by it as I was the first time. It's a shot of a minivan inching down the freeway, surrounded by other cars. The parents inside are smiling and relaxed because the...

Alaska: Oil's Ground Zero: A trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a confrontation with choices--to drill or preserve one of the last wild places. Inside the growing fight for Alaska's future.(National Affairs)
August 13, 2001... If you want somebody to fly you over the towering peaks of the Brooks Range and drop you onto the spongy tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Dirk Nickisch is your man. Dirk is a former rodeo rider and crop-duster, a wiry fellow with...

A Trial Lawyer's Bedside Manner: To bring home a patient's bill of rights, Bush has to deal with John Edwards--who's got his eye on W's job.(THE HILL)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... When Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood arrived back on Capitol Hill, his allies were in character. For years the Georgia dentist had crusaded for a tough "bill of rights" for HMO patients, but on Wednesday he cut a side deal with George W. Bush,...

In Memory of the Lost Ballots: The presidential Wise Men push Bush toward voting reform.(POLITICS)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... If there's a fraternity of presidents, then George W. Bush must feel like the pledge who's getting hazed. First, Bill Clinton burst back into public last week, proving in Harlem that he--and not Bush--is still The Man to minority voters. Then...

'It's Ongoing Torture': As hope of finding their daughter dwindles, the Levys on Condit, Chandra and the emotional toll.(Susan and Robert Levy; Chandra Levy; Gary Condit)(CHANDRA)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Since their daughter, Chandra, disappeared from Washington, D.C., in early May, her parents, Susan and Robert Levy, have desperately sought information about her fate. Despite tremendous publicity, a $210,000 reward and thousands of tips,...

Newsmakers.(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Windfall for Whitney It's been years since Whitney Houston had a hit--well, of the musical kind. But she just snagged one of the biggest recording deals ever: more than $100 million in a multialbum contract with her longtime label, Arista...

Perspectives.(observations on current events)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... "In July 1995, General Krstic, you agreed to evil." Judge Almiro Rodrigues, sentencing former general Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for the killing of 7,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslims "I've got a hundred bucks that says my baby beats...

Periscope: NEWSWEEK'S look behind and beyond the news.
August 13, 2001... JUSTICE Ashcroft and the Feds Shoot It Out Over Guns Justice Department lawyers, who have been fighting a gun-control case in Texas, are now facing hostile testimony from an unlikely source: their new boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft....

Is There Life in the Bubble? Although stock prices are way down from their peak, they're still high by historical standards.(Judgment Calls)(Business)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... It may be that the U.S. stock market is still overvalued, even after a year of losses that have left all the major indexes trading well below their historical highs of early 2000 (11,723 for the Dow, 1527 for the Standard &Poor's 500 and 5049...

Should You Have Your Baby Now? A group of doctors thinks advances in fertility treatment have given women too much hope. Its new ad campaign is bound to stir up public controversy--and private anguish.(Society)
August 13, 2001... Nancy Weil, 44, always knew she wanted kids--but the timing was never quite right. In her 20s and 30s, she was intoxicated by her career as a television producer--she worked late nights, she traveled. A social life? She squeezed it in between...

When Dad is a Donor: As more single women conceive children through artificial insemination, stigmas and secrecy are falling away.(Society)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Nine-year-old Sam Hollander has a few questions about his father. "Sometimes I'm curious to see what he looks like," says Sam. "I'd like to know, did he smile a lot?" Sam might never learn the answers to his questions, because his biological...

Not Their Mothers'Choices: As this author traveled the country, she met many young women who said they'd rather stay home than raise children via nannies and mobile phones.(Society)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... A young American couple honeymoons in London. At breakfast, I overhear their quiet conversation. "So what are you going to do when we get home?" the 27-year-old groom asks his wife. The slim brunette looks down at her plate. "I'm not sure....

The Sound of the Fury: 'We're going to kick their a--es!' yelled one player. NEWSWEEK's look at a girls' soccer team in search of a national title.(Bethesda Fury)(SPORTS)(Society)
August 13, 2001... Stop it!" an opposing player yelled at Carolyn Ford. "You're pulling my skin!" "No I'm not," retorted the center fullback for the Bethesda (Md.) Fury, a girls' club soccer team, "I'm pulling your fat!" The referee gave Ford a yellow card for...

Going, Going...Blue crabs in the Chesapeake are disappearing, and with them a way of life that has pitted watermen against scientists.(Science and Technology)
August 13, 2001... Just before dawn every summer day but Sunday, the Chesapeake Bay awakes to the throttled-down murmur of marine engines. It's the sound of watermen headed out for a living. Some will fish. Some will clam. But Bobby Abner's going crabbing, as he...

Temperatures Rising.(preventing heatstroke)(MEDICINE)(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... An average of three football players die from heatstroke each year, usually high-schoolers in the summer heat. But it took last week's death of Minnesota Viking Korey Stringer, 27, to focus attention on the risk of exercising in the heat....

Ahead of the Curve.(Bylines)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
August 20, 2001... In this era of 24/7 news, we at NEWSWEEK don't think it's enough just to cover big stories after they've happened. Whenever possible, we try to alert you to news and trends before everyone else is talking about them. Six weeks ago we decided to...

The Disc That Saved Hollywood: Jealous execs... Backroom deals... The inside story of how DVDs became the entertainment industry's most lucrative product.(Business)
August 20, 2001... CORRECTION PUBLISHED 9/6/01: We should have said that the DVD of "Shrek" will be released Nov. 2 and will include 15 minutes of new animation material, including a new three-minute ending. And an accompanying graphic should have noted that...

Romancing New Readers: To woo young women, bodice-rippers try to get hip.(PUBLISHING; Business)(Harlequin Enterprises expands its books into the 'chick lit' genre)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... In "See Jane Date," a soon-to-be published novel, the heroine is a 28-year-old Manhattan publishing assistant who dreams about DKNY sweaters, frets about her hip measurements and goes through men almost as fast as she goes through Marlboro...

Bloody Thursday.(A Thousand Words)(terrorist bombing in Israel)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... The bomber had visions of paradise in his head, and a bundle of explosives and nails lashed to his body. He hit the detonator in a crowded Jerusalem pizzaria. Instantly, an aroma of tomato sauce was obliterated by dust and smoke and blood. The...

Cyberscope.(the Majestic online adventure game)(this and other topics are discussed)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... HOT PROPERTY A Game That Calls You Up Be careful who you trust," warns Majestic, the online adventure that blurs the lines between fact and fiction by twinning gameplaying with everyday methods of communication (free demo, then $9.99 per...

Mail Call: Our readers react to our July 30 cover on Katharine Graham.(Letters)
August 20, 2001... The Lighthouse Keeper Readers offered praise for both Katharine Graham and NEWSWEEK's July 30 tribute to her. "She was remarkably admired by people across the political and social spectrum," wrote one. "We should all strive to live our...

Don't Get Burned! Switching to high-speed Internet access makes your Web experience speedier--and much more dangerous. How 'firewalls' can protect your PC from attackers.(Focus on Technology)
August 20, 2001... Who's signing up for high-speed Internet access these days? People like my mom, who recently became one of the 7.5 million Web users who got tired of slow connections and signed up for broadband. Last month she tossed out her old modem and...

Busted by the Copyright Cops: How a controversial intellectual-property law got a Russian programmer thrown in jail.(Random Access)(Focus on Technology)(Dmitry Sklyarov)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... When FBI agents arrested him in the parking lot of a Las Vegas hotel on July 16, Dmitry Sklyarov thought it must have been some mistake. These men would ask him who he was and he would tell them: a benign 26-year-old computer programmer who'd...

Beach Reading Without Guilt: Neither Dostoevsky nor Danielle Steel, here are some worthy books you can spill Coppertone on.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Time was, Americans were virtuosos of guilt. They knew they were no good. Grim divines told them so. Today's Americans have pretty much given up guilt as no fun and inconvenient to self-esteem. Still, they experience mild unease about the...

Why Not Saddam: 'International justice' is the new catchphrase. So why has nobody taken the world's most infamous war criminal to trial?(International)
August 20, 2001... Saddam Hussein's jets streak across the Iraqi night, challenging American fighters to give chase. His SAM batteries, more effective now than at any time since the gulf war, probe the skies with radar, ready to fire. Often they do; so far...

And Along Came a Spider: A serial killer traps and murders prostitutes. Scarier still, some Iranian conservatives think he's a hero.(IRAN; International)(some 21 prostitutes murdered in Iran)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... The prostitutes' bodies are thrown on Iran's roadsides, or more often in open sewers. They are wrapped in their long, black chadors, the cloth knotted top and bottom to form a makeshift body bag. In every case, the killer has used a scarf to...

Be Productive-Hit the Beach: Memo to the boss: the flagging U.S. economy could benefit if workers got more time off.(World View; International)(French report indicates that shorter work hours may increase productivity)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... These are the dog days of August, and in this hot, sweltering weather most Americans are busy working. (I know, I know, not you folks in the Hamptons.) Meanwhile, most Europeans are busy vacationing. Thus it has ever been, only it's getting...

A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Song: The return of the strange, sublime Grant-Lee Phillips.(MUSIC)(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips has always been a strange bird. In 1994 the honey-voiced singer, then fronting the band Grant Lee Buffalo, appeared in a video dressed as a canary swinging on a perch. On one of the group's albums, the Los...

'Apocalypse' Then and Now: Francis Ford Coppola plunges us back into the heart of darkness with an even more surreal and staggering edition of his famed Vietnam epic.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 20, 2001... My film is not a movie," Francis Ford Coppola proclaimed of "Apocalypse Now" in 1979 at a press conference in Cannes. "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam." That may be the dumbest thing Coppola ever said in public, and anyone who...

Speaking Of War: Coppola talks about art and combat with author David Halberstam.(INTERVIEW)(Francis Ford Coppola)(Arts and Entertainment)
August 20, 2001... Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola met author David Halberstam for the first time at a recent screening of "Apocalypse Now Redux." Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Vietnam in 1964, and he's been examining the fallout...

Out of Tune: Love! War! Miscasting!(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
August 20, 2001... It's not hard to see why the ingredients of Louis De Bernieres's novel "Corelli's Mandolin" looked like surefire movie material. Set on a beautiful Greek island torn apart by World War II, this darkly satiric epic has comedy, drama, a love...

When We Were Kings: 'The Royal Tenenbaums' were prodigies. Now they're basket cases. The making of a much-awaited comedy.(MOVIES)(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Bill Murray is working the room: enter at your own risk. It's a drizzly morning in New Jersey, and director Wes Anderson is shooting "The Royal Tenenbaums," a comedy due in December about one deeply eccentric family's attempt to survive...

What Can a Flawed Test Tell Us, Anyway? Many of my students won't even try to ace our state's mandated exams this year. I can't say I blame them.(My Turn)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 20, 2001... While monitoring a test in my high-school U.S.-history class last spring, I was a bit surprised to find one of my most conscientious students doodling on his paper rather than filling in answers. I was equally surprised when another of my...

Bush Draws A Stem Cell Line: Mastering the science, sensitive to the politics, the president unveils a plan that gives both sides some comfort--for now. Behind a crisis the White House couldn't avoid.(National Affairs)
August 20, 2001... The president called the meeting for 5:45 p.m., the last of the day, because he expected it to run long. It did. His main guest was Dr. Leon Kass, a bioethicist widely respected in conservative intellectual circles--and deeply critical of...