Newsweek articles from August 2006

Newsweek archives from August 2006

Live Alone And Like It; If you like to be alone, there's the assumption that you're a month away from becoming the old woman with the weedy yard and decrepit house.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen Somehow I wound up leading the same summer life my mother led. With school over, the household was transplanted a hundred miles away, in a place defined by weather: silver sunlight, soaking rains, calamine lotion,...

A Winning Equation; How a husband-and-wife team used clever marketing--and health claims--to turn a weird fruit into liquid gold.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Andrew Murr Los Angeles entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick know how to make money buying things, from oranges to fire alarms to the Franklin Mint. But they were stymied by what to do with a 100-acre pomegranate grove that came...

A Very Private Moment; More companies like HCA are eliminating pesky shareholders and avoiding government regulators.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan (With Jessica Ramirez) Fashions on Wall Street come and go, but two forces are eternal: investors' never-ending search for higher-than-average returns, and Wall Street's never-ending search to make money from those...

If You Can't Stand the Heat.
August 7, 2006... On top of Middle East and Iraq, we've got gas prices, blackouts and scorchers. And here come the hurricanes. Bush - Hard to get people to follow when you've lost your moral authority. Start the turnaround by closing Gitmo. ...

Letters.
August 7, 2006... As Instability Increases in the Middle East Readers of our July 24 cover story on the Middle East crisis found that it helped them better understand the situation in that troubled area. One said, "I've been studying your article for days,...

The Wider War; From Iraq to Al Qaeda, the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah is resonating far beyond the battlefield.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Rod Nordland (With John Barry, Michael Hirsh and Richard Wolffe in Washington, Babak Dehganpisheh in Beirut, Kevin Peraino in Avivim, Joanna Chen in Jerusalem, Nisid Hajari and Maziar Bahari in Tehran, and Malcolm...

'Tipping Point'; Just another day in Ramadi: Another IED, an ambush, one dead marine and a couple of lucky ones. A report from the epicenter of the insurgency.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson Lance Cpl. Dustin Gross lay on a Ramadi street beside his wrecked Humvee, conscious but too badly injured to get up. The crew's gunner, momentarily knocked cold, slumped in the turret above him. Huge pieces of...

This Week Online.
August 7, 2006... Byline: A. Christian Jean Diane von Furstenberg NEWSWEEK: Does fashion still matter? President, Council of Fashion Designers of America: We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet it's a...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham On a humid afternoon in Manhattan earlier this summer, a group of NEWSWEEK editors and writers had just finished an early screening of Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center." With characteristic cinematic skill, Stone...

Natural Born Heroes; Many artists have struggled to capture 9/11. Now Oliver Stone directs a true story you'd never expect--and won't forget.(Movie review)
August 7, 2006... Byline: David Ansen (With Sean Smith and Lorraine Ali in Los Angeles, and Joshua Alston, Jac Chebatoris, David Gates, Devin Gordon and Ramin Setoodeh in New York.) In Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," on the morning of September 11,...

Interview: 'I Had Made My Peace With God'; They inspired 'WTC,' but they would rather shine the spotlight on everyone else.(World Trade Center)(Interview)(Cover story)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jeff Giles Jeff Giles: What was it like to watch "World Trade Center"? Will Jimeno: When I walked out, I gave Oliver a big hug and a kiss, and I said, "You kept to your word. You told the story as accurate and as true as you...

Up From the Ashes.(World Trade Center attack)(Cover story)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... When the Twin Towers came down, they brought with them more than a million tons of concrete, steel--and 2,769 human beings. Oliver Stone's new movie ends with a chilling reminder: just 20 made it out. In stairwell B, a deafening wall of wind...

The First in the Family To Be Supersized; My immigrant mother's infatuation with fast food made me fat. She couldn't have been prouder.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Tang; Tang lives in New York City As a first-generation Chinese-American woman who wears a size 36D bra, I can personally testify to the power of the American fast-food diet. For generations, my family was short and my...

History: How American Myths Are Made; Nations need a good story line to learn how to cope with their tragedies.(Cover story)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Evan Thomas and Andrew Romano The story of workaday men and women rising to greatness is one of America's most cherished myths. As a term, myth is much misunderstood; hearing it, many people take the word to mean "lie," when in...

An Itchy Trigger Finger; Steven Green went to Iraq eager to 'Kill 'em all.' The Army thinks he took things way too far.
August 7, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: In "An Itchy Trigger Finger" (Aug. 7), we mistakenly identified the GED as General Equivalency Degree. It stands for General Educational Development test. ***** Byline: Sarah Childress and Michael Hirsh (With...

A Gang Under Siege; They were 'saviors of the Senate.' But the Gang of 14 may pay a price at the polls.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman and Holly Bailey Fran Dewine just wanted to talk about apple pie. Campaigning last month for her husband, Ohio Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, she handed constituents a family cookbook, complete with Mike's favorite pie...

A Blue-Blood Battle Royale; Brooke Astor had always been a paragon of dignity--until her relatives began squabbling over her care.(Brooke Astor's grandson Philip Marshall sues his father Anthony Marshall of elder abuse)
August 7, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: CORRECTION: In "A Blue-Blood Battle Royale" (Aug. 7), we misidentified a picture of Brooke Astor due to inaccurate information provided by the photo agency. The image labeled "Astor modeling a gown in 1948" was of Minnie...

'The Putting of First Things First'; The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats. It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Alter To the consternation of my children, I once spent an afternoon with Monica Lewinsky. It was at a Thanksgiving Day party in 2000, while the results of the presidential campaign were still unclear, and the subject of...

The Wedding March; Washington's high court dealt gay-marriage advocates another setback. What's next--for both sides.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Debra Rosenberg and Karen Breslau For Seattle-area pastor and gay-marriage opponent Joseph Fuiten, there was little time to savor the good news. Within hours after the Washington Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, to uphold the state's ban...

Pounding the Keys; Inside Condi Rice's hunt for fresh ways to resolve the mounting tensions in the Mideast.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Michael Hirsh There she was playing her Brahms sonata, while 5,000 miles away the Mideast burned. It was all too tempting for columnists to make snarky references to Nero and his fiddle, and a few did. But Condoleezza Rice clearly...

An Alarming Shooting in Seattle.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Karen Breslau and Steven Tuttle Visitors to the Jewish Federation building in downtown Seattle pass through bulletproof glass doors to enter the building and then must enter a keycode to get past the lobby. Video cameras record...

Newsmakers.(John C. Reilly, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon, David Gates John C. Reilly John C. Reilly costars in the Will Ferrell comedy "Talladega Nights." He spoke last week with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. You've been called this generation's Gene...

Perspectives.(Floyd Landis)
August 7, 2006... "I am not in any doping process." Tour de France winner Floyd Landis,' denying using any performance-enhancing substances after testing positive for high levels of testosterone. "Wow!" Rusty Yates, after his ex-wife, Andrea, was found...

Extreme Makeover: The Briefing Room Edition.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Holly Bailey It's probably the dream of every president: to banish the press corps from the West Wing. This week the Bush team will do it for real, kicking reporters out of the White House for a long-overdue rehab of the press...

Fast Chat: Research Reform.(medical research)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley It's been a hot summer for the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. For the third time in two months, JAMA's editors learned belatedly that the authors of a published study had financial ties to...

Alaska: Cheney Weighs In.(Dick Cheney)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Michael Isikoff An effort by Dick Cheney to prod Alaska lawmakers to approve a controversial $20 billion natural-gas pipeline project has misfired amid charges from some legislators that the veep was seeking to benefit major...

Beliefwatch: The End?
August 7, 2006... Byline: Patton Dodds Explosions, rising body counts, wars and rumors of wars--for those given to wondering about the apocalypse, the news from the Mideast might be evidence that the end is nigh. As tensions rise, so does speculation among...

Television: Nick's New Righteous 'Brothers'.(Television program review)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jac Chebatoris Parents, get ready: Nickelodeon's new faux reality series, "The Naked Brothers Band," is coming for your children. The show, which debuts in January, promises to be a hit with both tweens and the swing-set set. It's...

Movies: 'Superman II': Take II.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon The off-screen saga of 1980's "Superman II" is as memorable in Hollywood as the film itself. After a bitter feud with his producers, director Richard Donner, who piloted the 1978 "Superman" into movie history, was...

Cafeterias: Big Mother Is Watching.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Karen Springen Darin Jones, 15, liked to buy three slices of pizza, a Gatorade and a cookie for lunch at his Vero Beach, Fla., high school. But that stopped once his school started using MealpayPlus.com, which allowed his mom to...

Weddings: A Veil of Sadness.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Chrissy Balz The honeymoon was over for Stephanie Olson as soon as the wedding planning ended. After eight months of preparations, looking back on the big day can bring the 23-year-old close to tears. "You go back to work after...

One 'Reform' That Worked; The welfare overhaul of 1996 has helped reduce poverty. Why can't we duplicate this sort of pragmatic progress in other areas?
August 7, 2006... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson President Bill Clinton signed the person- al Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as "welfare reform," on Aug. 22, 1996. A decade later, it stands as a rarity: a...

The Hard Disk That Changed the World; IBM delivered the first disk drive 50 years ago. It was about the size of two refrigerators and weighed a ton.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy If there's a bottle of vintage champagne you've been saving, next month is the time to pop it open: it's the 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage. Don't laugh. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first unit of the RAMAC...

Blog Watch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Tour de France winner Floyd Landis stands accused of doping his way to victory, and deadspin.com is all over the story. Why don't lefty bloggers write more about Israel? Oxblog.blogspot.com says they've been intimidated into silence by...

Back-To-School Guide; 'The OC' goes to college.
August 7, 2006... This fall, everyone is gearing up for college--even the cast of "The OC." When America's favorite high schoolers were last seen, they'd just been handed their diplomas. And a brush with death. Marissa was killed in a tragic accident. Oh, well...

A Tax Band-Aid For J&J's Big Deal.(Johnson and Johnson's tax deductible purchase of brand name medications)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan How would you like to be able to buy Listerine or Rolaids or Sudafed and get Uncle Sam to give you a tax break of 25 percent on the purchase price? You can't do that, of course. But Johnson & Johnson, the giant...

You've Got ... a Company to Fix! Jeff Bewkes had a lot to say about AOL's problems. Guess what? Now he's in charge of solving them.(America Online Inc.)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Jeff Bewkes wasn't very good at keeping his comments to himself. In 2000, when Bewkes was the CEO of HBO, he was critical of America Online's plan to purchase his network's parent company, Time Warner, for $182...

Lights! Camera! Incision! The brave new world of live surgery on the Internet.(Web site "OR-Live.com")
August 14, 2006... Byline: Elise Soukup It looks like a taping of "ER." A surgeon stands over a patient, scalpel in hand, ready to perform a high-tech spinal operation. He has a team of professionals supporting him--two anesthesiologists, four nurses and an...

The 100-Calorie Snack Attack.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett For years, Bonnie Taub-Dix carefully portioned out a handful of crackers or cookies and packed them in Baggies for her sons to snack on at school. Then, on a recent trip to the supermarket, the mother of three...

Not Really Beach Reading Edition.(brief satirical comments on current events)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Israelis are entitled to defend themselves against Hizbullah terrorists, but anyone can see this plan just ain't working. Bush - Mideast policy's a flop, his generals say we're losing and now he's in Crawford. Come home and fix...

Letters to the Magazine.(Letter to the editor)
August 14, 2006... A President Caught in the Maelstrom Our exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at President Bush prompted a variety of responses. One man liked the fact that "it took the reader where no average citizen is allowed." Another said, "This, then,...

Progress in A Cauldron? 'We Jews,' said Golda Meir, 'are used to collective eulogies, but Israel will not die so that the world will speak well of it.'.(Column)
August 14, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: In "Progress in a Cauldron" (The Last Word, Aug. 14) Golda Meir is inaccurately identified as Israel's prime minister during the 1967 Six Day War. In fact, it was Levi Eshkol. ***** Byline: George F. Will ...

Eye for an Eye; Israel shadow-boxes with a surprisingly high-tech foe. Inside the new Hizbullah.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey (With Richard Wolffe, Michael Hirsh, Dan Ephron and John Barry In Washington And Matthew Kalman in Jerusalem) Hizbullah's fighters were as elusive last week as they were...

Can He Fill Fidel's Boots? A lot of people in the United States are hoping Raul Castro doesn't get comfortable.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Arian Campo-Flores (With Carmen Gentile in Miami) Ordinary Cubans could only wonder whether Fidel Castro was alive or dead. They had no news photos of their 79-year-old leader convalescing from his reported...

'We Are at War'; For Israel's Shimon Peres, victory means keeping Hizbullah away from Lebanon's southern border.(Interview)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth Israel's vice prime minister Shimon Peres, the last of his country's founding fathers, has served in every position from prime minister to minister of Defense. Last week, while in the United States to lobby for...

Nasrallah's Men Inside America; Prosecutors suspect Hizbullah has fund-raising cells in the United States, but not terrorists--so far, that is.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Dan Ephron and Michael Isikoff (With Jamie Reno in San Diego, John Sparks in New York and Mark Hosenball in Paris) It began, as the Feds tell the tale, with a run-of-the-mill tax-fraud scheme. Imad Hammoud and his ring of Lebanese...

The Editor's Desk.(Rev. Billy Graham )(Editorial)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham The iced tea was sweet--it was, after all, the South in summertime--and the house cool and dark as NEWSWEEK's Charles Ommanney prepared to photograph the Rev. Billy Graham in the evangelist's mountaintop home in North...

This Week Online.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Lee Hudson Teslik Cyber Politics NEWSWEEK: How is your party using technology? Patrick Ruffini, Founder of MyGOP: MyGOP [is like] a social networking site: you can post photos, you can post all manner of things about...

Celebrating the Pity Of Brotherly Love; My older brothers tortured me as a child. Now I know it was the best kind of 'tough love' there is.(Personal account)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Andrew Koritz Krull (Krull lives in Ames, Iowa.) Everyone has seen the sitcoms where the older brother gives the younger brother a friendly punch in the arm once in a while, or a "noogie" here and there. I envy that younger brother;...

Pilgrim's Progress; In the twilight, Billy Graham shares what he's learned in reflecting on politics and Scripture, old age and death, mysteries and moderation. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Interview)(Cover story)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham Earlier this summer, on a warm Carolina evening, Billy Graham awoke in the middle of the night. He had been asleep in his bedroom at the end of a long hall off the main part of the log house he and his wife, Ruth, have...

Chasing Down a Killer's Story; A venerable cold-case squad probes a convicted murderer's claim to 48 victims.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Paul Tolme (With Ace Atkins in Mississippi and Jennifer Ordonez in Los Angeles) Former FBI and CIA agent Charlie Hess hadn't expected to spend his golden years chasing killers. He was happily retired from crime fighting, living his...

A Key Collar In Phoenix; Two shooting suspects down, one serial rapist to go.(Arizona)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez The shooters' targets could have been virtually anyone walking alone in the Phoenix area. Police say Samuel John Dieteman and Dale S. Hausner had a pet name for the terror they wrought as they allegedly shot 24...

Newsmakers; Road to redemption--or highway to Mel?(actor and movie director Mel Gibson)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Sean Smith Mel Gibson had a miserable week. Arrested early on July 28 for driving drunk--he was doing more than 85mph in a 45mph zone in Malibu, Calif., with an open bottle of tequila in the car--the star ranted to police, "F---ing...

Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: New York Daily News, Washington Times, Daily Mail (U.K.), New York Times, Reuters, Si.Com, CNN, BBC, The Washington Post, Webmd.com "I woke up and... I thought I was in an oven."...

Exclusive: Iraq--Plans in Case of a Civil War.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Richard Wolffe and John Barry The Bush administration insists Iraq is a long way from civil war, but the contingency planning has already begun inside the White House and the Pentagon. President Bush will move U.S. troops out of...

The FDA: Not All Going According to Plan.(Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Julie Scelfo The idea to make Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, available without a prescription to women 18 and older was supposed to smooth Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach's way to...

Bush: Summer Reading.(U.S. President George W. Bush)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Richard Wolffe Apart from the wars in Iraq and Lebanon, what's on President Bush's mind as he takes a shortened vacation at his Texas ranch? Judging by the books on his summer-reading list, Bush is thinking about nuclear bombs,...

Politics: Will Tennessee Swing?(Republicans choose Bob Corker as candidate for U.S. Senate)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman and Andrew Romano After a bitter primary, Tennessee Republicans chose former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker as their U.S. Senate candidate. But on the eve of the decisive day, it was the virtually unopposed Democrat...

Beliefwatch: WWBD?(Buddhism as a marketing tool)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Alana B. Elias Kornfeld and Valerie Reiss The lights are so dim at Tao Asian Bistro, a Manhattan restaurant and bar, you can barely read the menu to see the ingredients in your $12 Tao-tini cocktail. Above all the flirting, drinking...

Tattoos: Branded With a Brand.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Lee Hudson Teslik Peter McBride can take off his polo shirt and maintain his preppy image. McBride, 22, has a Polo pony tattooed on his chest. The idea came to him as he was waiting in line behind a man at a D.C. tattoo parlor: "I...

Test Prep: Creative Reasoning.(College Board's "Rainbow Project" explores adding creativity section to aptitude tests)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Chrissy Balz Creativity may be the key to your child's success. The Rainbow Project, a new test currently outlined in the journal Intelligence, is designed to better gauge collegiate success by adding creative and practical...

DVD's: Doggie Disclaimers.(Walt Disney Co.'s video of "Eight Below")(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Allan Madrid Like any good actress, Koda Bear knows how to charm an audience. Her role in 2002's "Snow Dogs" not only made her famous (she later landed a lead in Disney's "Eight Below"), it also led many fans to purchase a Koda...

Movies: Hot Feet (And Abs).(actor Channing Tatum)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Of the top 10 most searched actors on Yahoo last week, a new guy busted a move. Channing Tatum, star of the upcoming dance movie "Step Up," has developed a cult following--even though he has yet to open a movie (he's...

Id Theft: Is Your 'Holy Trinity' Online?(computer program "Itentity Angel" developed at Carnegie Mellon University)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland and Karla Bruning Watch your in box. If you get a message from a computer program called Identity Angel, you may be vulnerable to having your identity stolen. On July 23, the program--developed at Carnegie Mellon...

Prepay Your Way to College; A plan that's simple, provides peace of mind--and gives buyers equal access to federal student aid. What's not to like?(Column)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) How have your investments done since the 2000 market bust? Up 40 percent? Probably not. But I'll tell you where you might have gotten that kind of return: from a conservative,...

My Favorite Year; Boomers were the first to see all their athletic heroes perform live on TV. Our sports correspondent remembers some of the greatest hits of the past 50 years.(Personal account)(Column)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Mark Starr I can't pretend to remember anything my dad said to me that triumphant afternoon. My guess is some affirmation of the eternal triangle of fathers and sons and baseball. I do remember racing home from school, across open...

Foreclosures For Sale.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Bargain-hunting bloggers are calling it the perfect storm: the combination of rising interest rates, variable-rate mortgages and a soft housing market is resulting in a wave of foreclosures that could turn tidal. Banks...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(popular culture, television programs, books, and more)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... SEE Meryl Streep in 'Mother Courage.' But can she act? (Kidding.) The performance is free, in New York's Central Park, through Sept. 3 (publictheater.org for info). WATCH 'Aristocrats' ($50). Shares a name with the flick about a dirty...

Travel: Beach Buys.(shopping in St-Tropez, France)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan If your summer journeys take you to France, make sure you stop at St-Tropez. It's the hottest beach destination on the Mediterranean and the hippest shopping spot. Here's where to buy what. At the St-Tropez...

Technology: For a Talky Shutterbug.(new camera phones)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Cathy Lu Never miss a photo op again. The latest high-end camera phones pack 3-megapixel-plus resolution, getting closer to digital-camera quality than ever before. Samsung's SCH-a990 ($350 with two-year service;...

Family: Avoid The Deep End.(drowning prevention, child safety)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Raina Kelley Nothing says summer like the beach. But play it safe: drowning is the second-leading cause of accidental deaths for kids between the ages of 1 and 14, according to the National Safety Council. The best way to keep your...

Ask Tip Sheet.(car insurance)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Meltzer At what age do I need to purchase long-term-care insurance? --Sandra Leiby, San Diego Long-term care insurance covers the cost of assisted living or nursing--but not medical (i.e., cancer)--bills. You should...

Guest Column: How To Stress Less.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Dean Ornish, M.D. Middle East meltdown. Global-warming meltdown. Nuclear meltdown. You can't always change what's going on in the world, but there is a lot you can do about how it affects you: Exercise: Physical exercise is a...

A Nation's Fear of Flying; The great shock to the American system is realizing that no fortress is inviolate, no wall tall enough and no place really safe.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen Even discussions of architectural esthetics have taken a strange turn. The Bloomberg Tower is now finished, dominating the skyline in one area of midtown Manhattan; love it or hate it, it's quite a building. "I just...

Close Call Edition.(brief satirical comments on current events)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... As the CW prepares for vacation, it asks itself: To mousse or not to mousse? Only the TSA knows for sure. Bush + Gets bump from foiled terror plot. But wary public may not give him credit for long. Cheney - ...

Letters from the Magazine.(Letter to the editor)
August 21, 2006... Remembering 9/11 on the Big Screen Our Aug. 7 cover package on the new film "World Trade Center" elicited heartfelt responses from readers. Some were grateful to director Oliver Stone for honoring those who risked and lost their lives on...

The Real Nasrallah; How a son of Beirut's slums became one of the most engaging, and dangerous, leaders in the Muslim world.(Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizbullah)(Biography)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey (With Kevin Peraino in Jerusalem, Maziar Bahari in Tehran and Lina Sinjab in Damascus) Remember this about Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah: he grew up very poor but very smart,...

'The Street Is Not With Us'; An Arab envoy on the chasm between Israel and Hizbullah--and between Arab leaders and their people.(Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani)(Interview)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth In the days before the united Nations Security Council passed its Lebanese ceasefire resolution, a group of Arab League emissaries flew to New York to demand last-minute revisions in the French-U.S. draft resolution....

25 New Ivies; The nation's elite colleges these days include more than Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Why? It's the tough competition for all the top students. That means a range of schools are getting fresh bragging rights.
August 21, 2006... ***** CORRECTION: CORRECTION: In "25 New Ivies" we said Notre Dame University is home to football's legendary Fighting Irish. It is actually the University of Notre Dame. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Barbara...

Test Wars; Despite repeated promises of reform from the SAT's keepers, critics still find plenty to talk about. Could the ACT finally conquer all?(standardized achievement tests)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Jay Mathews For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria...

Web of Risks; Students adore social-networking sites like Facebook, but indiscreet postings can mean really big trouble.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone With Robbie Brown Cameron walker learned the hard way that sharing information online can have unintended consequences. In 2005, the sophomore at Fisher College in Boston organized a student petition dedicated to getting...

Don't Be Bland; College applicants need to show the person behind the test scores and grades. Pomona's admissions dean suggests how.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Bruce Poch For admissions officers, reviewing applications is like final-exam week for students--except it lasts for months. Great applications tell us we've done our job well, by attracting top-caliber students. But it's...

Back in My Day; We asked a range of well-known Americans what they remembered most about their college years.(Personal account)
August 21, 2006... Byline: Sam Levine JERRY YANG Cofounder of Yahoo; Stanford University, B.A., 1990 Stanford was the only school I applied to that didn't provide me with ample financial aid. Nevertheless, the opportunity to pursue an exceptional,...

Prestige Panic; Too many parents are pushing kids to get an elite degree even though it's no guarantee of success in later life.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true gladiators. We're pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT prep courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. We...