Newsweek articles from February 2002

Newsweek archives from February 2002

In A Peaceful Frame Of Mind: Patients demanding control over their medical care may not relinquish it in their final days.(Brief Article)(Column)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Anna Quindlen It was the part about reading that got to me. by the time Joan and Chester Nimitz Jr. had decided to die together, their laundry list of physical losses was nearly as long as their rich and fruitful lives. Chester...

Bylines.
February 4, 2002... Can Bill's Billions Solve a Global Health Crisis? Geoffrey Cowley didn't just go to Redmond, Wash., home of Microsoft, to report this week's cover story on Bill and Melinda Gates and the billions they've donated to fight disease in the...

The Gambler Who Blew It All: The bland smile concealed an epic arrogance. The fall of a preacher's kid who thought he had it all figured out.(former Enron Corp. CEO Kenneth Lay)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Evan Thomas and Andrew Murr You could always tell it was bonus time at Enron when the shiny new silver Porsches began arriving in the company garage. The $100,000 sports car was the status symbol of choice among the young Masters of...

Enron And Fuzzy Math: As the accounting scandal unfolds, the U.S. budget surplus vanishes.(Enron Corp. debacle and the federal budget)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan We heard a shocking tale in congressional hearings last week about huge amounts of money vanishing overnight, transactions with important consequences for everyone in the United States and math so fuzzy you want to hang...

Japan Gears Up: Detroit faces tougher competition where it counts: SUVs, minivans and trucks.(competition in the automobile industry)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Keith Naughton It was Chrysler's coming-out party for its most important new model. Surrounded by a throng of reporters at the opening day of the Detroit Auto Show, the Chrysler brass touted the "breakthrough" styling of the sleek...

'Cliff Was Climbing the Walls': Why did an exec who'd sounded the alarm kill himself?(Clifford Baxter)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Anne Belli Gesalman According to his friends and former colleagues, Clifford Baxter was the kind of guy who knew how to balance his hectic life as a top Enron executive and his private life as a husband and father. Brash and...

Talking Our Way to Recovery: As prime ministers and CEOs gather for the World Economic Forum, they'll be trying to put the best face on a new era of tempered optimism.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Waking up in New York City on Sept. 12, it was hard not to believe morning-after warnings that the previous day's nightmare had "changed everything." The city, the country and much of the world quit working to...

Mail Call: Readers lambaste the self-serving behavior of Enron executives at the expense of company employees.
February 4, 2002... READERS LAMBASTE THE SELF-SERVING BEHAVIOR OF ENRON EXECUTIVES AT THE EXPENSE OF COMPANY EMPLOYEES Deception and Disaster Kudos to Allan Sloan for the most coherent description of Enron's failure that I have seen ("Who Killed Enron,"...

Terror Hot Spots: Somalia -- Kids in the Cross Hairs: The war is far from over, but what are the next fronts? From Africa to Asia, a look at the battles to come--both on the ground and for hearts and minds.(education program in Somalia draws fire for possibly introducing terrorism and religious fundamentalism)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Tom Masland in Mogadishu with Roy Gutman in London Somali fundamentalists didn't figure anybody would mind when they took over a looted and abandoned high school in downtown Mogadishu. They weren't building a bomb factory or...

MALAYSIA: A Good Place to Lie Low.(presence of terrorists in country and Southeast Asia region)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Daniel Klaidman and Melinda Liu The Gaeda fighter was ragged and underfed, just another prisoner dragged off the battlefield by the Northern Alliance. Searched by his captors, he turned over a small notebook with names and numbers...

Rumors Of War, Hints Of Peace: The most likely scenario in the standoff between India and Pakistan is continued cold war.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria What to make of events in South Asia? Well, after landing in New Delhi recently, I went straight to a dinner with some of India's best strategic analysts to straighten things out in my mind. One of them looked at the...

INDONESIA: Asia's New Weakest Link.(for terrorism)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Melinda Liu and Peter Janssen Frail, thin and dressed in flowing white robes, Abu Bakar Bashir doesn't look like a terrorist mastermind. And he's certainly not being treated like one. Authorities in Singapore and Malaysia have...

One Man's Relentless War: The broken nation's leader on Al Qaeda and the Taliban.(Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Lally Weymouth Nobody has a tougher task in the next phase of the war against terror than Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader. Karzai was appointed to run Afghanistan on a temporary basis by a conference held in Bonn,...

'Don't Mention the Oscars': As the awards race heats up, NEWSWEEK gathers some of the year's most-buzzed-about actors for a rowdy talk about careers, art and money.(Panel Discussion)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Jeff Giles and David Ansen If you listen closely to the tape of NEWSWEEK's fifth annual Oscar Round Table, the first thing you hear is one participant kissing another participant on the cheek. Yes, that's right: we invited actors...

White-Collar Man in A Blue-Collar World: My job requires skills, like driving a forklift, I haven't got. My Ivy League education won't help me now.(personal account: the switch from a dot-com company to lawn seeding)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Bob Muldoon Can you drive a forklift?" Those five deflating words instantly alerted me that my prep-school background and advanced degrees would mean nothing on the new job. Alas, I have two Ivy League master's degrees--and two...

The Battle Back Home: On the eve of the State of the Union address, the Democratic leader looks for chinks in a popular war president's armor.(strained relations between Republicans and Democrats)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman Dick Cheney was on the line, and it wasn't to chitchat. The vice president rarely calls the Senate leader--a Democrat he dismisses as an "obstructionist"--so Tom Daschle knew the topic was important when he hurried...

From Villain to Victim: In 1976, prosecutors tore Patty Hearst's credibility to shreds. A new case against her SLA partners rests on rehabilitating it.(members of the Symbionese Liberation Army face murder charges for woman killed in 1975 bank robbery)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Mark Miller She was the spoiled rich kid who unaccountably helped her own kidnappers wage a campaign of robbery and wanton violence, a reckless debutante with an extreme case of radical chic. And when she went on trial for taking...

Which Boot Will Drop Next? From the stimulus fine print to Enron input on top Bush jobs, the story's only getting hotter.(unfolding scandal with Enron Corp. and members of Pres Bush's administration)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 4, 2002... Publisher Correction: 2/21/02 In "Which Boot Will Drop Next?" (BETWEEN THE LINES, Feb. 4), Sen. Joseph Lieberman was identified as one of 11 senators who 18 months ago strong-armed Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange...

Newsmakers.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Lorraine Ali, Marc Peyser and Devin Gordon Glitter Fades to Bitter Last week Mariah Carey, the chanteuse with more No. 1 hits than any other living recording artist, and EMI's Virgin Records said the termination of their...

Perspectives.(Senator Fred Thompson comments on the Enron investigation)(this and other quotations are presented)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... "The real scandal here may not be what's illegal, but what's permissible." Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, during the Governmental Affairs Committee's investigation into the Enron bankruptcy "I want to see Enron survive, and for that to...

Periscope.(Column)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Michael Isikoff; Julie Scelfo; Mark Hosenball; Steven Levy; Malcolm Jones; Paul Tolme; Sharon Begley; Cathleen McGuigan; Kenneth Auchincloss DEALS Neil Bush's Saudi Business Connection What was Neil Bush doing in Jidda, Saudi...

Bill's Biggest Bet Yet: The richest people on earth have created a fund of more than $24 billion to save the poorest from disease. How much of a difference can Bill and Melinda Gates make?
February 4, 2002... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley How far can you travel in a day? American Airlines Flight 657 covers the distance from New York to Haiti--roughly a light-year, in human terms--in four hours. The flight is packed most weekday mornings. But except...

'I Told a Friend: Africa Changed Me': Melinda Gates talks about her global mission and her passion for privacy.(Interview)
February 4, 2002... 'I TOLD A FRIEND: AFRICA CHANGED ME' MELINDA GATES TALKS ABOUT HER GLOBAL MISSION AND HER PASSION FOR PRIVACY Melinda French was a 29-year-old Microsoft manager when she married Bill Gates in a private ceremony on a Hawaii golf course in...

Not Playing Games: From high-tech spy gear worthy of 007 to fighter jets on constant alert, no expense is being spared to protect the Salt Lake City Olympics.
February 4, 2002... Byline: T. Trent Gegax Racing down a dusty Nevada road, a police cruiser and SWAT van force a Ford pickup to the shoulder while six officers don red hazardous-material suits. "Mount up!" one says, anticipating a nuclear "dirty bomb."...

Detection Dilemma: Researchers raise more doubts that mammograms--at any age--help women survive breast cancer.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2002... Byline: Sharon Begley The last time a panel of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) evaluated whether mammograms save lives, the group debated angrily until 2:30 in the morning, saw the resignation of a member who refused to "have my name...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
February 4, 2002... Corrections "Learning Tough Lessons," a guest column by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo (FOCUS ON YOUR MONEY, Jan. 21), misstated Warren E. Buffet's forecast for the stock market. Buffet's view, expressed on "Squawk Box" on Dec. 20, 2001, is that...

A Recipe for Fighting Terror: Novelist and military buff Caleb Carr takes no prisoners.('The Lessons of Terror')
February 11, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Jones In the first lines of "The Lessons of Terror," Caleb Carr comes out roaring: "To be emblematic of our age is to bear an evil burden. The 20th century, scarcely finished, will be remembered as much for its succession...

Bylines.
February 11, 2002... Hazardous Duty: Reporting From the Front By any measure, the conflict in Afghanistan has been a bad war for the working press. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping is only the latest attack on Western media; eight...

Betting Big on Lousy Stocks: Short sellers figured out early on that Enron's stock would fall. Now everyone wants to know their tricks.(Statistical Data Included)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Daniel McGinn When Jim Chanos and his friends go on spring break, there's no time for golf. Or the beach. Or fun of any kind-- unless your idea of a good time is sitting in a conference room talking about lousy investments. Each...

My Own Private Enron: What kind of investor stands by doing absolutely nothing while a once hot stock totally tanks? One who gets emotionally involved. Like me.(psychological aspects of investing)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan Yes, that's really my picture. it was taken in 1957, when I celebrated my bar mitzvah. Don't worry, NEWSWEEK isn't turning into my personal photo album. It's just that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to...

Another Barrier Shattered: Readers respond to our cover on the rise of three African-American CEOs with praise and concern.
February 11, 2002... I'm a retired military man and a small business owner, and after reading your Jan. 28 cover story, "The New Black Power," I'm glad that someone has written about what needs to be understood by all black men in America. I will spread the word to...

Soft Money, Odd Thinking: If McCain-Feingold were already law, Enron's executives could have given more to legislators.(complicated world of campaign funding)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: George F. Will Rep. Richard Gephardt set a winter indoor record for audacious arguing when he wrung this lesson from the Enron debacle: "The real scandal here may not be what the administration did to help Enron, but what it...

Fears in the 'Un-America': Europe doesn't like what it's hearing. As Bush turns up the heat, our transatlantic allies grow uneasy with the us-vs.-them rhetoric.
February 11, 2002... Byline: Christopher Dickey The Statue Of Liberty once looked out over the rooftops of Paris. "Liberty Enlightening the World," as the sculptor called it, was assembled in 1883 a short walk from the Champs-Elysees, then shipped to New York....

'Terrorist Cells All Over': The Philippines is a next front in the terror war. But for U.S. Special Forces there, the clock is ticking.(President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo explains policies)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Lally Weymouth President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines caused a stir last month by inviting American Special Forces to her country to fight the Muslim terrorist group known as Abu Sayyaf ("Bearer of the Sword")....

The Teflon Global Economy: Globalization is going just fine, but it coulduse a healthy dose of American leadership.(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria This year I hopped onto the subway to get to the World Economic Forum. It's not quite the same as flying to Switzerland, but Davos-at-the-Waldorf has its charms--worse scenery but better food. In one important...

The New Place to Be Seen: This year, Davos became an off-Broadway extravaganza.(2002 World Economic Forum)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Andrew Nagorski Davos in New York had all the hype, glitter, celebrity-watching and posturing that the World Economic Forum, now into its fourth decade, is justifiably famous for--times two. The decision to move the intimate annual...

Analyzing The 'Axis Of Evil': Could rogue nations give doomsday arms to terrorists? Here's how they stack up.(Iraq, Iran, and North Korea)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: John Barry and Russell Watson Rhetoric aside, "axis of evil" doesn't mean much. Iraq and Iran are bitter enemies--they fought each other in the bloodiest war of the 1980s--and North Korea has little in common with either of them....

No Translation Needed: Three foreign film gems, two Oscar-bound, heat up an otherwise lukewarm midwinter at the movies.('The Son's Room,' 'Italian for Beginners,' and 'What Time Is It There?')
February 11, 2002... Byline: David Ansen Really, you do have options other than hack teen-hormone movies like "Slackers." Here are the best from overseas. The Danish and Italian films are their countries' entries in the Oscar derby, a big tight race that...

Don't 'Protect' Me; Give Me Your Respect: Growing up with a gay father wasn't easy--but only because our society doesn't accept families like mine.(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Abigail Garner To me, the seemingly benign question, "What do you do?" is anything but small talk. The stranger sitting next to me on a recent flight to southern California asked me that very question. I could have made up an...

A Reporter Under the Gun: Bravely following terrorism's trail, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi last week. Inside the efforts to prevent a casualty of war.
February 11, 2002... Byline: Evan Thomas How dangerous is Karachi? In Pakistan's teeming port city (population: 15 million), the preferred mode of hit men is the motorcycle, the better to gun down targets stuck in the city's eternal traffic jam and then make a...

Powell's New War: Bush's tough talk about the 'axis of evil' just made Colin Powell's hard job a lot harder.
February 11, 2002... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Roy Gutman As George W. Bush raised the stakes in his war on terror last week--pitting America against an "axis of evil"--one member of his administration knew that the first thing he had to worry about was unrest...

A New Capitol Clash: Enron continues to roil Washington. Next up: a constitutional showdown.(Dick Cheney focus of General Accounting Office investigation)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff For security reasons, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are not supposed to spend much time together. But they made an exception last Tuesday afternoon for a hoary ritual of life in the capital: the...

An Excess of Riches: Since September 11, the Red Cross has had more cash than it knows what to do with. Just ask the limo drivers.(questions over relief guidelines)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Steven Brill An unlikely group of men has been lining up lately at a Red Cross center in lower Manhattan to make appointments to seek September 11 disaster relief. They're drivers of the luxury sedans that ferry heavy hitters...

Newsmakers.(celebrity news)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Jeff Giles, John Horn and David Gates Licensed to Kill Mike Myers thought he was the Man With the Golden Pun, but MGM has forced him to scrap the satirical title and the advertisements for his upcoming movie, "Austin Powers in...

Perspectives.(quotes from the news)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... "States likes these--and their terrorist allies--constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of this world." President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, on potential threats from Iraq, Iran and North Korea ...

Periscope.(number of terrorists cited in state of the union address, other news)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Roy Gutman; Julie Scelfo and Joseph Contreras; Pat Wingert; Karen Springen; Mary Carmichael; Susannah Meadows; Brian Braiker INTELLIGENCE Overstatements in the State of the Union? As President Bush was...

A Sad Primer in Hypocrisy: Since 1978, useless farm subsidies have cost $300 billion. Now we're going to expand them.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Robert. J. Samuelson This being federal budget season, we'll hear stern lectures from the White House and congressional leaders of both parties about the need to return to surpluses and to maintain "fiscal discipline." You should...

In the Beginning, There Were the Holy Books: The Bible and the Qur'an both reveal the word of God. Both speak of prophets, redemption, heaven and hell. So why the violence? Searching the sacred texts for answers.
February 11, 2002... Publisher Correction: 2/21/02 Clarification In our Feb. 11 cover story, "The Bible and the Qur'an," we say that Terah, the father of Abraham, is not mentioned in the Bible. In fact, he is referred to in the Book of Genesis, but his story is...

Bin Laden's Twisted Mission: A bloody misinterpretation of the Qur'an's call to arms.(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Christopher Dickey When Osama bin Laden proclaimed his "Jihad against Crusaders and Jews" in 1998, he knew he was on shaky religious ground. This was his declaration of "Holy War" to justify bombing U.S. embassies in Africa a few...

If You Want To Know A Secret... The producers of the opening ceremonies go to extremes to keep them a surprise.(2002 Winter Olympics)
February 11, 2002... Byline: John Horn When 8-year-old Charlie Fratto was cast last fall as one of the 4,000 performers in this Friday's opening ceremonies, the young dancer had never before seen a second of the Olympic Games. Nor had he ever taken a...

Who To Watch: Michelle Kwan may be the most recognizable face at the Salt Lake City Olympics. But if ladies' figure skating is not your thing, how about stunt skiing, suicidal snowboarding or the best hockey on earth? Here's a look at some other stars.(2002 Olympic preview)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Debra Rosenberg; Devin Gordon; Mark Starr Team USA Women's Hockey When women's ice hockey made its Olympic debut in Nagano four years ago, Team USA was an underdog. In a dramatic final match, the Americans upset archrival...

A Stritch in Time: She sings, she dances and, best of all, she serves great dish. After an amazing career in the theater, Broadway's feisty first lady is back onstage with the one-woman story of her life. She's still here, all right. And she's better than ever.(Elaine Stritch)(Brief Article)
February 11, 2002... Byline: Marc Peyser It's not for nothing that Liz Smith describes her friend Elaine Stritch as "divinely difficult." "If being difficult is part of being true to yourself, then she's got a point," says Stritch. "Other than that, f--k her."...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 11, 2002... Correction In "Which Boot Will Drop Next?" (BETWEEN THE LINES, Feb. 4), Sen. Joseph Lieberman was identified as one of 11 senators who 18 months ago strong-armed Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on...

A Conspiracy Of Notebooks: The reporter did it: in our national blame game, the media is the perennial contender.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Anna Quindlen Linda Lay suffered from bad timing as well as bad judgment. Who thought it would be a good idea for the wife of the former chairman of Enron to poor-mouth before a national TV audience that probably included hundreds...

The Surrealists' Sexy Side: The Metropolitan Museum serves up a show about the birds, the bees and some very weird dolls.(various artists; various works; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Peter Plagens A long time ago--say about 1924, when the surrealists formally organized in Paris--sex was still considered a mysterious and powerful undercurrent in polite society. Oh, sure, there were flappers rolling down their...

Would I Lie To You? Ford fumbles on infidelity.("A Multitude of Sins")(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Susannah Meadows If you could program Richard Ford's new book of short stories, "A Multitude of Sins," as you can a CD player, you'd want to skip numbers one and two, and maybe nine and 10. Three and four, though, deserve playing...

A Team That's Turning Heads in Salt Lake City.
February 18, 2002... A Team That's Turning Heads in Salt Lake City We wanted our Olympics coverage to stand out from the pack. So to cover the Games, we teamed sports experts Mark Starr and Devin Gordon with science reporter Sharon Begley, former White House...

Every Man For Himself: They used to be on top of the world, but now Enron's fallen elite are trying to duck blame for their empire's ruin. How they may try to hang together--or hang separately.
February 18, 2002... Byline: Evan Thomas Incredulity is a polite word to describe the reaction to former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, who swore last week at a congressional hearing that his company's bookkeeping trickery had caught him by surprise. Rep. Ed Markey...

The Ripple Effect: The Enron scandal is making us rethink the basic rules of corporate life and question the greedy, go-for-broke ethos of the long boom.
February 18, 2002... Byline: Daniel McGinn Forgive Michael Useem if he sounds a bit gleeful when he talks about Enron. Where other observers see a tragic tale of executive avarice, Useem, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton...

The $24 Billion Cure: Readers on Bill and Melinda Gates, the right to die, mammograms and movie masters.
February 18, 2002... Thanks to Geoffrey Cowley for such a terrific article about the Gates Foundation's efforts ("Bill's Biggest Bet Yet," Health, Feb. 4). People like Melinda and Bill Gates, with their determination and compassion for our international neighbors,...

Risks and Rewards: Despite the ever-present threat of violence, tourism in Israel and its neighbors can be rewarding and even relaxing. And now it's cheap.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer The Hizbullah guerrillas at the gates of the Temples of Baalbek looked surly. It was a balmy morning in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, and as I approached the sprawling complex--among the finest Roman ruins in the world--a...

Flying the 'Big Bad Dog': Cape Town is a great place to push the envelope.(fighter plane ride in Cape Town, South Africa)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Tom Masland in Cape Town The control tower at Cape Town International Airport knows the black Electric Lightning fighter jet as Bravo Bravo Delta. That's an inside joke--its pilots call the British Mach 2 interceptor the Big Bad...

Beijing's Latest Look: China is making nice ahead of a Bush visit this month. A glimpse behind the charm offensive.(relations between China and the US)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Melinda Liu Some Americans know Li Zhao-Xing, Beijing's former ambassador to Washington, for his stern lectures on Chinese sovereignty. But Li--now deputy foreign minister--has, in his own way, found religion. In Washington last...

The Iran Connection: Washington believes Tehran is developing weapons of mass destruction--and worries they could wind up in the hands of Lebanon's Hizbullah.
February 18, 2002... Byline: Christopher Dickey This is where the Marines were," says Amin Sabah, 45, as he looks out across an empty parking lot near Beirut airport. The U.S. troops were in a building they thought was well protected that morning of Oct. 23,...

Point Man in a War Of Bloody Attrition: Israel's controversial chief of staff is outspoken, uncompromising, politically savvy--and ambitious.(Gen. Shaul Mofaz's policy toward Palestinians and terrorism)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer It had been another brutal week in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and in his second-floor office at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Gen. Shaul Mofaz was starting to show fatigue. Two nights earlier, a Hamas...

The Plot to Get Pearl: The main suspect in the Pearl kidnapping was born and bred in London, then ran off to join the jihad.(Daniel Pearl's alleged kidnapper Ahmed Omar Sheikh)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Ahmed Omar Sheikh seemed like a pleasant enough fellow. Neatly groomed and bespectacled, he approached American traveler Bela Nuss at a cafe in New Delhi, India, in October 1994. He was gregarious and...

In the Shadow of the Throne: Britain's Princess Margaret, dead at 71, was the Diana of her day.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Stryker McGuire in London A half century ago, everything looked promising to the vivacious 22-year-old Margaret Rose. The coronation of her sister, Elizabeth, on June 2, 1953, was "like a phoenix-time," she later said. "Everything...

Jackson in the Driver's Seat: Country's hottest act is also an iconoclast: his album's at No. 1, but he prefers to play grungy punk clubs.(Alan Jackson)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Lorraine Ali The singer takes the stage at New York's legendary punk club CBGB against a backdrop of graffitied walls and shredded fliers for obscure, long-gone bands. A tattooed, dreadlocked bouncer gets ready, folding his arms...

At War With Ourselves: Racial tensions on the rise in a German stalag.('Hart's War')
February 18, 2002... Byline: David Ansen While "Black Hawk Down" hangs on at the top of the box-office charts, the war movies keep coming. Soon we'll have Mel Gibson's Vietnam drama "We Were Soldiers." And now we get a POW drama, "Hart's War," set in a German...

What I Did Was Legal, But Was It Right? I avoided the draft by taking a student deferment; what haunts me is that somebody took my place.(draft for Vietnam War)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 18, 2002... Byline: James Dannenberg Funny how time and events can turn your world view upside down. Now that we are engaged in what most folks--me included--consider a "just war" in response to terrorist attacks, a war in which American men and women...

At Least It's a Plan: The war is sacrosanct, the tax cut untouchable. So what is the Democratic Party to do? The opposition's playbook.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman The mood in the Capitol's LBJ Room was upbeat, and with good reason: the Senate's Democrats, meeting in private, were learning that they didn't have to attack President George W. Bush's popular $1.35 trillion, "not...

Lindh's Defensive Play: The American Taliban's lawyers target the circumstances of his confession as the case against the accused terrorist heats up.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Karen Breslau We've seen the videotape a thousand times: frail and filthy under a wild plume of hair, the wincing young captive is laid on a stretcher. Helping hands wrap him in a hospital smock. But there are no famous pictures of...

Where is Danielle van Dam? Their daughter is snatched, asleep in her bed. The town is rife with talk that their lifestyle may have cost them the child. A family's nightmare.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Jamie Reno and Ana Figueroa It's been 10 days since 7-year-old Danielle van Dam went missing. The blonde, blue-eyed Girl Scout was last seen on the night of Feb. 1, comfy in her blue-flowered pj's as her father tucked her into bed...

Newsmakers: Changes in 'The Producers,' Grisham wants a break, Hasty Pudding Scandal, and Britney's new movie.(Brief Article)(Column)
February 18, 2002... Byline: David Gates, Malcolm Jones and John Horn Sprungtime for 'Producers' The vernal equinox doesn't come until March 20, but springtime for Nathan Lane begins three days early; on the 17th, he and costar Matthew Broderick finally...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)(Column)
February 18, 2002... "It's a chance for the world to see that in a time of war, we can come together in friendly competition. Let's roll." President George W. Bush, to members of Team USA before the opening ceremony of the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake...

Periscope.
February 18, 2002... Byline: Mark Hosenball; Julie Scelfo; Eleanor Clift; Adam Rogers; Mary Carmichael; Anne Underwood; Cathleen McGuigan; David Ansen; Malcolm Jones Al Qaeda Leaders Waiting in the Wings The hunt for Osama bin Laden and other top Qaeda and...

How To Find Honest Stocks: To avoid a personal Enron, get any skunks and overhyped companies out of your portfolio.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Jane Bryant-Quinn It's time to ask yourself the same questions that Congress wants to ask former Enron chief Kenneth Lay: What do you really know about your stock? If the answer is "almost nothing"--um, how come? Your future...

Giving Lessons in Love: Oklahoma is fighting its sky-high divorce rate with controversial, state-funded 'marriage ambassadors'.(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Peg Tyre On a cold afternoon about a week before Valentine's Day, Meichelle Jackson, 41, sits with 18 other students in a classroom in rural Caddo County, Okla., and listens to a lecturer discuss communication and conflict...

$75 Million of Stuff: We know what happened to the cash donated to the victims of 9-11. But what about the boots, dog food, prom dresses and teddy bears?
February 18, 2002... Byline: David France Chris Ward is snaking through a tunnel of cardboard crates, past boxes marked cotton balls or peroxide or IV kits, past thousands of shampoo containers organized by size. Hangar 5, at JFK airport's Cargo Area D, which...

Kwan Song: At her last-chance Olympics, a new, tougher and more focused Michelle Kwan will fight for figure skating's most treasured prize.
February 18, 2002... Byline: Mark Starr It's a winter night in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Michelle Kwan is in the driver's seat. She's picked a sushi place for dinner and, though the restaurant is only a five-minute walk from your hotel, she insists on...

Science of Speed: Fast ice, fast snow, slinky suits and slippery skis shave milliseconds that can separate the winners from the losers.(maintenance of speed skating rink in Salt Lake City, Utah, for Olympic competition)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Sharon Begley Ice rocks!" wrote one exuberant speed skater in the official logbook. "Ice is the dope s--t!" raved another. These were not the words of desperate drinkers euphoric about getting a decent Long Island iced tea in Salt...

My Skeleton Saga: Screaming speeds, gut-churning turns, your face this close to the ice: the Winter Games' new event is the ride of a lifetime.(sport of skeleton)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Devin Gordon The warming hut at start one is a triumph of function over form. It is warm inside, and that's all. The chipped linoleum floor offers no reassurance about the ride ahead. The wooden benches are not comfortable. There's...

Showtime in Salt Lake: Amid tight security, heartfelt patriotism and a record television audience, the curtain rises on the 19th Winter Games.(Salt Lake City, Utah)(Brief Article)
February 18, 2002... Byline: Sharon Begley Never before has the host of a Winter Olympics simultaneously sent its sons and daughters to the games of war and the war of games. America, of course, is living through just that poignant juxtaposition. As the...

Eve Ensler Uses the V Word: It was one thing for a play about women's private parts to become a hit. Can 'The Vagina Monologues' sing the body electric on TV?
February 18, 2002... Byline: Marc Peyser Say what you will about "The Vagina Monologues," it is certainly truth in advertising. Vaginas. Monologues. No intermission. Which is why what happened one night in Boston last month was so surprising. After author Eve...