Newsweek articles from January 2002

Newsweek archives from January 2002

A Winning Look at Defeat: Alexandra Fuller delivers a wonderful debut memoir about growing up absurd in revolutionary Africa.
January 14, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Jones Alexandra Fuller grew up in Africa on the losing side. She was a little girl in the '70s in what was then Rhodesia. Her parents, white English emigre farmers, supported white rule in the middle of a revolution that...

Sister, Can You Spare a Line? When Prozac just isn't enough.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Susannah Meadows The first thing you notice about Elizabeth Wurtzel's third book, "More, Now, Again," is the surprisingly plain black cover--she is not buck naked as she was on her book of essays, "Bitch," or come-hithering as she...

Speaking the Unspeakable: N word--and upward.
January 14, 2002... Byline: David Gates If you don't think Randall Kennedy's "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" is ultimately a hopeful book, just watch for the next few weeks as nice white people writhe while saying the title aloud. The slur...

Bylines.
January 14, 2002... An American Woman's Mysterious Odyssey For years April Ray, the American wife of convicted terrorism conspirator Wadih El-Hage, had turned down all interview requests. So Kevin Peraino tried a different approach: he asked her mom. Before...

Betting on a Recovery: The signals are mixed, but there's enough positive evidence of a turn in the economy that forecasters are forming an optimists' club.(recession may end slowly)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Daniel McGinn Alan Greenspan isn't the type to give high-fives or dance in the end zone. But if his Federal Reserve colleagues were an NFL team, they might be sending the waterboy to the locker room to ice the champagne. One year...

Economy 2002 Profiles: How Americans are coping with the recession.(individual examples are presented)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... LOW RATES HELPED A DREAM COME TRUE Troy and Mandy Weaver Cartersville, Ga. Service manager/bank teller Just before September 11, the Weavers made an offer on their dream vacation home, a condo on St. Simons Island, off the...

Making It Through 2002: While you're waiting for better times, make sure your job is safe, then save and pay off debt.(managing personal finances)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Investors are peering over the valley to sunny, dollar-green hills beyond. But down in the shadows, companies are still laying off workers, and new jobs can be hard to find. While you're waiting to see what's...

Main Street's Sharp Turn Off Wall Street: The market is up. Does the smart money know something you don't about the recovery?(weighing stock purchases with economic indicators)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan If you're a typical American, the one leading economic indicator that you run across in your daily life is the stock market. You can barely turn around, it seems, without hearing, seeing or reading what the Dow...

Corrections.
January 14, 2002... Corrections In our Dec. 24 story "Evil in the Crosshairs" (WAR ON TERROR), John Singley, spokesman for Pacific commander Adm. Dennis Blair, should have been identified as a captain. In our Dec. 17 PERISCOPE item about techniques used...

Letters: Readers on John Walker, secret military tribunals, Afghan women and patriotism vs. prayer.
January 14, 2002... A Lost American Son John Walker is definitely guilty of treason ("A Long, Strange Trip to the Taliban," Dec. 17). He made his choices and now he should have to pay for them. He knew exactly what he was doing over there. Maybe at first he...

John Nash's Renunciation: 'A Beautiful Mind'--the book and the movie--will increase empathy for the mentally ill.
January 14, 2002... Byline: George F. Will A quaint ceremonious village" is how an elderly villager, Albert Einstein, described Princeton. There, in 1948, a first-year graduate student from West Virginia dropped by Einstein's office to suggest improvements to...

The Green Berets Up Close: On the ground with the Special Forces who turned the tide--and just lost one of their own. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Afghanistan conflict)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Donatella Lorch They landed in darkness on an early November night, deep in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. For six hours, they'd hunkered down in the freezing hold of the transport helicopter, tossed by heavy winds, before...

A Face-Off With Nuclear Stakes: How India is using Bush's war on terror to force Pakistan's hand.
January 14, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer Hassan Dil is getting ready to move into his backyard bunker. A retired, half-blind schoolteacher from the border village of Golkot in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Dil is in the direct line of fire of Pakistani soldiers...

The Education of a President: Harvard's new leader is right to try to raise standards--but he needs to do it for everyone.(Lawrence Summers)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria In my first week as an undergraduate at college I remember being puzzled at how eagerly everyone on campus was looking forward to one of the formal ceremonies of the week, the president's welcoming address. In...

Ansen's Top 15: Our critic picks his best and brightest from the pack.(best movies of 2001)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: David Ansen I was tempted to put "Apocalypse Now Redux" at the top of my list: the first two thirds of it made for the most exhilarating moviegoing of the year. But then I would have had to bump a real 2001 movie from the list, and...

Posh Spice, Naughty Spice: An assured Altman concocts a tale part 'Upstairs, Downstairs,' part 'Murder on the Orient Express'.('Gosford Park')
January 14, 2002... Byline: David Ansen Seventy-six-year-old director Robert Altman is in an unusually mellow mood in "Gosford Park," a comedy of manners/murder mystery set in a grand English country house in 1932. Altman has always prided himself on his...

My Deep, Dark Secret? I Miss My Family. I'm through trying to prove my maturity by living far from my parents. First chance I get, I'm going home.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Hadley Moore When I was applying to colleges as a high-school senior I wanted nothing more than to go somewhere far, far from home. I believed, as so many young people do, that my success and maturity would be measured largely by...

Odyssey Into Jihad: April Ray's husband became bin Laden's secretary. Now he's behind bars. Her brush with the shadowy world of Al Qaeda.(Interview)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Kevin Peraino and Evan Thomas She drives a dark green minivan with a "My child is an honor student..." bumper sticker on the back. She scrimps and saves in discount shopping malls. Her kids like to watch "The Simpsons" and the WWF....

Revered--And Yet Repressed: The deeply ambivalent role women play in bin Laden's world.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Gretel C. Kovach In the cosmos as defined by Osama bin Laden, men and women have very clear roles. Men are the warriors, and the foremost among them become martyrs. For their sacrifice, they are promised 72...

Osama's Hidden Tax: How can America insure itself against future terrorist attacks? The answer isn't politically easy, but the stakes couldn't be higher.
January 14, 2002... Byline: Steven Brill Your favorite baseball team announces a 20 percent boost in ticket prices this spring, and the owners blame it not on the signing of some superstar but on September 11. You try to get a bite to eat at some tourist...

The Next Beltway Battle: Bush and Daschle start the economic smackdown. How the fight may affect the bottom line.(dispute over tax cuts and other economic issues)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman As usual in Washington, the relationship was forged in conviviality--and calculation. Early in 2001, George W. Bush invited Tom Daschle to dinner in the private quarters of the White House. Later, each said he saw a...

Newsmakers.(Dick Clark's dispute with the Grammys, other news)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Lorraine Ali, Jeff Giles and Marc Peyser Dick's Grammy Whammy Should the Grammys be renamed the Greedys? Dick Clark, founder of the American Music Awards, thinks so. In a $10 million lawsuit Clark filed against Recording...

Perspectives.
January 14, 2002... "A lot of angels up there... will be getting their wings." Countdown Entertainment president Jeffrey Straus, an organizer of New York's Times Square festivities, on honoring September 11 victims with somber bell ringing during the usually...

Periscope.(racial profiling in war on terrorism, other news)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Sharon Begley and Debra Rosenberg; Mark Hosenball; Daniel Klaidman; Peg Tyre; Cathleen McGuigan; Bret Begun with John Ness; John Horn AIR CONTROVERSY The Latest Trouble With Racial Profiling All that American Airlines and...

Optimists--Or Just Dreamers? Economic forecasters may be deluding themselves if they are counting on a quick, strong recovery.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We need to avoid the nostalgia factor--a longing for the late lamented economic boom that clouds our vision and corrodes our judgment. People understandably yearn to return to the good old days of the late...

A New Routine: An Olympic figure-skating program is not all about jumps, spins and stamina. It's also about music, mood and pacing yourself. But sometimes even a 'jumping machine' like Jennifer Kirk has to start from scratch.
January 14, 2002... Byline: Mark Starr Coach Mary Scotvold couldn't fathom what had gone wrong with Jennifer Kirk's skating performance in Germany last November. A year earlier, Kirk--then world junior champion--had dazzled a Paris audience with her...

A Couch Potato's Digital Dream: Meet the Moxi, which hopes to replace half your media gadgets and control the rest.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Steven Levy If you sold your company to Microsoft, how would you splurge? Steve Perlman dropped about a million bucks outfitting his Lake Tahoe, Calif., retreat with a self-designed digital home entertainment center, where TV,...

Tops of the Morning: He's got a new little baby. She's got a big new contract. Now they both face new challenges. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer talk about life on and off 'Today.'.(Interview)
January 14, 2002... Byline: Marc Peyser Tom and Nicole may now be the most famous unmarried couple in America, but Katie Couric and Matt Lauer run a close second. They've been cohosting the "Today" show for five years, and if you feel you know them because...

LIGHTS, CAMERA, JUSTICE FOR ALL: Let the sunshine in: television cameras should be permitted in court so the public can be there, too.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Anna Quindlen In recent months cable television has carried the trials of two doctors from Massachusetts, both accused of killing their wives, both convicted. In the course of testimony it emerged that one spent his free time...

A Tree Grows in Midtown: Building a bold, new museum in the scarred city.(expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan New York is still shellshocked from September 11, and the city's cultural institutions, such as Lincoln Center, are waking up to a sober new year of postponing their capital ambitions. That makes the stunning new...

How the Enron Tale Suddenly Got So Hot.
January 21, 2002... Howard Fineman knows exactly when the slowly simmering Enron scandal finally boiled over. It was at last Thursday's "gaggle"--the informal morning meeting between Ari Fleisher and the White House press corps. The press secretary casually...

Who Killed Enron: It's the scariest type of scandal: a total system failure. Executives, lenders, auditors and regulators all managed to look the other way while the company ran amok.(bankruptcy of Enron Corp.)(Company Profile)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan Enron was supposed to be the next new thing, a New Economy company with substance to it. Unlike flaky Internet start-ups that substituted ethereal yardsticks like "eyeballs" and "stickiness" for revenues and profits,...

A New Life Lyne? A magazine pro turned TV exec needs to bring hits--and viewers--to ABC.(Susan Lyne, president of ABC entertainment)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 21, 2002... Scrambling to staunch a ratings hemorrhage, the Disney Co. last week appointed Susan Lyne president of ABC's entertainment division and charged her with finding new hit shows for the foundering network. Viewers--especially coveted young...

Corrections.
January 21, 2002... Corrections In "Our Eyewitnesses to History" (PERISCOPE, Dec. 31/Jan. 7), a typographic error resulted in the misspelling of the name of the U.S. Navy's Sea Stallion helicopter. Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Wald, profiled in our Dec....

The Year That Changed Us: As 2001 turns to 2002, readers reflect on terrorism and tragedy, and ponder the meaning of 9-11.
January 21, 2002... I have never read a better story on the horrors and heroes of a terrible tragedy than Evan Thomas's "The Day That Changed America" (THE STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11) in your Dec. 31, 2001/Jan. 7, 2002) issue. It was like an exciting novel. I couldn't...

What's Life Worth? We obsess over our retirement savings plans, but many Americans don't have nearly enough life insurance. How to tell if you're covered.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Daniel McGinn Lawrence Singer always figured life insurance was a bad bet. "Statistically it doesn't pay off," says the 33-year-old dentist. "You're better off socking the money away in the stock market." But since September 11,...

Learning Tough Lessons: Small investors have taken their lumps lately, but rather than bail at the first sign of trouble, they're more realistic--and savvier than ever.(financial habits)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Maria Bartiromo A funny thing happened to investors on the market's long ride downhill: realistic expectations. In the overheated '90s, some people came to expect 30 or 40 or even 100 percent moves in stocks. They got burned. As a...

Mulla Omar Off the Record: The driver for the 'Leader of the Faithful' explains how the Taliban chief got away--and why his car smelled of perfume.(Mohammed Omar, spiritual leader for Afghanistan under the Taliban)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Scott Johnson and Evan Thomas One of the major frustrations of the war on terrorism has been the continuing elusiveness of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the chief of the Taliban. America and its Afghan allies have repeatedly come close to...

Death in a Proxy War: India rightly blames Pakistan for Kashmir violence, but it also has a homegrown problem.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer Nazir Ahmad Khan's life as a Kashmiri terrorist--or freedom fighter--lasted all of a few days. It began a month ago in the village of Sanoor-Kalipura, where the 18-year-old handicrafts maker was living with his...

Next Year in Baghdad: Ahmed Chalabi, visionary and schemer, has a plan to oust Saddam. Should we buy a war from this man?
January 21, 2002... Byline: Christopher Dickey Set yourself up as Saddam Hussein's worst enemy and you've got to be very courageous, very crazy or some kind of scam artist. Ahmed Chalabi, 57, has been called all of the above. He's also been dubbed a...

It's OK to Talk About Failure: Being honest about our pre-September 11 intel and policy mistakes is the best way to fix them.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria All signs suggest that the war is over and won. The Bush administration posed for Annie Leibovitz's power portraits in Vanity Fair. Bob Woodward is at work collecting material for his account of the battle against...

A Passage For India: Grammy comes knocking.(singer India.Arie)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Lorraine Ali When you ask the neo-soulstress India.Arie how she feels about her recent seven Grammy nominations, she just breaks up laughing. "It's beyond cool that I even produced a blip on their radar," says the 26-year-old, who...

Break On Through to the Oscar Side: Two hot talents reach critical mass: Jennifer Connelly, of 'A Beautiful Mind', and Todd Field, who brought us 'In the Bedroom'.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Jeff Giles and David Ansen There are two questions Jennifer Connelly gets asked with a punishing regularity, neither of which has anything to do with Jennifer Connelly. She's asked what it was like to work with Russell Crowe, and...

The Problem in Our Own Backyards: I miss the days when Country Stream wasn't just the name of a housing development. Am I the only one?(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Sean Clancy The new driveway cuts through the trees that border my property. From my doorstep, I can hear my old friends falling; a little more light comes in my windows every day. Across the road, the SOLD sign goes up among the...

Wen Ho Lee: A Scientist's Secrets: The man once branded a Chinese spy settles scores in a new book. But while the government overreached, Lee may not have been entirely blameless.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Michael Isikoff Shy, diminutive and seemingly clueless, Wen Ho Lee sat quietly in the interrogation room as two FBI agents leaned on him to confess. It was March 7, 1999, the day after The New York Times proclaimed a sensational...

'My Country Versus Me': Excerpt: He was stuck in solitary, until a judge apologized. Wen Ho Lee tells his story.(Excerpt)
January 21, 2002... Byline: From "My Country Versus Me" by Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia. [copyright] 2001 by Wen Ho Lee. To be published by Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books. The Federal Marshals took me away in handcuffs to the Santa Fe County Adult...

Give the Pols a Gold Star: The new education law broke the partisan logjam and helped quell a poisonous debate.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Jonathan Alter Pop quiz: what percentage of 18- to 25-year-olds can correctly identify the vice president of the United States? The answer, according to a Pew survey released last week, is 51 percent. (Older Americans do about 15...

Sent to the Penalty Box: One dad is dead, the other is heading to jail. How a kids' scuffle led to rink rage, and what a troubled community is doing to keep parents safely on the sidelines.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Perhaps it was fitting that the trial of Thomas Junta ended as murkily as it began. As he stood stoically in a Cambridge, Mass., courtroom last Friday evening, accused of killing fellow hockey dad Michael Costin,...

A Troubled Teenager's Tragic Final Flight Plan: Charles Bishop's suicidal crash spurs scrutiny of the way flight schools train tomorrow's pilots.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Debra Rosenberg Charles Bishop liked to brag that one day he would be on the evening news. He once told friends that a TV crew had filmed him performing practice landings in flight school. Another time he claimed a major airline...

Lights Out: Enron's Failed Power Play: To George W. Bush, the head of Enron was 'Kenny Boy'--until now. As the shock waves from the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history shake Washington, the scandal machine is cranking up in search of a White House connection. Let the Enron Wars begin.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff Commerce secretary Donald Evans was busy, halfway around the world in Moscow, but not too busy to reach out to Ken Lay in Houston last fall. "Kenny Boy," as President George W. Bush had nicknamed...

Signs of a Family Feud: The trial of Andrea Yates tests the insanity defense as relatives try to cope with an 'unspeakable' crime.(drowning of five children)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Anne Belli Gesalman In the Houston courtroom where Andrea Yates is on trial for her life, Rusty Yates and his mother, Dora, sit in one row while Jutta and Brian Kennedy, Andrea's mother and brother, sit in a row of their own....

Adieu to a Fashion Era That Was All About Yves.(Yves Saint Laurent)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... The news that Yves Saint Laurent, 65, was closing his gilded haute couture salon brought out the silken hankies among the Paris fashionistas last week. But even women who shop deep discount at the mall were observing a moment of silence. Yves...

Perspectives.(comments on the Enron bankruptcy, and other current events)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... "Tall, straight and proud--that was our son. That's the way he went down." Bob Bancroft, father of Capt. Matthew Bancroft, one of the seven Marines killed when their plane crashed into a mountain in Pakistan "Here's the bottom line: the...

401(K)s and the Enron Mess: Your retirement plan might be every bit as risky as Enron's. What companies should do about it.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Now is the time for congress to clean up the mess in 401(k)s. I'm speaking specifically of the plans that offer you company stock. You tend to load up on this stock, especially when employers use it to match part...

High School at Attention: In Chicago and across the country, educators are are taking a controversial new step. Their aim: to bring order to dangerous, unruly public schools and coherence to caotic lives. The experiment: military rule.(increasing use of military school discipline)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Dirk Johnson Wearing army greens and spit-shined black shoes, the cadets stand ramrod straight and silent. It is 7:30 a.m., time for dress inspection. "Drop!" barks a platoon leader, spotting a uniform infraction, a cadet without a...

The Comeback Queen: The blown-out knees and shattered bones were bad enough. Now Picabo Street has to overcome her fear.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Debra Rosenberg Tucked into the back corner of a spinning class at a Crunch gym in Hollywood, Olympic skiing diva Picabo Street works out just like anybody else. Except for the TV camera aiming a bright light at her increasingly...

With a Little Bit of Luxo: Apple's impresario, Steve Jobs, didn't miss a trick when he unveiled the new lamplike iMac.(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Steven Levy This year the sacrosanct rituals of the Steve Jobs keynote at the semiannual Macworld conference were slightly altered. Normally, Apple Computer assumes a corporate poker face about anything Jobs may or may not be...

Our Hippest Literary Lion: Cool cat Mark Twain gets the Ken Burns treatment.
January 21, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Jones I still remember the extraordinary rush of liberation I felt as a teenager after reading Mark Twain's terse "Notice" at the beginning of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": "Persons attempting to find a motive in this...

Periscope.(brief analysis of current events)
January 21, 2002... Byline: Mark Hosenball; Julie Scelfo; Karen Springen; Cathleen McGuigan INVESTIGATIONS Tracking the 'Shoe-Bomber' Connection Law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to establish a connection between would-be...

How Kool is Rem: The hot Dutch architect has landed in the U.S. with a fistful of projects and a head full of radical ideas.(Rem Koolhaas)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan One night last month, just before Christmas, the Italian fashion house Prada threw a party to unveil its new Manhattan shop. But the scene that unfolded looked more like a movie premiere than the opening of a...

A 'Sensation' About Nazis: Jewish Museum's forthcoming show causes a stir.(art about Nazism, various artists, Jewish Museum, Manhattan, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Peter Plagens Here we go again. Last time around in 1999, the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" show enraged many New Yorkers, including the then mayor Rudy Giuliani, by exhibiting a painting of the Virgin Mary with chunks of...

D-i-v-o-r-c-e Gets R-e-s-p-e-c-t: A top researcher's good news for families in Splitsville.('For Better or For Worse')
January 28, 2002... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz As the country's divorce rate soared in the 1970s, social scientists began trying to understand the long-term effects on parents and children. Now, a new book about one of the most comprehensive studies indicates...

Bylines.
January 28, 2002... New Opportunities--And New Challenges As the nation works to grow beyond conventions about race and power in America, three of our writers this week approach the issue from different perspectives. By gaining exclusive access to a trio of...

The Enron Effect: As the accounting scandal spreads, regulators and politicians are pounding the table for reform. But will anything really change?
January 28, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan and Michael Isikoff It was like the surgeon general's accepting a public-health award named after Typhoid Mary. Here was Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, renowned for rectitude, accepting the Enron Award...

The Race to the Top: They're at the pinnacle of three of the most important companies in the world--Richard Parsons of AOL, Kenneth Chenault of AmEx and Stanley O'Neal of Merrill. And they happen to be black. The trio on their careers and the challenges they face.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Sun-splashed and blanketed with golf courses, Boca Grande, Fla., is a natural habitat for that most elite breed of American capitalism: members of the old boys' network. On a single day last spring, you could...

Crisis at Kmart: Not a Good Thing: Pricier than Wal-Mart, dowdier than Target, Kmart has long suffered an identity crisis. Now it faces a financial crisis that could land it in bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Keith Naughton Growing up in a big family, Maura Gavin was devoted to the "BlueLight Special." Every week she and her five siblings would troop to Kmart with mom to hunt down deals. "I must have heard 'Attention, Kmart shoppers' a...

Mail Call: Readers express hatred for Al Qaeda and empathy for the mentally ill, college presidents and gay spouses.
January 28, 2002... Complicated Connections Your Jan. 14 cover story, "Odyssey Into Jihad," about the American wife of a Qaeda member, has me fuming. She lives in Texas and professes a hatred for the United States. Money from the state of Texas is nourishing...

'Events, Dear Boy, Events': Enron is not--yet--much of a political scandal, but has many facets awkward for Republicans.(how potential for scandal will affect next Congressional and presidential elections)(Brief Article)(Column)
January 28, 2002... Byline: George F. Will When Harold Macmillan became Britain's prime minister, he was asked what would determine his government's course. He replied with Edwardian languor: "Events, dear boy, events." As he well knew. An event--the 1956...

Pakistan's Striving Son: His mom says Pervez Musharraf was never much of a student, but he's always been a leader. Now he's in charge of a nuclear power and wants to set a new course for the Muslim world. Can he do it?
January 28, 2002... Byline: Rod Nordland and Zahid Hussain The course of history can seem very arbitrary--a messy procession of near misses and unexpected tragedies. When the family of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf gets together to reminisce about...

The Fears of a Muslim Ally: Turkey doesn't want to prove its worth to the West by fighting a war with neighboring Iraq.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria When visiting Turkey last week, I happened to read Private View, a smart Istanbul quarterly of mostly political and economic analysis. I was not prepared for the essay lamenting Turkey's backwardness in... wine...

Bugged Out: Creepy, dark tale 'Mothman' catches fire.
January 28, 2002... Byline: David Ansen It's not exactly a horror film and it's not really science fiction. Perhaps the best way to describe "The Mothman Prophecies" is a supernatural mystery. Whatever it is, it's damn creepy. Richard Gere plays...

My Brother's Gone; Questions Linger: Jon took his life soon after September 11. Were the events of that day simply too much for him to handle?(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Marion Siwek Less than three months after September 11, my youngest brother, Jon, jumped off the terrace of the six-floor building in Manhattan where he had been living with my mother. He had just turned 33 and seemed, to me and to...

Rethinking Black Leadership: The country is coming to terms with a new kind of black power in which credentials have little to do with color. A quiet revolution is brewing, one that challenges timeworn conventions about race and authority.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Ellis Cose No one can pinpoint exactly when the ground shifted, when it became possible for a black American male to join the gods of the corporate universe. Like the moment when darkness yields to dawn, it crept up quietly,...

Losing the Old Labels: Rep. Harold Ford Jr. pays homage to the past. But this rising political star refuses to be boxed in by it.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Lynette Clemetson For Harold Ford Jr. it was the political coming out of his dreams. Presidential nominee and fellow Tennessean Al Gore had picked the young congressman from Memphis to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic...

12 Things You Must Know to Survive And Thrive in America: Excerpt: Black men face a new America, one in which there are no limits to their dreams--at least for some. A roster of hard truths for the new age.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Ellis Cose Those of us with forebears branded by history hold in our hearts an awful truth: to be born black and male in America is to be put into shackles and then challenged to escape. But that is not our only truth, or even the...

Chemistry in the War Cabinet: Reports of rivalry are overblown. Bush's team works via consensus-and cutting up. Exhibit A: The new plan for Iraq.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Evan Thomas Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld had been reading, with mounting irritation, newspaper articles pitting him against Secretary of State Colin Powell. Sitting on the dais during an international conference last...

The Great Giveback: Enron's turned a capital pastime upside down: the Beltway's racing to give away, not pocket, the giant's cash.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman The Jefferson is a tiny little hotel, with antiques in the lobby and pillowed nooks in the bar. It's a venue for one of Washington's favorite sports: giving and getting campaign contributions. But last Friday Sen....

The FBI Gets Religion: It could have been a disaster. But the bureau's dragnet of young Middle Eastern men went better than anyone expected.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Steven Brill At about 10:30 on the night of Sept. 20, Ali Erikenoglu heard rustling in the bushes below his bedroom in the small, three-family home he owns in Paterson, N.J. He got up, leaned out the window and saw, he says, "four...

Newsmakers.
January 28, 2002... Byline: Marc Peyser and Devin Gordon For Crying Out Loud, Monica I would do anything to have my anonymity back," says Monica Lewinsky, though it's a tad hard to believe her. After all, she made that comment at a press conference--to...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)(Column)
January 28, 2002... "I am incredibly nervous we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals." Enron exec Sherron Watkins, in an August memo to CEO Kenneth Lay, suggesting that company leaders knew of its precarious financial situation long before they've...

Periscope.(Column)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Daniel Klaidman; Dan Ephron; Karen Breslau; Kevin Peraino; Ginanne Brownell; John Horn; Peg Tire; Devin Gordon EXCLUSIVE Clues on the Ground and in Custody After months of sluggish progress, investigators...

An Education In Cynicism: Colleges' early-admissions policies serve their interests--but not those of students or society.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson College admissions in America has become an overwrought and frenzied ritual, driven by the anxieties of striving students and middle-class parents who worry that if Stephen and Suzie don't get into the "right"...

Will Martha Make a Move? It seemed the perfect way to bring class to the masses, but now Stewart's ties to the retailer are strained.(Martha Stewart; Kmart)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 28, 2002... Byline: Peg Tyre In the January issue of Martha Stewart Living, America's most famous caterer lovingly describes the construction of a giant pyramid of Rice Krispies squares for 200 guests celebrating the birthday of Kmart chairman and...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 28, 2002... Correction In a quote on our Jan. 14 Perspectives page, we should have said that cornerback Maurice Sikes plays football for the University of Miami, not for Miami University.