Newsweek articles from January 2005

Newsweek archives from January 2005

The Ghost of Politics Past; Instead of playing desperate defense, the Democrats might try searching their souls, asking simple questions with complex answers.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen I miss Paul Wellstone. It is not that the senator from Minnesota was liberal, although he was, or smart, although he was that, too. It was that when he said he was going to do something, he did it, and because he...

Welfare as They Know It; A new book looks at three families on and off the dole.(American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare)(Book Review)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Weston Kosova For seven years, Jason DeParle, a senior writer for The New York Times, followed three welfare mothers, Angie Jobe, Jewell Reed and Opal Caples, as they struggled to make ends meet and keep their families together....

The Nativity Narratives and the Birth of Christ.(Letter to the Editor)
January 10, 2005... Our Dec. 13 cover report on the birth of Jesus drew passionate responses from readers of all faiths. Many praised the article's examination of Christ's birth from both a historical and theological perspective. "It's not often that everyone from...

Tide of Grief; The Earth shrugged, and more than 140,000 died. A story of unimaginable tragedy and heroism.(Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami)(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "Tide Of Grief" (Jan. 10) we said that Jakarta is east of Hawaii. It is to the west. ***** Byline: Evan Thomas and George Wehrfritz (With Sudip Mazumdar and Jason Overdorf in India, Joe Cochrane in Thailand,...

Images of Disaster.(Southeast Asian disaster captions)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Photographs by Hellmut Issels (ICON, Newspix Sydney), Gurinder Osan (AP), AFP, John Russell (The Age, Zuma Press), Gary Knight "There was a roar, and before I could get up and run a wall of water about 30 feet high devoured me. I...

Hope Amid the Ruins; Many people here live on less than $2 a day. This is the war Asia is waging.(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) In poor countries, natural disasters are not earth-shattering news. It's not that people there don't value life deeply. But they have accustomed themselves to...

Death From The Deep.(tsunamis)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Reported and written by Andrew Romano and Josh Ulick (Graphic by Kevin Hand, Karl Gude and Stanford Kay) They are the stealthiest of natural disasters, hiding the energy of a hydrogen bomb in a barely noticeable swell that races...

How To Help The Victims.(Brief Article)(Directory)(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Eve Conant in Washington Even as the tsunami death toll rises, worries are growing about the spread of disease. Its easy to send help with a few clicks of the mouse. Here are some of the organizations rushing aid to survivors: ...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker Flying into the heart of the horror, Hong Kong bureau chief George Wehrfritz expected to find refugees fleeing the wreckage and human tragedy of one of the worst natural disasters in history. What he didn't expect to...

Girls Don't Cry; Four years after her Oscar win, Hilary Swank returns with the second role of a lifetime, 'Million Dollar Baby.'.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali Years before Clint Eastwood chose Hilary Swank to star in his new film, "Million Dollar Baby"--years before she won the 2000 Oscar for playing the struggling Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"--she was a small-town kid...

Or Not to Be: One Man's Fight to Die.(Movie Review)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Ansen Alejandro Amenabar's "The Sea Inside" arrives garlanded with festival prizes, Golden Globe nominations and strong indications that this Spanish entry is the movie to beat for the foreign-film Oscar. It's possible that...

State of Grace; After high times on 'That '70s Show,' Topher Grace makes the leap to film and lands 'In Good Company.'.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon Someday soon, Topher Grace will be an award-winning actor. He will be a movie star, one of those guys about whom directors and producers and studio chiefs say fondly, "He can do anything." If every planet aligns, he'll...

In Their Loss, They Found Each Other; As long as I can remember, my parents couldn't get along. But later in life, that began to change.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Elizabeth Livingston (Livingston lives in New Canaan, Conn.) I love you, Bob." "I love you, too, Nancy." It was 2 a.m. and I was hearing my parents' voices through the thin wall separating my bedroom from theirs. Their loving...

'I'm Going to Learn'; First, the blame. Then, the healing. In a new book, NEWSWEEK talks exclusively with John Kerry about why he lost--and looks at his plans for another run.(Biography)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Eleanor Clift, T. Trent Gegax and Susannah Meadows) It was a little after 7 p.m. on election night 2004. The network exit polls showed John Kerry leading George Bush in both Florida and Ohio by three points....

Newsmakers.(Brigitte Nielsen interview)(Interview)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, David Gates, Devin Gordon Q&A: Brigitte Nielsen Last year the unlikely duo of Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav somehow hit it off on "The Surreal Life." Now the producers have given them a reality show all their...

Perspectives.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: CNN, New York City Mayor's Office, The Washington Post, New York Post, Newsweek, Metro, The Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters "I saw more bodies than I...

Conventional Wisdom.
January 10, 2005... The horrid scenes from Asia remind us that not all human tragedies are caused by... humans. What's more, we can help each other. Bush = Vacationing prez takes three days to address disaster, but as with 9/11, later gets the...

Goss: Reconfirmation--For the Same Job?
January 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Tamara Lipper and Evan Thomas The intelligence-reform bill passed by Congress late last year was supposed to streamline U.S. spy operations. But the bill's short-term result may be more, not less, dysfunction inside...

Ukraine: 'A Call to Arms'.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Michael Meyer and Frank Brown Viktor Yushchenko may worry the Kremlin, but other authoritarian regimes in the former U.S.S.R. find him downright scary. The Ukrainian opposition leader's triumph in last week's presidential rematch...

Abbas: A Familiar Power Play.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Dan Ephron The similarities are uncanny. The late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and the likely new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, were both gray, avuncular deputies of charismatic Arab leaders. Both came to the fore when...

Airplanes: Dangerous Descents.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball A series of mysterious incidents in which powerful laser beams were flashed into the cockpits of low-flying passenger planes has jolted the air-travel system. In a four-day period last week, authorities tell NEWSWEEK...

Health: Earlier Onsets.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen As the American Academy of Pediatrics enters its 75th year, it can point to huge advances in children's health, such as vaccines for polio, chickenpox and measles. But Junior may be pox-free and have the arteries of...

The Inaugural: Super T's Super Gig.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino If you're looking for a ticket into the First Family's good graces, you might take a lesson from Tyrone Smith, the Nashville-based wedding singer otherwise known as Super T. A longtime frat-party and cotillion...

Evangelism: Go Tell It on the Subway.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Lisa Helem You're riding on the New York City D train when Frank Meyer, 41, boards. He's quiet until Darnell Harris, 48, a self-described former burglar turned born-again Christian, starts preaching: "Jesus was a special person for...

Collectibles: Worker's Comp.(video game)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Bret Begun Superman flies, Spider-Man scales buildings. But, according to his packaging, Bob's got real superpowers: "Every day he goes to work and sits at a desk surrounded by four gray walls and stares at a computer monitor for...

Fans: Rock On, Fraggles.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup Note to obsessive fan sites everywhere: you're being watched. That's what Warrick Brownlow, a fan of the 1980s series "Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock," recently learned. In April 2002 Brownlow launched an online petition,...

Transition.(obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Gates SUSAN SONTAG, 71 As she must have known she would, Susan Sontag infuriated knee-jerk patriots in 2001 with her unassailably logical, implacably impolitic statement that whatever might be said of the 9/11 hijackers,...

The Trouble With Fannie; The temptation is to treat the accounting controversy as another case of executive bad behavior. This is exactly the wrong response.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Robert Samuelson In America, we rarely declare "victory" over a problem. Once an issue becomes a target of collective concern, it stays on the political landscape, even if substantial progress occurs. Congressional committees,...

Snap Judgement: Books.(Letter to the Editor)
January 10, 2005... Byline: David Gates, Susan H. Greenberg Home Land by Sam Lipsyte Since two of the blurbs compare Lipsyte's slacker narrator Lewis Miner to Holden Caulfield, let's not--and anyhow, old Holden wasn't much of an ironist. Lewis will win...

Countless Souls Cry Out To God; After a cataclysm of Biblical proportions, people of all faiths ask, Why us? Why here? Why now?(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Kenneth L. Woodward (With Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) The waters that rose up from the deep last week, drowning tens of thousands of people across a wide arc of South and Southeast Asia, were a cataclysm of Biblical proportions....

They Hacked Real Good, for Free; A reminder that what drives our most original work is not always the almighty buck.(Ron Avitzur)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy Those who pulled themselves away from reruns of "White Christmas" to surf the Web last week were treated to a different sort of heartwarming story. Told publicly for the first time at www.pacifict.com/story, it's an...

The Web: A Tasty Way to Share Links.(Web site saves users' bookmarked sites)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Is your collection of favorite Web sites the envy of your friends, exhibiting your myriad interests, your unfailing cultural barometer and your weakness for suicide girls and fantasy baseball? Why keep those gems to yourself? Del.icio.us, a...

The Tsunami Threat; Science: Though extremely rare, killer waves can be less predictable--and more destructive--than the quakes that cause them.(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Jerry Adler and Mary Carmichael (With Andrew Murr in Hawaii, Jennifer Ordonez in Los Angeles and Fred Guterl in New York) It was late on the morning of April 1, 1946, and on the island of Hawaii, children from the school at...

Waves Of Disease; Flood survivors still face real danger. Germs borne in air and water may spawn many more deaths.(Cover Story)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb TV cameras brought the pounding waves and broken souls into our living rooms, but none could capture the next awful threat for Asia: a massive onslaught of infectious disease. The fears of local health officials and...

Health: In The Clear From Acne.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh When Brandi Jones first started breaking out at the age of 16, the cysts on her chin hurt more than just her vanity. "It was so painful," she says. "My face throbbed like someone had punched me." She spent her nights...

Food / Feelin' Clammy.(where to go for clam chowder, four U.S. restaurants)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten Looking to defrost with a bowl of soul-warming clam chowder? Red or white, here are our picks: Grand Central Oyster Bar (New York): Some of the best red in town, with chunks of surf clams, tomatoes, green peppers...

Road Test / Audi A6; A Car With Muscle.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten One of the best perks of reviewing cars is that, occasionally, I get to hang with the folks who design and build them. So it was recently, on a trip through the hilly roads of Sonoma, Calif., that I tested the...

Travel: Look, Ma, No Ski Lift.(ski areas, resorts)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Paul Tolme Looking to avoid crowds of ski bunnies? Get off the groomed trails and book a backcountry hut trip instead. Located deep in the woods, backcountry huts must be reached on skis or snowshoes--no chairlifts in sight. The...

Money: As Good As Gold.(streetTRACKS Gold Shares Trust )(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern When inflation threatens and the dollar drops, investors think gold. But who's got room for all that bullion in the basement? There's a new fund on the street promising to deliver the same shine. The streetTRACKS Gold...

Ask Tip Sheet.(golf courses)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Anne Taulane Why do golf courses have 18 holes? --DOUG DOHERTY, HURON, OHIO An 18-hole game may be par for the course today, but it wasn't always. In the 18th century, the Old Course at Scotland's St. Andrews Links...

Entertainment: Go Back To School.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Anne Taulane Before "The O.C." and "Beverly Hills 90210," teens had to learn life's lessons from "After School Specials." These ABC programs aired twice a month from 1972 to 1988 and covered such issues as pregnancy, drinking and...

UNCORKED / BAROLO.(wine)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Barolo, located in Italy's Piedmont region, is known for its rich, powerful red wines made from the Nebbiolo grape. The 2000 vintage was superb and received the first overall perfect score from Wine Spectator. Rarely produced in large...

What's Hot In / Italy: Your Sole Provider.
January 10, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey Until recently, Geox shoes were synonymous with "geek," even in Italy, where they're made and marketed all over the place. Their chief selling point: little holes in the sole of the shoe let out air, while a fine...

Spending: Rite Of Return.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern Your family's gone back home, but you're still trying to figure out what to do with their gifts--like that boxed set of "The Golden Girls" you know you'll never watch. Hurry up and hustle back to the store, because this...

Books: Family History.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Lisa Helem Ever wonder if you're really descended from royalty? In "Trace Your Roots with DNA" (Rodale. $14.95) , genealogists Megan Smolenyak and Ann Turner provide a user-friendly guide to the most popular DNA tests. Smolenyak,...

Collecting: Games People Play.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Colonel Mustard may have done it in the Clue library with a candlestick, but start a game collection and you might make an even bigger killing. "This is the time to get in because prices are way down," says Bruce...

Skin Care: Lip Balm Smackdown.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment and Anne Taulane. Dermatologists say Vaseline and Chapstick work just as well as designer lip balms, but TIP decided to see for ourselves and test drive top brands on our lips. The results? Higher price doesn't always...

Hollywood Unplugged; Clooney's improvised drama about struggling actors.(Movie Review)
January 10, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon Since we're all still a bit warm and fuzzy from the holidays, let's start with a charitable take on "Unscripted," the new, documentary-style HBO series about struggling actors in Hollywood from director George Clooney...

Out of School; Investors believed stock analysts like Jack Grubman were on their side during the tech bubble. In 'Blood on the Street,' NEWSWEEK's Charles Gasparino reveals just how rigged the game really was.
January 17, 2005... Byline: From "Blood on the Street" by Charles Gasparino. To be published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. Jack Grubman, the king of Wall Street's telecom analysts, didn't always hate AT&T. He had worked for the company...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
January 17, 2005... A Promising New Player in the Senate While some readers hailed the appearance of freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on our Jan. 3 year-ender cover, others were a bit surprised at what one referred to as "premature adulation." One woman,...

Tell That to Your Children; Try denying Social Security choice to a coffee drinker who orders a venti decaf nonfat extra-hot no foam with whip three-pump vanilla latte.
January 17, 2005... Byline: George Will If you are 62 (old enough to begin drawing Social Security benefits) or even if you are a spring chicken of 50 (old enough to be a member of the second largest secular organization in the nation, AARP, second to the...

Diet and Genes; It isn't just what you eat that can kill you, and it isn't just your DNA that can save you--it's how they interact.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Our Jan. 17 cover illustration ("Diet & Genes") incorrectly shows the DNA double helix spiraling to the left. The double helix spirals to the right. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Anne Underwood and...

A Wrinkle in Time; Do you have to age? How science is finding ways to help your cells say no.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael and Jennifer Barrett Ozols Though death is still as inevitable as taxes, future generations may age more slowly and live significantly longer. Here are five scientists in the vanguard of research, offering new...

A Neglected Nutrient; Are Americans dying from a lack of vitamin D?(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Joan Raymond and Jerry Adler Of all the medical orthodoxies of recent years, few were as ironclad as the prohibition against sunbathing. In a triumph of public education, the notion of a "healthy tan" was turned on its head, as...

Less Really Is More; Tips from a plastic surgeon on how to avoid an overdose.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Z. Paul Lorenc, M.D., with Trish Hall (Lorenc is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at the NYU Medical School. Hall is an editor at The New York Times. Their book, "A Little Work: Behind the Doors of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon,"...

Opinion: A Fresh Look at a Hot Issue.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., and Francine Grodstein, SC.D. (Komaroff and Grodstein are from Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital. For more on hormone therapy, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Some health...

Artful Aging; Don't ever assume your best work is behind you. Creativity often peaks in our later years.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen and Sam Seibert On his desk at the University of Kentucky, Prof. David Snowdon displays an artistic treasure: a ceramic sculpture of Santa Claus perched atop a John Deere tractor. The artist, Sister Esther Boor, gave...

The Aging Brain; Old Genes, New Findings.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: James Bakalar and Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. (Bakalar is editor of the Harvard Mental Health Letter; Komaroff is editor in chief of the Harvard Health Letter(health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK).) Are the changes in the brain that accompany...

Getting Fit With Harry and Chris; For a better life, quit eating crap and train six days a week.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Lisa Miller What can you say about a 70-year-old guy who can kick your butt in spin class? Outdoors, it's below freezing, and, though technically morning, still dark as night. But there he is, bouncing along on his stationary bike...

A Script for Better Aging; Our Harvard doctor's advice: diet, exercise--and a happy marriage--can add years to your life.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Howard LeWine, M.D. (LeWine is chief health editor for Internet publishing at Harvard Health Publications and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He cautions that readers should consult a medical professional for accurate...

Tinseltown Dreams; It's never too late to become a star.(Edith and Joseph Jefferson resume acting careers in the 80s)(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: David J. Jefferson Of all the battles I expected my parents to face in their 80s, fending off a soul-sucking mummy, a rampaging rhinoceros and a clown-faced serial killer weren't among them. But this is the life my parents lead...

Heart Disease: Another Culprit to Watch.(Cover Story)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Howard LeWine, M.D. (LeWine is chief editor for Internet publishing at Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School. For more about Harvard Health Publications, see health.harvard.edu.) Two new studies confirm what doctors...

Charity and Chaos; An insurgency was bleeding Aceh before the tsunami hit. Food aid can't fix that.
January 17, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Joe Cochrane (With Eve Conant in Washington and Paul Dillon and Eric Unmacht in Banda Aceh Graphic by Andrew Romano) The American Seahawk chopper descends toward a one-lane road near the ruined village of Lam...

Amid Disaster, New Confidence; In Chennai, a private street-cleaning movement now has 17,000 chapters.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) To understand how much and how fast India is changing, look at its response to the tsunami. I don't mean the government's reaction but that of individual Indians. In...

Sri Lanka: Getting Relief to Tiger Territory; Tamil rebels are regarded as terrorists by Washington. But will the tsunami create new prospects for peace?
January 17, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Eve Conant in Washington) Not so long ago, you would have been courting death by trying to drive from Colombo to Kilinochchi. Now aid convoys are rolling all the way from the capital to the nerve center of Sri...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker Every Friday night, as we're working late on the magazine, we take a break to eat dinner upstairs in NEWSWEEK's dining room. It's a fun time to relax and tell stories--particularly when our correspondents are visiting...

Thanks for The Angst; Indie Icons Bright Eyes return with a pair of CDs.(Sound Recording Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon The 24-year-old singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, who records with a rotating cast of players under the name Bright Eyes, inspires one of two emotions among indie-rock fans: reverence or disdain. There's no middle ground...

Can 10,000 Rock Critics Be Wrong?("Funeral" by Arcade Fire)(Sound Recording Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Bret Begun Certain obsessives trust only the smallest and edgiest of tastemakers. Surely you can't go wrong when the St. Paul Pioneer Press tells you something is "impossible to ignore" and tinymixtapes.com advises you to "Stand...

His Dark Materials; After more than 25 years and all those great, edgy roles, Kevin Bacon's still footloose and Oscar-free.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Sean Smith The last time I was at the Oscars," Kevin Bacon says, "was in 1982--to present somebody with a sound-effects-editing award." Despite strong performances in films ranging from "Footloose" to "JFK," "Diner" to "Apollo...

My Happy Adieu to Professional Sports; After years of covering million-dollar players, I longed for athletes with more heart, less attitude.
January 17, 2005... Byline: John Millea (Millea lives in Rosemount, Minn.) I have never been attacked by a professional athlete, unless you consider talcum powder a weapon. I also don't spend much time in professional-sports arenas anymore, and I don't miss...

Unanswered Questions; Alberto Gonzales will likely be confirmed. But that won't stop the widening scandal over Gitmo detainees.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff Ibraham Al Qosi's stories seemed fairly outlandish when they first surfaced last fall. In a lawsuit, Al Qosi, a Sudanese accountant apprehended after 9/11 on suspicions of ties to Al Qaeda, charged that he and other...

'Who's Babysitting The Kids?'; A strange turn in the Andrea Yates saga.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Dirk Johnson and Carol Rust Andrea Yates, serving a life sentence for drowning her five children--ages 6 months to 7 years--mostly stares out the window of her cell these days. But it's unclear what she sees. During a recent visit...

In Mississippi, a Step Toward Justice.(murder trials of Ku Klux Klan members)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Andrew Murr and Arian Campo-Flores In the notorious case of three civil-rights workers who were killed in 1964 by alleged Ku Klux Klan members in Philadelphia, Miss., justice has been infuriatingly slow. But last week prosecutors...

Newsmakers.(Candice Bergen)(Interview)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon, Jac Chebatoris, Sean Smith Q&A: Candice Bergen Last seen regularly on TV as Murphy Brown, Candice Bergen is joining the cast of "Boston Legal." She talked with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin about her new...

Perspectives.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: Associated Press, New York Times, People.com, Sports Illustrated, Daily Mirror, BBC News (2), London Times, ABC News, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press (2) "We tell every...

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.
January 17, 2005... Former WorldCom directors fork out millions to settle lawsuits. And the Pentagon sends top general to Iraq to evaluate war policy. Payback time? Bush = Job growth up, but Social Sec. shuffle in trouble. And Iraq still headed...

Presidents: Bubba and Dubya--Warming Up.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Richard Wolffe, Tamara Lipper and Eleanor Clift Four years ago George W. Bush used to call him "the shadow" and promised a fresh start by pledging to "uphold the honor and dignity" of the presidency. He even joked to late-night...

2008: Gingrich at the Gate.(Newt Gingrich)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Weston Kosova George W. Bush has four years to go, but Republicans are already jockeying to succeed him. The first officially unofficial GOP hopeful for 2008? Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker has been plotting a comeback;...

The CIA: You're Fired.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball In curt form letters sent out in November, CIA Director Porter Goss told members of three secretive CIA advisory panels their services were no longer required. One committee, an "intelligence advisory board" that...

Transition.(Shirley Chisholm)(Will Eisner)(Frank Kelly Freas)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80 Although she served New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Chisholm did not want to be remembered as the nation's first black congresswoman...

Cars: What's In? Tricked Out.
January 17, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton A big black SUV tricked out with 20-inch chrome rims, smoked-glass taillights and a snarling, double-barreled exhaust cruised a crowded parking lot last week. "You've got some bling," one admirer shouted to the...

Surveys: She's at 2 o'Clock, Rover. Do the Cute Thing.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup Another year, another bunch of vacation days. So don't delay; let the pollsters be your travel guide. A survey of surveys: 85% of people would like more vacation time (Opodo). Surely that has nothing to do with the...

Books: Monumental 'Collapse'.(Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed)(Book Review)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Andrew Murr Everyone knows ethnic hatred between Hutus and Tutsis was the main reason for Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Everyone but Jared Diamond, that is. In his new book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," the UCLA...

Managing Your MIL.(mother-in-law)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Byline: Lisa Helem As Jen Elliott adjusted to the first months of marriage, she didn't always get the most supportive feedback from her friends. So she decided to start a blog on thenest.com about her experiences: "You cannot imagine how...