Newsweek articles from January 2006

Newsweek archives from January 2006

Open to All: The Big Job.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen When the center for immigration Studies reported recently that 35 million American residents were foreign-born, the highest number in the nation's history, you could just imagine the reaction of the nativist types who...

Happy Anniversary To the Dow's High.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan There's nothing like a looming anniversary to make you contemplate some of life's bigger questions. And we're closing in on a big date for us stock-market types: six years since the record high of the Dow Jones...

Better Luck This Year Edition.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... 2006 begins with a popular new president who's got political capital to burn and the Dems in retreat. Whoops, that was last year. Bush = Trying to make opponents of warrantless snooping look soft on terror. But is he soft on Constitution?...

Al Qaeda's New Face of Terror.(Letter to the Editor)
January 9, 2006... Readers responding to our Dec. 12 cover story expressed outrage at what they called the murderous acts of female suicide bombers. Many took issue with the suggestion that living under Israeli rule has damaged Palestinian families, thus making...

A Harvest Of Treachery; Afghanistan's drug trade is threatening the stability of a nation America went to war to stabilize. What can be done?
January 9, 2006... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai In the privacy of his sparsely furnished house in Kabul, a veteran Afghan Interior Ministry official says the situation may already be hopeless. Although he has no authorization to speak with the press,...

Doctors in the Cross Hairs; Iraq's physicians are increasingly targeted by violence.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson Abu Mohammed can't go near a hospital now. The Iraqi bone specialist, 37, has lived in fear since August, when his younger brother, also a doctor, was shot dead one night while walking home from his clinic in Baghdad....

We All Have a Lot to Learn.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Last week India was hit by a terror attack that unsettled the country. A gunman entered the main conference hall of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, tossed four grenades into the audience and, when the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham The book Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was working on as Watergate began to unfold in 1972-73 was tentatively called "The Royal Presidency," but Schlesinger had a persistent feeling that the title was not quite right. Now 88,...

The Wandering Soul; Anthony Hamilton's rural sound confounded music execs. But a rap mogul saw the diamond in the rough.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Lorraine Ali It took the music industry 10 long years to figure out what to do with Anthony Hamilton. The soul singer didn't rap, he didn't croon slick R&B ballads and, worst of all, he dressed like a trucker circa 1974. After four...

For Ryan Out Loud; An evolved Adams wraps up his three-album series.(Interview)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jac Chebatoris I hope you're hungry," singer-songwriter Ryan Adams calls out, by way of a welcome to his West Village apartment in New York City. A rose-covered teapot and cups soon appear, followed by steaming mugs of warm...

'My Boy' Had Become A Threat to Our Safety; Jack was smart, obedient--and growing more aggressive. If only we hadn't ignored the signs.(an aggressive Doberman)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Cooperman Sometimes there are no words--just a look. Upon my command, my Doberman, Jack, sat obediently in the vet's examining room. Four years old and in his prime, with 115 pounds of strapping muscle, he was at once...

Full Speed Ahead; After 9/11, Bush and Cheney pressed for more power--and got it. Now, predictably, the questions begin. Behind the NSA spying furor.(Cover Story)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Evan Thomas and Daniel Klaidman (With Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Richard Wolffe in Washington, D.C.) The talk at the White House in the days and weeks after 9/11 was all about suitcase nukes and germ warfare and surprise...

King's Final Years; As the shadows fell, King looked north. It was the beginning of the end.(Martin Luther King)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Alter Forty years ago this winter, I was an 8-year-old boy growing up on the North Side of Chicago. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had moved into a slum in the impoverished West Side neighborhood of North Lawndale to...

One Very Wild Pitch; Did drugs make a star hurler rob a jewelry shop?
January 9, 2006... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores By Christmas day, Jeff Reardon was a physical and emotional wreck. The former star relief pitcher was struggling through a second holiday season without his son Shane, who died of a drug overdose in 2004 and...

A Terrible Connection.(domestic violence)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Dirk Johnson In a jealous rage, Marlon Brando Gill, 23, demanded to see his ex-girlfriend's cell phone. When she resisted, he went berserk. In a car in a Missouri parking lot, police say, Gill used his hands to force open the mouth...

Judi Dench.(Interview)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Nicki Gostin The divine Dame Judi turns in another Oscar-buzzing performance in "Mrs. Henderson Presents." She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. You play a widow and you lost your husband recently. Could you relate? ...

Perspectives.
January 9, 2006... "We have nothing to hide." Safwat Rashid, an Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq official, on Sunni Arabs' and secular groups' demanding a review of Iraq's elections "According to our judgment, Dr. Hwang's team doesn't have...

9/11: A Special White House Slide Show.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball Why did some administration officials--including Vice President Dick Cheney--still lend credit to disputed reports of an April 2001 Prague meeting between 9/11 leader Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi spy even after the...

Candidates: Crisscrossing Paths.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman With no government salary or special stationery, former vice presidential candidates have only each other. As co-chairs of a Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, Jack Kemp, the Republican vice...

Fast Chat: History of Violence.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 9, 2006... Byline: T. Trent Gegax Eugene Jarecki's new film, "Why We Fight," surveys America at war, from Korea to Iraq. Jarecki talked to T. Trent Gegax about his documentary, which won top honors at Sundance last year. Your movie is like...

Katrina: Welcome: 'White Couple'.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Sarah Childress As Katrina evacuees scrambled to find homes, whites were given incentives to rent in some places, while blacks were charged extra or politely turned away 66 percent of the time, according to a five-state report by...

Finances: The Magic Number.(Lee Eisenberg)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Daniel McGinn In his younger years, Lee Eisenberg didn't think much about the size of his portfolio. As an editor at Esquire, he was busy coining terms like "power lunch" and pioneering rotisserie baseball. But when he hit his 50s,...

Hybrids: Taken for an Enviro-Friendly Ride.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Karen Springen King County, which encompasses Seattle, has a bus fleet of 1,400. Only 236 are hybrids, but fleet manager Jim Boon anticipates that number will multiply: "Having the stored energy in the batteries gives us much...

Music: The Rise of the 'Yupster'.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Andrew Romano Music fans, rejoice: "list season"--that wintry instant when our nation's critics whittle a year of records into tidy top 10s--has come again. According to the album-review aggregators at Metacritic.com, Bob Dylan...

The Home Front: Days of Our Lives.(military wives)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Martha Brant A new generation of military wives--defying the unwritten rule that you don't whine about your husband's job--are sharing their deployment woes in new books. Sarah Smiley recently released "Going Overboard: The...

Allergies: Read It and Eat.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett For the estimated 11 million Americans who suffer from food allergies, a visit to the grocery store can be a dangerous guessing game. According to the nonprofit Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, 300,000 people...

Waiting for a Soft Landing.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson At the year-end, I usually scan a stack of economic reports to see what lies ahead. Well, folks, according to most forecasts we're headed for a swell year--though it will be boring. Typical is the forecast from...

The 'Familymoon'; Now that most remarriages involve kids, travel companies and experts say it's time to face facts. Bring them along. You can have wine and roses any time.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg and Anna Kuchment (With Sana Butler) Cathy Wright's second honeymoon wasn't exactly the lush romantic getaway most newlyweds imagine. For one thing, she and her new husband, George, spent a night camped out in a...

It's the New Walking; Scooters evolve from medical need to lifestyle choice.(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez Retiree Robert Knievel, better known as '70s motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, got an odd request a few years ago from an overweight neighbor. "He was outside and said, 'Hey, Evel, I'm getting some exercise. You...

Bringing Up Baby; In a new book, a psychologist compares the advice of popular parenting experts with the latest research.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Peg Tyre Developmental psychologist and mom Jane Rankin saw a gap between good scientific studies on child rearing and the gospel preached by parenting gurus. Below, a distillation of her comprehensive new book "Parenting Experts:...

Right to the Top; Young, creative comics are using digital video and the Internet to launch careers--sometimes overnight.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone If you haven't yet seen the "Saturday Night Live" short "Lazy Sunday," you probably weren't checking your e-mail over the holidays. The two-and-a-half-minute video clip features "SNL" cast members Chris Parnell and Andy...

Book Excerpt: Planning For Trouble.(Excerpt)
January 9, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn For all of us there's the life we're living and a potential, different life. Our normal days--filled with work, family, friends, shopping, movies, sports, books--are the ordinary way of the world. But down in the...

Winter's Tales; Who needs 'American Idol'? This year, winter is the new fall, as the networks launch 10 new shows in January. And we're not talking cold leftovers, either.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Marc Peyser Have you ever taken down the Christmas tree, cleaned up all the pine needles and wrapping paper and discovered, way back in the corner, an overlooked, unopened present? And it turns out to be a good one. This month is...

A Boardroom Shuffle That Made Big News; The Wall Street Journal settles the succession question.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman Peter Kann was a hands-on CEO of Dow Jones, except when it came to choosing his own successor. Just about a year ago, Dow Jones's board informed him of its intention to find a replacement in time for his mandatory...

Washington Panic Edition.(Brief Article)
January 16, 2006... More war incompetence: Pentagon study says better body armor could have saved hundreds of soldiers' lives in Iraq. Get it together. Bush - Bad week in Iraq, returns Abramoff $$ , lame cheerleading about economy and war. Better luck next...

Mail Call: Rising Stars of 2006.
January 16, 2006... Bringing a Controversial Best Seller to the Screen Our year-end inside peek at "The Da Vinci Code" (Jan. 2), the anxiously awaited movie based on the best-selling book, drew a mixed response. One reader praised the article as "great" for...

Ed Schools vs. Education; Prospective teachers are expected to have the correct 'disposition,' proof of which is espousing 'progressive' political beliefs.
January 16, 2006... Byline: George F. Will The surest, quickest way to add quality to primary and secondary education would be addition by subtraction: Close all the schools of education. Consider The Chronicle of Higher Education's recent report concerning...

Super Nutrients; Are you really getting all the vitamins, minerals and fatty acids you need?
January 16, 2006... Byline: Anne Underwood (Graphic by Josh Ulick) It sounds like a simple question of logic. If bones require calcium, then people who eat a lot of calcium-rich dairy products should have extra-strong bones, right? So why are hip fractures...

Whom Can You Believe? There is real science behind nutritional advice, but no single study is definitive.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., PH.D., and Patrick J. Skerrett (Stampfer, who chairs the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, is the editor of "Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know," published by Harvard...

The Gurus' Guide To Daily Nutrition; Five experts talk about what they take and offer tips for getting the vitamins and nutrients you need.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett If you eat a well-balanced diet, do you need to take a multivitamin, too? What about supplements such as calcium and fish oils? Can too many vitamins be dangerous? Each week, it seems, there's a new study...

Gut Flora? Great! Maintaining a balance of microorganisms can help strengthen your overall health.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Mary Carmichael You may use antibacterial dish soap and wash your hands every time you sneeze, but Jeffrey Gordon wants you to know that you're crawling with germs. Gordon, the director of the Center for Genome Sciences at...

Sense and Sensuality; Cooking and eating have never been so fraught. We find sweet satisfaction in getting up close to our ingredients and hands-on with our prep.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Dorothy Kalins These days there is a man with a whip on my shoulder, punishing me before I even open my mouth. No sooner do I crack a restaurant menu than out he jumps, threatening me away from not just the obvious (cheeseburgers...

Hard to The Core; Increasing the strength of the torso isn't a fitness fad, it's one key to healthier aging--and can even help active folks stay injury-free.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Peg Tyre and Jennifer Barrett David Burnes was on a walking tour of Madrid last fall when the low-grade discomfort he'd been feeling in his back for weeks morphed into molar-grinding pain. Burnes, 50, realized he needed serious...

Still Going Strong; Jack LaLanne is a living testament to the enduring benefits of diet and exercise.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Peg Tyre Decades before Jane Fonda felt the burn and Suzanne Somers thinned her thighs, Jack LaLanne was teaching Americans how to stay trim. At every stage of his 70-year career--first as a competitive body-builder and gym owner,...

Big Benefits From Small Changes; You don't have to break a sweat to improve your health, you just need to get moving.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Harvey B. Simon, M.D. (Simon is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His new book, "The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer" (McGraw-Hill), is being published this month. The CME...

Supplements Aren't The Secret to Health; Our Harvard expert advises going easy on soda and sweet rolls, and getting out of the car more often.(Interview)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Dr. Meir Stampfer (Stampfer is chairman of the department of epidemiology and professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of...

The Myth of the Mid Life Crisis; It's time we stopped dismissing middle age as the beginning of the end. Research suggests that at 40, the brain's best years are still ahead.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Gene Cohen, M.D., PH.D. (Cohen is founding director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University Medical Center. This article is adapted from "The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain,"...

Wealth and Weight Loss; If you want to be thin, it might help to think like a CEO.(Jana Klauer )(Interview)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett At her posh Park Avenue practice in New York, Dr. Jana Klauer helps CEOs, socialites and celebrities slim down. Now she's sharing her secrets with the rest of us. In "How the Rich Get Thin," published this month by...

The Things That Have Not Changed; The great obstacle to progress is no longer Israeli intentions but rather Palestinian capabilities.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) The graveyards are filled with indispensable men, Charles de Gaulle once remarked. Ariel Sharon would seem to be the exception, one who truly became irreplaceable in...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Mark Whitaker In the year since he took over our Jerusalem bureau, Kevin Peraino has grown used to the hectic pace of Israeli life--an intensity that sometimes makes it feel as though there are 48 hours in a day. But as news spread...

From New Kid on the Job to Tribal Elder; To keep up with the twentysomethings around me, I've had to learn to talk fast and listen faster.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Bob Brody (Brody lives in Forest Hills, N.Y.) I still have no clue how i became just about the oldest person in our office. Somehow, I must have missed the memo that was supposed to give me the heads-up. Today got here faster than I...

A Washington Tidal Wave; Blackjack: Members of Congress rushed to give back money. DeLay stepped aside. Reformers pledged to fix the system. Can anything change the Capitol's money-hungry ways? Behind the Abramoff lobby scandal.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Michael Isikoff, Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas (With Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift) First came the dinner invitations, then the tickets. Staffers in the office of former House Majority leader Tom DeLay could dine--usually, free...

A Dark Place; A West Virginia mining community searches for answers after an underground explosion claimed 12 of its sons.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Pat Wingert and Arian Campo-Flores (With Steve Tuttle and Daren Briscoe in Washington) Marshall Winans had always yearned to follow in his father's footsteps and work in the coal mines. When his mother, Helen, warned him of the...

Heart of a Nation; Sharon's outsize life--and the future of the land he helped build.(Ariel Sharon )(Cover Story)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino, Dan Ephron and Jeffrey Bartholet (With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem, Nuha Musleh in the West Bank, Michael Hirsh and Richard Wolffe in Washington, Christopher Dickey in Paris and Alan Isenberg in New York Grahpic by Andrew...

Lining Up at the Starting Gate.
January 16, 2006... Until last week, Israel's upcoming elections felt like little more than a formality. Now the contest is wide open. As quietly as possible, not wanting to seem disrespectful, the entrants are preparing for the run of their lives. The prize:...

I'm Not Afraid; He's always spoken his mind, and fought for his beliefs. A personal portrait.(Ariel Sharon)(Cover Story)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth He was finished. In the early 1980s, when I first met Ariel Sharon, he was a once great general who was widely blamed for Israel's failed war in Lebanon and for the slaughter of Palestinian refugees by Christian...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh, Devin Gordon RYAN SEACREST Ryan Seacrest is back hosting the fifth season of "American Idol," which premieres Jan. 17. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Ramin Setoodeh. How many jobs do you have now? I have to...

Perspectives.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, The Washington Post (2), petetownshend.co.uk, Associated Press, New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Washington Post "Tell all--I see them on the other side." Martin Toler Jr.,...

Supreme Court: Tune In; A TV Guide To the Alito Hearings.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas The senate confirmation hearings for a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court are rarely a process of straightforward questions and answers. A potential Supreme Court justice cannot promise to vote a...

Intel: Operation--Exposed?(Brief Article)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball Allegations of secret electronic eavesdropping on Americans aren't the only details in a new book that are causing heartburn for U.S. spies. The intelligence community is also furious over disclosures in New York...

Stem Cells: Sizing Up 'SCNT'.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Claudia Kalb and B. J. Lee Get ready for "Hwang-gate" mania. This week investigators at Seoul National University plan to release the final report on their fallen hero, scientist Hwang Woo-suk. The university has already deemed...

Transition.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 16, 2006... Byline: ELISE SOUKUP Lou Rawls, 72 Rawls started singing in a gospel choir when he was 7 and, despite battling cancer, was still scheduling concerts last November. A prolific performer, he made some 60 albums, won three Grammys and...

Environment: Out of the Woods?(Brief Article)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Paul Tolme When the Bush Administration recently announced its plan to remove Yellowstone's grizzly bears from the endangered-species list, some hailed the step as a success story. There were only 200 bears in the region in 1975...

Fashion: Skull and Bones Society.(Brief Article)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Elise Soukup It's time to take your Halloween costumes out of storage. Skull-inspired designs are popping up on the runways and in the closets of the well-to-do. "It happens to be a really trendy motif right now," says Julie...

Smoking: Great Grades for Maine.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Barrett For the past four years, the American Lung Association has published annual report cards for each state based on its tobacco-control and -prevention efforts. None ever got straight A's--until now. In the 2005 State...

Movies: Can Apes Win Oscars?
January 16, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon Technically speaking, yes, they can. With ballots for Academy Award nominations due on Jan. 21, all that voters have to do to honor Andy Serkis's momentous work as Kong in director Peter Jackson's "King Kong" is...

Dating: Positive Thinking.(The Year of Yes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 16, 2006... Byline: DANIEL MCGINN Maria Dahvana Headley grew up listening to the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign of the 1980s. As a student at New York University in the late '90s, she applied that advice to her love life, turning down most men who...

Publishing: Name Game.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 16, 2006... Byline: ROBERT STEIN Agatha Christie's mystery "Sleeping Murder" was published right after her death in 1976. But it wasn't until just recently that researchers unraveled an interesting twist. According to a new computer model that...

A Map for the Medicare Maze; For Part D, the biggest problem lies ahead: persuading seniors to sign up. Of those with the choice, only 1 million have joined so far.
January 16, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) Computer crashes, jammed phone lines, longtime prescriptions no longer covered--but also a lot of prescriptions smoothly and rapidly filled. That was the look of the new drug...

The New (est) Rules of Television.(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy Last week the Consumer Electronics Show filled up Las Vegas with more than 130,000 people and countless cell phones, camcorders, flash drives, car stereos, MP3 players and porn stars. In a state-of-the-industry speech,...

BlogWatch.(Brief Article)
January 16, 2006... A mainstream media look at what's hot and what's not in the world of web logs. Last week firedoglake.blogspot.com caught Wal-Mart's Web site recommending biographies of African-Americans like Martin Luther King Jr. to patrons who were...

'What's Kodak's Strategy?'.(interview with Antonio Perez)(Interview)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone Take a snapshot today of the 113-year-old photo icon Eastman Kodak, and it will probably turn out dark. The decline of traditional cameras and film, and the explosive rise of digital photography, has sharply cut into...

Drive Time: The Shape Of Things To Come.(Ford Motor Co.'s $100,000 pickup)
January 16, 2006... Byline: Keith Naughton There's just 24 hours left to finish Ford Motor Co.'s most audacious Detroit Auto Show concept car and the designers are getting nervous. The vehicle--an opulent pickup truck--lies in hundreds of pieces on the dusty...

Drive Time: Detroit Style; Hot rods for 2006.
January 16, 2006... The Detroit Auto Show is to cars what New York's Fashion Week is to couture--the premier preview of what styles are coming down the road. Dozens of automotive fashion statements will be unveiled this week in the Motor City. TIP SHEET, though,...

Real Life, No Police Chases.(on memoir "A Million Little Pieces")(Column)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen Scrawled on the memo pad on my desk are three items: flap copy, boots, college forms. The professional, the sartorial, the maternal. The mundane. The notes on the minutiae of my daily life are a hedge against the...

The Ugly Truth; When James Frey embellished his rap sheet in his best-selling memoir, did he cross the line into fiction?(Column)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Marc Peyser (With Karen Springen and Jac Chebatoris) James Frey is not a guy who backs away from a fight. He's got a pit bull. He's got a mean tongue, too. A few years ago he told a reporter that Dave Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work...

Sweet Deals: Bulk Up, Then Break Up.(Column)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan This is a pop quiz: is it better for companies to grow bigger and more diversified, or for them to shrink and get lean and mean and focused? If you're a Wall Street investment banker, things are good either way. At...

Out of the Freying Pan Edition.(satire on memoirists James Frey)(Brief Article)
January 23, 2006... Now that memoirs don't have to bear relation to the truth, Bush administration officials are certain to get big book contracts. Bush + Gets second Supreme on the court and finds common ground with German P.M. on Iran nukes. On to SOTU. ...

Executive Power: How Much Is Too Much?(Letter to the Editor)
January 23, 2006... Most readers responding to our Jan. 9 cover story were alarmed by recent revelations that the Bush administration had allowed domestic eavesdropping. "Americans are being sent to Iraq to fight for democracy, yet the president and vice president...

Iran's Rogue Rage; Nukes: Iranians want nuclear know-how--and seem to be daring the West to stop them.
January 23, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey, Maziar Bahari and Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Scott Johnson and Michael Hastings in Baghdad, Owen Matthews in Moscow, Michael Hirsh in Washington and Alan Isenberg in New York) On the ski slopes of Dizin in north...

The Making of a Candidate; 'Sharon's guy' prepares to lead Israel the rest of the way.(Ehud Olmert, Israel's interim prime minister)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem) Israel's interim prime minister wasted little time on polite chitchat. Last Tuesday afternoon, at a private meeting with a select group of foreign politicians, Ehud Olmert launched into...

Diplomacy and Force; Interview: The United Nations' top inspector is prepared to issue a report on Iran's nuclear program that will 'reverberate around the world.'(Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency)(Interview)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey The man in the middle of the escalating tensions between Iran, Europe and the United States is Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency. ElBaradei and the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Mark Whitaker Bode Miller had just pulled off one of the greatest feats in Olympic skiing history--one his coach compared to scoring four touchdowns in the fourth quarter of a football game--and Devin Gordon was there. At the 2002...

When the 'Bubble' Bursts; Soderbergh's new movie is opening in a living room near you.(movie director Steven Soderbergh)
January 23, 2006... Byline: Sean Smith If you could watch "King Kong" at home on opening night, would you go see it in a movie theater anyway? If the movie were "Capote," would you make the same decision? More important, should you even have the choice? That...