Newsweek articles from January 2007

Newsweek archives from January 2007

Contrition as Leadership; Smarter today than yesterday. That's true of the American people on Iraq. It would be good to learn that it's true of their leader as well.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen When word circulated that the president would make a speech to the nation on Iraq in the new year, there was speculation about what he would say. Some suspected he would just repeat boilerplate sentiments about...

Wanna Buy a Bridge To Big-Time Debt?
January 8, 2007... Byline: Allan Sloan It's the happiest of New Year's on Wall Street, which is positively awash in money. No, I'm not talking about the jaw-dropping eight-digit bonuses at Goldman Sachs or the even bigger unpublicized paydays for heavy...

Ford Not a Lincoln Edition.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... The oldest living president ever finally passes on. Warning to those who live along fairways in heaven: Buy a helmet. Jerry Ford (up) The last of the straightforward straight shooters. Try to picture a prez now who's liked by everyone. ...

Letters to the Magazine.
January 8, 2007... Readers responding to our cover story on the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group were nearly unanimous that a new direction is necessary. One said, "The realities articulated by the ISG are some of the loudest, most credible and...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham It was nearly noon on an over-cast August day in Beaver Creek, Colo., in 1998, and former president Gerald R. Ford, wearing a pressed golf shirt and seated on a flowered sofa, was revisiting the past. He had kindly...

'Surge' Strategy; The military mission is shifting. Are more troops really the answer anymore?
January 8, 2007... Byline: Michael Hastings, Michael Hirsh and Richard Wolffe He was caught just like a rat." Those were the simple, happy words of Ray Odierno three years ago, after units of his Fourth Infantry Division cornered Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. The...

Vengeance of The Victors.(execution of Saddam Hussein not likely to end Iraq's sectarian violence)(Column)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The saga of Saddam's end--his capture, trial and execution--is a sad metaphor for America's occupation of Iraq. What might have gone right went so wrong. It is worth remembering that Saddam Hussein was not your...

Death of a Tyrant; He killed not only Kurds and Shiites but Baathist rivals. His end was ignominious.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Michael Hastings and Scott Johnson in Baghdad, Richard Wolffe in Washington and Babak Dehghanpisheh) President George W. Bush was sleeping at 9 p.m. at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when Saddam Hussein's...

The Importance of Being Neighborly; The people next door are strangers, but they don't need to stay that way. Why I invited one man inside.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Thea Rhiannon (Rhiannon lives in Bend, Ore.) The oil stain on my garage floor has faded to a dusty umber, the same nondescript color as the other random blots that collect on concrete over the years. Once, it was a shallow black...

Ford's Long Shadow; An unlikely President, Ford steadied America and, in an unpublished interview, mused about her fate.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Michael Beschloss He was a larger figure than you might have thought. Many familiar personalities--politicians, movie stars, newscasters--are smaller in fact than they are on television or in photographs. In his 1970s-modern desert...

In Memoriam; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: George Herbert Walker Bush George Herbert Walker Bush The 41st President 'He Gave Us A New Day' I got to know Jerry Ford when I was running for the Senate down here in Texas in 1964. I lost that one, and then he...

Bill Clinton; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Bill Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Brent Scowcorft, James Cannon Bill Clinton The 42nd President 'I was grateful for his counsel' Thirty-two years ago, when President Ford took the oath of office, I was running for Congress...

Henry Kissinger; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger Former Secretary Of State 'He Moved With Calm' I first met president ford in the mid-1960s, when I was a professor at Harvard. I was conducting a defense-policy seminar. It was customary...

Dick Cheney; Recollections of the public and private Gerald Ford. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Vice President 'Confidence in His Bearing' He was an unassuming man, our 38th president, and few have ever risen so high with so little guile or calculation. Even in the three decades since he...

The 38th President: More Than Met the Eye; As a youngster, Ford survived a turbulent family life by learning the art of the deal--and he used that skill to thrive amid the wars of Washington.(Cover story)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Barbara Kantrowitz) On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 8, 1974, after he had been president for about a month, Gerald Ford took communion at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square, across from the White...

The Bushes' Saddam Drama.(Column)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Howard Fineman Evil was on the loose in the world, President George W. Bush had told the country, and on his first Thanksgiving in office--November 2001--he was on his way to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to dine with newly trained...

Newsmakers: Clive Owen, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Rosie O'Donnell, Donald Trump, P. Diddy, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Clive Owen Owen stars in "children of Men," a futuristic thriller about saving the only pregnant woman in a society thought to be entirely sterile. He chatted with Nicki Gostin. Take this as a compliment--I...

Perspectives.
January 8, 2007... "Where does [Bush] get his advice?" Former president Gerald R. Ford, in a just-now-published New York Daily News interview from last May, opposing President Bush's reasoning for the Iraq war "The governor was awake, alert and talking...

Iran: A Brewing Battle of Heavyweights in Tehran.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Maziar Bahari Iranians are deserting the president they elected by a landslide in June 2005. Not only did university students heckle Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with chants of "Death to the dictator!" during a speech last month in Tehran,...

Homeland Security: A Tighter Border Plan?(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball For more than 15 years, British and most other Western European visitors have been allowed to stay in the United States for up to three months without needing to apply for visas. But Homeland Security officials are...

Environment: Bears on Thin Ice.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler An adult polar bear needs, on average, four to five pounds of seal blubber a day to survive, and it earns every ounce of it: crouching for hours in the Arctic cold alongside an opening in the ice, waiting for a seal to...

Pelosi Party On.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Eleanor Clift Nancy Pelosi is celebrating her debut as Speaker of the House with three days of events. Most are free. But PACs must pony up $15K for the concert. (graphic omitted)

Technology: Hum, and Ye Shall Find.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Mummolo Going nuts trying to name that tune? Relief may be a Web site away. "If you can hum it, you can search it," says Jay Bose, COO of Nayio.com, which offers a new humming search vtool. Here's how it works: Sound off a...

Beliefwatch: Blasphemy; "Hi my name is Lindy and I deny the existence of the Holy Spirit and you should too.".
January 8, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler With that five-second submission to YouTube, a 24-year-old who uses the name "menotsimple" has either condemned herself to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife or struck a courageous blow against superstition....

Crime: Losing the Street War.(Brief article)(Statistical data)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Andrew Murr A recent surge in violent crime is creating anxiety at the Justice Department and posing potential political problems for the Bush administration. The 3.7 percent rise for the first six months of...

James Brown, 1933-2006.(Obituary)
January 8, 2007... Byline: David Gates It's been almost 40 years since james brown gave the most overwhelming concert I've ever attended, or ever will. On April 5, 1968, he played the Boston Garden--less than 24 hours after the assassination of Martin Luther...

The Economic Mega-Worry; It's productivity, which is the wellspring of our rising living standards. Growth has been strong for the last decade, but it may now be slowing.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The start of a new year is a good time to take stock, and there are few better indicators of our long-term economic prospects--and also our prospects for political and social peace--than productivity. As anyone...

Environment: Easy to Be Green.
January 8, 2007... Byline: Joan Raymond You don't have to ditch leather or sell your car to help the environment. We've gathered 10 simple tips for living greener in 2007. Hey, it's a lot easier than losing those 15 pounds. 1Feed The Bees Pesticides,...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.
January 8, 2007... SKI free on Winter Trails Day (Jan. 6; wintertrails.org). Beginners get free admission and gear rental at participating snowshoeing and cross-country resorts. Now all you need is snow. CLICK on cdc.govfor a free, illustrated 2007 Healthy...

Oprah Goes to School; True, the world's most successful woman has always shared her wealth. But her latest project is really one for the books.(Winfrey, Oprah)
January 8, 2007... Byline: Allison Samuels Two thousand and six was the year Africa went Hollywood: Madonna, Clooney, Brangelina. And now, in 2007, the most exclusive spot on the continent will undoubtedly be in the town of Henly-on-Klip, about 40 miles...

The Devil Wears Swastikas; Norman Mailer's new novel is a Hitler-family saga, with superstar guests. Maybe fiction isn't his real calling after all.
January 15, 2007... Byline: David Gates Last month the New York Times took note of the half-dozen pages of bibliography at the end of Norman Mailer's forthcoming "The Castle in the Forest," recalled recent novels similarly equipped and, with a spin of the...

The Last Van Standing; Chrysler is under siege in the minivan market it invented. It's firing back with a line that shatters the soccer-mom stigma.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Keith Naughton When Chrysler designer Ralph Gilles first became a family man, he wasn't ready to drive a dowdy minivan. So he pimped out a '99 Dodge Caravan with big wheels, dual racing stripes and a monster engine. "I thought, 'If...

Democratic Congress Edition.(brief satirical comments on current events)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Self-styled security expert Rudy Giuliani can't keep his presidential campaign plans from getting stolen. We'd give this guy the nuclear briefcase? Bush (equal) Good news: Will finally announce new Iraq strategy. Bad news: His "surge" plan...

Mail Call; Squaring Off in the Race for the Presidency.(Letter to the editor)
January 15, 2007... Many readers of our year-end issue on the potentially historic campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were eager for change in the presidency. "Can we fast-forward two years? You ask if America is ready for our first black or female...

The Editor's Desk.(collaboratoins between journalists Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert)(Editorial)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham In the Spring of 1986, Pat Wingert joined NEWSWEEK's Washington bureau after nearly a decade of reporting for two Chicago newspapers. Her first assignment was to work with a new writer in New York, Barbara Kantrowitz,...

MacArthur's Two Words; Saddam's executioners turned an act of justice into an episode of bloodthirsty sectarianism. So it accurately expressed Iraq's civic culture.(General Douglas MacArthur)(execution of Saddam Hussein)(Column)
January 15, 2007... Byline: George F. Will awe (o), n. 1. Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. --Oxford English Dictionary Last week Americans were on the receiving end of a kind of shock and awe. The shock of recognition was delivered not by...

The New Prime Time; Two of our writers explain how the years after 40 are a time for critical changes. An exclusive excerpt.(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Not long ago, a fortysomething friend of ours stopped at a convenience store to pick up a sports drink for her 13-year-old son. As she was about to pay, she felt a sensation of intense heat...

The Basics; Does everyone pass through the same menopause milestones?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Remember when you were 13 and your girlfriends shared their complaints of menstrual aches and pains with you? Around that time, you probably realized that not everyone's periods were the same. Some...

Hot Flashes; I just had my first hot flash, and it was a freaky sensation. What exactly is going on in my body?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz More than three quarters of American women suffer from hot flashes during the menopause transition. This means, of course, that a lucky minority of women don't. Our question is: who are these...

Sleep; Lately, I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping no matter how tired I am. Is there a connection between menopause and insomnia?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Both age and menopause are conspiring to rob you of the sleep you need. Although you once enjoyed a solid eight hours a night, you may be so exhausted now that you would happily settle for a meager...

Sex; I've heard that sex gets better for some women during the menopause transition but worse for others. What can I do to increase my chances of being in that first category?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Surprising as it seems, sex does get better for some women around menopause. They're more experienced and know what they like and are willing to ask for it. With children out of the house, they may...

Mood; I'm usually a pretty upbeat person, but lately I've been barking at everyone I know and shifting from neutral to supercranky in less than five seconds. I know I'm being unreasonable, but I can't seem to help myself.(menopause)(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz While you might think everyone gets a little irritable (OK, bitchy) during menopause, research proves that menopause doesn't cause a major mood problem in most midlife women. While women are twice...

Eyes; I've been wearing contact lenses since I was 13, but lately they feel uncomfortable. I'm constantly taking them out, cleaning them and reinserting them. Why are my eyes so dry and irritated?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Whether you wear contact lenses or not, dry eyes may be one of the first changes you notice around menopause. A decade ago many eye doctors dismissed complaints of dry eyes without much thought....

Bones; I admit it. My diet isn't particularly good, I smoke, I drink more than I should and I hate exercise. At age 45, can I still make changes to protect my bones?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Plenty of women share these challenges, but it's way too early to declare yourself a lost cause. After menopause, women are much more vulnerable to osteoporosis, a thinning of bones that leaves...

Heart; My doctor says I need to watch my cholesterol, even though I'm only 47. I thought only men had to be concerned about heart disease. Does menopause change things?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz If you're like many midlife 'women, you're probably more worried about breast cancer than heart disease at this point. Chances are you have more than one friend who is struggling with that...

Cancer; Now that I've turned 50, my doctor is telling me I need regular screenings for cancer. What should I be most concerned about, and how often should I get tested?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Let's start with the basics. Menopause doesn't cause cancer. It doesn't even increase your risk of getting cancer. But the levels of hormones in your body (what your body produces naturally, as...

Hot Flashes and Hormones; Here's what you and your clinician should talk about before deciding whether to take estrogen.(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Joann E. Manson, M.D., Dr.Ph., and Shari S. Bassuk, Sc.D. (Manson and Bassuk are affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. They are the authors of "Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health" (McGraw-Hill),...

Is Male Menopause Real? As men age, testosterone levels decline, which can lead to lots of problems.(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Daniel D. Federman, M.D., and Geoffrey A. Walford, M.D. (Federman and Walford are members of the faculty of Harvard Medical School. For more information on male menopause and men's health, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) You're...

Nap Time for Aging Boomers; It's never too late to start living a healthy life. Our Harvard doc on the challenges of growing older.(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Simon is associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and author of "The No Sweat Exercise Plan" (McGraw-Hill, 2006). For more information, go to health.harvard.edu. Readers should consult a medical professional for an...

Diet; I've always been able to lose weight fairly quickly by cutting back on sweets and carbs and working out more. That still works--but it's much, much slower. Also, I feel as if I can gain weight just by looking at food. Is it me or is it menopause?(Cover story)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz Probably a little of both. Whether you've been a health nut or a couch potato, you're going to find menopause a challenge. Your metabolism slows down as you get older, so you will gain weight if...

We're Losing the Infowar; Insurgents using simple cell-phone cameras, laptop editing programs and the Web are beating the United States in the fierce battle for Iraqi public opinion.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Scott Johnson (With Michael Hastings in Baghdad and Benjamin Sutherland in Treviso) For nearly four years, U.S. military officials have briefed the Baghdad press corps from behind an imposing wooden podium. No longer. Last week...

Spycraft as Thespianage; Hollywood's latest forays into the postwar intelligence community get the period detail right--and miss the point.(movies "The Good German" and "The Good Shepherd")
January 15, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas Moral ambiguity is the none-too-subtle point of two new movies about the creation of Pax Americana after World War II. In "The Good German," an antihero war correspondent (played by George Clooney) is caught up in a...

I Freed Myself When I Embraced My Locks; I used to hate my natural hair, but going back to my roots has allowed me to appreciate my beauty.(Personal account)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Evette Collins (Collins lives in Chicago.) When I was a little girl, every day was a bad hair day. In the morning, my grandmother would wash my hair, then straighten it with a hot pressing comb, yanking my naturally thick, kinky...

Iraq: Friends at War; For most members of Congress--as for most Americans--the Iraq war has been an abstraction, to be debated and defended or deplored, but never experienced in any real or personal sense. Only a half dozen or so lawmakershave children who have served in Iraq.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman, Richard Wolffe and Evan Thomas (With Holly Bailey) War itself is a foreign concept to many solons of Capitol Hill; a small number--perhaps as few as 25 out of 535--have come under fire in combat. John McCain and...

Sidestepping The 'Surge'.(deployment of troops, Iraq)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Holly Bailey) Before Barack Obama was a senator, he opposed the war in Iraq. Now that he is one, he says that sending more troops would be "a mistake that compounds the president's original mistake." But don't...

In Scandal's Shadow; In a NEWSWEEK exclusive, Reade Seligmann details his family's anguish since that infamous lacrosse party.(student, Duke University)(Interview)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Susannah Meadows Last April, Duke lacrosse star Reade Seligmann huddled with his dad at a Durham, N.C., law firm. A stripper hired to perform at a team party on March 13 claimed several players raped her. In a lineup, she'd...

Hagel Could Have a Shot; As recently as six months ago, any Republican who didn't back the president on the war in Iraq was in deep trouble. But that was then.(Senator Chuck Hagel)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter Let's try an elementary thought experiment for Republican Primary voters. It may help explain why it's far too early to tell what might happen in 2008, the first election since 1928 with no incumbent president or...

Newsmakers.(movie actor Renee Zellweger)(Interview)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Renee Zellweger Zellweger's back with another British accent, as author Beatrix Potter in "Miss Potter." The actress spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Did you gain any weight to play "Miss Potter"? A little...

Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, AP, New York Times, CSTV.COM, AP (2), The Washington Post (2), Usa Today, Chicago Tribune "I accept... in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship." Rep. Nancy Pelosi, on being elected...

Exclusive: Arnold's Primary Plan.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Karen Breslau The U.S. Constitution prevents Austria-born Arnold Schwarzenegger from running for president. But California's GOP governor, sworn in last week for a second term, still plans on influencing the 2008 election....

Congress: Is a Katrina Probe On?(Hurricane Katrina)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball One early indication of how aggressively Capitol Hill Democrats will investigate the Bush administration--and how strongly the White House will resist--will be how vigorously the new congressional majority pursues...

Intel: A Writer's Blocked.(former intelligence officer Valerie Plame)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff A CIA panel has told former officer Valerie Plame she can't write about her undercover work for the agency, a position that may threaten a lucrative book project with her publisher. Plame's outing as a CIA officer...

Politics: A White House Shuffle.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball Intelligence insiders expect recent personnel shifts to strengthen the authority of the national intelligence director, the job Congress created to improve U.S. spy operations after September 11, 2001. Last week the...

Beliefwatch: Bookish.(Julie Sandorf and Nextbook.org)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller When Julie Sandorf's daughter, Sarah, was 3 years old, she came home from nursery school and declared: "Mommy, I don't want to be a Jewish, I want to be a Christian." These words sent Sandorf, an assimilated Jew with...

Science: A Faster DNA Test.(from biotech company Thermal Gradient)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips A tiny silicon device half the size of a fingernail is on the verge of changing the world of DNA testing. Thermal Gradient, a small biotech company in upstate New York, has developed a mechanism that reduces DNA...

New Orleans: Tales of a New City.(Louisiana)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Nick Summers As New Orleans continues to rebuild, editors are scrambling to revise. Zagat publishes its first post-hurricane survey of New Orleans restaurants this week, and an updated "Frommer's Complete" guide to the Big Easy...

Fast Chat: Changing Your Heart.(author Dr. Arthur Agatston on heart disease)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Julie Scelfo Dr. Arthur Agatston's first book, "The South Beach Diet," was a best seller that turned into a national phenomenon. Now the cardiologist is back with "The South Beach Heart Program," which aims to reduce heart attacks...

Tea: Red Alert on Aisle Six.(Red tea)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Joshua Alston Choosing between black, white and green teas has always been a bit confusing--but now you'll be seeing red. Red tea, that is. The South African import is gaining popularity in the United States, thanks to new launches...

Cheerleaders: The Trail Of Cheers.(cheerleading squad, McKinney North High School, Dallas, Texas)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores One photograph shows a cheerleaderin a risque pose, offering a glimpse of her panties. Another features a bikini-clad teen sharing a bottle of alcohol with a friend. Posted on MySpace.com, the...

A Great ' 06. Now for ' 07. Economists expect slower growth in 2007, but no recession. And stocks tend to perform well in the third year of presidential cycles.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) HOME VALUES SINKING. OIL PRICES SCARY. DEBT MOUNTAIN-HIGH. IRAQ AFIRE. Gotta sell stocks and crawl into a hole, right? Wrong, as it turned out. I just quoted some of the...

Money: Pros And Cons Of New Condos.
January 15, 2007... Byline: Anna Kuchment (With Joan Raymond) Scott Arkills's newly built, two-bedroom condo in Cleveland is stocked with every urban amenity: floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic city views, granite kitchen countertops, gleaming hardwood...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(popular culture)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... HEAR:'You Know I'm No Good,' by British bad girl Amy Winehouse. Cross Etta James with Billie Holiday, throw in a dash of Wu-Tang Clan and you get this bluesy single, featuring Ghostface Killah. 'RENT: Quinceanera.' This Sundance prize...

Family: Sleeping With Dino.(sleepovers for children at natural history museums)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Joshua Alston Which sounds cooler: "pass the popcorn" or "pass the pterodactyl egg"? If your kids are begging you to take them to the hit family film "Night at the Museum," you can do them one better--an after-dark museum adventure...

Road Test: VW Eos; Care To Dance?(Product/service evaluation)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten Rube Goldberg would have been confounded by the brilliant simplicity of VW's new hardtop convertible, Eos. While several automakers have introduced cars in the past few years with advanced roofs, none has come out...

Investing: Tech Me Up, Again.(information technology stocks)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Tech stocks have had a nice run. In the last five months of 2006 they were up 20 percent, outperforming the market significantly. Some investment pros are predicting more growth ahead. Standard & Poor's Scott Kessler...

The Final Hunt; Steve Irwin's death almost derailed the filming of Animal Planet's 'Ocean's Deadliest.' Then his friends decided to finish it in his memory.(filmmaker John Stainton)(Interview)
January 15, 2007... Byline: Devin Gordon From his hotel bed in Cairns, Australia, John Stainton stared at the ceiling and waited for sleep to take him. 1 a.m.... 2 a.m.... 3 a.m.... But it never came. His best friend and filmmaking partner of 15 years,...

Write for Your Life; Wouldn't all of us love to have a journal, a memoir, a letter, from those we have loved and lost? Shouldn't all of us leave a bit of that behind?(motion picture Freedom Writers)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen The new movie "Freedom Writers" isn't entirely about the themes the trailers suggest. It isn't only about gang warfare and racial tensions and tolerance. It isn't only about the difference one good teacher can make in...

Cosby's Darkest Hours; In a book excerpt, a NEWSWEEK reporter recalls her talks with the grieving star after his son's 1997 murder.(Bill Cosby)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Allison Samuels I was surprised by a phone call at 5 a.m. from our New York office one morning in 1997. There were reports on the wire services of the death of a young man with the last name of Cosby, and my editors wanted me to...

Home Improvement Can Get Very Messy.(Home Depot)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Allan Sloan When Home Depot says, "You can do it. We can help," it doesn't exactly have Ralph Whitworth in mind. But Whitworth, a high-profile activist shareholder, has gotten so much inadvertent help from Home Depot in the past...

The King of HDTV; John Malone built a cable empire that changed television forever. Now he's trying to repeat the feat with a high-definition satellite-TV dynasty.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts A short time ago, in a galaxy that seems far, far away, John Malone was the Emperor of Cable Television, a man deemed so powerful by fearful rivals he was dubbed "Darth Vader" by none other than Al Gore. He'd...

Conventional Wisdom; DENIER IN CHIEF EDITION.
January 22, 2007... After months of considering how to fix the mess he got us in, Bush comes up with... throw more gas on the fire. Coming soon: War with Iran, Syria? Bush (down) Rejects overwhelming consensus and stubbornly doubles down even when his cards...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
January 22, 2007... The Passing of America's 38th President Readers saddened by the death of Gerald Ford recalled the events that shaped his legacy, most notably his historic ascension to the presidency. "Ford may be considered an 'accidental president,' but...

The Editor's Desk.
January 22, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham He is just 14, but already sounds like someone who has seen much, and feels much, and resents much. A soldier in the Mahdi Army, the militia controlled by the Shiite strongman Moq-tada al-Sadr, Ali Sadkhan lives in the...

Iraq's Young Blood.(Cover story)
January 22, 2007... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Michael Hastings, Scott Johnson, Ayad Obeidi, Ahmed Obeidi and Mohammed Sadeq in Baghdad, and Christopher Dickey and Karen Fragala Smith in New York) Ammar will tell you he's proud to be carrying a gun. His...