Newsweek articles from January 2008

Newsweek archives from January 2008

The Man Who Revived The Electric Car.(Next 2008; BUSINESS: Bob Lutz)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton When General Motors was fingered as the prime suspect in the 2006 documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Bob Lutz's inbox filled with hate mail. "I hope you rot in hell," read one missive to the GM vice chairman,...

Exec Desperately Seeks SWF.(Next 2008; GLOBAL INVESTMENT)(sovereign wealth funds)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross Must be rich. No green card or English required. Send photos and balance sheets to Wall Street. In November the banking giant Citigroup, reeling from subprime losses, sold a 4.9 percent stake to the Abu Dhabi...

Goodbye, Free Trade; Hello, Mercantilism.(Next 2008; WORLD ECONOMICS)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson As countries grow more interdependent, they're also becoming more nationalistic. Here's today's quiz. What do the following have in common: (a) Vladimir Putin; (b) China's currency, the renminbi; (c) the...

They Put a Guitar Hero in Every House.(Next 2008; TECHNOLOGY: Harmonix)(Company overview)
January 7, 2008... Byline: N'Gai Croal 'It was hard to realize that making a fun game just isn't enough to be a successful game developer.' Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney (minus the bitter split), like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (without the...

Is Facebook The Next Big Game Console?(Next 2008; PLAY)
January 7, 2008... Byline: N'Gai Croal Why the social-networking site is a terrific platform for multiplayer games The most unexpectedly rewarding game-related thing I did in 2007 was also the simplest: I finally gave in and joined Facebook. Within a...

Get 'Bad,' Get 'Mad,' And You'll Get Glad.(Next 2008; TELEVISION: Bryan Cranston and Jon Hamm)('Breaking Bad')(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Joshua Alston Unless you're reading this to kill time until Senior Swim at the Y, you're probably not used to tuning into AMC (formerly American Movie Classics). So if you flip past and see a man wearing just white briefs and a gas...

When You Wish Upon a Movie Star.(Next 2008; FILM: Amy Adams)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Amy Adams plays a princess in the movies, but in real life she's no Sleeping Beauty. In fact, she's not sleeping much at all. "I'm having insomnia," Adams says. "It's not the falling asleep. It's the waking up, and...

Passing the Baton to the Next Wunderkind.(Next 2008; MUSIC: Gustavo Dudamel)(New York Philharmonic)(Brief biography)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan When conductor Gustavo Dudamel mounted the podium in his debut with the New York Philharmonic in November, he was carrying something special. Moments before he went onstage for the first of four concerts, the...

A Guide Through the Valley of Death.(Next 2008; BOOKS: Daoud Hari)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Jeffrey Bartholet Explorers, journalists and adventurers going to Africa have long relied on local guides for advice and protection. Richard Burton, the intrepid Victorian-era explorer, employed a man he dubbed "the End of Time"...

The New New Thing: Same As It Ever Was.(Next 2008; CULTURE)
January 7, 2008... Byline: David Gates In the arts, the march of progress has reached its destination. Happy now? It's blasphemous, especially in America, not to believe that every New Year will be more wonderful than the year before -- though in most...

Famous In Life, Noted In Passing.(Transition)(Obituary)
January 7, 2008... In 2007 we said goodbye to the novelist who would be king, the motorcycle daredevil who would be Peter Pan -- and some folks who won't be missed. Norman Mailer, 84 Whatever you thought of him, he never dodged a risk -- writing novels...

Surges and Subprimes Edition.(Periscope; Conventional Wisdom Watch: 2007)(politics; entertainment; sports)
January 7, 2008... Surge or not, the war goes on. Subprime ain't sublime. Imus got booted, but came back. Polar caps melted, just in time for Al's Nobel. We lined up for $600 iPhones; a doctor named House ran so many tests, our insurance rates went up. We made...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(China)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham There was broken glass on the floor and garbage bags of shredded documents in the stairwells. On a sunny day in Beijing in 1999 -- dusty, of course, but still bright -- Melinda Liu and I were being given a tour of the...

2007: Ready, Fire, Aim.(George F. Will; THE LAST WORD)
January 7, 2008... Byline: George F. Will Lego blocks were banned by progressives, Che's hair was for sale and Sheryl Crow urged (almost) giving up toilet paper. In 2007, came the revolution. Determined to end the war in Iraq and begin the reign of...

The Rise Of A Fierce Yet Fragile Superpower.(China 2008; Cover Story: China 2008)(Cover story)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The much-heralded advent of China as a global power is no longer a forecast but a reality. Now we, and they, must manage its triumph. For Americans, 2008 is an important election year. But for much of the world,...

Mao To Now.(China 2008; A 30-Year Journey)(Mao Zedong)(Cover story)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Melinda Liu China is thousands of years old but has been made anew in the last three decades, and my family with it. My eldest brother was 7 years old when the Communists seized power in China. Our parents, who named him...

Olympian Ambitions.(China 2008; Going For Gold)(Cover story)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Starr; With Quindlen Krovatin And Jonathan Ansfield In China For Beijing, a smooth Games will take a lot of things -- including winning more than anyone else. All Olympic gold shines brilliantly, though not all equally so....

Where A Future President Learned About The World.(China 2008; Excerpt)(George W. Bush; 'The China Diary Of George H.W. Bush: The Making Of A Global President')(Cover story)(Excerpt)
January 7, 2008... In the wake of Watergate, George H.W. Bush became America's man in Beijing. Insights from his diaries. In 1974, George Herbert Walker Bush was a relative neophyte in international affairs. He had most recently been chairman of the...

A Race We Can All Win.(China 2008)
January 7, 2008... The American system still has inherent advantages, but we can't slow down. China's economic transformation over the past two decades is a fascinating, but still poorly understood, story. Many American politicians have played to voters'...

In Britain, A Prime Minister In Waiting.(Next 2008; INTERNATIONAL: David Miliband)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Stryker McGuire There is no grander office in Whitehall than the tennis-court-size expanse of gilt, silk, burnished wood and hand-woven tapestries afforded Britain's secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Still,...

The People Who Will Change China.(China 2008; Portfolio)(Liu Anjun; Zhao Bandi; Zhang Zhengxiang; Ding Zilin)
January 7, 2008... Even some critics of the Chinese regime were happy when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics: some felt patriotic joy, others expected the Games might rally activists, as the Olympics had in Seoul 20 years earlier. Party officials would not...

Ministering To The Needs Of His People.(Next 2008; RELIGION: The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez)(Cover story)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Presidential contenders from Mike Huckabee to Hillary Clinton are courting the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez with ingratiating calls, offers to meet and VIP invitations to debates. Why all the attention? As president of...

How To Run For President, YouTube Style.(Next 2008; POLITICS: Steve Grove)(Cover story)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Karen Breslau; with Catharine Skipp Steve Grove believes in the wisdom of crowds. And the smartest people he knows are YouTube's estimated 71 million users, who collectively post and watch as many as 2.5 billion online videos a...

Big Ideas From Boring Old Stump Speeches.(Next 2008; ISSUES)(political campaigns)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Alter Today's throwaway campaign lines often wind up as tomorrow's best programs. Podiatry? Yes, podiatry. On this evening in Perry, Iowa, the presidential candidate is passionate about the issue, and connecting with...

Wanted: Candidates With Very 'Long Tails'.(Next 2008; VOTERS)(presidential candidates)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Andrew Romano Once invisible, outsider politicians are using the Web and getting noticed. It's May 1988, and the slender 53-year-old obstetrician (and former four-term congressman) has just arrived at Seattle airport. Only...

The Rise Of A New American Underclass.(Next 2008; IMMIGRATION)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Ellis Cose The real issue is not how many people to let in, but how to help them all fit in. Immigration has always evoked outsize, even irrational, reactions. But the irony of this presidential season is that candidates are...

The Closing Of The American Mind.(Politics 2008)(political parties; political ideologies)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Evan Thomas Partisan warriors may love our polarized political culture. Everyone else is turned off, and tuning out. There are, as they say, two Americas. There is the America of the rich and the America of the poor, as...

Hillary's Hidden Hand.(Politics 2008)(Hillary Clinton)
January 7, 2008... The former First Lady says her years in the White House give her unmatched experience. A Clinton biographer assesses her powerful behind-the-scenes role. At a recent campaign stop at an Iowa livestock auction, Hillary Rodham Clinton told...

The Year in Perspectives.(Perspectives)(George W. Bush; Iran; Senator Kit Bond; Don Imus; Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez; Seng Hui Cho; Andrew Speaker)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Quotation Sources: AP, USA Today, Reuters, Fox, AP, NBC, CNN Iraq surged. California burned. Scooter squirmed. And Paris got sent to the slammer. The cartoons and quotes of 2007. "I've told people that if you're interested in...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(quotations)(Quotation)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Quotation Sources: Youtube, AP, New York Times (5) "I didn't do anything. Don't Tase me, bro! Don't Tase me! I didn't do anything! Owwww! Owwww!" University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, 21, screaming to no avail as police...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(quotations; presidential candidates; Mississippi River accident; Myanmar; Senator Joe Biden; Mexican President Felipe Calderon; Tony Blair)(Quotation)
January 7, 2008... "There's better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn't get a tip." Iowa waitress Anita Esterday, on the media circus that ensued after she said that Clinton...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Chris Crocker; Alec Baldwin; NBA commissioner David Stern; quotations)(Quotation)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Quotation sources: Youtube, CNN, New York Times "Leave her alone -- Leave Britney alone!" YouTube user Chris Crocker, then 19, in a shrieking defense of Spears's lackluster comeback performance. The video earned Crocker 18...

Alone, Afraid, In The Company Of Men Dreaming Of Death.(Periscope; Afghanistan)(interview with would-be suicide bombers)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Sami Yousafzai ***** CORRECTION: The Dec. 31/Jan. 7 caption for a photo by Balazs Gardi accompanying the Periscope article "Alone, Afraid, in the Company of Men Dreaming of Death" incorrectly implied that the boy in the...

What A Scrabulous Year!(Periscope; Gaming)(video games)
January 7, 2008... Byline: N'gai Croal Most journalists who write about videogames compile a list of the year's best games. At NEWSWEEK's Level Up blog, written by yours truly, N'Gai Croal, I'd rather single out the year's most important games. Here's my top...

A Hungry Crowd Smells Iphone, And Pounces.(Periscope; First Person)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Steven Levy Newsweek's senior technology writer Steven Levy is an authority on much-coveted gizmos. This year, one nearly got him trampled. Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of...

He's Still A Bit Crushed.(Periscope; Fast Chat)('The Sopranos'; Frank Vincent)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Joshua Alston Everyone knows the most memorable scene in the June finale of "The Sopranos." But a close second had to be the outrageous death of Tony Soprano's nemesis Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent), who was shot twice, then got his...

Tape Ate My Homework.(Periscope; BLUNDERS)(cassette recorder)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: David Gates Like most NEWSWEEK writers, I'm a quick study. Somebody dies whom you know a little about, you take a couple of hours to eke out familiarity with solid fact, and you kick in the piece. But unlike most of my colleagues,...

'I'm Shy. I'm Sweet. I'm Normal. I'm Nice.'.(Periscope; First Person)(Paris Hilton)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh It was a tough year for Paris Hilton, but at least she got to spend a couple of hours with NEWSWEEK's Ramin Setoodeh. His repast with the heiress: If you're having lunch with Paris Hilton, be prepared for a long...

Hit-And-Run Accusations.(Periscope; Steroids)(athletes; drug use)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball Eighteen months ago, federal authorities released a court document justifying a raid at the home of Jason Grimsley, an Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs. The affidavit...

The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times.(Periscope; First Person)(football and basketball)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Starr and Devin Gordon National sports correspondent and Boston bureau chief Mark Starr had a sickening grin on his face all year; Senior Editor Devin Gordon, a lifelong New Yorker, spent the year just feeling sick. Here's why....

In This Life, Or The Next.(Periscope; Burma)(Buddhist monks; government resistance)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Melinda Liu Autocrats worry about Buddha power. In much of Southeast Asia, monks occupy the loftiest of moral high ground. According to the Buddhist concept of reincarnation, misdeeds in past lives affect problems in the current...

In Iraq, A Season Of Disquieting Silence.(Periscope; First Person)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh As NEWSWEEK's Baghdad bureau chief, Babak Dehghanpisheh often faces the war right on his doorstep. His thoughts on the year of the surge: The first rocket streaked low over our house with a crackle at about...

The 1,440-Minute Cycle.(Periscope; First Person)(news cycle)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Andrew Romano As "Stumper," NEWSWEEK's blogger covering the 2008 election, Andrew Romano is obsessed -- understandably -- with watching the press watch the campaign. His take on the "media primary": Is there a dirtier phrase in...

Lost In The Obama Era.(Periscope; Race)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Allison Samuels Jesse Jackson can still get a crowd going -- when he can find one. He appeared at a Los Angeles restaurant this fall, primed to discuss school dropout rates and home foreclosures. But only eight people showed up,...

The Election Gets D-Listed.(Periscope; Campaign 2008)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: SARAH ELKINS A POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT FROM A HIGH-PROFILE CELEB is one thing, but public backing from, say, Jenna Jameson is a whole other kettle of fish. Try to match Jameson and fellow D-list celebs with their candidates of...

The Man In The Middle.(Periscope; Fast Chat)(Tony Blair)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Kevin Peraino It's been a long year for Tony Blair. After stepping down as Britain's prime minister in June, under fire for his Iraq policy, he took on what many consider the hardest job in the Mideast: representative of the...

A Price Tag For Mistakes.(Periscope; Blackwater)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Dan Ephron The State Department is still mulling how to rein in private security firms like Blackwater USA, whose employees dominated headlines in September when they shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians. But in 2008 a series of lawsuits...

An Airport Bathroom That Will Live In Infamy.(Periscope; First Person)(Minneapolis-St. Paul airport; Senator Larry Craig)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Hilary Shenfeld NEWSWEEK's Hilary Shenfeld went to the scene of Sen. Larry Craig's undoing with one mission: to get inside. How she did it -- and what she saw: The hardest part was actually finding the bathroom. There are 86...

Classified Disinformation.(Periscope; Fast Chat)(Veteran National Archives' J. William Leonard)(Interview)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Michael Isikoff Veteran National Archives Official J. William Leonard learned the hard way the perils of questioning Vice President Dick Cheney. Leonard challenged the Office of the Vice President's claims to be exempt from federal...

I Flew Halfway Around The World -- For This?(Periscope; First Person)(Dick Cheney)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Holly Bailey White House correspondent Holly Bailey spent a week traveling overseas with the vice president. The trip didn't go quite as planned. Breakfast was excellent." Along with six other reporters, I spent more than a...

How To Prevent A Tragedy.(Periscope; Virginia Tech)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Pat Wingert Tucked away in rural Southwest Virginia, remote Blacksburg is an unlikely spot for the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Nevertheless, an April 16 rampage by a mentally disturbed student, Seung-Hui Cho, left 32...

Meet The New Generation Of War Veterans.(Periscope; First Person)
January 7, 2008... In 2007, Newsweek.com launched a blog called Soldier's Home, by Iraq War veteran David Botti. With combat heading into its sixth year, Botti shared his thoughts on battles here at home. I grew up in an era when war veterans were the aging...

Twice Touched By Fire, This Californian Is Still Dreamin'.(Periscope; First Person)(wildfires)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Jamie Reno Many southern California residents will head into this holiday season still grappling with the ruins of October's wildfires. For NEWSWEEK's Jamie Reno, it was an all-too-familiar experience. Our San Diego reporter shares...

The View From Both Sides.(Periscope; Immigration)(Interview)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Monica Campbell On the campaign trail this year, no issue burned hotter than immigration--particularly on the Republican side, where each candidate seemed determined to prove that he would build a taller fence than the next guy....

A (Dollar) Sign of the Times: It's Not Easy Being Green.(Periscope; FIRST PERSON)(U.S. dollar)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross NEWSWEEK's financial columnist Daniel Gross covered a number of economic calamities in 2007. He writes here about the U.S. currency plunge. In late June, with no local currency in my pocket and a case of jet lag...

The 'U.S. Americans' Have Spoken.(Periscope)(best viral videos, podcasts, blogs, advertisements)
January 7, 2008... Size doesn't always matter. In the Internet age, a minute or two of footage can reach millions and change lives. Here are 2007's best in "microculture": viral videos, podcasts, blogs, advertisements. Viral Videos MISS South Carolina...

Unconventional, Bee-Swallowing Reformer.(Next 2008; EDUCATION: Michelle Rhee)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Martha Brant Michelle Rhee got a reality check in her first year of teaching, in 1993. The second graders at Harlem Park Elementary in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore were hard enough to keep in their seats, let alone teach...

Moderates Storm The Religious Battlefield.(Next 2008; BELIEFS)(books; religion)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Lisa Miller More-modest voices are reclaiming the debate over faith from the bomb throwers. You might think of 2007 as the year the atheists won. They didn't succeed in converting the 86 percent of Americans who say they...

The Power Behind Cooler, Greener Energy.(Next 2008; SCIENCE: Sossina Haile)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Andrew Murr Sossina Haile created a new type of fuel cell by default. In the late '90s, the Caltech scientist had an idea that she thought might dramatically improve fuel cells, the clean technology that converts chemical energy to...

Learning to Love Climate 'Adaptation'.(Next 2008; ENVIRONMENT)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Sharon Begley It's too late to stop global warming. Now we have to figure out how to survive it. Two words: airport runways. As scientists and policy types figure out what changes will be necessary to cope with global warming,...

The Year's Most Offensively Titled CD.(Newsmakers; 5 Things You Need To Know About)(The N Word)(Interview)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Allison Samuels Rappers have never been accused of being politically correct, but Nas has somehow managed to cross a line. You might call the album he's releasing next month "The N Word," except that he's insisted on spelling out...

Hulk Hogan For President!(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh The wrestler is the host of the new "American Gladiators." He spoke to Ramin Setoodeh: Since it's presidential-politics season, I wanted to ask -- did you really once think about running for president? It...

With Lust In Our Hearths.(Real Estate)(home ownership)
January 14, 2008... The housing boom was driven by more than economics. Our exuberance for lavish renovations, custom mansions and vacation getaways was fueled partly by the media. In a new book, NEWSWEEK's Daniel McGinn explains why. It's just past deadline...

Why We Can't Stop $100 Oil.(Daniel Gross; THE MONEY CULTURE)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross It's becoming evident that the rising price of oil has little relationship to anything Americans do, or don't do. When the price of a barrel of oil briefly hit $100 in trading last Wednesday morning, it was...

Holy Hot Flash, Batman!(Culture)(women and comics)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Make room in the boys' club, Caped Crusader. After 66 years, a woman takes over 'Wonder Woman.' When the novelist Jodi Picoult was approached in 2006 to write a few installments of the "Wonder Woman" comic-book...

John Edwards and His Populist Appeal.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 14, 2008... 'The Sleeper': Readers of our profile of the strategies of John Edwards's campaign respected his hard work and triumph over hardship, but said we should vote based on policies, not "on the everyman quality that's so appealing." One physician...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham Last Friday afternoon, only hours after winning the Iowa Democratic caucus, Barack Obama was sitting in a teacher's small office at Concord High School in New Hampshire when Richard Wolffe arrived for an interview. "His...

The Baby Bottle Blues.(Project Green)(safety of plastic baby bottles)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Anna Kuchment Worries about the safety of some plastics is driving a demand for more ecofriendly (and pricier) options Stefania Geraci is no green freak. Her 6-month-old son, Dylan Glantz, eats from plastic spoons and plays...

The GOP -- Grand Old Pulpit.(George F. Will; THE LAST WORD)(Iowa primary result)
January 14, 2008... Byline: George F. Will Divided Iowa Democrats favored Edwards, fiery tribune of the proletariat, and Obama, whose political persona is anodyne. Iowa Democrats launched their party's nomination process with the most ambiguous directive...

Al Qaeda's Newest Triggerman.(Pakistan)(Baitullah Mehsud)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Sami Yousafzai And Ron Moreau; With Mark Hosenball In Washington Baitullah Mehsud is being blamed for most of the suicide bombings in Pakistan, including Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The rise of a militant leader. How do...

What People Will Die For.(Fareed Zakaria; World View)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Many in the West hope that elections will paper over divisions. Kenya's had the opposite effect. In the press conference at which the 19-year-old son of Benazir Bhutto was crowned co-head of the Pakistan Peoples...

'The Reality Is Very Hard'.(Iraq)(Interview)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh And Larry Kaplow Gen. David Petraeus has led the most dramatic turnaround in Iraq since 2003. But he's not planning to celebrate yet. It's far too early to declare Gen. David Petraeus, 55, the general who...

Yes To Love, No To Marriage.(My Turn)(outlook on marriage)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Bonnie Eslinger; Eslinger Lives In Emeryville, Calif. I am committed to Jeff for life. I just don't need a piece of paper and a pretty white dress to prove it. Last year, during a family barbecue concluding our annual visit to...

Inside Obama's Dream Machine.(Nation; The Race)(Barack Obama)(Cover story)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Richard Wolffe; With Sarah Kliff, Daniel Klaidman, Jonathan Alter, Andrew Romano, Karen Breslau And Eleanor Clift An icon of hope, he won't 'kneecap' his foes. But Obama knows what it takes, and how to win. Barack Obama was...

An Obama-Carter Reality Check.(Ellis Cose; Facing Facts)(Barack Obama; Jimmy Carter)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Ellis Cose Obama's candidacy, even if he loses, has already had a huge impact on American perceptions. For months people have been asking whether Barack Obama's race made him unelectable. In Iowa, he put an entirely different...

The Pilot Vs. The Preacher.(Politics)(John McCain and Mike Huckabee )
January 14, 2008... Byline: Evan Thomas And Holly Bailey; With Suzanne Smalley And Sarah Elkins with McCain And Steve Tuttle In Washington ***** Correction: In "The Pilot vs. The Preacher" (Jan. 14), we said that former John McCain political consultant...

The Huckabee Problem.(Howard Fineman; Living Politics)(Mike Huckabee)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Howard Fineman Mike Huckabee advertises himself as a "Christian Leader." But he is loath to talk about his preacher days. On the campaign trail, it is the Lost Decade of his life. No one can find, or get access to, texts or video...

How Tomorrow Became Yesterday.(Jonathan Alter; Between The Lines)(Hillary Clinton)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Alter Sadly for her supporters, Hillary is indeed as much of a unifier as Obama -- but of Republicans. In 1992, the Clinton campaign came up with a theme song that evoked the message they hoped would turn a 46-year-old...

'A Measure Of Our Progress'.(Politics)(Barack Obama; Iowa Democratic caucus)(Interview)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Richard Wolffe His win in an overwhelmingly white state, Obama tells NEWSWEEK, is a sign of America's maturity -- and proof of his electability. An exclusive interview: A day after winning the Iowa Democratic caucus, Barack...

No More Britney Stories. Please.(Newsmakers)(Brief article)
January 14, 2008... The Britney Spears saga continues, and it's become a story that's almost too painful to watch. Last week, police cars and ambulances surrounded her Los Angeles home after she refused to relinquish her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline for...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Sources: New York Times, AFP, Wall Street Journal, AP, Youtube (3), Financial Times, Newsday, AP (2) "This feels good. This feels just like I imagined when I was talking to my kindergarten teacher." Illinois Sen. Barack Obama,...

In The Slums Of Nairobi, The Star Of Africa Fades.(Periscope; First Person)(post-election violence in Kenya)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Andrew Ehrenkranz The most dangerous thing in the world is a young unemployed man." That's what my taxi driver told me as we pulled into a burned-out gas station on the outskirts of Muthare, the sprawling slum that's been the...

A Scramble At The CIA To Lawyer Up.(Periscope; Investigations)(Central Intelligence Agency)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball And Michael Isikoff Attorney General Michael Mukasey's decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed agency employees scrambling to find lawyers. To...

More Heat For The Rocket.(Periscope; Exclusive)(Roger Clemens)
January 14, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball Roger Clemens may have talked himself into a tight legal squeeze. Congressional officials say the chief reason that the House Oversight Committee has asked Clemens -- and four others implicated in baseball's steroid...