Newsweek articles from January 2009

Newsweek archives from January 2009

The Global Elite.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Politicians, soldiers, titans, priests--these are the 50 most powerful people in the world. Barack Obama The new U.S. president will be judged by whether he can save capitalism. By Fareed Zakaria The great sociologist Max...

Nicolas Sarkozy.(; The Global Elite)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The Elysee Palace has again become the most important address in Europe. France's president, it's often said, has more energy than that drum-beating rabbit on TV, and he's imposed himself on European and global affairs with about as much...

Ben Bernanke, Jean-Claude Trichet and Masaaki Shirakawa.(; The Global Elite)
January 5, 2009... Three gray eminences may decide the fate of the global economy next year. By Robert J. Samuelson They're technocrats, schooled in subjects that bore most people. They are appointed--not elected--to top government jobs, and what they...

Gordon Brown.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Prime Minister, United Kingdom Bad times have been good for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Soon after taking office in June 2007, he sank to levels of unpopularity unprecedented in postwar Britain. Then came the Panic of '08, and suddenly...

Angela Merkel.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Chancellor, Germany As leader of the world's fourth most powerful economy, Angela Merkel has resources few of her peers can match in this crisis. Germany's slow-and-steady economy may have seemed boring in the global boom years, but now...

Vladimir Putin.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... With political opposition crushed and the media throttled, he's still in charge. Vladimir Putin officially stepped down from the job last May, but he remains firmly in power. He can and probably will run for president again in 2012. If...

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... King, Saudi Arabia Oil is power, pure and simple, and nobody controls more of it or has a greater influence on its price than the Saudi king. His country has a quarter of the world's proven reserves, and while other producers might try to...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Supreme Leader, Iran Western policymakers would do well to remember Khamenei's title: Supreme Leader. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, presidents come and go. The intemperate, Israel-baiting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be lucky if he manages...

Kim Jong Il.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The Dear Leader may be crippled by a stroke. But that's even more worrying. By many accounts, North Korea's dictator is in bad shape after suffering a stroke in August. But the Dear Leader still presides over a handful of nuclear weapons,...

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Jonathan Alter The most powerful couple in politics may find the times suited to their skills. They're baaaack!!! Just when you thought the Clintons had gone the way of the Macarena and John Wayne Bobbitt--consigned to the...

The Power of Tyranny.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Some leaders have very little influence globally but hold the power of life or death over their brutally oppressed citizens. Fortunately, their ranks are dwindling. Here are five of the worst: EQUATORIAL GUINEA Teodoro Obiang Nguema...

Cast Out of Washington, Republicans Rethink.(; People To Watch: GOP Governors)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Andrew Romano For most Republicans, losing 21 seats in the House, seven seats in the Senate and the leadership of the free world isn't cause for celebration. But most Republicans aren't governors. When the GOP state executives met...

Hu Jintao.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... The man behind the wheel of the world's most supercharged economy. He may be the kind of guy you wouldn't ordinarily think twice about--cautious, colorless and corporate. In the past he has often lost the spotlight to other world leaders...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
January 5, 2009... Byline: JON MEACHAM PRESIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGN YEARS can be tough for the word "elite." Deploying the tactics of a half-century-old culture war, Republicans tend to try to paint the Democrats (and much of the mainstream press) as somehow out of...

2008: Rod, Eliot, Yuck.(The Last Word)(Column)
January 5, 2009... Byline: George F. Will During the presidential contest between an African-American from Chicago and a plumber from Toledo, eros reared its beguiling head. Never a stickler for rhetorical ruffles and flourishes, the president simply...

The History of Power.(Cover Story: The Global Elite)(Cover story)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Jon Meacham The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating. A biography of an ancient human impulse. Barack Obama has a good Al Gore story. Sometime after the 2000 election, Obama...

If I Had Subpoena Power: Five Questions for Obama.(Periscope; Scandal I)(Interview)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Michael Isikoff Invoking his wartime commander-in-chief authority, NEWSWEEK Editor Jon Meacham has granted yours truly, a lowly investigative correspondent, sweeping subpoena power to demand that President-elect Barack Obama and...

Spin the Madoff Wheel of Misfortune!(Periscope; Scandal II)(Bernard Madoff)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... An autopsy of Bernie's $50 billion Ponzi scheme turns up a ring of victims with boldface names: Gerald Breslauer: Hollywood financial consultant Jeffrey Katzenberg: DreamWorks CEO lost millions he'd invested with Breslauer Steven...

As Bad As It Gets, Until It Gets Worse.(Periscope; First Person: Zimbabwe)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Rod Nordland When you hear the brutal details about Zimbabwe, it's hard to imagine how it can get any worse without the government collapsing, or Robert Mugabe resigning. The hyperinflation, the millions going hungry, the canceled...

The American Dream--Only This Time in Reverse.(Periscope; First Person: Mortgage Crisis)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Daniel McGinn When you walk through a FOR SALE house with a real-estate agent, you expect to hear gushing about the "solid bones" or the "great potential." But as I toured listings this year while covering the deepening housing...

Not-So-Ordinary People.(Periscope; Closure: Campaign Edition)
January 5, 2009... During a historic election, their stories captivated us for a moment--then they vanished. We revisit them to bring you the next chapter. Samuel Wurzelbacher Starting point: After grilling Barack Obama about his tax plan during an Ohio...

The Biggest Losers.(Periscope; The Dignity Index)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... In a year-end edition of our survey, we rescore some old culprits to find out who set the high-water mark for low behavior in 2008. John Edwards earns a perfect score for cheating on his cancer-stricken wife while running for president....

From Bored to Bedazzled, In Eight Races.(Periscope; First Person: Beijing)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Mark Starr My favorite venue at the Summer Olympics in Beijing was the Water Cube, especially at night, when its lights bathed the pathways in soft but colorful purple hues. But stuck inside for nine days, with hundreds of...

Remember Them Well.(Society; Transition)(In memoriam)
January 5, 2009... They were golden boys and 'Golden Girls.' Stars and star athletes. Gurus and grumps and geniuses. In 2008, we said goodbye to them all, with regrets. Bernie Mac, 50 How do you pay tribute to a man who once said that after he died, he...

Timothy Geithner.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Daniel Gross Obama's Treasury secretary will help define the new global financial system. Confidential sources have passed on to me a January to-do list apparently penned by Timothy Geithner, the New York Fed chief tapped to...

Gen. David Petraeus.(; The Global Elite)
January 5, 2009... America's most able general is forging a new approach to the Muslim world. With no small amount of hyperbole, Gen. David Petraeus was sworn in as the new head of Central Command on a bright October morning in Tampa. "He is the pre-eminent...

Sonia Gandhi.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... President, Congress Party Although India's political scene is riven by factions, Congress remains the strongest national force, and the Italian-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi rules it unchallenged. In the world's largest...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... President, Brazil Economists groaned when the hirsute former union man took office in 2003, but soon they were gasping instead. Brazil, once at the edge of ruin, now has $207 billion in Treasury reserves and the lowest inflation rate in...

Warren Buffett.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Amid the downturn, the sage of Omaha has been a steadying force. As the titans of American finance toppled over this fall, Warren Buffett stood tall as one of the few forces of order in the private sector. The 78-year-old Nebraskan injected...

Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan In theory this mumbling, chain-smoking general answers to President Asif Ali Zardari. But Kayani and his troops remain the dominant power in what could be the most dangerous country in the world. He's...

Nuri al-Maliki.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Prime Minister, Iraq He came to power in the spring of 2006 as compromise candidates often do, because he was so weak. Maliki's Dawa Party has no legions of gunmen steeled by exile and war. They're the egghead party, the urban Islamists....

Bill Gates Melinda Gates.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Philanthropists Where big money goes, the spotlight follows, and that's especially true when you're talking about a checkbook the size of the Gates Foundation's, the world's largest philanthropy. Only 11 years old, the organization has...

Nancy Pelosi.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The Democratic leader will be key to passing her new president's agenda. The smooth, steely Speaker of the House made it her mission to thwart George W. Bush. Now she must transform herself from leader of the opposition to leader of the...

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... President of The United Arab Emirates Ruler of the tiny, oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi since 2004, Al Nahyan has something else the world is desperate for now: boatloads of cash, which he controls through the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority,...

Mike Duke.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... CEO-Designate, Wal-Mart Stores As panicked consumers holster their credit cards, at least one company is benefiting: Wal-Mart Stores. Its sales were up 7.6 percent through November; its stock will likely be a rare one that finishes 2008...

Rahm Emanuel.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Howard Fineman Obama means to control Washington. His chief of staff will be at the wheel. When it comes to Rahm Emanuel, there is more than one fish story. All of Washington knows the tale of the dead fish: how he delivered...

The D.C. Powers.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Washington, D.C.)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Under Obama, there will be a new elite in Washington. Some of its members: THE THINK TANKER John Podesta At the helm of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, transition chief Podesta will have a huge intellectual...

Eric Schmidt.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... His company, Google, will continue to dominate the Web in the downturn. He runs the most powerful company on the Internet. He's an adviser to the president-elect and was a front runner for the position of national chief technology officer...

Jamie Dimon.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... CEO, JPMorgan Chase A century ago, J. P. Morgan grew fat by cleaning up Wall Street's messes. In 2008, the trim 52-year-old Harvard M.B.A. who runs JPMorgan Chase feasted on the incompetence and misfortune of others. In March, Dimon picked...

David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... The most loyal Friends of Barack will carry new weight in the White House. Harry Truman quipped that true friendship in Washington comes in canine form. But for President-elect Obama, a couple of trusted friends have something almost as...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Just a few months ago, the International Monetary Fund was a has-been institution, its advice bankrupt and its relatively puny reserves dwarfed by those of new emerging powers in Asia and the...

Rex Tillerson.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... CEO, ExxonMobil ExxonMobil continues to outshine its competitors under Tillerson, a company lifer who became CEO in 2006. Tillerson did battle for the industry on two political issues this year: global warming and calls for new taxes on...

Steve Jobs.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Daniel Lyons The ailing creator of the iPod and iPhone is next to irreplaceable. For two years I wrote a satirical blog under the persona of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, and one of the recurring themes was that Jobs is not...

John Lasseter.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Pixar studios' chief executive officer)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Jennie Yabroff ***** Correction: In the Dec. 29/Jan. 5 profile of John Lasseter ("The Global Elite"), we stated incorrectly that "Wall-E" and "Bolt" were produced by Pixar studios. In fact, "Wall-E" was produced by Pixar and...

Michael Bloomberg.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Mayor, New York City New Yorkers aren't fond of personality cults, since so many of them preside over their own. But most were OK with Bloomberg's push to repeal the city's term-limits law--setting up a run for a third term. To them,...

Pope Benedict XVI.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Head of the Roman Catholic Church American Catholics in particular, still bruised by the sex-abuse scandals of 2002, regarded the current pope's election in 2005 with suspicion and worse. They feared that Joseph Ratzinger (known to some as...

Katsuaki Watanabe.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... With rivals struggling, Toyota's chief is set to dominate the auto industry. Katsuaki Watanabe is not looking for a bailout from anybody. Sure, the straight-talking president of Toyota is weathering the same storm buffeting all the world's...

Rupert Murdoch.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief biography)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Chairman and CEO, News Corp. Rupert Murdoch's rise to media moguldom is a familiar saga. From his native Australia, the 77-year-old empire builder parlayed a single inherited newspaper, the Adelaide News, into an international conglomerate...

Jeff Bezos.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... CEO, Amazon.com You know him as the man who allows you to buy almost anything and everything online (order now for free shipping!). What you might not know is that he is poised to become a major cultural arbiter, especially in the book...

Shahrukh Khan.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The king of Bollywood is opening minds in some closed-off cultures. Who is the world's biggest movie star? Brad? Will? Nah. His name is Shahrukh Khan, and he's the king of Bollywood. It's not just that his romantic flicks make...

Osama bin Laden.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Global Terrorist The manhunt may not have been successful, but it has driven him far underground. Once a glutton for publicity, bin Laden hasn't shot a new video since September 2007, and no audio message from him has been heard since May...

Hassan Nasrallah.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... He's the most influential radical Shiite leader in an unsettled Arab world. Like a turbaned Big Brother from "1984," Lebanese Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah makes speeches on a giant video screen while his corporeal location remains a...

Dr. Margaret Chan.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Director-General, World Health Organization With the global spread of diseases more of a threat than ever, Chan represents the world's first line of defense. The well-liked leader of the WHO is known for her interest in women's issues and...

Carlos Slim Helo.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Mexican tycoon The world's second-richest man made his $60 billion by acquiring Mexico's state-owned telephone monopoly in 1990, parlaying that into an empire of telecommunications, real estate, retail, media and consumer goods. He credits...

The Dalai Lama.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Tibetan leader People used to say that Pope John Paul II's power increased as he aged; at 73, the Dalai Lama is the same way. The more he speaks, the more he travels, the more word of his ill health leaks out (he recently had a gallbladder...

Oprah Winfrey.(; The Global Elite)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... There's a bigger 'O' in the world now. But don't worry, she's got his ear, too. You can look at Oprah's year in two ways. On the business side, she proved--at last--that she's mortal. Her empire (the talk show, the magazine, etc.) has...

Amr Khaled.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Egyptian televangelist Witty and soft-spoken, Khaled is sometimes described as the "anti-bin Laden," a tolerant accountant turned televangelist whose feel-good brand of Islam calls for dialogue over destruction. His sermons are broadcast...

E. A. Adeboye.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Lisa Miller; With Rod Nordland in London, Anne Underwood in New York and Abbas Poptani in London A Pentecostal preacher from Nigeria has made big plans to save your soul. You may never have heard of E. A. Adeboye, but the...

Jim Rogers.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Sharon Begley The CEO of Duke Energy could make dreams of renewable power a reality. Duke Energy Corp. is not the world's greenest utility, and CEO Jim Rogers is no green saint. The company was sued by Environmental Defense,...

The Power of Money.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... In a year in which simply avoiding bankruptcy earned financiers a badge of honor, some actually did manage to prosper, whether careerwise or in the bottom line. Five of the winners: FUND MANAGER John Paulson Amid widespread...

The Power of Ideas.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Barnes, Cass Sunstein and Dr. George Church )(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The difference between a good idea and a truly transformative one often comes down to timing. Here are four thinkers whose philosophies seem to have captured the intellectual moment: ECONOMICS Joseph Stiglitz No one foretold the...

The Power of Crowds.(; THE GLOBAL ELITE)(Jimmy Wales, Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Rose, Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Stoppelman)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... If there's one thing we've learned about the Internet, it's that many minds are much more powerful than one. But in the development of "crowd-sourcing" technologies, five individuals are key: WIKIPEDIA Jimmy Wales Wales hates the...

Player or Pretender?
January 5, 2009... In an age of instant Internet celebrity, viral marketing and reality TV, it's harder and harder to distinguish between actual influence and good PR. Skip the press releases--here's the definitive call. From politicians to pirates, who's all...

For Dr. Doom, a Crash Worthy of His Warnings.(; People To Watch: Nouriel Roubini)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Daniel McGinn With the economy in a tailspin and the layoff tally climbing, this is a tough time to be a second-year M.B.A. student who's about to hit the job market. It may be especially tough for the students who gathered in a...

Saving the World, One Molecule at a Time.(People To Watch: Jay Keasling)
January 5, 2009... Byline: Jeneen Interlandi Ever since Alexander Fleming noticed a clump of blue-green mold destroying a neighboring culture of bacteria in a nearly discarded petri dish, scientists have searched the most unlikely of places for cures to...

Membership Has Its Penalties.(Business; THE MONEY CULTURE)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Daniel Gross Among the city's elite, investing in Bernard Madoff's too-good-to-be-true fund became a status symbol--a costly one. Palm Beach is ground zero of the Madoff affair. The posh sliver of land is home to a high...

It's Survival of the Weak and Scrawny.(Business; PROJECT GREEN)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Lily Huang Researchers see 'evolution in reverse' as hunters kill off prized animals with the biggest antlers and pelts. Some of the most iconic photographs of Teddy Roosevelt, one of the first conservationists in American...

The Blessings and Curses of Power.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 12, 2009... As a recently retired Marine Colonel, I was amazed at Jon Meacham's hyperbole in addressing "The Story of Power" (Dec. 29/Jan. 5): "Many right-of-center Americans, too, find the conversation unsettling, for it inevitably leads to thoughts of a...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Jon Meacham He still remembers the chocolates. As a former Jerusalem bureau chief, Dan Klaidman, who is now the magazine's managing editor, is particularly well qualified to write this week's cover on the Israeli-Palestinian...

Almost Killing Hitler.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(Adolf Hitler, Valkyrie)(Movie review)
January 12, 2009... Byline: George F. Will The July 20, 1944, attempt was one of perhaps 15 by the German Resistance, which was neither negligible nor contemptible. Impressed by a written report from a colonel, Adolf Hitler exclaimed, "Finally a general...

A Plan of Attack For Peace.(Cover Story:International; MIDEAST)(Cover story)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Daniel Klaidman; With Dan Ephron, Christopher Dickey and Michael Hirsh With Gaza in flames, the prospects for a Middle East deal seem minuscule. But there is a way out, and both sides know what they must do. In the remorseless...

How We Got to This Point.(International; MIDEAST)(Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: A Guidebook for American Policymakers, A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--From the Cold War to the War on Terror and Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East )(Book review)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Kevin Peraino Three recent books chart the winding path from Kermit Roosevelt with his suitcases stuffed with cash to George W. Bush's gloomy Nobel Prize prospects. Barack Obama said virtually nothing last week about the...

Sam Huntington, 1927-2008.(International; WORLD VIEW)(In memoriam)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Fareed Zakaria With ideology disappearing as a source of identity, he saw religion moving to the fore. If there is one central, recurring mistake the United States makes when dealing with the rest of the world, it is to assume...

If Obama Is Serious.(International; MIDEAST)
January 12, 2009... Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so. In the next few years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel. The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to...

The Last Day of the Iraq War.(International; IRAQ)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Larry Kaplow; With Salih Mehdi, Ahmed Obeidi and Saad Al-Izzi in Mahmudiyah and Baghdad It's too late to fix Iraq before the pullout date. All U.S. troops can do now is keep trying to slow the killing and get out. They call it...

A Hip-Hop Survival Tip.(Entertainment; CULTURE)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Seth Colter Walls If you want rap music with a shelf life longer than milk, take a listen to Q-Tip's 'The Renaissance.' Real art guards its stature carefully. New styles and schools and stars can spend years in the woodshed,...

When Bling Was Still King.(Entertainment; MOVIES)(Notorious)(Movie review)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Allison Samuels 'Notorious' revisits Biggie, and rap, in their primes. Though there was little surprise by the end--how could there be?--"Notorious,'' a movie about the life and death of rapper Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. The...

'It Is Never Over, Never Escaped'.(My Turn)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Aarti Tikoo Singh; Singh lives in Queens, N.Y. For years, only news from Kashmir could stir my nightmares of childhood terror. Then came Mumbai. I am 11 years old. I am panting as I run alongside my parents through the dark,...

An Inexact Analogy.(Nation; RELIGION)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Jonathan Darman The left can breathe easy. Rick Warren is not Obama's Billy Graham. The furor over Rick Warren is not about Inauguration Day but what comes after. When Barack Obama announced last month that Warren, the pastor...

Don't Ask Too Fast.(Nation; MILITARY)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Dan Ephron On gays, Obama's Joint Chiefs chair is caught between his boss and a conservative military. Admiral Mike Mullen likes to talk to the enlisted troops. On a recent tour of Iraq and Afghanistan, he gathers them around...

Remains of the Day.(Nation; TERROR)(September 11, 2001 terrorism attack)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Eve Conant; With Rana Fil in Lebanon Nineteen hijackers died on 9/11. What should be done with what's left of them? In the grim, sleepless months of excavation after the September 11 attacks, forensic pathologists in New York...

Don't Muffle the Call to Serve.(Nation; BETWEEN THE LINES)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Jonathan Alter From FDR to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps, leadership in service has always come from the president. The day before the inauguration is the Martin Luther King holiday, and the president-elect wants it to be devoted...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
January 12, 2009... "I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales, announcing that he is writing a memoir about his tenure in the Bush administration "We used to fight about who...

Made Money With Madoff? Don't Count On Keeping It.(Periscope; JUSTICE)(Bernard Madoff)
January 12, 2009... Byline: Mark Hosenball The lucky folks who cashed in and got out before Bernard Madoff's $50 billion investment empire came crashing down might not be as lucky as they think. Sources close to the Madoff case say that a recent court ruling...