Newsweek articles from July 2007

Newsweek archives from July 2007

Which Is the Most Influential Work of Art Of the Last 100 Years? A. Black Square by Kazimir Malevich; B. 'One (Number 31) ' by Jackson Pollack; C. 'Fountain' by Marcel Duchamp; D. 'Campbell's Soup Can' by Andy Warhol; E. 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' by Pablo Picasso.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Peter Plagens When Matisse saw Picasso's just-completed, eight-foot-square painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in the Spaniard's studio in a ramshackle Paris building nicknamed "The Laundry Boat," he was shocked at how raw,...

Diamonds Are Forever, And for Art.(Damien Hirst )(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil For the love of God, what are you going to do next?" That's what the mother of British artist Damien Hirst reportedly exclaimed after learning about his latest project, a bejeweled 18th-century human skull that's cast...

True or False: Jane Austen Outsells Alice Walker and Ann Coulter.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: David Gates Jane Austen probably can't compete yet with Shakespeare or Dickens--and certainly not with the Bible--for the greatest number of adaptations, tie-ins, tchotchkes and other epiphenomena. Dickens has a theme park in...

Going Postal, Literary Style.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil For most people the post office is the irksome home to long lines, lost checks and slow service. But for American writers--and who else could be so perverse?--the post office is a godsend. If not exactly a font of...

What's the Biggest Threat To the U. S. Economy? A. Higher oil Prices; B. A prolonged housing slump; C. A steep rise in personal savings; D. A big hedge-fund failure.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson If you picked savings, go to the head of the class. For 25 years, Americans have been on a collective shopping spree, aided by a historic collapse of the personal-saving rate. In the early 1980s, U.S. consumers...

True or False: U.S.'s Broadband Penetration Is Lower Than Even Estonia's.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy Maybe our proud nation is going through some rough spots, but at least we have one shining and perpetual triumph: the Internet. People may refer to it as the World Wide Web, but its capital is Silicon Valley and the...

In 2009, TV Enters the Twilight Zone.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Elezar David Melendez It sounds like the plot of a political-intrigue novel: television screens across the nation go blank; the government has declared an end to TV as we know it. But it's true. By law, on Feb. 17, 2009, TV...

Feeling Thick As a BRIC? We Can Help.(Brazil, Russia, India, China)(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson At least you can talk the talk with the following list of the most relevant lingo in global business today. BRIC: Shorthand for Brazil, Russia, India, China. The label signifies their growing economic might....

Tech's Partying Like 1999. Uh-oh.(Interview)(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Steve Levy Once again, the Silicon Valley is partying like it's 1999. And, once again, skeptics are warning of a big fat bubble that will inevitably pop, leaving investors in the red and geeks on the unemployment line. Are the...

Mail Call: Helping Loved Ones Battle a Cruel Disease.
July 2, 2007... Readers underscored the heartbreak and emotional toll experienced by Alzheimer's family caregivers and the hard lessons learned. One described his mother's painful ordeal as "a flickering light bulb, sometimes on and often off." Another said,...

The Editor's Desk.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham I was reminded of one of the joys of this job one afternoon last week. The sun was sinking over the West Side of Manhattan when I sat down to read the essays that make up the Special Report on "What You Need to Know" in...

Which of These Is Not Causing Global Warming Today? A. Sport utility vehicles; B. Rice fields; C. Increased solar output.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr When 600 climate scientists from 40 countries reported in February that there was, for the first time, "unequivocal" evidence that the world is warming and greater than 90 percent certainty that...

The Fading Forests of the Sea.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips Coral reefs are often called the rain forests of the sea. And like their terrestrial counterparts, they're in big trouble. Since 1980, an estimated 20 percent of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed--a number...

The Future Of Flex-Fuel Lies in Brazil.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips Want to see the potential of ethanol-fueled transportation? Go to Brazil, where flex-fuel cars (those that run on either ethanol or regular gasoline) make up more than 80 percent of all new car sales. Just since...

The Dry Facts About Water.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jemimah Noonoo About 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and more than 80 countries--representing 40 percent of the world's population--regularly experience serious water shortages. Though 75 percent of the...

Rudy: 'Swift Boat-able' on 9/11?(Rudolph W. Giuliani)(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman As Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign rolls along, there are more and more voices protesting that he's not the 9/11 hero America considers him to be. First among them: some firefighters. Many in New York City...

Bloomberg to The Rescue? He is said to represent 'post-partisanship,' but if so--if he is not a partisan of any large, controversial causes--why is he needed?
July 2, 2007... Byline: George F. Will George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), who practiced what he cheerfully called "honest graft" on behalf of Tammany Hall (and himself), made up with pith what he lacked in polish when he explained: "I seen my...

What Kills One Woman Every Minute of Every Day? A. Heart attack; B. AIDS; C. Childbirth.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Throughout most of human history childbirth has been the leading killer of women. That's still true today, even when modern medicine has the power to virtually eliminate maternal mortality. Somewhere in the...

The Unholy Trinity of World Health.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael At its last summit, the G8 pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. They aren't biologically similar; they're caused by a virus, a bacterium and a parasite. So why lump them together? 1. They're...

Diabetes: A 'Disease of Poverty'?(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael Diabetes kills as many as AIDS, and is a big problem in poor countries. Dr. Martin Silink, head of the International Diabetes Federation, spoke with Mary Carmichael. I thought diabetes was a "disease of...

We Are Losing The War Against Radical Islam.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, are strangely united on one point: the threat from global jihad is growing dangerously. Republicans use that belief as a way to remind the American people that...

Dispatch From Iran; Iranians may have lost faith in the mullahs, but they're not about to overthrow them.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh (With Babak Pirouz in Tehran and Mark Hosenball in Washington) Where the heck are the mullahs? And what happened to all those angry young Revolutionary Guards eager to take you hostage--or, at the very least, spit in...

Is This the Mideast's Future?(Mohammed Mahdi Akef)(Interview)(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... He may be the most powerful Mideast political figure most Americans have never heard of. Mohammed Mahdi Akef, 78, heads Egypt's largest opposition movement, the illegal Muslim Brotherhood. (Its candidates run as "independents.") Although the...

True or False: 'Idol' Airs in Every Continent But Antarctica.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Lorraine Ali They're bungling ballads in Kazakhstan, mauling Bollywood favorites in India and shout-singing Beyonce numbers in Bolivia. Most every country--even those that lack running water and free elections--has its own version...

How to Write a Hit Song.(Jimmy Webb)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Jimmy Webb has written some of music's most memorable songs, including "Wichita Lineman" and "MacArthur Park." He spoke with Jac Chebatoris. How do you write a hit? A good song involves some basic elements: a memorable melody, a great...

Which Actress Made A Movie That Grossed Over $200 Million? A. Reese Witherspoon; B. Halle Berry; C. Julia Roberts; D. Nia Vardalos.
July 2, 2007... Byline: David Ansen and Sean Smith The last year that Hollywood's No. 1 box-office hit focused on a woman was 1964. The movie? "Mary Poppins." The next year Julie Andrews was again anointed box-office champ, thanks to a film about a...

How to Make A Star Follow Directions.(Paul Thomas Anderson)(Interview)(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Paul Thomas Anderson directed "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia" and the upcoming "There Will Be Blood" with Daniel Day-Lewis. He talked with David Ansen about working with actors. Do actors like specific direction or...

The Family Road Trip: Strangers in a Minivan; When I was young, driving cross-country was a shared experience. Today, we're all traveling solo.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Lisa Segelman (Segelman lives in Randolph, N.J.) For our most recent vacation we decided to thumb our noses at pricey airline tickets, long-term parking and car-rental fees. Instead, we'd drive. We planned to motor south to Florida...

Where Will the2008 Presidential Race Be Decided? A. The Northwest; B. The Southwest; C. The Plains States; D. The South; E. North-South Border States.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Howard Fineman In the wide southwestern arc of the country, which stretches from Fresno, Calif., and Las Vegas through Phoenix and Albuquerque, N.M., to Houston, millions of Americans--and millions of want-to-be Americans, here...

Bloomberg's Knightly Ambitions.(Michael Bloomberg)(Biography)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas and Jonathan Darman (With Eleanor Clift, Mark Hosenball, Richard Wolffe, Johnnie L. Roberts, Eleazar David Melendez, Sanhita Sen and Roya Wolverson) He is a short (5-foot-7) Jewish man from Massachusetts in a mostly...

The Mayor's Veep Scenario.(Michael Bloomberg)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter Mike Bloomberg is a long shot to be the next president. Even a trillion dollars couldn't change that. But Bloomberg's vast fortune and reputation for competent management may yet make him vice president. Before...

How to Make an '08 Campaign Ad.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Andrew Romano In March Philip de Vellis (a.k.a. ParkRidge47) ushered in an era of voter-generated campaign ads with his Hillary "1984" spot. Want to generate buzz? Andrew Romano asked him for tips: 1. Writing: Keep it under 60...

Follow the Money!(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey As Campaign 2008 heats up, so will fundraising efforts. Some names and numbers to know: $4,600: That's the max individual donors can give a campaign--$2,300 for a primary, the same for a general election. It's still...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
July 2, 2007... "His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes of millions." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, on President George W. Bush's block of a bill to allow federal funding to embryonic-stem-cell research "America does not have any intention of...

Conventional Wisdom: Apple-A-Day Edition.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... The GAO reports that President Bush has not taken care that laws are faithfully executed. Phrase sound familiar? It's in the Constitution. Bush (down) Passes Carter in unpopularity. Veto of bill to cure disease instead of throwing out...

A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff A new battle has erupted over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to submit to an executive order requiring a government review of his handling of classified documents. But the dispute could also raise questions...

Broken War Drums?(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball What was Joe Lieberman, the maverick Democrat from Connecticut, thinking when he recently said the United States should be prepared to take "aggressive military action against the Iranians"? In a June TV appearance,...

The Reel Problem.(Fred D. Thompson)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey Fred Thompson may be able to finesse GOP voters when it comes to his old positions on abortion and campaign-finance reform. But as he prepares to launch a presidential bid, is Thompson ready to answer for his...

Finance: Blackstone's Billion-Dollar Baby.(The Blackstone Group's Stephen A. Schwarzman)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Daniel McGinn Fortune magazine hailed Steve Schwarzman as "The King of Wall Street"--but lately there's been more attention on his wallet than his crown. Schwarzman cofounded the Blackstone Group, the private-equity giant whose...

Beliefwatch: Shrine.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Carole Pizzolante, from Ontario, Canada, is standing in a historic church in New York City, and she is trying not to cry. Before her is a wall, plastered with the faces of people killed on 9/11. "It's all so bloody...

A Good Drink at The Sink.(Ross Anderson on supply of drinking water)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Karen Breslau Nothing irks salt Lake City Mayor Ross (Rocky) Anderson more than seeing people tote water in plastic bottles. In fact, he argues, his city has some of the best tap water in the country. Several months ago, Anderson...

Failing the Health Test.(college students are more proned to serious diseases)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Sarah Kliff College students now have more to stress about than finals: they are as much at risk for serious diseases, like diabetes, as their parents or grandparents. A new study of 800 undergrads at the University of New...

Make Thee A Comedy.(Steve Carell)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Steve carell, the 40-Year-Old Virgin, is back this summer with "Evan Almighty," a retelling of the Noah's Ark story. He spoke to Nicki Gostin. I wouldn't have pegged you as the star of a religious movie. It's...

Toys: Thomas Derailed.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen For the past 61 years, Thomas the Tank Engine has been chugging along as a favorite book character, written by a minister for his son. But he was suddenly derailed this month when RC2, a company that licenses Thomas,...

The Myth of Boyhood.(Hal Iggulden, Conn Iggulden's 'The Dangerous Book for Boys')
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Picture a world where your father walks with you down a starlit road, pausing to point out Orion. He recites Robert Frost, knows how a battery works--and all the rules about girls. "The Dangerous Book for Boys," by...

A Life In Books: Patricia O'Toole.(Patricia O'Toole)(Interview)
July 2, 2007... Pulitzer Prize-nominated biographer Patricia O'Toole has chronicled the lives of powerful figures such as Henry Adams ("The Five of Hearts") and Teddy Roosevelt ("When Trumpets Call"), but she has a soft spot for an artistic fellow named...

True or False: The Major Religions Are Essentially Alike.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Stephen Prothero (Prothero is the chair of Boston University's Department of Religion and the author of "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't.") At least since the first petals of the counterculture...

Beijing Goes Back to Confucius.(Cover story)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips After half a century of state-enforced atheism, loosened policies in China have prompted millions to flock to traditional Eastern and Western faiths. A recent poll by a Shanghai university found that 31 percent of...

When Does Your Brain Stop Making New Neurons? A. Infant; B. 42 Years Old; C. 53 Years Old.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... ***** CORRECTION: In "Links Between Past and Present" ("What You Need to Know Now," July 9), we should have said that the Pakicetus, which was found in 1980, is an ancestor of ancient whales and a descendant of four-legged land mammals,...

Glimpses of A Cosmic Creation.(Cover story)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley Talk about hubris. Surely the most outrageous notion in science is that observations, measurements and brainpower can divine the origins of the universe. Yet beginning in the 1960s, when astronomers detected radiation...

How to Think Like a Scientist.(Cover story)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes containing about 20,000 genes, DNA is the molecule that carries hereditary information in every living cell, matter is made of atoms that are built of protons and neutrons and...

True or False: American Athletes Rule.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Starr The starry aggregate of America's "Dream Team" at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was so dazzling that even the opposition was charmed by its Magic, as well as its Larry and Michael. Two years later at the world...

The Champ, Winning by Knockout.(Muhammad Ali)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Nick Summers He was the greatest "Greatest." Of last century's dominant American athletes, none can match the myth of Muhammad Ali, the champ of tumultuous times. His impact, hardly limited to the ring, makes the largest of today's...

Green Your Getaway.(Camp Kerala)(Hotel review)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Kurt Soller Visitors to England's annual Glastonbury Music Festival (June 22 through 24; glastonburyfestivals.co.uk ) used to have one choice for accommodations: camping out on the festival grounds. But in 2005 Jennifer Lederman, a...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Hear "Easy Tiger" by Ryan Adams. Is this his best album since "Heartbreaker"? Doesn't matter. What does is that Adams breathes new life into alt-country by mixing poetry, long nights, desperate hearts, grit and growing pains. Go to the...

Taking it to the Streets.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Paul Tolme With gas prices headed toward $4, this summer is the perfect time to hop on a commuter bike. TIP SHEET reviewed four models. Kona's Smoke features a stripped-down design with a comfortable saddle that makes it ideal for...

Don't Be Like Paris.(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Schaerr Now that school's out, teenagers can study another subject: driving. But instead of ruining your child's summer with tedious classes, look into more-creative options for teaching the importance of road safety. ...

What You Need to Know Now.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Twenty summers ago, in 1987, as the shadows fell on the Reagan years, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, E. D. Hirsch, published a surprise best seller: "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs...

Why We Went Nuts About the iPhone; People hate their cell phones, Steve Jobs said, in attempting to explain the iPhone anticipation.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy It's hard to determine the wackiest aspect of iPhone craziness leading up to the launch of Apple's eagerly (to say the least) awaited venture into the cell-phone world on June 29. Was it the relentless media attention,...

BlogWatch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs.(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Sports obsessives can always count on deadspin.com posts for laughs. Like a bizarre, rambling TV interview where Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury accidentally refers to his wife as "his better ho." Both "spheres"--blog and media--remain...

Back on His Feet Again; How a stretch in prison made shoe designer Steve Madden into a better man--and a better manager.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Steve Madden is showing off his spring collection: gumball-colored sneakers with wedges that look like souvenirs from an acid trip. Fix, they're called, appropriately enough. "Fix?!" groans a Brooklyn shoe-store...

Barbarian No More; Henry Kravis is learning the value of being second.(Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.'s Henry R. Kravis)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross The afternoon of Tuesday, July 3, was dead calm on Wall Street. The markets had closed early at 1 p.m., and traders and brokers had long since hustled off to the Hamptons. But at 5:19 p.m., KKR & Co. quietly set off...

Wii Can't Wait to Play; Steven Spielberg makes his return to videogames.(Nintendo Company Ltd.'s Shigeru Miyamoto)
July 16, 2007... Byline: N'Gai Croal A true artist can find inspiration anywhere. But not many get to find it while playing Wii Tennis against Nintendo's legendary designer, Shigeru Miyamoto. For director Steven Spielberg, however, that's just another day...

Mail Call: A Growing Radical Threat in the Mideast.(Letter to the editor)
July 16, 2007... Readers concerned about renewed violence in Gaza wondered why the Bush administration was so blindsided by Hamas's victory in last year's election. One mused, "How misguided we have been to believe that democracy would spread throughout the...

The Editor's Desk.(Barack Obama)(Editorial)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Daniel Klaidman When Barack Obama burst onto the national political stage in 2004, there were many things about him that Americans found fresh and intriguing. He was young and optimistic; he seemed able to rise above the nasty...

Sisyphus in The Senate.(Ron Wyden's tax policy )
July 16, 2007... Byline: George F. Will Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon democrat, has not received the memo explaining that Congress can accomplish nothing in an election year or the year before one. He calls himself the Senate's designated driver, the one not...

Weaponized Hamburgers? An attack on the food supply is hard to execute but could sicken or kill thousands. Complacency makes 'hard' not hard enough.(prevention of food supply contamination )
July 16, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley To a post-9/11 lexicon of phrases like "threat level" and "homeland security," we need to add another: food defense. The possibility that the nation's food supply could be targeted by terrorists has existed since at...

Trouble in a 'Black Box'; Did an effort to reduce teen suicides backfire?(control of United States Food and Drug administration on antidepressants)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil Seventeen-year-old Michael didn't want to end up crazed and suicidal like the Columbine killers. The Massachusetts teen had read that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were taking antidepressants when they rampaged...

Doctor of Death; A busted terror plot in Britain puts the spotlight on radicalized Muslim professionals.(Bilal Abdullah)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas and Mark Hosenball (With Stryker Mcguire, Ginanne Brownell, Emily Flynn Vencat in London, William Underhill in Glasgow, Silvia Spring in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi,...

The Toxic Republic; For profit's sake, China's people are getting poisoned.(food safety issues)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Jonathan Adams and Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing) Wang Hai's phone won't stop buzzing. Everyone in China seems to want urgent help from the country's No. 1 consumer-rights advocate. He helps not only ordinary...

The Stradivari of Ramadi; Some Americans in Iraq spend the off-duty hours on their game machines; others keep blogs or work on their abs and pecs. Sgt. Geoffrey Allison made violins.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Dan Ephron Sgt. Geoffrey Allison had stuffed into his rucksack only enough wood to make two violins. An Army medic about to embark on a yearlong posting in Iraq, Allison figured he would be too busy to devote much time to his...

The Flames of Hope; A Berkeley physicist has found a way to help keep Darfurians alive, by building a better kitchen stove.(Ashok Gadgil)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Barrett Sheridan As for so many of us, the genocide in Darfur was merely an abstraction to Ashok Gadgil, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. But in September 2004 he got a call from the U.S....

On the Road Again; Real stars never die--or retire. Meet the country legends who are taking Nashville's kids to school.(Porter Wagoner)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Brian Braiker Slouching slightly in an easy chair as he watches ESPN, Porter Wagoner suggests a kindly grandfather. His voice has thickened with age, his pace slowed by an abdominal aneurysm that nearly killed him last year. But...

Kiss, Kiss, Blah, Blah; The last two 'Harry Potter' movies soared, but the dull 'Order of the Phoenix' never really takes flight.(Movie review)
July 16, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Decidedly older, definitely angrier, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) goes through his darkest days in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." He has good reason to be both paranoid and rebellious. Dementors attack...

Indelible Love: My Son's Tattoos and Me; Alec loves his inked-up arm, and I love Alec. So I've gradually come to respect his body adornment.
July 16, 2007... Byline: Lois Desocio (Desocio lives in Maplewood, N.J.) My 21-year-old son, Alec, has beautiful blue eyes, but the first thing people notice about him is his right arm. That's because waterfalls, big cats, Buddha and a host of Zen symbols...

Across the Divide.(black and white voters)(Cover story)
July 16, 2007... ***** CORRECTION: In "Across the Divide" we should have said the State of the Black Union event that Cornel West participated in was in Hampton, Va., not Atlanta. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Richard Wolffe and Daren...

Signs of Progress; Obama can't take the 'minority vote' for granted. That reflects how far we've come in the struggle to get beyond race.(Barack Obama)(Cover story)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Ellis Cose (With Jemimah Noonoo) His is a peculiarly American paradox: Barack Obama is both transracial and largely defined by race. He stands with one foot in a longed-for postracial future and the other in America's thoroughly...

After the Trailblazers; They represent a 'sea change' in black politics: leaders who appeal to all races by stressing consensus over conflict.(African-american politicians)(Cover story)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Daren Briscoe When Cory Booker first ran for Newark city council in 1998, one of his opponents, George Branch, said, "[Booker's] a Rhodes scholar; I'm a roads scholar." The implication was not just that Booker lacked street...

The Power Broker; In an exclusive interview, Justice Kennedy discusses life, center stage.(Anthony Kennedy)(Interview)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Stuart Taylor jr. and Evan Thomas (With Katie Connolly) In 19 cases during the past year, the Supreme Court split down the middle along ideological lines. The court's four conservatives--Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices...

Border Disorder; Sgt. Julio Cesar Pacheco won a Purple Heart in Iraq. Now he sits in a Laredo jail. What happened in Texas?
July 16, 2007... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Monica Campbell (With Gretel C. Kovach and Alexandra Gekas) Sgt. Julio Cesar Pacheco had just returned from a nighttime mission in Iraq in August 2004 when mortars began raining down on his camp. Worried...

Friends in High Places; Inside Bush's decision to give Scooter Libby a pass.(George W. Bush's pardon of Lewis "Scooter" Libbey)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff As is often the case in the Bush White House, it was a decision made swiftly, and with stealth. For weeks, allies of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby had aggressively lobbied the president to pardon Dick Cheney's former...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
July 16, 2007... Byline: Lorraine Ali Q & A: Slash Ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash is back with a new album by his group Velvet Revolver. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali. Do you still get asked about what's happening with Guns N' Roses? ...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
July 16, 2007... "I rule nothing in or nothing out." President George W. Bush, after commuting the sentence of Lewis (Scooter) Libby, on whether he will grant a full pardon before leaving office "We cannot continue asking our troops to sacrifice...

Conventional Wisdom: Fire and Rain Edition.
July 16, 2007... Drought in Southeast, floods in Texas, fires out West and Las Vegas is hotter than its ad campaign. Welcome to summer. Bush (down) Old CW: Don't need advice, Poppy, I know best. New: Hey, Dad, can Vlad and I come to Maine for a summit? ...