Newsweek articles from June 2003

Newsweek archives from June 2003

A Correction: Not a Crisis: There's one question that all this raises that doesn't come up as much as it should in The Business. Does it serve the reader?
June 2, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen How many civilians can ask the same question about your business before you start to pay attention? In the strange and horrible case of Jayson Blair and The New York Times, the query is ubiquitous. "Isn't everyone...

The Man of the Moment: The most distinguished living photographer is now 94. He's hardly shot a picture for 30 years, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been as busy as ever with his art. Here's what it's like to spend a rainy morning in Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson.(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones When Henri Cartier-Bresson saw me pull out my notebook, he asked in mock horror, "Are you from the police?" I said no, I would make a very poor policeman, and he smiled. Mindful of his distaste for interviews, I went...

Opposites Attract: Helmut Newton shooting Cartier-Bresson? Too weird. But...
June 2, 2003... Byline: Dana Thomas It was a radical idea: to have the German-born Helmut Newton, known for his erotic and extremely composed photographs, shoot NEWSWEEK's portrait of Cartier-Bresson, master of the wholly natural Decisive Moment. Would it...

Finding Disney: Mickey's been in a world of pain lately. But Eisner is trying to rewrite the script for a happy ending.(Michael Eisner)
June 2, 2003... Byline: David Jefferson Michael Eisner isn't the first guy in Hollywood you'd expect to find giving a lecture on humility. This is the mogul with chutzpah enough to take Walt's place as host of "Wonderful World of Disney," push Mike Ovitz...

The Pixar Perplex.(Pixar Animation Studios )
June 2, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy This weekend Pixar Animation Studios will release "Finding Nemo," destined to be one more hit in a series of computer-generated animation classics that began in 1995 with "Toy Story." Set underwater, with marine life as...

Freeing Nemo: A Whale of a Tale.(Movie Review)
June 2, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Pixar's "Finding Nemo" is without any doubt the best film ever made about a single-parent clown fish and his son. It also offers the best performance this spring by Albert Brooks, who does daddy Marlin's jittery,...

Sell High, Buy Cheap: Owners get a second chance to run their firms.(the Muppets)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone When the children of Jim Henson reacquired their father's creation, the Muppets, earlier this month, it was an overwrought reunion--a bit like Miss Piggy charging into the arms of Kermit. The Henson family had sold out...

Put Me in Coach, I'm Ready to Pay.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Kate Stroup No one wants green shoes. But anyone who buys a pair surely must have a fun, frivolous life. And that's exactly what Coach is selling these days, with its ubiquitous ads for the Granny-Smith-suede Darla sandal. Want a...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 2, 2003... We misstated a word in the title of Paul Elie's book "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" ("A Tale of Four Catholics: Their Lives, Work and Sin," May 19). NEWSWEEK regrets the error.

Enron Economics Edition.(opinions about current events)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Warren Buffett--the second richest man in the world--calls Bush tax cut "class warfare" on behalf of the rich. But Congress thinks it knows better. C.W. Bush + Gets his big tax cut with "sunset" gimmick that hides the...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
June 2, 2003... No Longer Just in Your Head Readers responding to our May 19 cover package appreciated our extensive reporting on the reality of pain and available treatments. "I am so tired of people frowning on my recurring migraines. Maybe now they'll...

Fifty Years of Conquering Everest: Technology may have made it easier, but the basic requirements remain: grit, luck and study boots. NEWSWEEK celebrates the anniversary of the first ascent.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael, Josh Ulick and Karen Yourish Fifty years ago this week, Sir Edmund Hillary went to Nepal on a mission to what was left of the unexplored world. Last Friday he returned. Flown to Katmandu for the anniversary...

The Demystifying of Mount Everest.
June 2, 2003... Byline: David Gates In the long list of once splendid places that humans have rendered too dreary to contemplate, it's hard to top Mount Everest, no pun intended. When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit, 50 years ago this...

'What's Right, Not Popular': The Philippines' Arroyo on U.S. troops and the war on terror.(Gloria Macapagal Arroyo)(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Lally Weymouth Last week President George Bush gave what was only his third state dinner since coming to office, this time in honor of one of his staunchest supporters, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Her country had...

Giving Peace a Real Chance: The key lesson of nation-building over the past decade is, don't leave. The corollary lesson: keep sufficient force to maintain order.(postwar reconstruction)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Why is an administration that was so bold, ambitious and clearheaded about waging war so hapless, diffident and error-prone when it comes to waging peace? With Jay Garner and other top officials fired before they had...

The Editor's Desk.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker How can we raise the overall level of education in America without sacrificing quality at the best schools? That's the huge challenge facing educators and policymakers across the country. Many of us with teenage...

Grim Days in Great Neck: A nightmare documentary of a family's disintegration.('Capturing the Friedmans')(Movie Review)
June 2, 2003... Byline: David Ansen To their neighbors in Great Neck, N.Y. --and even, for a while, to themselves--the Friedmans seemed to be a normal, happy suburban family. Arnold, the dad, was a beloved high-school science teacher who also taught...

How a Rank Beginner Captured the Friedmans.(Andrew Jarecki)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Andrew Jarecki just wanted to do a nice little documentary about clowns. He'd made a fortune selling Moviefone, the company he founded, to AOL in 1999, decided to try filmmaking and thought he'd cut his teeth on...

I'm Only Guilty of Being a Good Friend: The Jayson I know is a kind and gifted man--but our relationship cost me my job and my credibility.(Jayson Blair)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Zuza Glowacka I understand what Elizabeth Bishop meant when, in her poem "One Art," she wrote, "The art of losing isn't hard to master." In the weeks since I've had to resign from my job because a close friend of mine, Jayson...

A Very Mixed Marriage: Evangelical Christians lining up to fight for Israel maybe an unmovable obstacle to Bush's 'Roadmap'.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman and Tamara Lipper It's a landmark in the history of strange bedfellows: Tom DeLay says kaddish. It happened last February, the day the space shuttle Columbia fell apart. Among the dead astronauts was an Israeli, Ilan...

How to Mend A Massacre.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Ellis Cose Such things were not supposed to happen in America. People peacefully assembled were not supposed to be gunned down. And murderers, especially if caught on tape, were not supposed to walk free. But that's what happened...

Al Qaeda's Summer Plans: EXCLUSIVE: Just as Americans were preparing for the start of the traditional season of fun, a rise in 'chatter' sets off alarms and sends the Feds scrambling. A NEWSWEEK investigation explains why we're on alert and what we're facing.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Evan Thomas Alsaha.com seems innocent enough. The Abu Dhabi-based Web site offers bulletin boards where Arabic speakers can advertise for wives and exchange messages about sports, politics and...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Sean M. Smith Cat Fight At CAA? Sandra bullock has no intention of lunching on Julia Roberts's leftovers. Two weeks ago Roberts signed with Bullock's agency, CAA, and now Bullock may leave, apparently worried the agency will...

Perspectives.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, New York Post, New York Observer, Boston Globe, Newsday, New York Times (2), The Washington Post, Newsday, Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday "We cannot afford to fail." ...

Censoring the Report About 9-11?
June 2, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff Why is the Bush administration blocking the release of an 800-page congressional report about 9-11? The bipartisan report deals with law-enforcement and intelligence failures that preceded the attacks. For months,...

Let the Showdown Begin.(trial of Scott Peterson )(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau The star witness gets a makeover, hires a media-savvy lawyer and holds a press conference to plead for her "privacy." The defendant's own celebrity attorney hunts for the "real killers." The upcoming trial of Scott...

Tax Cuts: Read W's Lips.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Rich Thomas Fresh from last week's $318 billion tax reduction, White House and congressional GOP leaders now envision an annual tax offensive and are already discussing the cuts that George W. Bush will propose next year. Some of...

High-Time, High Tech.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Fresh from overwhelming the enemy in Iraq with high-tech gadgetry, U.S. commandos got a glimpse last week of the next generation of gizmos. During Special Operations Forces Week, 400 vendors...

Eugenics: Clearing the Collective Conscience.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Rebecca Sinderbrand Nearly four decades after the fact, Nial Ramirez's voice still trembles as she recounts the choice she faced as a North Carolina teenager pregnant with her first child: agree to be sterilized, or cost her family...

Don't Dis The Diet.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen For 30 years, dieters have sworn by Dr. Atkins's low-carb, high-fat, high-protein plan. Doctors have been less convinced. But two studies in The New England Journal of Medicine last week make it harder to dismiss as...

Some Irony With That?(Saddam Hussein's art collection)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Peter Plagens As an artist, Adolf Hitler was a hack watercolorist who nevertheless enjoyed a fairly good overall sense of design. He had a hand in the look of all those dramatic torchlight Nuremberg rallies, Gestapo uniforms and...

Don't Think Twice--Or At All, for That Matter.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler "Half the game is 90 percent mental," Yogi Berra once said, or something like that, and science is now getting around to putting his aphorism to the test. Researchers including Debbie Crews of Arizona State University...

Television: Squirrels Running Up Trees? Purrfect!(Television Program Review)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson If there's a lesson to be taken from viewing cat programming, it's that watching squirrels run up and down trees is fun. (Dude. We're so with you.) That's the rationale behind "Meow TV," a tongue-in-cheek program...

The Perils of a Weak Dollar: Yes, there could be a big upside. But it risks economic warfare and 'beggar thy neighbor' policies. That's political trade, not free trade.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson To anyone with a sense of history, the bush administration's decision to bless a cheaper dollar must seem disquieting. It may be defensible as economic policy or simply as acceptance of the inevitable. After...

The 100 Best High Schools in America: The surge in the number of students taking AP tests is changing life inside America's classrooms--and altering the rules of the college-admissions game. A look at a new set of winners for 2003.(Advanced Placement)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Jay Mathews In the 1970s, Mike Riley was a young Chicago teacher trying to save failing inner-city students. He found they blossomed if he simply sat them down each day after class and made sure they did their homework. "They went...

Daring to Be Different: Reformers around the country have found new ways to motivate teens and they're inspiring others to break the mold.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Jay Mathews Tests aren't the only way to judge a high school. In the past decade, educators around the country have created dozens of intriguing models for reform. They include virtual high schools where all classes are online and...

A Generation Finds Its Voice: The debate over Iraq galvanized once apathetic high-school students around the country. Now parents and politicians wonder if this activism will endure.
June 2, 2003... Byline: David Noonan Some kids wanted to call it the War Club. Which made sense, since it was meant to be an alternative to the Peace Club. But the principal didn't approve, so Jeff Bombardier and like-minded classmates at South Hadley...

Next Season's Hot Games.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Peter Suciu and Dave Gerardi Two weeks ago the videogame industry showed off its latest wares at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Microsoft revealed add-ons that will transform your Xbox into a DJ mixer and a...

People Linking People.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone The best way to meet your mate is not in a Starbucks or on the subway but through friends. Friendster (friendster.com) is a new online community site that harnesses that simple fact. Here's how it works. You fill out a...

Room Service.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana Not all rooms are created equal, even in great hotels. So Tip Sheet tracked down the best--not most luxurious, but best--rooms in five fabulous places worldwide: Birdshill, a whitewashed cottage at Jamaica's...

Road Test: Jaguar XJ8: Beauty and a Beast.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten In any automotive beauty contest, Jaguar's likely to roll off with the crown. But no one ever said this looker was a rocket scientist--or a rocket. That changes with the all-new XJ8, Jag's redesigned flagship luxury...

Ask Tip Sheet: How do night-vision goggles work? -Chris Miller West Des Moines, Iowa.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Peter Suciu There are actually two ways to see in the dark: image enhancement and thermal imaging. Most night-vision goggles use the former technology, collecting and amplifying tiny bits of light (including some from the lower...

Struggle In Vein?(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Anne Underwood Do your legs look like a road map, crisscrossed with varicose and spider veins? For those of you who shun surgery, there's a new product on the market that could help. Nu Visage Complete Leg and Vein Therapy actually...

Brits Do It Better.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Daniel McGinn When NBC unveils its new sitcom "Coupling" next fall, it'll look familiar to some viewers--the smart ones who watch BBC America. "Coupling" is just the most recent British hit to be adapted for U.S. airwaves (think...

I'm A Dancer, Not A Stripper!(burlesque in Las Vegas)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten In Vegas, they don't call it "the Strip" for nothing. On stages and cages all along the megawatt Las Vegas Boulevard, go-go girls are shaking their moneymakers. Literally. But what about that whole...

SARS Special.(severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic causes pearl prices to rise)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Pearls are always a perfect gift--especially for a woman whose birthday is in June (it's her birthstone). But before you buy, take note. When the SARS epidemic swept China--producer of the vast majority of the...

Your Loss Their Gain.(airlines' bereavement fares)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: S. Jhoanna Robledo When there's a death in the family, you shouldn't have to worry about booking a flight home. But last-minute travel brings a whole host of complications, like airlines' inflated bereavement fares--which routinely...

Baby Food (For Mom).
June 2, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's a safe bet that Dr. David Barker has never craved pickles and ice cream. Still, if there's one man in the world who understands the peculiar dietary needs of pregnant women, it's him. Barker rose to fame in the...

Nesteggz Over Easy.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Like to spend, but know you should be saving for retirement? Luckily, you can do both at NestEggz, an automatic savings program that rewards you with cash in an IRA or other investment account. Introduced recently by...

Off The Deep End.(wavepool surfing)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Kevin Hand Life's a beach. Really? Most of us have to search hard for our summer fun. That's when we stumbled across wavepool surfing--real thrills in an artificial world of concrete and chlorine. Wave Loch makes a contraption used...

Sancerre.(French white wine)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Come out of your shell; try a Sancerre. These bright French whites (from Sauvignon blanc with citrus, mineral and herb flavors) make a mouthewatering accompaniment to oysters, clams and shrimp. The 2001 vintage was good, but just you wait--the...

An American Classic: A new cookbook by the 87-year-old Grande Dame of Southern cuisine crowns an extraordinary career.(Book Review)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones In the sunny kitchen of the apartment shared by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock in Decatur, Ga., lunch has been cleared away. While Peacock prepares banana pudding, a guest has a chance to examine the decor. A collection...

Page-Turner: A stolen 'Da Vinci'--or just weirdness? It's a real-life mystery.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin Clive Cussler blurbed Lewis Perdue's novel "Daughter of God," published in 2000, as "A read you won't soon forget." Perdue, the author of more than a dozen novels, thinks Dan Brown remembered it all too well--and that...

Testing, Testing: Found a company that's hiring? Prepare yourself for more quizzes than you had in high-school math.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Daniel McGinn Four guys sit in a library conference room, passing a bag of Krispy Kremes and taking turns at the chalkboard. "Name the three basic numbering systems used by modern computers," one man orders another. Another fellow...

Two Gorillas Make Nice: A lawsuit settled, Microsoft and AOL move forward.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy Last week the technology elite gathered in Carlsbad, Calif., for a Wall Street Journal technology conference. Nobody gave it a second thought that some of the Microsoft people seemed to be hanging around folks from...

A Groundhog Day for Big Media.(media deregulation )(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Lost in the debate leading up to this week's vote by the Federal Communications Commission on media deregulation is the "Groundhog Day'' point: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Remember when...

Correction and Clarification.(Correction Notice)
June 9, 2003... Clarification The May 19 graphic "Pathways to Pain" described migraine pain as caused by swollen blood vessels that rub against nerves in the brain. Scientists say the key problem is not friction but the inflammation that occurs when...

Conventional Wisdom: Class Warfare Edition.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Know anybody who makes between $10K and $25K? Under new tax bill, they gain peanuts. And millionaires, the gov't is paying for your new Hummer! C.W. Bush + Euros think he hyped Iraqi WMD to justify war. But he might actually...

Mail Call: In the Eye of Journalism's Perfect Storm.(Letter to the Editor)
June 9, 2003... Readers responding to our May 26 cover package vented their anger. "What Jayson Blair wanted was to be famous, which does not necessarily mean being rewarded for your hard work," one said. "He knew how to play the game and now he will reap the...

Gephardt, On Schedule: From Iowa through Wisconsin, the schedule of early nominating events--probably the only one that will matter--favors him.( )
June 9, 2003... Byline: George F. Will The political market is working. the democrat who would be the most formidable candidate against President Bush, and who is the most plausible president in the Democratic field, is thriving. By being a prime...

Scaring the Ayatollahs: Is Washington now aiming for 'regime change' in Iran?
June 9, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Maziar Bahari When the Ayatollah Khomeini decided at last to end his long and bloody war with Iraq in 1988, he did so as reluctantly, he said, as if he were drinking from a chalice of poison. Today his...

Good Fences Make... The wall is only one of the things raising doubts about the neighborly intentions of Israelis and Palestinians.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Joshua Hammer On a brush-covered hilltop a few miles north of Jerusalem, Shuki Sat gazes through a freak dust storm toward the Palestinian village of Burqa, contemplating his murky future. Last year, together with his wife and...

Sideline Arafat, Boost Abbas.(new prime minister of Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria If nothing else, this week's Middle East summits will produce a great many photographs of smiling leaders. But to understand how long and hard the road to peace is, consider the photograph that you have not seen....

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Laci Peterson's body had just been found, and Debra Rosenberg found herself at a dinner party arguing about fetal rights. Along with the remains of the Modesto housewife, authorities also discovered the disconnected...

A New Life for the Monsters of Rock: After six years, Metallica is back. What took so long? Rehab, bickering, a fan revolt. The usual.('St. Anger')(Sound Recording Review)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon On the day in September 2001 that James Hetfield was released from rehab for alcohol abuse, the Metallica singer spoke on the phone with drummer Lars Ulrich, who'd helped him launch the band 20 years before. The...

We Regret to Inform You That Radiohead Still Sounds Weird.('Hail to the Thief')(Sound Recording Review)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Music critics are already calling Radiohead's new album, "Hail to the Thief," a return to the straight-ahead guitar rock of the Oxford quintet's early days. It makes me wonder: did I get the wrong CD in the mail? True,...

Arnold Reloaded: Schwarzenegger's 'Terminator 3' could make him an action hero again. But if he wants to be governor, he'll need a great campaign ad. NEWSWEEK has some ideas.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler In all the ways that count in Hollywood--money, basically--he's 10 times the star Ronald Reagan ever was, and he's 10 times more handsome than Jesse Ventura, so Arnold Schwarzenegger has to be considered a good bet to...

Arnold at the Crossroads...Which Way to Go?(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau, Sean M. Smith PRO: Although ticket sales for his movies have flagged in the United States, he's still a powerful draw overseas. Since 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger's films have grossed more than $1.4 billion in foreign...

Grrl Power, Kiwi Style: A sweet-smart new film that's been dazzling hard-to-please festival crowds--with an age-old underdog tale.('Whale Rider')(Movie Review)
June 9, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Niki Caro's "Whale Rider," a huge hit in her native New Zealand, has been making the rounds of film festivals since last fall, and everywhere it plays it strikes a deep chord. In Toronto, in Rotterdam and at Sundance,...

My Turn: Music This Beautiful Is Something to Share: Thousands of black children will grow up without ever hearing Beethoven--unless I get to them first.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Leo Harris In 1926, when I was 6 years old, I moved from Kansas City, Mo., to Chicago to live with my aunt and uncle. Until then the only radio I had ever seen was my older brother's crystal set with its accompanying earphones. Now...

(Over)selling the World on War: The message was plain: Saddam's weapons of mass destruction made war unavoidable. So where are they? Inside the administration's civil war over intel.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas, Richard Wolffe and Michael Isikoff George Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence, was frustrated. For four days and nights last winter, some of the most astute intelligence analysts in the U.S. government sat...

Flushed From the Woods: A lucky break ends a seven-year manhunt.(Eric Robert Rudolph)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff Officer Jeff Postell, a 21-year-old rookie cop in remote Murphy, N.C., was working the graveyard shift early Saturday morning when he spotted what seemed to be a homeless man crouched in the darkness behind the...

Newsmakers.(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Kate Stroup Culture Vulture Jerry Springer says his mother would be proud: "I finally got some culture." Not only has daytime TV's sleazemeister become a real, legit movie actor, but he's also the subject of a real, legit...

Perspectives.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe, New York Times (2), Vanity Fair, New York Post, Associated Press, Reuters "What is happening is occupation." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to...

Terrorism: Continuing Threats.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff Washington may have reduced the domestic terrorist-alert level to yellow from orange but that doesn't mean the threat of a terrorist attack has greatly receded recently. Officials tell NEWSWEEK...

Missiles: Return to Sender.(lethal and "dual use" equipment made by Western companies )(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball Bush administration officials say that U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon expected that American troops in Iraq would stumble across all kinds of lethal and "dual use" equipment made by Western companies as...

Clinton: Want Me Back?(Bill Clinton)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman Bill Clinton is the Beltway buzz after suggesting last week that the 22nd Amendment be changed to allow presidents to seek a third term. Without it, he said unironically, "you'd have had to throw me out"--failing to...

Troops: The Body Count Grows.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Scott Johnson When president George W. Bush declared on May 2 that major combat operations in Iraq had concluded, he stopped short of saying the war was over. And with good reason. Since then U.S. and British soldiers have been...

Prince William: The Not-So-Juicy Story.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... He doesn't want to be king! He lives with his girlfriend! Prince William, marking his 21st birthday, failed to address these juicy rumors when he spoke to the press last week. But he did offer this: he plans to learn Swahili "because of my love...

History: The Other Bus Boycott.(boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, staged in 1953 by Rev. T.J. Jemison recalled)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Lara Updike Columbus wasn't the first to find America. Clinton wasn't the first to woo an intern. Turns out Martin Luther King Jr. also had a predecessor when it came to boycotting buses. In 1953 the Rev. T. J. Jemison organized a...

Ireland: Into the Drink.(efforts to prevent alcohol abuse in Ireland)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: John Ghazvinian Around the tables in Dublin's Temple Bar area, the sense of resignation is as thick as the plumes of smoke wisping toward the ceiling. "If it happens, it happens," says Mark Collender, an off-duty policeman, as he...

Television: Down to The Wire.(rebroadcast of last season's series 'The Wire' and new series to begin)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon From the perspective of HBO, it's hard to imagine there could be a downside to the endless stream of praise the cable network has received for its fabulous slate of original series. But once all of us in the media were...

Fast Chat: A Life in the Closet.(actor Richard Chamberlain)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 9, 2003... Byline: B.J. Sigesmund Sorry, mom. your favorite leading man was leading a double life. "Dr. Kildare's" Richard Chamberlain--who comes out in a new memoir titled "Shattered Love"--discusses his decades of deception with NEWSWEEK's B. J....

Books: Donald Rumsfeld's Poetic License.(quotes by Secretary of Defense compiled in 'Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld')(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows Truth may be beauty, but evading the truth can be downright poetic. In a June 2002 interview with The Washington Times, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, "The truth is, look:/If something is going to...