Newsweek articles from June 2004

Newsweek archives from June 2004

Power Play; Goldman's Hank Paulson won the battle to oust Dick Grasso over his lavish pay. But will he win the war?
June 7, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino It was Dick Grasso's moment, the culmination of frantic, round-the-clock work by the New York Stock Exchange chairman to reopen markets after the attacks of 9/11. Six days later Grasso would show the world that...

A Fight on His Hands; Eliot Spitzer is on a sharp trajectory to higher office. The Grasso case could mean some nasty turbulence.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino Eliot Spitzer's political future seems to grow brighter every day. The New York attorney general has earned a rep as a tough regulator of white-collar fraud with his crackdown on Wall Street stock research and...

Martha Holds Out A Helping Hand; She's reached out to a non-profit group with an offer to teach low-income women how to be entrepreneurs.(Martha Stewart)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Keith Naughton As her sentencing date approaches, Martha Stewart is searching for a way to stay out of jail--or at least get out of jail early. NEWSWEEK has learned that Stewart will seek to serve all or part of her sentence...

Mail Call and Corrections: The Revelation of the 'Left Behind' Novels.
June 7, 2004... While many readers responding to our May 24 cover story on the popular "Left Behind" book series disputed the timing, placement or relevance of the Book of Revelation, almost all agreed that the series' doomsday scenario leaves much to be...

Kerry Drops A Good Idea; Kerry, too, said there was 'too much' money in politics. That was before he discovered that he could raise $89 million in 80 days.
June 7, 2004... Byline: George F. Will Briefly last week, political hygienists, who strive to perfume the world with campaign-finance reforms, suffered the vapors. Like Victorian maidens scandalized by a glimpse of a loose woman's ankle, they sprawled...

The Abu Ghraib Scandal Cover-Up? Bush insists that 'a few American troops' dishonored the country. But prisoner abuse was more widespread, and some insiders believe that much remains hidden.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh and John Barry, With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Tamara Lipper and Mark Hosenball in Washington and Melinda Liu in Amman The meeting was small and unpublicized. In a room on the third floor of the Old Executive Office...

A Return to Sanity, Finally; Over the past few weeks we have seen a number of despondent editorials by former supporters of the war. These are good omens.(American policy in Iraq)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria, Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com. In his prime-time speech last week, George W. Bush hit all his familiar themes--we must show resolve, stay the course, finish the job, etc. But this masks a very...

Betting on an Old Horse; The CIA finally scores a coup in Iraq--even if it wasn't planned--when the Governing Council agrees on a new leader.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu Politics doesn't get much spookier than the way it's played in Iraq. Back when Saddam Hussein ruled, the opposition consisted of numerous sworn rivals, each with his own team of covert operatives and dirty-tricks...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker It was the summer of 2001, and at our story meetings NEWSWEEK editors were talking about an exciting new phenomenon. Our technology guru Steven Levy had begun visiting the first public "hotspots," where you could get...

I Was Scared That I Might Hurt My Baby; While other mothers were reveling in their new roles, I was spiraling into a terrifying darkness.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Katherine Stone, Stone lives in Fayetteville, Ga. Those first few weeks after I brought my son home, I should have known something was wrong. I remembered reading about the "baby blues" in all the pregnancy books, but they made it...

The 'Sock Puppet' Strategy; Kerry whispered, even as Gore roared. Inside the Democrats' war room as they seek to exploit Bush's rough patch.(John F. Kerry)(Al Gore, Jr.)(George W. Bush)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman and Susannah Meadows, With Tamara Lipper and Richard Wolffe In Seattle they want their coffee strong and their salmon straight from the river, a yen for flavor that may explain why the air was buzzless in McCaw Hall...

Enemies Among Us; Besieged by the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Team Bush turned attention to the hunt for Al Qaeda. Politics, fear and the story of another California drifter.(George W. Bush)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas, Daniel Klaidman and Michael Isikoff, With Babak Dehghanpisheh and Scott Johnson in Pakistan, Andrew Murr in Los Angeles, Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper in Washington and Emily Flynn and Avi Karshmer in London John...

The Wrong Man; Brandon Mayfield speaks out on a badly botched arrest.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr, With Michael Isikoff, Eric Pape and Mike Elkin He's been home for more than a week now, back with his wife and kids and grateful to be putting his life back together. But Brandon Mayfield, the Portland, Ore., lawyer who...

Something in the Air; Here's what we're learning with our cell phones, sensors and Wi-Fi: losing the wires is only the beginning. What happens next is unpredictable, empowering and sometimes a bit unnerving.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy In the '90s, people went bananas over wireless. Electronic communications once thought to be permanently bound to the world of cables and hard-wired connections suddenly were sprung free, and the possibilities seemed...

Your Next Computer; There are 1.5 billion mobile phones in the world today. Already you can use them to browse the Web, take pictures, send e-mail and play games. Soon they could make your PC obsolete.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone, With Emily Flynn in London, Kay Itoi in Tokyo and B. J. Lee in Seoul One hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16 seconds. That's the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high-school senior in Philadelphia, has spent...

The Wireless World; Wireless isn't just for high-tech hubs anymore. We chose these cities and towns to show the variety of ways people are using this new technology.(Hermiston, Oregon; San Diego, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Las Vegas, Nevada; London, England; New York, New York; Bay Area, California)(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone, Kay Itoi and Emily Flynn; statistics courtesy of Sperling's BestPlaces Phones, No. Wi-Fi, Yes HERMISTON, ORE. Population: 13,200 Why: Rural areas need the Internet, too Fact: Thirty-five towers and 75...

Making the Ultimate Map; When digital geography teams up with wireless technology and the Web, the world takes on some new dimensions.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy There it is, that good old pale blue dot in all its earthly glory, right there on your computer screen. It's a familiar sight, even from a sky-high perspective experienced only by astronauts and angels. But hold on. By...

A Few Who Got Us Here; When most people in the tech business were focusing on selling stuff on the Net, some were thinking outside the box.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Reporting by N'Gai Croal, Elisa Williams, Sudip Mazumdar and B. J. Lee We know Bill Gates as the father of Windows, Steve Jobs as the man behind the iPod and Sergey Brin and Larry Page as the geeks who brought us Google. When it...

Let Your Gadgets Go; From personal computers to home entertainment centers, the modern home is trapped in a tangle of cables and wires. Here's a selection of devices that promise to set you free.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Feeling Kind of Bluetooth 1. CONCORD EYE-Q GO2000 Capture photographs and video clips alike with this camera, then send them to your Bluetooth-equipped printer, PDA or mobile phone. The 2.1- megapixel Eye-Q Go has a 1.6-inch LCD screen...

A Future With Nowhere to Hide? This connectedness may lead toward a future where our cell phones track us like FedEx packages, sometimes when we're not aware.(Cover Story)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy We're all too familiar with the concept of technology as a double-edged sword, and wireless is no exception. In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood. Yes, the idea of shedding wires and...

Newsmakers.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Vanessa Juarez, Marc Peyser, David Gates Q&A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You'd expect Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to show up in the new DVD "NBA Dynasty Series: L.A. Lakers Complete History," but writing a history book? About World War II?...

Perspectives.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: The Washington Post (2), New York Times, Associated Press, CNN, New York Times, Smoking Gun, Associated Press (2), Newsday "It's so cliched. It's like, 'There's a slutty girl on...

Chalabi--And the Questions Keep Coming...(Ahmed Chalabi)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball It now appears that the Bush administration's decision to distance the United States from Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi was considered at the very top. But the controversy over the intelligence activities of...

California: Arnold Outshines Bush.(Arnold Schwarzenegger)(George W. Bush)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau with Tamara Lipper It's not often a politician is so popular that people want to buy his spit. But a cough drop purportedly used and then discarded by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--and retrieved from a trash...

Missing: A Laptop of DEA Informants.(Drug Enforcement Administration)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff Federal investigators are frantically trying to determine what happened to a missing laptop computer that contains sensitive data on as many as 100 Drug Enforcement Administration investigations around the country,...

Peterson Trial: A Boom Goes Bust.(San Mateo, CA does not see increase in hotel, restaurant business from media coverage of Scott Peterson murder trial )
June 7, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau When a judge, citing unfavorable publicity, moved the trial of Scott Peterson from Modesto, Calif., to the Silicon Valley community of Redwood City last January, local businesses rejoiced. The leader of the San Mateo...

Online Dating: Great Body, But Does He Have a Testimony?(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Are you an SWF looking for an SWM who likes classical music, romantic getaways and long walks... to church? If so, Beliefnet.com's hoping you'll find your soulmate on Soulmatch, a new for-profit dating site that...

West Nile: A Vaccine on the Way... But Not This Summer.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael The year's first case of human West Nile virus cropped up last week in New Mexico, and although it was a mild one, officials are expecting the season to be anything but. Few areas of the country are still untouched...

Baseball: All About Belly Itchers.(Book Review)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Bret Begun The dry spitter sounds too contradictory to have ever existed, but the term was sometimes used from about 1908 through the '30s to describe pitches that acted like a spitball: little spin, sharp downward break. If you...

Monuments: Give Me Libertini.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen The Statue of Liberty isn't reopening for two more months, but the hoopla has already begun. This week the Ritz-Carlton at Battery Park is adding an edible statue-shaped swizzle stick to its $13 green Libertini...

Director To New York: Drop Dead!(Roland Emmerich's theme in "The Day After Tomorrow")(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Kira Cluff New York City is going to be destroyed this summer, and it's all our fault. Or at least that's the message of "The Day After Tomorrow," writer-director Roland Emmerich's blockbuster about global warming. But a quick...

Dropping the H Bomb; After months of breathless anticipation, that school 'in Boston' finally has its own sex mag. Does anyone care?(H Bomb, a sex magazine of Harvard students)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz At some point in their encounters with the outside world, Harvard students are forced to admit that they do attend Harvard, not just some school "in Boston" (the preferred understated approach). This is known in...

A Beltway Blogger's Sex Scandal.(Jessica Cutler)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Holly Bailey Amid the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and the heightened terror threat, Washington found solace last week in an oddly comforting distraction: a juicy sex scandal. Jessica Cutler, a 26-year-old aide to Republican Sen. Mike...

Clean Freaks; Americans have a dirty secret: our homes are a mess. Now a booming new industry is helping us dig out.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Peg Tyre, With Julie Scelfo For seven years, Heeman and Jenny Wong had a simple home-organization system. "When a room got really bad, we'd shut the door so no one could see it," says Heeman, 39, a mechanical engineer for...

Drastically Downsized.(gastric-bypass surgery)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen At the age of 7, Nikki Morace weighed 160 pounds. By 9, she was up to 250 and had tried every diet from salads to Slim-Fast. Despite her efforts, she tipped the scales at 363 pounds by 14. Her heart was enlarged, her...

Travel: Tote Sweet.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley Sunny Saturdays mean having to haul a ton of stuff to the beach or away for the weekend. Here are our votes for the bags of summer. 1. Jackson Tote: Made out of recyclable plastic and virtually indestructible,...

Road Test: Albin 30 Cruiser; No Breeze Required.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: David A. Kaplan I grew up around sailboats. My father didn't like to run the engine unless it meant escaping mosquitoes in a dead calm on Long Island Sound. So my DNA recoiled a bit at the notion of trying out Albin Marine's new,...

Skimpy Stitches.(knitting a bikini)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Show off your curves--and crafts-- this summer with the latest trend in knitting: bikinis. To start, get water-friendly yarn with "some kind of stretch," like nylon or microfiber blends, says Edith Eig of La...

Your Yard In 500 B.C.(geology as a hobby for children)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Eager to distract your kids from their bug collections? Hook them on geology. With a few books and some easy-to-gather gear, you can delve into the ancient history of your own backyard. To collect rocks and (if...

A Classic Dilemma.(selecting among different editions of a book)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh If you can't judge a book by its cover, then how can you judge different editions of the same classic novel? Start shopping for your favorite summer reads with reviews on amazon.com or other sites, but don't look...

Original Olympics.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Aubrey Oman With the Summer Games headed for their ancient home in Athens, TIP SHEET compiled resources to help you brush up on your Olympic history. Search the electronic encyclopedia www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics for a tour of...

Diploma, and A Deal.(interest rates on student loans)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Here's a gift for grads: the rate on student loans will drop to a record low on July 1. New grads will get the best deal, a rate of 2.77 percent, if they consolidate their loans within six months of graduating. Former...

Spying on Speeders.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Ever worry that your teenager is a wild driver? TIP SHEET tested three new devices that let you spy on your kid's conduct behind the wheel. Davis Instruments makes the Car Chip ($179 at...

Keep 'Em Covered.(health insurance for pets)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Forget organic catnip and PuchiBag carriers. Today's well-accessorized pet is carrying health insurance. Besotted owners are expected to spend $8.3 billion this year to keep their pets healthy, and more of them are...

Ask Tip Sheet.
June 7, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh On nearly everything I buy--from my digital-camera charger to my daughter's stuffed animals--there's a "CE" symbol on the label or box. What does it mean? --Emily Moses, Santa Monica, Calif. "CE" stands for...

An Aspirin A Day?(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood An aspirin a day can help prevent heart attacks. It may also ward off breast cancer, according to a study last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at Columbia University surveyed...

Psst. Need a Jolt?(defibrillators)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael Sudden cardiac arrest kills 930 people every day, mostly in their own homes. Using a defibrillator and CPR in the first five minutes can quadruple one's chances of survival. Increasingly common in public places like...

Kissed By A Frog.(Frogs)(A Chorus of Colors exhibition at American Museum of Natural History)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood Think you know frogs? Think again. In its new crowd-pleaser of a show, "Frogs: A Chorus of Colors," the American Museum of Natural History in New York highlights a range of freaky amphibians, from the waxy monkey...

Conventional Wisdom; Special Iraqi 180 Edition.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... A Harvard study says that the United States has done less to secure loose nukes since 9-11 than in the two years before. Talk about taking your eye off the ball. CW Bush - Long-awaited speech on Iraq exit specifics has few. And...

Goodbye, Mr. Bond; Here's a gal spy--from Bridget Jones's creator.(Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination)(Book Review)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan In Helen Fielding's new comic thriller, "Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination," the title character escapes more tight spots than Spider-Man, including a terrorist explosion. But the biggest danger Olivia...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
June 14, 2004... Ahmad Chalabi: Whose Con Man in Iraq? Readers responding to our May 31 cover story spread the blame around. One said, "Chalabi discredited: what a relief we finally got rid of the Pentagon's choice to be the Shah of Iraq." Another wrote,...

Reagan's Echo In History; As the 40th president left office in eventful 1989, because of him the world was ringing with the rhetoric of the third and 16th presidents.(Ronald Reagan)
June 14, 2004... Byline: George F. Will Ronald Reagan, unlike all but 10 or so Presidents, was a world figure whose career will interest historians for centuries, and centuries hence his greatness will be, and should be, measured primarily by what happened...

Making Friends of Foes; Iraq's new leaders may need to co-opt the insurgents.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Rod Nordland It's hot in the midday sun, but atop the Hekma Mosque, Fallah Elami is wearing a black ski mask bunched up on his head. He's also carrying a grudge as big as his heavy machine gun. His best...

The Editor's Desk.(Ronald Reagan)(Editorial)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker When Ronald Reagan took the oath of office on the Capitol steps that sunny January morning in 1981, reminding Americans that "we have every right to dream heroic dreams," Jon Meacham was 12 years old. Unlike those of...

The Little Band That Could; They all said this supergroup of legendary misbehavers would never fly. Wrong.(Velvet Revolver )
June 14, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali Train wreck? Car crash? Trailer Park in a Tornado? Any of these would have been a more appropriate name than Velvet Revolver. This supergroup, comprising some of rock's most notorious bad boys--Slash, Duff McKagan and...

Spending Summers With 'Super Grampy'; Sharing a house with my grandfather every year isn't easy, but that's not about to keep me away.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Lili Wright, Wright teaches creative writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. After 86 years of living, my grandfather, a retired biochemistry professor, has worked out a few cardinal rules: Anything you can't cook in a...

Intelligence: With Spies Like These... The embattled chief resigns. Calls for reform fill the air. Will that help? What spooks really need.(George Tenet)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas, With Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman in Washington and Tamara Lipper with President Bush Three blocks from the White House, tucked away in an odd little brick building, is a small (50-member) men's...

Newsmakers.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser, Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon Curb Your Disbelief News flash: Larry David helped someone. Even more unbelievable--we're not making this up--he saved a guy from a murder rap. Juan Catalan was in jail for the murder of...

Perspectives.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: msnbc.com, cnn.com, Reuters, Fox News, Reuters, Abc News, Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC, BBC News, The Washington Post "A sad hour in the life of America." President George W. Bush, on...

Intel: The Hunt for the Iranians' Informer.(Ahmad Chalabi)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball No more than a few weeks ago senior U.S. spy masters could revel in how much they knew about Tehran's most-secret doings. They had their very own keyhole on the theocracy's inner councils. Even better, the Americans...

Leak Probe: In the 'Mop-Up' Phase.(leak of identity of Valerie Plame, undercover CIA officer)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff With last week's disclosures that President Bush had consulted with a criminal-defense lawyer and Vice President Dick Cheney had been questioned by federal prosecutors, the Justice probe into the leak of an...

Peterson Trial: A Question of Timing.(Scott Pererson murder trial)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr and Robina Riccitiello The Scott Peterson murder trial, which began last week, promises to contain long lessons in forensics. Defense attorney Mark Geragos has pledged to show jurors that Peterson's wife, Laci, and her...

IED's Secret Sarin Supply?(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball U.S. investigators haven't ruled out the possibility that an Iraqi artillery round containing the nerve agent sarin, which was used by insurgents last month in an ineffective homemade- bomb attack, could be part of a...

Arabic: High-Tech Tutor.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr Army Special Operations soldiers may soon get a high-tech computer game to teach them Arabic. Now being designed at the University of Southern California, the Tactical Language Training System helps students learn...

Food: What's in A Name?(Adam Tihany designs Cravings in Mirage, Las Vegas as "all-you-can-eat-self-service dining experience")(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Adam Tihany had one caveat before agreeing to design Cravings, the Mirage hotel's new $12 million buffet that opened late last month in Las Vegas: don't call it a buffet. His preference? An "all-you-can-eat...

Offshoring: Good Publix Relations.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn Charlie seaman used to drink Coca-Cola. Then the laid-off Atlanta tech worker heard the company was "offshoring" jobs overseas. Determined to stop patronizing companies that he believed discarded U.S. workers, Seaman...

Television: Looking at The Locust.(Chris Matthews interview)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Bret Begun In its second season, "The Chris Matthews Show" now trails only "Meet the Press" on Sunday mornings, according to new Nielsen household data. And "Hardball" viewership is up. Matthews and NEWSWEEK's Bret Begun talked TV:...

Movies: Al-Jazeera From Inside.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali The Arab news station Al-Jazeera has been described by the Bush administration as a "mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden," by Middle East leaders as a conduit for American propaganda and now by film critics as a catalyst...

Transition.(Wiliam Manchester)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas WILLIAM MANCHESTER, 82 Manchester was a great writer of narrative history cursed by his own talent. He wrote thrilling, moving, graceful portraits of great men, yet academics patronized him as a "popular historian,"...

American Dreamer; A captivating and elusive man, Ronald Reagan rose from lifeguarding in Illinois to Hollywood--and became one of our greatest presidents. An intimate look at how he played the role of a lifetime.(Obituary)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Jon Meacham, With Andrew Murr, Eleanor Clift, Tamara Lipper, Karen Breslau and Jennifer Ordonez His timing, as always, was perfect. Almost exactly 20 years after he stood before the aging soldiers of D-Day on the cliffs of...

The Gemstones of Our Years; Time taught me to appreciate a distant father--and cherish glimpses of an elusive soul.(Ronald Reagan)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Patti Davis, Davis is a writer living in Los Angeles. The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes,...

'He Knew How to Lead a People'; Perspective: The dean of American historians assesses President Reagan's faults and virtues.(Cover Story)(Biography)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Schlesinger, a former special assistant to President Kennedy, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The president of the United States, wrote Henry Adams, "resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He...

The Thawing of the Cold War; Perspective: He seized the day and ended an epic global struggle sooner than anyone expected.(Ronald Reagan)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Michael Beschloss, Beschloss is the author, most recently, of "The Conquerors." Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for the...

An Italian Classic; Marcella Hazan celebrates her 80th year with a new cookbook and a splendid feast.(Biography)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Dorothy Kalins In 1973, when Marcella Hazan published "The Classic Italian Cookbook," balsamic vinegar was still fermenting in blissful obscurity under the roofs of Modena; instead of Parmigiano-Reggiano there was that smelly,...

It's Gangsta Lit; Hip-hop novels are hot, and now mainstream publishers want in.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Peg Tyre, With Karen Springen Drug dealer turned publisher Vickie Stringer addressed a booksellers' conference in Chicago last week, trying to explain the runaway success of her line of what she calls hip-hop novels. Her authors...

For the 'Inner Austen' in Each of Us.(The Jane Austen Book Club)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Jane Austen fans can be fervent--seeing in her novels everything anyone would need to know about love, family relationships, the nature of happiness and the importance of a fat bank account in selecting a mate....

Money: Magical New Mortgages.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn The federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates this month--but for home buyers, that seems like old news. Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages have jumped nearly a full point since March, to 6.24 percent. That's...

Travel: Beach Bans.(anti-smoking)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Debra Klein Beaches from Los Angeles to Sydney are catching a new anti-smoking wave. If you prefer the smell of the sea to tobacco, visit one of these sandy retreats. Santa Monica Beach (Los Angeles; ban instituted May 27,...

Meal Ticket: Family Dining.(Book Review)
June 14, 2004... Hitting the road with your kids this summer? In its new "U.S. Family Travel Guide" (Zagat.com. $14.95 ), the Zagat Survey rates the top restaurants across the country based on categories like family appeal, food, decor and service. LOS...

Guys pickup on this.(Chevrolet SSR pickkup)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Single women, take note. Chevy's new SSR pickup is a guy magnet. Driving my shockingly yellow tester, I was hooted at no fewer than five times. A guy in a passing Lexus even pressed his nose against his car window...

Books: Enigmas and Beer.(100th anniversary of Bloomsday)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley June 16 is the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. In case you haven't read "Ulysses" (or were traumatized by it and are blocking), that's the day in 1904 when Leopold Bloom wandered through Dublin in the James Joyce...

Technology: Bobbing For Pics.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Anna Kuchment Intimidated by all those sleek, pricey digital cameras? Lomo's new underwater Frogeye is low tech, low stress, and high fun. Lomo, the cult brand that originated in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is now based in Vienna,...

Estates: If There's a Will...(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
June 14, 2004... Byline: John D. Sparks The first person to get a serious chunk of your estate used to be the lawyer you paid to draft your will. But new software and Web sites make it easier than ever to do it yourself. Should you? Every state recognizes...

Sports: Flawless, Um, Form.(Sportskoo, video on-demand cable network)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Ron Depasquale If you can't quite hit the perfect swinging volley, maybe Anna Kournikova can help. A video-on-demand cable network called Sportskool gives you 24-hour access to top athletes like Mia Hamm and Bill Walton, who can be...