Newsweek articles from June 2005

Newsweek archives from June 2005

The View Master; A stunning new retrospective boasts hundreds of Lee Friedlander's images. Here's what just one can tell us.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones The world according to Lee Friedlander is an unmistakable place. The combination of intention, point of view and subject matter is so distinctive that you could pick one of his photographs out of a lineup every time,...

World Tour; MTV has mastered a nifty trick: exporting a brand, customized with local flavors, around the world. Inside its global game plan.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts During a recent 20-hour flight to Africa, Tom Freston, Viacom's co-president and corporate boss of MTV Networks, had plenty of time for reflection. A screen in the cabin of his corporate jet was showing its...

Investing in Green; Ecologist Gretchen Daily believes that the way to make conservation work is to look at farms and forests as 'ecological assets' that must not be squandered.(Interview)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Fred Guterl The recent re-discovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to have gone extinct, was a rare bit of good news in an otherwise gloomy time for conservationists. Like everyone, ecologist Gretchen Daily at...

Just a Street? It's long been the unofficial address of capitalism, but Wall Street's status as the power center is slipping fast.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino Shortly after the New York Stock Exchange announced its plan last month to merge with the electronic trading firm Archipelago, John Thain, the CEO of the NYSE, met with some floor traders to answer their...

Conventional Wisdom; Idol Time Edition.(Column)
June 6, 2005... Bush, at White House meeting, pledges millions in aid to Palestinian leader Abbas. Will they take the money and run, or truly change? CW Bush = Boxed in on Bolton, stem cells and now can't nominate superright Supreme ...

Mail Call; Our First President and the Birth of a Nation.(George Washington)
June 6, 2005... Readers praised the May 23 excerpt of David McCullough's new book, "1776," which examines George Washington's role in the fight for America's independence. A fan of the author's said: "Thank you, David McCullough! I have been patiently waiting...

Brownback's Plans for 2008; He hopes to build on the 'tens of millions of dollars' the Bush campaign spent to mobilize evangelical Christians.(Sam Brownback)
June 6, 2005... Byline: George F. Will In 1988, the arrival of the religious right and social conservatism as formidable and entwined forces in the Republican Party was signaled when Pat Robertson received 25 percent of the vote in the Iowa presidential...

Syria's Odd Man; This awkward son of a dictator is struggling to adapt--and survive--in a rapidly changing world.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Kevin Peraino And Christopher Dickey (With Eve Conant in Washington and Emily Flynn in London) Bashar al-Assad was never cut out to be a dictator. A week after his Army completed its abrupt retreat from Lebanon, the introverted...

Uncle Sam: Jekyll or Hyde? War is a hellish business, but when you release prisoners today, they don't just return quietly to their villages. They hire lawyers.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) I have resisted the temptation to write something on the Qur'an-abuse story. But since the controversy continues, here goes. I think that the Bush administration has...

'We Don't Want Wars'; Saad Hariri on filling the shoes of his murdered father.(Interview)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Lally Weymouth Last February, when former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, his son, Saad, 35, was working in his father's huge business empire and living in Saudi Arabia. Today, things are different. Lebanon,...

The Editor's Desk.(Newsweek sweek )
June 6, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker In more than two decades of medical reporting, David Noonan has written extensively about the intricacies of the heart and the brain. But it was only when he started working on this week's cover story that he...

Against The Ropes; 'Cinderella Man' is a boxer who's broke, not broken.(Movie Review)
June 6, 2005... Byline: David Ansen Ron Howard's depression-era boxing saga "Cinderella Man" has one thing in common with "Revenge of the Sith": just about everybody knows how the story will turn out. It's not that everyone's heard of James J. Braddock...

Earning His Wings; A fresh young filmmaker, with the help of a perfectly cast leading man, has raised a once-towering franchise from the dead. An exclusive first look at the rugged, rousing adventure 'Batman Begins.'.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon The "Batman Begins" team hasn't been sleeping. It's early March in London, and the weather is conforming nicely to reputation: it's cold, gray and spitting rain. At an editing suite in Soho, the director and producer...

The Americans We Most Admire; These men and women shaped our country and inspired us to do more.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Lynda Zielinski, John McNulty, Glenn Dill, Jack Cosgrove, Amy Rankin, Elizabeth Napp NEWSWEEK asked readers to tell us about the public figure that they most respect. Here are some selected entries (others can be found at...

The Cellular Divide; Bill Frist has already been buffeted by both parties. But if he thought that was tough, wait till he tries to navigate the thorny politics of stem-cell research.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Howard Fineman and Tamara Lipper (With Eleanor Clift, Richard Wolffe and Debra Rosenberg) If you want to be a Republican president--and Bill Frist of Tennessee does--there's no better place to be on a Memorial Day weekend than...

The 'Pro-Cure' Movement; Those who voted against the stem-cell research bill may look back on this as the vote that helped get them tossed out of office.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Alter As a cancer survivor with an adult-stem-cell transplant under my belt, I'm not exactly neutral on the issue of embryonic-stem-cell research. It may end up being the best chance to save my life. But this column is not...

An End to 'Power Hour'; A tragic alcohol fatality spurs a crackdown on the time-honored custom of birthday bingeing up north.
June 6, 2005... Byline: T. Trent Gegax (With Dirk Johnson) Throwing up in the men's room might not seem much of a birthday celebration. But for Gregg Rock, and a lot of newly legal drinkers, it's the price of turning 21. For Rock, it started with...

The Devil's Handiwork? A church laid waste by its pastor's bizarre behavior.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress Louis Lamonica walked into the sheriff's department in tiny Livingston, La., a few weeks ago and asked to speak with a detective. According to police, for almost the next two hours the middle-aged preacher, dressed...

Figuring Out the 'Felon Vote'.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Karen Breslau It's a long way from Florida. But a bitter post-election battle in Washington could make the Sunshine State's 2000 debacle look like a good government project. In a courtroom in Wenatchee last week, lawyers for...

Newsmakers.(includes multiple articles )(Interview)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh, Marc Peyser Q&A: Alexis Bledel You might not approve of Alexis Bledel's latest squeeze on "Gilmore Girls." But in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," all her relatives hate her boyfriend. She spoke to...

Perspectives.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: The Washington Post, The Hill, cnn.com, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, New York Daily News (2), Los Angeles Times, Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Daily News Journal "I was very, very welcomed by most...

How Hurt Is Zarqawi?(Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Scott Johnson, Babak Dehghanpisheh American intelligence analysts are working to make sense of a flood of contradictory Internet bulletins claiming Jordanian-born Iraq terror leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has been...

Transition.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: David Ansen Ismail Merchant, 68 Renowned for producing lavish and literary period movies ("Howards End," "The Remains of the Day") that looked many times more expensive than they cost, the Bombay-born Merchant was a master at...

Bolton: Secrets Spilled?(John Bolton)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball The bitter debate about John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations may have called unwelcome attention to the spying practices of the National Security Agency. Bolton told Congress last month that he asked the...

Environment: Running On Veggies.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Paul Tolme In 1900, when Rudolf Diesel rolled out his namesake engine, he said, "The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become, in course of time, as important as petroleum." That...

Health: a WIN-ning Formula?(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael For a type of germ most often described as "common," the rhinovirus is a thing of ingenious design, a bug with a thousand ever-mutating faces. If you're unlucky enough to have a rhinovirus in your body, you might...

Nevada: Identity Crisis.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Steve Friess Nevada brings to mind gambling, atomic testing and, maybe, Hoover Dam. So which image will adorn Nevada's entry into the U.S. Mint's state quarters program? If you picked a casino motif, you'd be wrong: the U.S....

Education: Helping Minorities to Get in the Game.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup At videogame-expo E3 in Los Angeles earlier this month, Joe Saulter, CEO of Entertainment Arts Research, an African-American-owned videogame company, attended a dinner hosted for all African-American industry execs....

Fans: Another Sort of 'Ozfest'.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh The Boy From Oz," a Broadway show starring Hugh Jackman, closed last fall. But the play's fans are scheming to keep it alive. This spring the devotees formed Ozalot Productions to get the play made into a movie....

China: A Jump-Start on 2008.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Mark Starr If you think Yao Ming is China's hottest sports star, you're... an American. The new kid on the block--literally, on the blocks --in China is Liu Xiang, who last summer was the first Chinese male to win an Olympic...

Beware These Home Loans; New mortgages help you buy a house, but at a higher cost and with more debt. They carry risks you won't believe, unless they trip you up.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) Trying to buy the house you love best? A new breed of mortgages offers the lowest monthly payments ever. There's a catch, of course. Cheap loans are putting a world of money...

A Little Bit Louder, Please; More than 28 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss, a number that could reach 78 million by 2030. The latest science, new treatments--and how to protect yourself.(Cover Story)
June 6, 2005... Byline: David Noonan (With Josh Ulick, Karen Springen and Julie Scelfo Graphic illustrations by Kevin Hand) Kathy Peck has some great memories of her days playing bass and singing with The Contractions, an all-female punk band. The San...

Face to Face With Death; The funeral industry is opening up to newcomers who want to comfort families in mourning.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Vanessa Juarez This isn't your typical college classroom. For starters, no one is snoozing in the back row. All 23 students in Jacquie Taylor's class are sitting upright on their stools, listening intently as she explains how the...

What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything. In a new book, a marriage historian says romance wrecked family stability.(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz For the true commitment-phobe, living among the Na people in southwestern China would be paradise. The Na are the only known society that completely shuns marriage. Instead, says Stephanie Coontz in her new book,...

Playing It Again; The inventor of Pong and founder of Chuck E. Cheese is getting back into the restaurant game. Adults welcome.(Nolan Bushnell)(uWink Media Bistro)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone There are plenty of ways to describe Nolan Bushnell. Technology visionary. Catalyst of the computer-game industry. Unrelenting entrepreneur with sparkling successes and catastrophic failures. A man who was actually able...

The Earth Is Ready For Its Close-Up; Microsoft's version includes a side-on view as seen from a small, low-flying airplane.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy Not long ago we were instructed to think of cyberspace--the digital realm that opens when you go online--as a territory of its own. But these days you don't hear much about cyberspace as a foreign country. Instead, as...

The Battle of the Video Discs.
June 6, 2005... Byline: N'Gai Croal The format fight between Betamax and VHS is an ancient memory, right? Actually, it might be time to get ready for the sequel. Today's DVDs, which store a maximum of 8.5 gigabytes in dual-layer mode, are perfect for the...

BlogWatch.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... A weekly mainstream media snapshot of what's hot (or what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs. What do Ken Kutaragi, Sinbad and Stan Lee have in common? They all made the E3 conference recap at kotaku.com . ABC reporter Terry...

Health: When Dimples Go Bad.(TriActive cellulite treatment)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment Until last month, Lindsay Christiansen, 26, hadn't worn a bathing suit in three years. The San Diego-based flight attendant gained weight after college and felt self-conscious about her increasingly dimpled thighs....

Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.
June 6, 2005... WATCH Steve McQueen: 'The Essence of Cool' on Turner Classic Movies. Twenty-five years since his death, he's still the most stylish and sexy tough guy on the silver screen (Wednesday at 8 p.m., ET). SURF takemefishing.org to...

Road Test: Nissan 350Z; Catch some 'Z'.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten Pssst. Wanna buy a Porsche, cheap? Well, you can't. But if you long for that taut, honed Porsche steering and lag-free acceleration and can't handle the payments, check out Nissan's 35th Anniversary edition Z, which...

Health: A Staple In Time...(wound care)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen Getting stitches once meant a week spent looking like Frankenstein. No more. Today, doctors are increasingly turning to two alternatives: glue and staples. Both make treatment less traumatic and require less...

Money: In Case Of 'I Don't'.(wedding insurance)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley Every bride dreads the thought of a hurricane, a missing gown or an acute case of appendicitis ruining her wedding day. While you can't control storms or thieves--and body scans aren't too cost-effective--you might...

Credit Cards: Paying Double.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern Coming soon to a credit card near you: bigger monthly bills. Two years ago federal regulators told banks to start raising required minimum payments but gave them time to comply. Now "it's going to happen rather...

Style: Summer Capers.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Carrie Sheffield Update your warm-weather wardrobe with a breezy capelet. They were a hit last fall, along with couture cousins poncho and bolero. Now designers have reincarnated capelets for spring and summer with lace, chiffon,...

Travel: The Floating City.(Venice)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan Just before the tourist hordes take to the canals and bridges, June is the perfect time to visit Venice. TIP SHEET explores. See the wondrous Peggy Guggenheim Collection, filled with Picassos, Magrittes and...

Comfort: Flights Of Fancy.(travel blankets)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Sue Caporlingua If the used blankets from the overhead bin leave you feeling more dirty than drowsy, take along one of these personal travel blankets. Lightweight and pill-free, PlaneWarm's disposable microfiber sheets keep you...

Meal Ticket: Father's Day.(restaurants)(Brief Article)(Directory)
June 6, 2005... Forget the cologne or another ugly tie. On June 19, treat Dad to a dinner that'll make him forget you once totaled his car. Here are some choices: BOSTON Sel De La Terre 617-720-1300. "There's a lot to love" in this "tres bon "...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Fort Knox)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Carrie Sheffield We used to hear about the gold in Fort Knox. Is there gold there now? --Don Smith, Eau Claire, Wis. Yes, there still is gold: 147.3 million ounces, to be precise, and it's worth a cool $60 billion,...

Education: Classy Gifts.(gifts to the teacher)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen The last day of school is right around the corner. What's the best way to thank your child's teacher? Some advice: Check school policy. If your principal allows gifts, remember that giving a present is optional....

Cheat Sheet: Vodka Taste Test.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Ron Givens For something that's supposed to be "without distinctive character," vodka sure has gotten pricey. That's especially true for two new products, Stolichnaya elit and Jean-Marc XO, which have broken the $50 barrier. What...

Technology: Virtual Invaders.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern Have you installed a wireless network in your house? That's great, but don't kick back just yet. You need to protect it. It's not just the teenager next door who can "steal" your service. A motivated hacker can use your...

Family: Waiting For Harry.(children's books)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen On July 16, muggle kids will finally get their hands on book number six, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Here's what they can read while they wait (for more options, see ala.org ). "The Two Princesses...

The War for Your Living Room; Networks have found a new battle: turning terror into entertainment.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Marc Peyser Maybe it's a mistake to look for symbolism on basic cable, but consider this: the first soldier gunned down in FX's military drama "Over There" is shot while going to the bathroom. If that's not the producers' way of...

Snap Judgment.(The Comeback)(Television Program Review)
June 6, 2005... Byline: Marc Peyser The Comeback Sundays at 9:30 p.m., HBO Lisa Kudrow stars as a washed-up TV actress who finally gets another sitcom, only the deal is she also has to star in a reality show about making the sitcom. Clever enough....

Testing: One, Two, Three; Constant testing no more addresses the problems with education than constantly putting an overweight person on the scale cures obesity.(Column)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen It's that time of year again, when the sweaters come off, the annuals come out, and the students prepare. For the test, for the test scores, for the test schedule for next year. The kids of America are drowning in...

King Tut-a-Comin'; Old Black Eyes is back, and his new tour is generating ticket sales--and controversy.("Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" )
June 13, 2005... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan and Andrew Murr King Tut has been kicking up dust ever since British archeologist Howard Carter discovered his treasure-filled, 3,000-year-old tomb in 1922. That notorious unearthing--it supposedly unleashed a...

A High-Stakes Debut; Elizabeth Kostova's Dracula novel drew an unheard-of $2 million advance. Now for the twist: it was worth it.(The Historian)(Book Review)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones Elizabeth Kostova is so squeamish that she has never read a Stephen King novel. It's not that she's afraid of scary stories; she just doesn't like gore. So when she began her novel about Dracula, "The Historian," she...

The Kid Is All Right; A 72-year-old civil servant pens a brilliant first novel.('It's All Right Now' by Charles Chadwick)(Book Review)
June 13, 2005... Byline: David Gates To be blunt, I had about given up on the novel before reading Charles Chadwick's "It's All Right Now." Supposedly important new fiction (from Ian McEwan to Jonathan Safran Foer) suffers from--no, dies...

Cunningham's Whitman Sampler.('Specimen Days' by Michael Cunningham)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg If Michael Cunningham hadn't already written "The Hours," "Specimen Days" would be a bold and innovative novel that didn't quite work. But following on that graceful, Pulitzer Prize-winning paean to Virginia...

Fresh Ideas; In this hypercompetitive economy, the old rules for managing just don't cut it. What counts now is innovative thinking--at a time when bosses are being critiqued more than ever before.(Editorial)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn There was a time when a business leader was someone straight from Central Casting. They were the suit-clad CEOs of the alphabet-soup companies--GM, GE, IBM, AT&T--at the pinnacle of American business. Times change....

10 Big Thinkers For Big Business; They work in vastly different fields, but the leaders profiled in the following pages are much alike--they have new takes on old business models, a knack for seeing around corners and an appetite for big risk. A case study of New Thinkers.(Biography)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Karen Breslau, Sean Smith, Jennifer Ordonez, Charles Gasparino, Arian Campo-Flores, Keith Naughton, Brad Stone, Martha Brant, Karen Breslau PIERRE OMIDYAR There's a reason Silicon Valley was known during its go-go years as a place...

A New Vision For Business Leaders; A prominent executive argues for more statesmanship from our CEOs.(chief executive officers)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Peter G. Peterson (Peterson, senior chairman and cofounder of the Blackstone Group, was secretary of Commerce in the Nixon administration. He is chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and founding president of the Concord...

Conventional Wisdom; Throat-Clearing Edition.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Now that we've learned how Anakin became Darth Vader and who Deep Throat really was, can we finally close the book on the '70s? CW Mark Felt + "Deep Throat" finally comes out of the garage to claim credit. We can only ...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
June 13, 2005... A Powerful New Force in U.S. Politics Readers were intrigued by our May 30 story on L.A. Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa and the growing influence of Latinos in America. "Villaraigosa's election is a victory for us Hispanics," one reader...

Europe's Dream Deferred; The Union was conceived to ensure an end to war. But Europeans have new worries, and fresh battle lines have formed.(European Union)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Stryker McGuire in London and Tracy McNicoll and Eric Pape in Paris) In the Gare de l'Est, one of the elegant old train stations of Paris, there are reminders of why the European Union was created. They are...

A Radical Change Agent; Angela Merkel lived under the boot of communism. Now she's a good bet to become the first woman chancellor in Berlin.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Andrew Horesh in Washington) Her offense was wearing jeans and listening to Western music. As a gesture of protest, when her classmates sang the "Internationale"--the global socialist anthem--she sang it in...

What's Wrong With Europe; The tragedy is, Europe needs more of what's producing populist anger: reform, immigration and relations with the Muslim world.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) In English, a double negative usually means yes. but not in European. Last week's double "no"--from France and the Netherlands--has for all practical purposes killed...

Soldier Rap, The Pulse of War; The sound may be raw, but the lyrics tell a story from Iraq that you don't often hear--from the soldiers on the streets.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson and Eve Conant It took only a few ambushes, roadside bombs and corpses for Neal Saunders to know what he had to do: turn the streets of Baghdad into rap music. So the First Cavalry sergeant, then newly arrived for a...

Good Intentions Gone Bad; NEWSWEEK's Baghdad bureau chief, departing after two years of war and American occupation, has a few final thoughts.(Editorial)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Rod Nordland Two years ago I went to Iraq as an unabashed believer in toppling Saddam Hussein. I knew his regime well from previous visits; WMDs or no, ridding the world of Saddam would surely be for the best, and America's good...

The Editor's Desk.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker The unveiling of Deep Throat brought back memories for all of us last week--but especially for reporters who worked on the Watergate story. One was Peter Goldman, for decades NEWSWEEK's top political writer and the...

White Hot Stripes; Call them weird experimentalists or rootsy retro-rockers, garage-band revivalists or postmodern minimalists--the White Stripes color outside the lines. But a funny thing happened on their way to obscurity.(musicians Meg and Jack White)(Interview)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali Jack White won't hit the stage for another six hours, but he's already worked himself into a sweat just talking about his music. It doesn't help that it's a humid 85 degrees outside the Sports Palace concert hall in...

Snap Judgment: Music; Our critics steer you straight.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali, Devin Gordon Shakira 'Fijacion Oral 1' She was the Alanis Morissette of Colombia before she became America's crossover babe. Despite the bleached hair and faux belly-dance moves, Shakira actually writes her own...

The Bride Wore Little; 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' makes for a hilarious romp about foreplay--and gunplay.(Movie Review)
June 13, 2005... Byline: David Ansen Off-screen chemistry does not necessarily translate onto the screen. Kidman and Cruise? Ben and J. Lo? Enough said. As for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," that's an entirely different story. From...

Longing for the Days Of the Party Line; Sure, we used to turn a crank to get an operator, but we never had to ask, 'Can you hear me now?'.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Dewey Olson (Olson lives in Liberty, S.C.) A little more than a half- century ago, when I was growing up in a small town in Minnesota, the telephone was a relatively new source of fascination in my life. We got one when we left the...

A Long Shadow; Understanding Deep Throat: Why a source took on a president then, and how Nixon's fall shapes us even now.(Watergate and the relationship between the press and the White House)(Cover Story)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Andrew Murr and Eleanor Clift) Three decades on, many, if not most, Americans know about Watergate from the movie "All the President's Men." Boiled down to its melodramatic essentials, the film is a timeless quest...

Watergate Revisited: Following Felt's Trail.(Cover Story)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano Passed over for the FBI directorship and wary of Nixon's imperial ambitions, W. Mark Felt became Deep Throat: the shadowy source whose confirmations and clues drove "Woodstein" to dig where others didn't dare. A look...

If Watergate Happened Now; With the GOP controlling congress, there'd be no Watergate hearings.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Alter From a distance, Watergate seems like a partisan affair. But that's because we tend to look at it nowadays through red- and blue-tinted glasses. In truth, President Nixon was forced to resign in 1974 by Republicans...

Shopping a Big Secret.(Cover Story)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas with Karen Breslau In the City of Leaks, it is astonishing that the secret of Deep Throat lasted as long as it did. But now that the word is out, the scramble is on to cash in. Indeed, money is at least one reason that...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon, Marc Peyser Q&A: Danica Patrick Patrick finished a more-than-respectable fourth at this year's Indianapolis 500 and is the first woman to ever lead the pack during the race. She spoke to NEWSWEEK's...

Perspectives.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, obscurestore.typepad.com, cnn.com, Associated Press, New York Times, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press (2), New York Daily News "We're going to always be bound by this."...

Saddam's Aides: Singing 'Like a Canary'.
June 13, 2005... Byline: MARK HOSENBALL Some of Saddam Hussein's most notorious former lieutenants have been dishing dirt. Senate investigators looking into prewar U.N. Oil-for-Food deals have named Saddam's former personal secretary and security chief,...

Africa: Pushing Bush for Help.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Richard Wolffe Tony Blair is coming to the White House this week to push his friend George W. Bush into increasing aid to Africa ahead of the G8 summit of world leaders in Scotland next month. Blair's vision for Africa is as bold...

What's In A Name?(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Byline: Holly Bailey Ted Jackson is ready. The Kentucky Republican operative who designed and sold President George W. Bush's official campaign gear in 2004 is already sketching out the bumper stickers, hats and T shirts that will...