Newsweek articles from March 2003

Newsweek archives from March 2003

Viewing the Unthinkable: Never-before-seen military paintings of the bomb in full effect suggest spooky parallels between then and now.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Peter Plagens Talk about timing. Just as Tom Ridge's "Ready Campaign" of public-service ads is hitting TV screens, a show called "Images From the Atomic Front" has gone up at St. John's University in Queens, N.Y. (It continues...

That Other Gulf War: A chillingly timely pair of Desert Storm memoirs.(Book Review)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. That same day, Marine Cpl. Anthony Swofford's platoon of scouts and snipers was put on standby at the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base in the Mojave Desert. A week later they...

This Refinanced House: Can cheap loans continue propping up the economy?
March 3, 2003... Byline: Daniel McGinn Historians will remember 2002 as a time of falling stock prices, rising unemployment and a lackluster economy. But at Leader Mortgage Co. in Lenexa, Kans., the 19 employees remember the year a bit differently. Thanks...

Not Your Mom's Book Club: From Anthony Powell to 'Pimp,' Gen X hooks up to read.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" can be accurately described as plethoric Proust. The approximately 3,000-page, 12-novel cycle spends hundreds of pages on numbing cocktail chatter. It's just the kind of...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 3, 2003... In "We Need More Than Duct Tape" (Feb. 24) the name of California Rep. Jane Harman was inadvertently misspelled. We listed the web site for the United States Kerry Blue Terrier Club incorrectly ("Call It Puppy Love, Tip Sheet, Feb. 24). It...

Conventional Wisdom: World War III? Edition.(Illustration)
March 3, 2003... Now we're sending combat troops to fight "Qaeda-linked" Filipino rebels. As if Iraq, North Korea and the Duct Tape Wars at home were not enough. C.W. Bush - Cowboy mouth and dumb diplomacy put him in a pickle. Will ...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 3, 2003... Skeptics on America's Plans for Combat Responding to our Feb. 17 Special Report, "The War Plan," readers said they were unconvinced by the evidence presented to the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin Powell. "Do not confuse the...

One Judge's Conservatism: J. Harvie Wilkinson says conservative jurisprudence, properly understood, serves compassion, properly understood.(Letter to the Editor)
March 3, 2003... Byline: George F. Will Using arguments "that range from the unpersuasive to the offensive" (says The Washington Post), Senate Democrats are filibustering the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...

Circles of Hatred: Washington needs Turkey's help to fight Iraq. But Iraq's Kurds despise the Turks as much as they loathe Saddam.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh And Michael Hirsh Farhan Haji Shukri lives by the gun. As a Kurdish peshmerga (meaning "those who face death"), he has spent most of his adult life fighting or staring down Saddam Hussein's troops in Iraq's...

The Iran Connection: Is Tehran in cahoots with Al Qaeda? And if so, why doesn't Washington do something about it?(terrorist leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball American counterterror specialists devoutly wish they knew where Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is today. Even so, they know a lot more than they're saying publicly about where the terrorist leader, a reputed expert on...

'A Life-or-Death Issue': Some in Washington worry that Roh Moo Hyun is naive about the dangers posed by North Korea. Roh worries that America could ignite a devastating war.(Interview)(Excerpt)
March 3, 2003... Byline: George Wehrfritz and B. J. Lee More than just about anything else, Roh Moo Hyun loves a good fight. It was his pugnacity that helped the 56-year-old former human-rights lawyer to win South Korea's presidential election in December,...

Time for China To Step Up.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The Bush administration continues to insist that developments in North Korea do not constitute a crisis. Well, here's how things stand. North Korea has announced that it will restart its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon,...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker One of the strongest women I've ever known was my grandmother, Edith McColes Whitaker. She and my grandfather, C. S. Whitaker, ran a funeral home in the black section of Pittsburgh. But Granddad wasn't around much:...

A Different Kind of Soul Singer.(Chan Marshall of Cat Power)
March 3, 2003... Byline: David Gates Most singers--from Louis Armstrong to Eminem--perform to us. They want our admiration for their skill, our sympathy for their imagined joys and sorrows, our assent to their attitudes, sometimes our shock and...

How Far Is Too Far? Two new movies raise one old question: when does the painfully unpleasant become the totally unwatchable?(Movie Review)
March 3, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Except for those who insist that films should only be escapist froth, most of us go to the movies expecting a degree of unpleasantness. Horror movies are the most obvious example, but the more sophisticated moviegoer...

Now I Know Too Much to Turn Away: I missed my chance to help my son's girlfriend, but I'm determined to be there for other troubled kids.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Jami Jones I hadn't planned to speak at Emily's memorial service almost two years ago, but I did. I was nervous and barely remember what I said. But I did it as a vow, a promise to her, that I would do everything in my power to...

The Black Gender Gap: Black women are making historic strides on campuses and in the workplace. But professional progress is making them rethink old notions of race, class and romance.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Ellis Cose "I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods." America was in a very different place in...

Time to Tell it Like it is: Sisters talk frankly about black men and white colleagues, money, beauty--and the prospect of having to choose between racial disloyalty and being alone. Listen in.(Interview)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels We wanted to hear directly from black women about the challenges in their lives--the feelings and frustrations they share regardless of profession, education, class or skin color. At the table: "The View" host Star...

The Dovish Democrats: Last fall the party's leaders backed Bush's hard line on Iraq. But that was before Campaign '04 got underway.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman Tom Andrews is an unapologetic liberal and a born organizer. At 16, he led marches that raised $100,000 for the poor; at 24, a student crusade to help the homeless; at 27, a sit-in against the Seabrook nuclear plant....

Wired For Battle: Booting up the FBCB2--American soldiers' best weapon yet for cutting through the fog of war.
March 3, 2003... Byline: T. Trent Gegax From the front seat of his scout Humvee, Sgt. Travis Palmer looks out at the rocky landscape of Fort Hood, Texas. It doesn't seem like there's much out there--but the laptop mounted on his dashboard tells Palmer...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Did a Muslim professor use activism as a cloak for terror?(Sami Al-Arian)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff For George W. Bush, it was just another campaign stop. But for Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida engineering professor, it was a golden opportunity. When Bush appeared at Tampa's Strawberry Festival in...

Now, Flexible Force: Amid the Iraqi buildup, Donald Rumsfeld is reshaping the Pentagon's time-honored ways of thinking about war.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas and John Barry When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set out to "transform" the military in 2001, the prevailing view among Washington lobbyists, journalists, politicians and not a few members of the United States...

Newsmakers.(Pamela Anderson)(The Beatles)(Interview)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Ginanne Brownell in London; BJ Sigesmund The Beatles' Very Last Show The Beatles never reunited after that exhilarating, to-hell-with-everything rooftop concert where John Lennon told the crowd he hoped they'd passed the...

Perspectives.( )
March 3, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: CNN, The Hill, (South Florida) Sun-Sentinel, Reuters, C-SPAN, New York Times, ABCNEWS.COM, Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, Reuters, Associated Press " 'Gee, I'm sorry'? That...

Exclusive: The Defector's Secrets.(Hussein Kamel)
March 3, 2003... Byline: John Barry Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein's inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, Iraq...

Media: Hustling to the Front.(Larry Flynt)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Holly Bailey As the United States prepares for military action in Iraq, the media are gearing up, too. And not just the usual suspects. A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt after the...

Pakistan: Controlling 'Evil'.(crackdown on performing arts)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Zahid Hussain in Peshawar For the past 40 years, 50-year-old Shaukat Khan has made a modest income singing and dancing at weddings, family celebrations and private gala parties. Now he is being run out...

Update: Starting To Accept 'The Worst'.(Laci Peterson)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Andrew Murr Last week's police search of the Modesto, Calif., home of Laci and Scott Peterson brought new trauma to the family of the missing pregnant woman. Investigators won't say what was among the nearly 100 items they hauled...

Crime: A Google For Cops.(law enforcement database tool 'Coplink' produced by Knowledge Computer Corp.)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin As any crime fighter worth his tights will tell you, it takes a nerd to beat the bad guys. Spider-Man wouldn't even be spinning webs if it weren't for that science-loving Peter Parker. So it is in real life that a...

States Of The Nation: Singing the Budget-Cut Blues.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Rebecca Sinderbrand With economies lagging and deficits climbing to historic highs, states are facing the toughest fiscal climate in more than half a century. And there's no end in sight: next year's deficits are projected to be...

Infidelity: Some Friendly Advice.(Shirley Glass)(Interview)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Pat Wingert Those trapped in unhappy marriages are most vulnerable to affairs--or so it seemed. Shirley Glass, author and one of the nation's leading experts on infidelity, says that that image is increasingly wrong. More spouses...

Books: Flying Colors.(Book Review)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows In the seat pocket in front of you there is a piece of art. Compiled for the first time in a new book, the urgent cartoons of airline safety cards--all bold outlines, bright colors and swirling red arrows--are...

Toys: Is This Just Kid's Play?(G.I. Joe toys )(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Five GI's tentatively enter a bullet-ridden residence. Before making it in, one falls to the ground, wounded by an unseen enemy. His scarred comrade watches and grasps a box of iodine pills. A scene from Iraq?...

Rolling the Market Dice.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Friends and investors, it's time to decide. How much of your money should be in stocks and how much in bonds or cash? Economists are sharply divided on the economy's real health. One outcome could send stocks...

The Night the Music Died: A concert turned catastrophic when a Rhode Island nightclub burst into flames, killing nearly 100 people.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Dirk Johnson On a day of work drudgery, it was a chance meeting that put Tina Ayer on a cloud. Ayer, a 33-year-old housekeeper at the Fairfield Inn in Warwick, R.I., happened to bump into Jack Russell, the lead singer of Great...

'A Tragic Error': On Feb. 7, Jesica Santillan was given the heart-lung transplant that was supposed to save her life. Instead, it killed her. How did things go so wrong?
March 3, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler The calls began going out from Boston late on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 6, and continued well into the following morning. Somewhere in the six-state region covered by the New England Organ Bank a young person was...

Health: Are We Dying To Be Thin?
March 3, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael The makers of the wildly popular rapid weight-loss supplement Xenadrine RFA-1 like to brag in ads that their product "makes national news." Last week's headlines can't have been what they had in mind. Baltimore...

Home: Kitschy Kitchens.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Tanaka At first, it made sense. Replicate all the best stuff from Mom's kitchen--like green glassware, chrome-finished toasters and those curvy small appliances--and hope to reconnect with happy childhood memories. But now...

Money: Foreign Affairs.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Mon dieu! Caramba! Wherever you're shopping, you might be surprised to discover that your credit-card company is adding 3 percent to your foreign purchases as a fee for converting currencies. These fees are a...

Vive La France! Road Test: Babolat Pure Drive.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Tom Watson It occurs to me, midstroke, that this might not be the best time to take to the field of battle with a tennis racket made by the French. As I charge the net, coiled for the attack, the questions arise: Will my racket be...

Ask Tip Sheet.(environmental affects of salt poured on roads)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Sally Atkinson What happens to all the salt poured on our roads each year? Does it cause any environmental damage? --Ken Saltzman, Rochester, NY Sixteen million tons of sodium chloride was dumped on U.S. roads in 2001. And...

Family: A Parting Favor.(party favors for children)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? Then why keep giving out lavish goodie bags at your kids' parties? Parents are loading down partygoers with cheesy plastic toys and sugary snacks just to keep up...

Drinks: Keeping It Cool.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten If you're a wine lover, you've probably got a few bottles stashed in a closet or under the bed. And you probably know that fluctuations in temperature can quickly turn a lovely 1999 California Cab into vinegar. So...

Technology: What's the Service Fee, Kenneth?(satellite radio)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten You're creeping along in L.A. traffic, zapping from one dopey radio ad to another. Would a little music be too much to ask for? Not anymore. For a hookup fee of $14.99 and $9.99 a month, you can get 101...

Travel: Belize.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme Scuba divers have flocked to Belize--the English-speaking paradise between Guatemala and Mexico--ever since Jacques Cousteau explored the massive barrier reef and legendary Blue Hole. But landlubbers will also find...

Mother Superior: As 'Six Feet Under' begins its splendid third season, the family matriarch Frances Conroy cuts loose at last.( )
March 3, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Frances Conroy's house in Los Angeles has become known throughout the local cat community as the place to go when you're down on your luck. Tom, a striking black tomcat, wandered over eight months ago, starving. "He...

Survivor: Kandahar: A new reality-TV series applies a winning formula to a serious topic--the war with Al Qaeda and the Taliban.('Profiles from the Front Lines')(Television Program Review)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon The moment in "Profiles From the Front Lines"--ABC's new reality show about U.S. forces in Afghanistan--when I realized I wasn't cut out for combat was the moment in which members of the 82nd Airborne Division board...

Waiting, One Hand Behind: Our history books say we fight for freedom. They don't say anything about going into battle to save face. And whose face are we trying to save?
March 10, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen I am waiting for something. I'm not sure exactly what it is until my father calls. He is equal parts exasperated and anguished, a man who reads history voraciously and yet is now flabbergasted by current events. "We...

Daniel Libeskind Takes Home the Prize: After a bruising competition, a world-class avant-garde designer wins architecture's commission of the century: the remaking of the World Trade Center site.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan You have to catch Daniel Libeskind on the fly these days. The once obscure architect--a revered avant-garde theorist who spent the first 20 years of his career without building so much as a birdhouse--was a...

A Tale of Cheatin' Hearts: You'll read and read--and won't even try to sleep.("A Ship Made of Paper")(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows When we meet Daniel Emerson, the hero of Scott Spencer's engaging new novel, "A Ship Made of Paper," his affair with Iris Davenport has not yet begun. He's driving his live-in girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter,...

Pixels to Pavement: Carmakers, desperate to connect with Gen Y, are discovering the best place to hang for inspiration and buzz: videogames.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Keith Naughton When Mazda decided to bring back its legendary RX sports car a few years ago, it feared it would be eating the Nissan Z's dust. The resurrected Z would hit the streets a year ahead of the RX-8. To get a jump on the...

Japan's Hidden Gems: Stocks are trading at fire-sale prices, and investors are starting to hunt for deals.
March 10, 2003... Byline: George Wehrfritz There are many potentially lucrative little secrets hidden in Japan, and Exedy Corp. may be one of them. It's come up with a new technology for lightweight transmissions used in hybrid and fuel-cell-powered...

Conventional Wisdom: United Nations Edition.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... It sounded like a good idea: Get another United Nations resolution against Iraq. But now more of our allies are resolutely against us. C.W. Bush - Is he making it up as he goes along? Offers yet...

Mail Call: Coping in a Time of Uncertainty.(Letter to the Editor)
March 10, 2003... Readers seemed to show remarkable resilience in confronting their fears and anxiety about a possible war with Iraq, the subject of our Feb. 24 cover story. While a number faulted the media's persistent drumbeat to war--what one called "Chicken...

Blood, Oil & Iraq: The Iraq showdown is not over petroleum, even if some think of it as 'black gravy'.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Hirsh Vladimir Putin knows his value to George W. Bush. The U.S. president hasn't talked to Gerhard Schroder, Germany's newly pacifist chancellor, in months. Jacques Chirac--zut!--Bush hasn't much time for him these days....

The Banality of Fear: Saddam's power doesn't rest only on his family, or even on his intelligence apparatus. He has a vast bureaucracy of helpers.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey The 19-year-old German beauty queen hoped TO see President Saddam Hussein last week, but had to settle for what she called "a very long meeting" with his elder son, Uday. The next morning over breakfast she spoke...

Mother Knows Best: One of Kim Jong Il's sons tried to visit Disneyland. The other may be winning the succession struggle.
March 10, 2003... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Hideko Takayama Even by Pyongyang's bizarre standards, the military directive is a strange one. Instead of laying down new orders or repeating old ones, the 16-page internal document, circulated by the People's...

The Biggest Catch Yet: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a.k.a. 'The Brain,' was planning horrific new attacks on the United States.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas In the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush keeps a list of the most-wanted Qaeda operatives. Whenever one is captured or killed, he crosses his name off. Last week the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker As we were working on this week's cover package, I kept wondering why the press has not paid more attention to George W. Bush's religious beliefs. Some have (including the excellent Web site beliefnet.com), but a...

The Keys to the Future: A new generation of pianists re-energize the world of jazz.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin Manhattan's P.J. Clarke's was crowded with men showing off their 30-inch waists and women packed into dresses that seemed to be spirit-gummed to their bodies. It was Esquire's 70th anniversary party. The wait staff was...

We Had a Farm in Africa: A fresh, Oscar-worthy tale of the Jewish diaspora.("Nowhere in Africa")(Movie Review)
March 10, 2003... Byline: David Ansen If Hitler hadn't come along, Jettel and Walter Redlich would have considered themselves more German than Jewish. But in 1938 Walter (Merab Ninidze), a lawyer, is prescient enough to know he has to get his wife and...

Don't Play It Again: A schizoid action flick bogs down in lofty intentions.("Tears of the Sun")(Movie Review)
March 10, 2003... Byline: David Ansen. "Tears of the Sun" is being sold as a kicka-- Bruce Willis action flick, but the highfalutin (and meaningless) title suggests it has loftier intentions. It's set in Nigeria against a background of ethnic cleansing;...

Temporary Worker, Permanent Loser? I can deal with the low pay and lackluster love life. But please, don't ask me if I'm having fun yet.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Rybicki One day I was talking with one of my fellow temporary employees when he let it drop that he merely uses temping to supplement the income from his private business. So I asked him how he employs himself. Turns out he...

After: How America Confronted the Sept. 12 Era: From his sweeping new book on how America responded to September 11, Steven Brill follows Attorney General John Ashcroft through the creation of the controversial USA Patriot Act.(Excerpt)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Steven Brill TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 When he got the news of the second plane hitting, Attorney General John Ashcroft was in a small government Cessna jet on his way to Milwaukee, where he was going to participate in the...

Bush and God: A higher calling: It is his defining journey--from reveler to revelation. A biography of his faith, and how he wields it as he leads a nation on the brink of war.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman George W. Bush rises ahead of the dawn most days, when the loudest sound outside the White House is the dull, distant roar of F-16s patrolling the skies. Even before he brings his wife, Laura, a morning cup of...

The White House: Gospel on the Potomac: Every president since Washington has invoked the Almighty. But you can't judge a politician by the Scripture he quotes.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Kenneth L. Woodward Whenever a president speaks openly of his religious faith, citizens want to know how that faith affects his political priorities. And so we look for clues. But the lines between religious convictions and public...

The Sin of Pride: Vision Thing: A scholar wonders if Bush has the humility to see the nuance of this conflict.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Martin E. Marty "God bless America." For decades, chief executives have acted like priests of the national religion. Sometimes they soothe--think of shuttle disasters or terrorist attacks--and sometimes they inflame, as in times of...

Dance of the Cubans: Miami community leaders are taking a kinder, gentler approach to the Fidel Castro regime.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Usmanis Barreiros is no fan of Fidel Castro. "Communism," he says, "is s--t." A year and a half ago, Barreiros, 58, emigrated legally from the island (Cuba allows some to leave each year), landing in Miami with...

Homeland Insecurity: Budget woes force states to pull cops off the street.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Nadine Joseph and Rebecca Sinderbrand Remote and tranquil, the little Oregon town of Enterprise is an idyllic place to escape the hassles of life. Residents are just hoping outlaws don't feel the same way. With severe cuts in...

Sifting the Embers in Rhode Island.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin with Ken Shulman in Rhode Island Six-hundred dollars. That's how much more money it would have cost the owners of a Rhode Island nightclub to buy fire-resistant sound insulation instead of the highly flammable packaging...

In Bed With The Pentagon.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Jonathan Alter I spent a few days in December on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf. My bunkmates were Palestinian journalists from the Mideast Broadcasting Co. (MBC), all of whom acknowledged that they refer to suicide bombers in...

Newsmakers.(Column)
March 10, 2003... Byline: David Gates, Devin Gordon Fighting The Power If antiwar folks were hoping for high drama at last week's Grammys, they must have gotten the wrong decade. True, Sheryl Crow wore that no war guitar strap, but not the T shirt the...

Perspectives.(Column)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Newsweek Bureau Reports, The Hill, Dayton Daily News, Associated Press, The Hill, (Canada) National Post, Associated Press, CNN, Associated Press, Variety "I'm not afraid. I'll be a human...

Using the Same Old Eyes.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper In creating the department of Homeland Security, Congress aimed for a new bureaucracy with its own staff of analysts to cast a fresh eye over "raw" intelligence from the CIA, FBI and NSA. The...

Saudis: No 'Particular Concern'.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff In a move expected to infuriate religious conservatives and human-rights advocates alike, the Bush administration has decided to reject the recommendation of a special government commission to place Saudi Arabia on...

Graham: His 9-11 'Outrage'.(Senator Bob Graham)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff What prompted Florida Sen. Bob Graham to join the Democratic presidential sweepstakes last week? The 66-year-old Graham--who recently had heart surgery--has toyed with the idea of running for years, but says he...

North Korea: Crossing The Line.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe The Bush Administration refuses to call it "a red line," but that's the message it's sending to North Korea as the Stalinist state inches closer to reviving its nuclear site at Yongbyon. The red line in question is...

Tobacco: In a Cloud Of Smoke.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley After two weeks of debate, nearly all the 171 nations at the World Health Organization conference in Geneva last week had agreed on a way to help put an end to the 4 million tobacco-related deaths that occur...

Marketing: Flogging on a Blog.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy The exploding popularity of Weblogs--diarylike personal Web sites, also known as blogs--is often touted as a shining example of untainted expression. But marketers at Dr Pepper see the movement as the perfect launch...

Ads: A Plate of Controversy.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Seth Mnookin People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is known for purposefully outrageous ads designed to garner as much attention as sympathy. But even by that standard, the group's latest campaign is eye-popping. THE...

Taxes: Don't Even Think of It.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Eve Conant Thinking about cheating on your taxes? If you're a Russian citizen, you may get a house visit from the tax police. The new "Instruction No. 525" allows police to contact colleagues and family members of any individual...

Millionaires: Your Ship Has Sailed...(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson So you (and by you I mean someone far richer than you) sank $60 million to $80 million into sailing in the America's Cup. It was a thrill, but now what? Until last year you'd have had to unload your old yacht and...

Food: A Bite Out Of Time.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Bret Begun It's not wrong to assume that top chefs spend their time thinking about the food on your plate, not the plate itself. But every so often some tableware comes along that merits a new gastronomic vision. Or revision, as is...

Elmer Bernstein: From the Gray List to the A List.(Interview)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson You may not recognize Elmer Bernstein's name, but you'll recognize his music. In more than 50 years he's composed the scores to such movies as "The Magnificent Seven," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Thoroughly Modern...