Newsweek articles from May 2008

Newsweek archives from May 2008

The Age of Grand Dilution.(The Money Culture; Daniel Gross)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross Given that National City had to raise capital quickly, selling stock at a huge discount was 'the least unattractive' alternative. Watching CNBC can be a little like watching the movie "Groundhog Day." and no, it's...

Now It's The $6 Loaf Of Bread.(Food)
May 5, 2008... As prices soar, food has replaced oil as the big threat to the long-running global economic expansion. In the afternoons, Ringo Purganan, a 20-year-old who is training to be a cook, pedals his bicycle home through the densely populated...

You Need To Fall To Rise.(Turning Point)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Kevin Cronin My son's handling of his addiction was an inspiration. On May 14, 1977, at the age of 25, I became a father. Although REO Speedwagon was having some success, the truth is I was still counting my change to pay the...

Heat Your Vegetables.(Sharon Begley; ON SCIENCE)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Sharon Begley Crops in the tropics will do worse, since extra heat where it's already hot hurts more than it helps. Whenever global warming began looking too bleak--with such threats as dengue fever spreading like kudzu out of...

Toward A New New Orleans.(Culture)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Malcolm Jones And Cathleen McGuigan; With Allison Samuels Has this vibrant culture come back from Katrina? Signs point to Yes--but. Drive through St. Roch, a tough New Orleans neighborhood northeast of the French Quarter, and...

The Necklace That Nags.(Enterprise; Bytes)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Linda Stern Can't remember if you took your medicine? Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a sensor necklace that can record when its wearer has swallowed pills, and send reminders if necessary. ...

'What's The Red Key For?'.(Enterprise; Bytes)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Linda Stern Teens may not know much about big business, but they sure know about cell phones. A Dutch firm is now sending high-schoolers into corporate settings to tutor technologically challenged workers. Both populations benefit,...

Quick Read.(Enterprise; BYTES)(book review)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Byline: John Sparks The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies By Steve Miller Steve Miller has had an extraordinary career that many of his readers may be glad they haven't shared. After making his...

The Road Ahead for Cars.(Enterprise; MY TURN)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Bob Lutz; Lutz is vice chairman of global product development at General Motors. A General Motors leader says small and electric are the wave of the future. But don't expect the U.S. fleet to resemble Europe's until gas passes $10...

Hey, I Know Where U R.(Enterprise; Q&A With Steven Levy)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Steven Levy Loopt lets you use a cell phone to share locations. Moms and dads, if you want your kids to get a degree, think twice about Stanford. If, like Sam Altman, your matriculating computer-science major gets an idea for a...

Rock-And-Roll Fantasy.(Enterprise; Strategies)(Company overview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton; With Patrick Crowley Harmonix, creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is changing videogames. It's a warm Tuesday night at the Olde Fort Pub in Ft. Thomas, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, and the...

An Oil Oasis.(Enterprise; Global Travel)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy Saudi Arabia challenges our ideas about the Gulf world. On landing at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, it's instantly clear to an outsider that Saudi Arabia is unlike any other place on earth--though not...

To Russia With Cash.(Enterprise; Executive Life)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Anna Nemtsova If there's any doubt that Moscow has arrived as a high-end destination, just try booking a hotel room. Accommodations in the hotel-starved Russian capital are already going for $1,000 a night--not including breakfast....

Roses Are Not Always Red.(Enterprise; Executive Life)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Lily Huang A rose is always a rose, and this spring they'll be on lots of garments and accessories. For chilly days, Anthropologie puts a golden vine of roses on a silk and wool scarf ($88). They garnish Prada's satin clutch ($695;...

Smart Giving.(Enterprise; CAPITAL IDEAS)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Linda Stern Writing checks isn't enough. The new style of philanthropy is hands-on and disciplined. Philanthropy is changing. Inspired by hands-on donors like Bill and Melinda Gates, buried under all the solicitations and...

Cold Facts From a Tiny Nation.(Enterprise; Daniel Gross)(Country overview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross Iceland has only 300,000 people. It's isolated and quirky. This helps explain its micro-economy. Iceland has only 300,000 people. But unlike many other islands with Lilliputian populations, it's not a colony....

Stay True to Your Brand.(Enterprise; LEADERSHIP)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Richard M. Smith Ad guru Rance Crain says the rules are eternal. Crain Communications isn't the highest-profile media company, but each week its publications--including such titles as Advertising Age, Crain's New York Business...

Hot Spots: Al Faisaliah Hotel, Riyadh.(Enterprise)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy THIS luxury Rosewood property, in the oversize Al Faisaliah building, caters to both business and leisure travelers. Rooms: The 197 rooms and 27 suites range from approximately $320 to $3,700. Decor: The look...

Lessons From the 'Divorce Generation'.(Letters)(Correction notice)(Letter to the editor)
May 5, 2008... 'Splitsville': Readers of our cover story on divorce came away with varying impressions. One said, "It was refreshing to see that despite the hardships of divorce, the kids from L.A.'s Grant High class of 1982 feel their parents' divorces were...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham Political campaigns are fascinating for the same reasons great novels are: both feature characters driven and buffeted by ambition, love and pride. And as in literature, scope is important in politics, for the higher...

Questions for Obama.(George F. Will; THE LAST WORD)
May 5, 2008... Byline: George F. Will ***** Correction: In "Questions For Obama" (The Last Word, May 5), George Will said Obama favors eliminating the cap on earnings subject to the 12.4 percent Social Security tax. The tax (currently limited to...

Liberate Us From The Liberators.(Africa)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Scott Johnson And John Barry Southern Africa is paralyzed by a hoary old drama--how to persuade an independence leader to go. Gangs loyal to Robert Mugabe have covertly rampaged across Zimbabwe's countryside for weeks. They...

McCain Vs. McCain.(Fareed Zakaria; World View)(John McCain)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Fareed Zakaria He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can't. Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the...

Hitler Killed My Father.(My Turn)(Adolf Hitler)(Personal account)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Shirley Paryzer Levy; Paryzer Levy Lives In Queens, N.Y. He wouldn't talk about the years he spent in Nazi concentration camps. But they never left him. I am approaching another anniversary of my father's death. It will be more...

Only In America.(Campaign 2008)(Cover story)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Evan Thomas, Holly Bailey And Richard Wolffe; With Suzanne Smalley, Sarah Kliff And Daniel Stone Barack Obama is a Niebuhr-reading ESPN watcher. The origins of his troubles with the 'other' tag. There was a time, not so long...

Brownsville's Bad Lie.(Border Politics)(Brownsville, Texas)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Andrew Murr The fence is coming, and it's causing Texas-size problems for the folks of one city in particular. CLOSE CALL: The proposed path of the border is about 20 feet from the Lambert home For...

The Natural No More.(Politics)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Darman; With Suzanne Smalley The greatest mystery in a mystifying campaign: what happened to Bill? History may record primary day in Pennsylvania as the day Bill Clinton officially became the most tragic figure of the...

Was It Ever Going To Be Easy?(Politics)
May 5, 2008... Race, class, elitism, experience. There are many narratives running throughout this Democratic primary season. A NEWSWEEK forum. Karl Rove Dear Senator Obama -- Four months ago, you took the political world by storm in Iowa. The...

Race, the Race and Relatability.(Politics; THE NEW NEWSWEEK POLL>)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Is Barack Obama an elitist? Can he connect with white working-class voters? These were the questions being asked last week, and they're unlikely to go away as long as the Democratic-nomination battle continues. The new newsweek Poll looks at...

Sexiest Juggler Alive!(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Dr. McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey, stars in the romantic comedy "Made of Honor," which is like "My Best Friend's Wedding," with Dempsey in the Julia Roberts role. He spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Hi, Patrick. How are you...

A Ms. Jones Who's Single Once Again.(Newsmakers)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Poor Star Jones. Who would have thought her marriage wouldn't last? OK, everybody. Last week news broke that the exiled "View" host had filed for divorce from Al Reynolds, her husband of four years. What's got to hurt (besides the heartbreak...

Stepping Into Sister's Shoes.(Newsmakers)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... THE CHART Nobody wants a big sister who is a diva, unless you're trying to make it in Hollywood. Then it can actually help your career. Take this crop of starlets, some of whom are behaving just like their older (but not wiser) siblings....

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Quotation Sources: New York Times, Reuters (2), PBS, CBS, New York Times, CBS, AP, CNN, AP "Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way it was handled." Republican presidential...

In the Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove.(Periscope; JUSTICE)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Michael Isikoff The trial of Chicago developer and political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko has been closely watched for any mention of the defendant's onetime friend, Barack Obama. But last week, prosecutors threw a curveball, telling...

North Korea On The Spot.(Periscope; Espionage)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball Newly declassified spy photos suggesting North Korean involvement in the construction of a Syrian nuclear reactor, which was heavily damaged in an Israeli bombing raid last year, have raised fresh questions about...

A Tense Impasse In Yemen.(Periscope; Terrorism)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Michael Isikoff During a Mideast trip earlier this month, FBI Director Robert Mueller made an unpublicized detour to Yemen in order to press an issue of serious concern to Washington: why has the Yemeni government refused to turn...

Remember That Thing I Just Said? I Never Said It.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. To the tune of "White Christmas," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sings that he's "dreaming of riots in Denver,"...

This Is Your Brain On A Videogame.(Periscope; SCIENCE)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Sharon Begley If proponents of video and computer games are right, the generation that grew up honing its hand-eye coordination by shooting aliens in Halo should be starting to nail real-life aircraft-carrier landings right about...

Endgame Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Now it's time for the Hoosiers and Tar Heels to weigh in on Obama and Hillary. Get ready for more endless analysis. Obama SIDEWAYS - Lost some mojo, but as long as he doesn't blow N.C. and Ore., he's still the nominee. Hillary...

Idol Dancing Edition.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT SOME REALITY TV)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... The most popular reality competitions are getting down to the wire. If only we could say the same for the presidential campaign. Marlee Matlin UP - Deaf actress makes it through six rounds of "Dancing With the Stars." Smooth. David...

Errol Morris.(Periscope; A LIFE IN MOVIES)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... In "Standard Operating Procedure," Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris ("The Fog of War") turns his lens on the photographic legacy of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. His list: My Five Most Important Movies 1. "Make Way for...

A Writer's Brush With Fate.(Periscope; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Havanas in Camelot)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Katie Baker "Havanas in Camelot," A posthumous collection of William Styron's essays, transports us back to an era when being a novelist meant a kind of lustrous celebrity, as Styron and his contemporaries ("our vintage"--Norman...

New Hero Of The High C's.(Periscope; Fast Chat)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: David Gates Peruvian-born tenor Juan Diego Florez, 35, sang "La Fille du Regiment" at the Metropolitan Opera last week, and was cheered wildly after the showpiece aria "Ah! Mes Amis," with its nine high C's. He then sang an encore,...

A Sobering Message.(Periscope; Addiction)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Suzanne Smalley When Tyrone, 41, can't make his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he relies on something else to help him stay sober: text messages. The daily recovery-themed messages from a company called I Live Inspired remind him...

An Algorithm for Mr. Right.(Belief Watch)(eHarmony)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Lisa Miller The site 'has never been limited to a Christian audience or to any subset,' says a company lawyer. Let's say you want to get married and you're thinking of joining an Internet dating site. Wouldn't you want that...

Everything Old Is New Again.(Religion)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Lisa Miller An Anglican theologian explains that the resurrection really happened--and that the Kingdom is really coming. It should come as no surprise that N. T. Wright believes that the resurrection really happened. As the...

The Women The President Loved.(History)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Julia Baird New suggestions that FDR's affair with doting Lucy Mercer never ended. In 1931, when Franklin Roosevelt was considering whether he should, and could, run for the presidency, he called in three physicians to advise...

Getting Away With Torture.(The Veridct)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Dahlia Lithwick Legal maneuvering has shielded those responsible for conditions at Guantanamo Bay. Our "terror trials" aren't working. The prosecutions of a fistful of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay--just getting underway after...

Art Aimed To Shock.(The Arts)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Yale's abortion artist is the latest to try--and fail-- to start a conversation. A German artist wants to install a terminally ill patient in a gallery as an exhibit. In Nicaragua last year, an artist displayed a...

Tip Sheet Mother's Day.(Tip Sheet)
May 5, 2008... Your mom might say she just wants a card or a phone call. But you know better. The problem this year--and, frankly, every year since you were born--is finding something she'll actually like. That's where TIP SHEET comes in. Not only have we...

Checklist: Our Top Picks For The Week.(Tip Sheet)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Rent "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Julian Schnabel's spellbinding tale of a stroke victim's flights of imagination is ravishing to look at, mercifully unsentimental and blissfully avoids almost every cliche of the handicapped-hero genre....

The Doctor Will See You Now.(Tip Sheet; MODERN FAMILY)
May 5, 2008... Byline: Kathleen Deveny; With Anna Kuchment, Karen Springen and Joan Raymond 'We're much more likely to talk about our husbands' sexual inadequacies than our kids' sexual development.' Maybe every generation of parents feels this way,...

Legend or Loser: Does 'Seinfeld' Still Hold Up After 10 Years?(Television)(Viewpoint essay)
May 12, 2008... Nope: When 'Seinfeld' signed off, it was hailed as a classic--the original must-see TV. Looking back now, you can't help wondering, what were we thinking? By Marc Peyser Are you ready to feel old? It was 10 years ago this month that...

The 2008 Bench Press.(Anna Quindlen; THE LAST WORD)(choosing a Supreme Court nominee)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Anna Quindlen The most important decision a president ever makes? It's choosing a Supreme Court nominee. Voters, take note. John Roberts could probably walk through any Home Depot in the nation unnoticed. Barack Obama or...

Honor Thy Father.(Books)(Honor Moore's The Bishop's Daughter)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Jennie Yabroff A daughter's memoir roils her family and the Episcopal Church. Six months after the death of Paul Moore, the Episcopal bishop of New York from 1972 to 1989, his daughter Honor got a phone call. It was her...

Web Site of Hard Knocks.(The Technologist; Steven Levy)(FastWeb)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Steven Levy FastWeb links students with scholarships. But is a $1,500 grant for duck-calling really worth pursuing? Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is "I can't...

The Art Of Mayhem And Murder.(Technology)(Grand Theft Auto IV)
May 12, 2008... Byline: N'Gai Croal The game gives our mercurial hero a conscience, a fatigue with death, a desire to start over. When I write a post about videogames on my NEWSWEEK.com blog, Level Up, my target audience is the sizable one that's...

An Artifice For America.(Culture)(Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies)(Book review)
May 12, 2008... Byline: David Gates In a new history of Niagara Falls, a natural wonder is reshaped by man--and its surroundings become a toxic wasteland. The first European to see Niagara falls didn't enjoy it. "When one stands near the Fall," wrote...

Letters.(Letters)
May 12, 2008... "The Martyr Factory": Readers were fascinated by the tale of a small Libyan town's disproportionate contribution to the pool of Iraqi suicide bombers. One found Kevin Peraino's cover story "historically interesting, insightful and painfully...

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham Perhaps naively, I have always been skeptical of what you might call the Gibbonization of America--that we are, like Rome, fated to inevitable decline. Admittedly, history offers little support for my view that things...

A Chain That Pigs Would Die For.(Project Green)(Heritage Acres)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Anna Kuchment Can food be fast--and fastidious? Chipotle Mexican Grill insists on humanely raised meat. Russ Kremer still chuckles when he remembers the day Steve Ells, CEO of the fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, called...

Natural Response.(Project Green)(organic food)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton; With Hilary Shenfeld, Joan Raymond And Mary Chapman As prices of organic foods rise, plain old fruits and vegetables suddenly look better. Twice a month, Chris McCullough would drive to the Whole Foods market...

Empty-Net Syndrome.(Project Green)(Pacific salmon)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Paul Tolme A disastrous crash in Pacific salmon closes the season. Fishermen wonder: will they come back? Bill Dawson, the owner of San Francisco's Seafood Suppliers, has been in the salmon business for 35 years. Dawson has...

Crying Over Spilt Milk.(Project Green)(food inflation)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross; With Miyoko Ohtake In San Francisco Everyone's talking about the rising costs of food. But for most Americans, the reality isn't so dire. Every day, Bill Higgins, co-owner of Real Restaurants--a group of 13 San...

The Rise Of The Rest.(Cover Story: International; The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria)(rest of the world)(Cover story)(Excerpt)
May 12, 2008... It's true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead. Americans are glum at the moment. No, I mean really...

Something To Shout About.(Giving Globally)(SolarAid)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Mac Margolis Africa needed hearing aids. Howard Weinstein got a chance to start over. It's a long way from Montreal to Otse, a speck of a town in the backcountry of Botswana. But Howard Weinstein, 57, is glad he made the...

The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan.(History)(Ronald Reagan)(Discussion)
May 12, 2008... Barack Obama's not the only one calling him a 'transformational' leader. So is Sean Wilentz. The outcome of this November's election may hinge on a single question: which presidential candidate will prevail among the "Reagan Democrats"?...

Marking Time With A Glacier.(My Turn)(Portage Glacier)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Tom Yeager; Yeager Lives In Girdwood, Alaska. As our family grew larger, climate change caused the massive wall of ice to grow smaller. It is a bit disconcerting to be old enough to have witnessed changes that were once thought...

Obama's New Gospel.(Politics)(Barack Obama)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Eve Conant And Richard Wolffe What does Barack Obama believe? It's a question that an army of surrogates, out trying to assure religious voters of his faith, is answering again and again. Tim Roemer is a gifted salesman working...

A Turbulent Pastor.(Politics)(John Hagee)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Holly Bailey John Hagee has his share of out-there opinions, but lucky for the candidate, he's in a moment of silence. John McCain likes to think of himself as a straight shooter--a man of honor who doesn't duck tough...

Look Past Polygamy.(Justice)(1953 Short Creek raid)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Andrew Murr The 1953 Short Creek raid taught authorities a valuable lesson. It was July 26, 1953. In the pre-dawn hours, 120 heavily armed Arizona lawmen prepared to descend upon the small polygamous community of Short Creek,...

She Thought She Could Do Better.(Tragedy)(Deborah Jeane Palfrey)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Eve Conant And Evan Thomas Deborah Jeane Palfrey saw a business opportunity and took it. But her success was also her downfall. She was never your typical madam. Discretion was definitely not one of her virtues. After Deborah...

Emile Hirsch's Amazing Race.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Emile Hirsch drives the Mach 5 in "Speed Racer." He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Ramin Setoodeh. After doing this movie, are you a better driver? It's all green screen. But I'd come off "Into the Wild," where I'd...

Affairs to Remember.(Newsmakers; SECRET ROMANCES)(Barbara Walters, Cher, Mariah Carey)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Sometimes you can keep a secret for only so long. That's what happened to three icons last week who went public about long-hushed romances. Barbara Walters: Says she had affair in the '70s with Sen. Edward Brooke of Mass. Cher:...

Billy Ray's Baby's Got Back.(Newsmakers)(Miley Cyrus)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff--they all grew up too fast. Now Miley Cyrus, 15, could lose her tween tiara, too, after appearing in a racy Vanity Fair shoot spread. But if Cyrus wants to stay on top, she needs to learn to walk a...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
May 12, 2008... "I might not know him as well as I thought." Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, breaking from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and denouncing Wright's inflammatory comments as "giving comfort to those that prey on...

Something Wasn't Wright, So Oprah Left His Church.(Periscope; Campaign 2008)(Jeremiah Wright, Oprah Winfrey)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Allison Samuels For any spiritually minded, upwardly mobile African-American living in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the Trinity United Church of Christ was--and still is--the place to be. That's what drew Oprah Winfrey, a recent...

The Price Of Peace Deals.(Periscope; Pakistan)(Baitullah Mehsud)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball As Pakistan's new government pursues peace deals with Islamic militant leaders in tribal regions along the Afghanistan border, some U.S. counterterrorism officials fear their "worst nightmare" is unfolding: a...

A Tax Holiday To Nowhere.(Periscope; Opinion)(gas tax)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Alter Hillary Clinton has joined John McCain in proposing the most irresponsible policy idea of the year: suspending the federal gas tax this summer. Both of them know it's a terrible pander, and yet they're pushing it...

[Insert Your Own Pocket-Rocket Joke Here].(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Barbara Walters, Buzz Bissinger, Roger Clemens)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go Thirty years after the fact, Barbara Walters needlessly reveals that she had an affair with a married U.S. senator. Why...

At MIT, The Greening Of Young Minds.(Periscope; Energy)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Club)
May 12, 2008... Byline: Daniel McGinn It's a Monday night at MIT, just a few weeks before final exams. Grad students Tegin Teich and Todd Schenk could be studying or relaxing. Instead, they're hustling through a maze of basement hallways in search of...

The Wright Stuffed.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM)(Jeremiah Wright)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... If Obama wins both Ind. and N.C., it's over. If Hillary wins both, she's back. A split, and it's on to W.Va. and Puerto Rico. Yikes. Bush DOWN-Finish with a flourish? Nah. With eight months to go, he's just phoning it in. Obama...

The Longest (Two) Days.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT THE NFL DRAFT)(Miami Dolphins' Jake Long, Atlanta Falcons' Matt Ryan and Houston Texans )(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Sports bloviators and bloggers think they know winners and losers. But it'll take three years to see who really panned out. Longs UP-Top teams went Long--Miami with first pick Jake and then Rams with Howie's kid Chris. Ryan UP-Third...

A Family Of Readers--And Writers.(Periscope; Fast Chat)(Read All About It!)(Interview)
May 12, 2008... The old saw goes, "Write what you know." Long before she became First Lady, Laura Bush was a librarian; for two years during her tenure as First Daughter, Jenna Bush worked as a schoolteacher. So naturally their first collaboration as...