Newsweek articles from November 2003

Newsweek archives from November 2003

Don't Touch That Remote: There is now a vaster wasteland than any the FCC chairman imagined. It's the opposite of destination television - dead-end TV, I guess.(Column)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen I wouldn't say I watch a lot of television. I watch "Law & Order," natch, and "Law & Order: SVU" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," and "Law & Order: Trading Spaces" and "Law & Order With Brian Williams" and "Law &...

A Secret Recipe for Success: Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner dish up management tips from Newman's Own.(Interview)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Two decades ago Paul Newman mixed up some salad dressing in a tub in his basement and bottled it for gifts. What to do with the stuff left over? He and a longtime pal, author A. E. Hotchner, wondered if they could...

A Tough Cleanup Job: The Feds target the king of retailing over contract labor.(Wal-Mart investigated for use of illegal immigrant laborers)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Daniel McGinn There are no locusts descending on Bentonville, Ark., no outbreaks of boils or killer hailstorms. But the folks at Wal-Mart's headquarters can be excused if they feel like they're living through plagues of Biblical...

Neither a Borrower Nor... When it comes to footing the bill for Iraq, Washington ought to take a cue from Shakespeare, and not play financial games.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan Washington has a knack for fiscal folly. It's the place that created the Social Security trust fund, which has no funds and can't be trusted. It let George W. Bush reduce the stated cost of his tax cuts by pretending...

Conventional Wisdom: SPECIAL CABARET EDITION.(political satire, current events)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Bush distances himself from General (Muslims are Satan) Boykin. But why doesn't he just fire him? C.W. Bush = Cowboy in chief trades chaps for pinstripes during Asia trip. Better late than never. Rummy ...

Mail Call: Rush Limbaugh Takes On a New Battle.(Letter to the Editor)
November 3, 2003... Of the more than 200 letters we received on our Oct. 20 cover story on Rush Limbaugh's painkiller dependency, nearly half criticized us for what they considered an unfair attack on the conservative radio personality. Many Limbaugh supporters...

Rummy's New Headaches: He's just the man to call if you need to fight a war. But is Rumsfeld the right man to win the peace?(Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld)
November 3, 2003... Byline: John Barry Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a congressman from Illinois back in the 1960s, but these days he seems to have lost his touch on Capitol Hill. He sends up endless reports, gives regular closed-door briefings and...

The $87 Billion Money Pit: It's the boldest reconstruction project since the Marshall Plan. And we cannot afford to fail. But where are the billions really going?
November 3, 2003... Byline: Rod Nordland and Michael Hirsh Helmut Doll waits. And waits. Doll, the German site manager for Babcock Power, a subcontractor of Siemens, is hoping for the arrival of Bechtel engineers at the Daura power plant, Baghdad's largest....

A Man With a Mission: Lewis Lucke came out of retirement to help rebuild Iraq. He won't let gunmen and 16-hour days diminish his enthusiasm.(Interview)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Christian Caryl in Baghdad and John Barry in Washington Jet-lagged but upbeat as ever, Lewis Lucke clambers through the rubble of Al-Mamun switching station. American missiles blasted the place four times during the war, then...

The Editor's Desk.(George W. Bush and postwar reconstruction, Iraq)(Editorial)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Sometimes political fortunes can turn on one number. In George W. Bush's case, it may be 87 billion. You can trace the recent acceleration in his loss of public support directly to his speech in September telling the...

Bringing Up Britney: Sex appeal, far more than music, is what sells Spears. Does she know it, does she like it--and how far will she take it, now that she's not a kid anymore?(Britney Spears)(Interview)(Biography)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Lorraine Ali Britney Spears rips open a bag of extra-cheesy Doritos, dips one into a bowl of tuna salad, crunches loudly then wipes off the excess orange dust on the thighs of her hip-hugging jeans. "Sorry, I'm just stuffin' my...

Playing to the Crowd: The Brit comedy 'Love Actually' aims to please. Before it makes $125 million, quick question: is it any good?(Movie Review)
November 3, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Here's a verbal Rorschach test: when you hear the term "crowd-pleasing" attached to a movie, does it seem a recommendation or a dis? How you respond to this may determine your reaction to Richard Curtis's "Love...

A Different Kind of Skin Flick.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: David Ansen "The Human Stain," director Robert Benton and screenwriter Nicholas Meyer's ambitious, respectful adaptation of Philip Roth's masterly novel, bites off far more than it can chew, but when was the last time a Hollywood...

Reaching the 'Point of No Return' in Public: When 'J' has a fit, spectators assume poor parenting is to blame. They never suspect that he's autistic.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Marie Lee On a sweltering August day, I decide to spend the afternoon with J, my 3-1/2-year-old, riding the trolley that cruises around our city. J is autistic with limited speech, but his smile tells me he agrees with my idea. ...

A Firefight Over Abortion: In a dramatic move, Congress votes to ban 'partial birth' procedures, setting the stage for a judicial showdown.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Debra Rosenberg For Dr. Leroy Carhart, last week was deja vu all over again. When Nebraska passed a ban on so-called partial-birth abortion in 1997, Carhart challenged it in court, contending the law was so vague it could restrict...

'And Ain't I a Woman?': The road to female suffrage was tough, but so was Sojourner Truth. An American story.(Biography)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Eleanor Clift A former slave named Sojourner Truth electrified a woman's-rights convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, striding to the front of the crowd through a raucous band of clergymen who were determined to disrupt the meeting....

Who Has the Right to Die? Gov. Jeb Bush made headlines by intervening to keep Terri Schiavo alive. But behind the controversy lies the story of a family's tragic disintigration.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores The day before Terri Schiavo's life descended into a private purgatory in 1990, she indulged in a guilty pleasure: an $80 visit to the hairdresser. When she told her husband, Michael, over the phone, he reacted...

Ghosts of Columbine: A chilling videotape brought the killers back, if only for a moment. But at the school, where the pain is just below the surface, the tragedy never goes away. Inside a world of contradictions.(recovery at Colmbine High School, Littleton, Colorado)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows It's one of the last football games of the high-school season, and the leaves of the aspen trees have turned street-sign yellow. The defending state champs are getting trounced, which only serves to further perkify...

Bryant's Legal Eagle: Pamela Mackey is the public face of the defense--and the basketballer's best hope of staying out of jail.(trial of basketball player Kobe Bryant and strategy his defense attorneys are taking)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Andrew Murr and Paul Tolme As Kobe Bryant struggled to get his head back into basketball for the NBA season tip-off this week, the world's focus remained on another match, this one in a small court in Eagle, Colo. On Monday, Judge...

What Will Iraq Cost Bush? Even administration insiders are starting to worry about how the war will affect the president's re-election chances. In New Hampshire, the omens aren't reassuring.(George W. Bush, public opinion of Iraq War, and upcoming presidential election)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman Hilary Cleveland of New London, N.H., goes way back with the Bush family. Her late husband, James Colgate (Jimmy) Cleveland, was a Republican in Congress, where his paddle-ball partner in the House gym was George...

Robert's Rules For Rummy: Rumsfeld's 1950s-style unilateralism is out of touch with the way the world works.(former defense secretary Robert McNamara offers advice for current secretary Donald Rumsfeld)(Interview)(Column)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Jonathan Alter I can't help it. I like Donald Rumsfeld and I like his sharp elbows. I like the way he spars with reporters and tries to cut through all the Beltway gunk. Of course he probably should have been fired last summer for...

Newsmakers.(Liza Minnelli, Dustin Hoffman)(Interview)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon, Nicki Gostin Ready to Rumble Last month NEWSWEEK was keen to interview Liza Minnelli. She was filming a guest spot on a Fox sitcom, and a Broadway musical about her ex-husband Peter Allen was set to open. Was this...

Perspectives.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Guardian, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, WXIA-TV Atlanta, Associated Press, CNN "May God have mercy on all...

Intelligence: Divisions Inside Iran.(international community struggles to determine whether to trust Iran on issues of terrorism and nuclear weapons)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball with Babak Dehghanpisheh in Tehran The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany last week congratulated themselves for persuading Iran's ruling ayatollahs to "suspend" a suspected uranium-enrichment program...

Colleges: Preventing Suicides.(universities come together in effort to prevent student suicides)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Julie Scelfo The third apparent suicide at New York University in less than 40 days sent shock waves of sadness and concern across college campuses nationwide. Two students fell to their deaths from the 10th-floor balcony of the...

TV: Not a Pretty Portrait?(television miniseries portraying Ronald and Nancy Reagan raises controversy)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Marc Peyser Just when you thought no one even watched TV movies anymore, along comes "The Reagans," and people are dying just to read the script. The CBS miniseries doesn't air until Nov. 16, but leaked copies of the screenplay and...

Gifts: Lost in Translation.(George W. Bush's visit to Japan)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Tamara Lipper Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi is always up on the news. So when it came time to exchange gifts during President George W. Bush's visit to Japan, Koizumi may have recalled a recent incident in which Bush...

Homo Sapiens: A New Answer to an Old 'Quest'-ion.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's a quandary that goes back to the ancient Greeks: what makes Homo sapiens unique? Plato famously thought he had the answer, arguing that humans were the world's only hairless and featherless creatures to walk on...

Entertaining: Sushi With A Smile.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Jenny Hontz Gary Arabia has organized thousands of parties--birthday bashes for Shaq, the opening reception at the 2000 Republican National Convention. But the GOP won't exactly play to its base if it gets Arabia onboard in '04....

Bears: Just Say No to Sugar.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Turns out the bears in North Carolina could use a Candyholics Anonymous. Tempted with a new form of bait--huge half-ton blocks of candy some hunters have been using in recent years--the bears are...

Media: Lost and Found.(Book Review)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Elise Soukup No news is good news, but as we found this year, tragic news can sometimes turn into good news, too. In the months leading up to and during the war with Iraq, the public was fascinated by the missing-and-then-recovered...

Law: Don't Mess With Art.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Jason McLure Artist David Phillips believes his art is in danger of being trashed. Not by reviewers, but by investment giant Fidelity. The company commissioned Phillips to create a sculpture park next to a Massachusetts office...

Deals: Passion Play.(Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion of the Christ')(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Sean Smith Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" has a U.S. distributor: a small independent label, Newmarket. As reported in NEWSWEEK, Newmarket was a top contender for Gibson's foreign-language film about...

Adventures in Agelessness: The young want to be older, and the older want to be younger. It's just another chapter in Americans' endless 'pursuit of happiness.'.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We live in an age when people increasingly refuse to act their age. The young (or many of them) yearn to be older, while the older (or many of them) yearn to be younger. We have progressively demolished the life...

Cosby in Winter: America's favorite father has become a senior citizen. Anguishing over the loss of his son and frustrated by modern life, the comedian explores health and aging in a new book.(Bill Cosby)(Interview)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels Imagine for a moment that Cliff Huxtable has been possessed by the ghost of Fred Sanford. That's the first thing that comes to mind when Bill Cosby greets you at 3 in the afternoon in his palatial Manhattan...

A Matter of Loyalty: He joined the Army with a fake green card. Now what?(Pvt. Juan Escalante)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Donatella Lorch Like thousands of other U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Pvt. Juan Escalante, a mechanic for the Third Infantry Division, did an unglamorous job in a dangerous place. From March until September, he recovered and repaired...

Reading, Writing, Recess: Is jump-rope the answer to the obesity epidemic?
November 3, 2003... Byline: Peg Tyre Shortly after Rebecca Lamphere bought her new house in Virginia Beach, Va., she began to notice that it was quiet--too quiet. Lamphere had expected to hear the shouts of children at recess from the Parkway Elementary...

Genealogy Goes High Tech.(Roots for Real genetic tracking service)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana Once genealogy was the pastime of the Burke's Peerage, blue-haired, blue-blood set. But now new advances in DNA technology are opening ancestral doors so both orphans and heirs to the throne can find where their...

Blowing the Whistle on Drugs: A raid on a California laboratory threatens to blemish America's athletes--again.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr It is America's dirty little secret (actually not so very secret): there is an epidemic of performance-enhancing drugs at the heart of our sports culture. Fans know it intuitively, from the bulked-up athletes whose heft...

Black Box Voting Blues.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy After the traumas of butterfly ballots and hanging chad, election officials are embracing a brave new ballot: sleek, touch-screen terminals known as direct recording electronic voting systems (DRE). States are starting...

The Magic of Mushrooms.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Anne Underwood Holy shiitake! That--in short, unscientific terms--is the reaction of researchers hunting for potential new medicines in mushrooms. Tests in lab dishes indicate that fabulous fungi with names like lion's mane and...

Travel: The Virtuous Vacation.
November 3, 2003... Byline: Matthew Link Looking for something a little deeper than a tan on your next trip? Volunteer vacations may be the answer. From studying monarch butterflies in Mexico to teaching English in Tanzania, these working vacations give you a...

Hotels: Haunted.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Raina Kelley Ghosts aren't guaranteed, but book one of these rooms, turn out the lights and hope for a creep show. Hay-Adams Hotel hayadams.com From $495 per night Washington: "Haunted" by Clover Adams, wife of...

Getaways: Undead, But Cool.(vampire vacations )(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana Think a vampire vacation sounds creepy? Even in the post-"Buffy" era, an undead vacation doesn't have to be uncool. Check out Romania (romaniatourism.com), home of the original Count Dracula (Vlad Tepes, a national...

Road Test: Ford F-150: Eats SUVs for lunch!(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Keith Naughton As I nosed the brawny Ford F-150 into a jammed parking lot before a Detroit Lions game, the attendant sighed. "It's getting harder and harder to fit big SUVs like yours in my lot," he griped. Of course, the F-150...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael Why does scratching stop an itch? --Wilbur Seymour, Sandia Park, N.M. Like many questions Ask Tip Sheet receives, this one's been puzzling scientists for years. Not much is known about itching, but it likely...

Health: Popeye's New Peril?(pesticide residues in food)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Anne Underwood If you like juicy, ripe peaches--and who doesn't?--the nonprofit Environmental Working Group in Washington has some bad news for you. This succulent fruit tops the list of foods most contaminated with pesticide...

Space: Find Your Sun Spot.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Barney Gimbel If anyone needed a little good news these days, it's the scientists at NASA. And last week they got it. Not only did their top sun-watching satellite turn 8 (it was designed to reach only 2), it also played a crucial...

UNCORKED / WASHINGTON.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... It might not have Napa's cachet, but Washington state is now America's second largest producer of wine. Its hot days, cool nights and dry summers make for balanced, concentrated grapes. And Washington doesn't have Napa's prices, either. Here...

Online: SWM Seeks an Edge.(editing and photography services for composing dating ad profiles)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Brian Braiker We're not sure when online dating went from creepy to cutthroat, but those snarky ads posted by single hipsters are suddenly ubiquitous. How to compete? Easy: a growing cottage industry wants to help you score. "I...

Gadgets: Channel Cruising.(in-car satellite TV)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone If you find the quiet drone of the open road unsettling, and your kids start battling if left under stimulated for more than five seconds, do we have the product for you: in-car satellite TV. One million back-seat DVD...

Money: Perfect Presents.(gift cards)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Give the gift of... plastic? Everyone's doing it. Consumers are expected to buy $45 billion in gift cards this year. Most are Visas or MasterCards, preloaded with cash, and good anywhere the regular credit cards can be...

Books: Beyond Bros. Grimm.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Pat Wingert This is a country of immigrants, yet most of the best-known children's fairy tales hail from medieval Europe. That may change with the help of newly translated books from Asia. Among the best to hit bookstores (and...

Sports: Scouting the NBA.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr Nobody wants the NBA season to begin more than the NBA itself, in hopes of shifting fans' attention from one court to another. The off season, especially Kobe Bryant's legal travails, has been a nightmare. But the...

Technology: Apps, I Did it Again.(Microsoft Office Systems)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy Is it time for another version of Office? Ready or not--and many people think that the current model is more than enough for the tasks they perform--Microsoft is back with Office Systems, a whole slew of products...

In the News: A Silent Disease.(prostate cancer)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Barrett When Robert De Niro, 60, revealed last week that he had prostate cancer, his publicist credited early detection for the actor's expected full recovery. Should you get screened? The American Cancer Society...

Dysfunction Junction: In Fox's new sitcom, Bluths are stranger than fiction.('Arrested Development')(Television Program Review)
November 3, 2003... Byline: Marc Peyser The Bluths have a little trouble holding down jobs. Buster has studied cartography and Native American tribal rituals, but thinks he can't find work in those fields because he's prone to panic attacks. Tobias has lost...

Heading in a Novel Direction: Jimmy Carter, apparently concerned there's not enough on his resume, tries fiction.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones Anyone who has ever met a famous person knows the feeling: it's weirdly like meeting someone you've met already. So when you meet Jimmy Carter, know this going in: most of what you thought you knew is true. He's...

Of a Life Foretold: Garcia Marquez's memoir evokes his early years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 10, 2003... Byline: David Gates Among the many odd facts that longtime aficionados of Gabriel Garcia Marquez probably know about and the rest of us probably don't is that during his apprentice years he wrote a radio soap opera--which, luckily both for...

It's My Party... It's a cult classic: Kozlowski cavorting in Sardinia at Tyco stockholders' expense. Too bad fund managers didn't make videos as they lived it up and stuck investors with the tab.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan His trial isn't even close to over, but L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco, was convicted last week--of bad taste. The verdict was rendered by the viewing public when prosecutors in Kozlowski's...

Virgin's New Flight of Fancy: The airline tapped a hot ad shop to help it relaunch the jet-set age.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores In August, two creative directors at the Miami ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky wrestled with a new tag line for their client Virgin Atlantic Airways. They liked "Jet swanky," but it sounded a bit superficial....

Conventional Wisdom: THE BUCK PASSES HERE EDITION.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... When asked about the now embarrassing aircraft-carrier MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, Bush blames sailor. The facts say otherwise. C.W. Bush + Boffo third-quarter GDP spurt could be beginning of a Bush boom. But ...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 10, 2003... Considering the Shape of Things to Come Readers were divided over the merits and esthetics of pure design and how these objects shape our daily lives, the feature of our Oct. 27 cover story. One interior-design professional proclaimed that...

The Limits of Inclusiveness: As they watch the argument among Episcopalians about the consecration of a gay bishop, Catholics must be thinking: we told you so.
November 10, 2003... Byline: George F. Will Ralph Waldo Emerson, the bicentennial of whose birth is this year, wrote of the Anglican Church: "The gospel it preaches is, 'By taste are ye saved'... It is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive, is perfectly...

A War in the Dark: Who Is The Enemy? U.S. soldiers still don't really know who they are fighting. Culture clashes, communication gaps and poor preparations have hurt intelligence on the ground. And any way you cut it, the difficulties don't spell s-u-c-c-e-s-s.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas, John Barry and Christian Caryl It's hard to know your enemy when you don't speak his language. In Iraq, when guerrillas place an IED (improvised explosive device) by the side of the road, they sometimes write a warning...

Iraqification: A Losing Strategy: If the U.S. footprint is reduced, guerrillas will not stop fighting. They will probably step up their attacks on the Iraqi Army and politicians.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Iraq, everyone agrees, is not Vietnam. In Vietnam the United States lost dozens of troops for every one it is losing in Iraq. The Viet Cong guerrillas had broad popular support. They were being supplied by great...

'Lord... Just Help Us Kill 'Em': Surprise: On a late-night mission, soldiers of Bravo Company make an unexpected discovery at a house next door to their target.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Joshua Hammer Just after midnight on Oct. 31, the men of Bravo Company are huddling for a final pep talk. Tips of cigarettes, stoked by an unusually chill wind, glow in near pitch darkness as two dozen jeep engines roar nearby....

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Working the health beat for us, Claudia Kalb keeps a close eye on academic journals to spot new medical breakthroughs. But a few years ago, she started noticing a heated debate that had nothing to do with the latest...

Gotta Jet: These young Aussies doubt they're really rock's new hope. We beg to differ.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Lorraine Ali At a recent New York music conference, where hundreds of bands played dozens of clubs, one of those standard-issue angry, tattooed singers screamed, then threw down his mike to signal the set was over. The audience...

O, Captain, My Captain: The elusive, A-list director Peter Weir launches 'Master and Commander'.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Sean Smith Directors are a superstitious lot. They have their good- luck hats and T shirts, their little routines and rituals. Anything, really, to ward off the bad juju that can sink a movie. Peter Weir is not one of them. "At one...

Whoa--That's Plenty: Attention, 'Matrix' fans: it's all over but the pouting.( )(Movie Review)
November 10, 2003... Byline: David Ansen After "The Matrix Reloaded," there was still some question about whether Keanu Reeves's Neo was The One, but it had become clear that the Wachowski brothers were decidedly mortal. Their movie made piles of money, but...

Amid All the Bad Jokes, An 'Eternal Friend': Since 'R U OK?' popped up in my in box, Wade has kept constant watch over me from his post in Iraq.(Column)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Beverly Willett Years ago, I swore I'd be the last holdout in a universe so plugged in and wired up that everyone, it seemed, had instant access to every other human being across the planet. I wasn't against technology per se, I...

The Other Air War: As the flames died down, the second-guessing began: could more planes have staved off California's inferno?
November 10, 2003... Byline: Andrew Murr and Jennifer Ordonez Even before he'd learned that his own San Diego County home had turned to ash, Rep. Duncan Hunter was growing frustrated with the way the biggest wildfire outbreak in California history was being...

Howard Dean's Southern Swing: As the primaries loom, the Dems' front runner and his rivals hunt for black votes.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman Dr. Howard Dean saw a chance to land a big one--Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., of Chicago--when a well-connected press secretary named Frank Watkins quit his job with Al Sharpton's campaign and returned to Jackson's staff...

Arrested Development: They were said to subsist on peanut butter and wallboard. Another child-welfare nightmare haunts New Jersey.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows and Brian Braiker Elaine Lutringer could never quite pinpoint what was wrong with the four Jackson boys next door. The blinds of the worn Collingswood, N.J., house were always down, and in six years she'd never seen...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon, Sean Smith Forget the 'Alamo'? John Lee Hancock should know better. Surely the Waco-born director of "The Rookie" has seen the T shirts that read DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS. But last week Hancock--to whom Disney has...

Perspectives.
November 10, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Los Angeles Times, WNBC News, The Hill, UPI, Fox News, Denver Post, BBC News, TV Guide, USA Today, New York Post, Radio Times "It looked like hell, or what I pictured hell to be." San Diego...

National Security: How Will the Second-Term Shuffle Shake Out?
November 10, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe and John Barry Burned out by two wars and drained by ideological disputes, President George W. Bush's national-security team is dreaming of a kinder, gentler life outside government. Condoleezza Rice, the...

Genes: Boning Up Treatment Options.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael It's hard to say which facet of osteoporosis is worse--the symptoms, or the fact that they show up only when it's too late to fully cure them. Women aren't likely to think much about a disabling disease of old age...

Intel: PDB Battle Heats Up.(President's Daily Briefs on intelligence issues)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff The White House is headed for another showdown over PDBs--the President's Daily Briefs on intelligence issues that some aides consider among the most sensitive government documents. NEWSWEEK has learned that,...

History: Churchill's Finest Hours.(talk with Winston S. Churchill, III, editor, grandson of Prime Minister Winston Churchill)(Interview)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Bret Begun Winston Churchill was such a prolific speechwriter that a new, 503-page collection, "Never Give In!" accounts for only 5 percent of his oratory. Bret Begun talked with Winston S. Churchill: editor, grandson. Why do...

Children's Books: Kennedy's Camelot for Kids.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen Parents who want their offspring to understand why their eyes well up on Nov. 22--the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death--can turn to some compelling new kids' books. This year the independent booksellers'...

Horse Racing: A Lose, Lose Situation.(Haruurara)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Hideko Takayama Haruurara, a petite 7-year-old Thoroughbred racehorse in Japan, is nothing if not consistent: she's never won a race. Since she started running in 1998 she's lost all 97 competitions. But her luck turned around in...

DVDS: No--Praise You, Spike.(Palm Pictures' 'Directors Label' DVD series)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon For years, music-video directors have gotten a bum rap--they're all flash, no substance, and they grow up to become lousy movie directors. The trouble is, almost every truly innovative filmmaker these days breaks into...