Newsweek articles from November 2006

Newsweek archives from November 2006

A Sacred Mission; The uphill battle to save our old houses of worship.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan This week, the 200-year-old neoclassical Baltimore Basilica will reopen its weighty oak doors after a two-year, $32 million face-lift. The restoration of America's first Roman Catholic cathedral is a triumph for...

Got Love If You Want It: Courtney's Diaries.("Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love")(Book review)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jac Chebatoris Whatever mistakes Courtney Love has made--and there have been plenty--she's always kept the promise she made to herself as a little girl: to be famous. After drug arrests and the suicide of her husband, Nirvana...

Putting Detroit in the Shop; American automakers have to move faster to make cars Americans will actually buy.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Keith Naughton Bob Wiley has always driven Detroit iron. So when the 62-year-old retired Air Force man decided this year to trade in his Ford pickup truck for a more comfortable car, he test-drove Ford and Buick sedans. But he was...

Coca-Cola's Holy Grail; Stolen trade secrets, two guilty pleas and a pending trial raise questions about an old soft-drink legend.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jessica Ramirez With Catharine Skipp In a vault in the bowels of a SunTrust Bank in Atlanta lies one of the most sacred secrets in the business world: the 120-year-old formula for Coca-Cola. That is the one certainty about the...

Diller Weaves a Web; He bought Ask.com not just to get into the search game, but to integrate his $20 billion Web portfolio.(Barry Diller of IAC/InterActiveCorp)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone The quarterly meetings of execs at Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp are a bit like the first day of classes at a strict, strange prep school. Twenty-three CEOs of IAC subsidiaries like Match.com, Citysearch,...

The Big Value of Small Increases.(retirement savings)(Column)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan; Correction: Harris Associates doesn't run a London-based fund of hedge funds, as I wrote last week. It's run by Harris Alternatives, which split off in 2003. When Social Security announced its latest cost-of-living...

Get Out the Vote Edition.(brief political anecdotes)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Reminder: The CW is NEWSWEEK's distillation of the ever-changing thinking of Beltway pundits and the chattering classes. Bush (equal) "Stay the course." "Stay the course'" "Stay the course." "Stay the course." Never mind. Rumsfeld...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
November 6, 2006... Realities of a Regime's Deadly Ambitions Readers commenting on our Oct. 23 cover story about how North Korea got its nuclear technology were disturbed on many levels. Several said President Bush's diplomatic strategy has been inept. "If...

The Editor's Desk.(Iraq war and 2006 midterm elections)(Editorial)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham On a Saturday in mid-October, Air Force Airman 1/c Lee Bernard Emmanuel Chavis--he was Lee to friends, and "Nard" to family--was on patrol with the 824th Security Forces Squadron in Iraq. It was Chavis's second tour of...

Togetherness In Baghdad; A surreal facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge it.(Iraq war)(Column)
November 6, 2006... Byline: George F. Will Many months ago it became obvious to all but the most ideologically blinkered that America is losing the war launched to deal with a chimeric problem (an arsenal of WMD) and to achieve a delusory goal (a democracy...

A Centurion's E-mails; Through the eyes of a frontline fighter: The Marine captain asked for a tougher assignment. The one he got seemed all but impossible.(Cover story)(Personal account)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Dan Ephron and Christian Caryl (With Lee Hudson Teslik and Sarah Childress in New York) Robert Secher had a passion for history. Until his death in Iraq on Oct. 8, the 33-year-old Marine could recount all the major battles of the...

Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward; The drawdown option: It is past time to confront reality. To avoid total defeat, we must reduce and redeploy our troops and nudge the Iraqis toward a deal. Here's how.(Cover story)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (With Michael Hastings in Baghdad) BY 1952, the last year of his presidency, Harry Truman recognized that the victory he had hoped for was no longer possible in Korea. U.S. forces were not losing, but they were not...

A Battle for Every Life (photo essay).(Cover story)
November 6, 2006... Photojournalist Lucian Read recently spent six weeks with the surgeons, medics and corpsmen of Ramadi Surgical as they scrambled to save wounded U.S. and Iraqi fighters. A portfolio: CAPTION(S): Hold on: In Camp Ramadi's no-frills OR, every...

Back to the Future; How do you save a franchise that's getting a little long in the tooth? Press the REBOOT button and start the story again from scratch.(James Bond movies and other movie series)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon You can always tell the precise moment when a big movie franchise goes completely off the rails. It's never subtle. When George Clooney showed up with nipples on his Batsuit, it was all over. Or when Rocky settled the...

Women on the Verge; Almodovar and Cruz make 'Volver' a quirky triumph.(movie director Pedro Almodovar, actress Penolope Cruz)(Movie review)
November 6, 2006... Byline: David Ansen Pedro Almodovar's latest film includes child abuse, murder, cancer, a corpse stashed in a freezer, a ghost and a village obsessed with the dead--in other words, it's one of his most benign movies. That's the wonderful...

The Officer's Pledge: To Serve and Deflect? I'm just one proud police officer. Please don't hold me accountable for the behavior of all other cops.(Viewpoint essay)(Personal account)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Kristen Roman (Roman lives in Madison, Wis.) On a recent evening, as I walked with my 5-year-old son into the park near our home, I encountered one of our neighbors. I don't know him that well, but I have seen him in the park many...

Politics: The Sleepers; Iraq weighs on voters' minds, but a set of wedge issues could help tip the scales.(issues that may sway voters in congressional election, 2006)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman with Lee Hudson Teslik, Debra Rosenberg, Arian Campo-Flores with Jim Moscou in Colorado, Karen Breslau with Debra Rosenberg in Washington and Bill Harlan ins Sioux Falls All politics is local, except when it isn't....

Newsmakers.(Roseanne Bar)(Interview)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Marc Peyser Q&A: Roseanne Roseanne is back with a one-hour comedy special on HBO. She spoke with Nicki Gostin. You talk a lot about aging in your act. I'm trying to get comfortable with aging. It's hard....

Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, The Washington Post, Daily Mail, AP, The Washington Post, AP (2), Fox, Orlando Sentinel, Dallas Morning News "No one has the right to set a timetable." Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki,...

Execution: What Happens After?(witnessing execution of criminals)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores The families of Danny Rolling's murder victims filed into the execution viewing room in Starke, Fla., last week. The curtains were pulled back, and there he lay on a gurney, a leather strap across...

Central America: Ortega and Ollie--Again.(former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua)(former U.S. presidential aide Oliver North)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Joseph Contreras The Bush Administration is increasingly worried that ex-Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega--once the scourge of the Reagan White House--may prevail in the first round of Nicaragua's presidential...

Is a Moat the Answer?(prevention of arms smuggling, Egypt-Gaza Strip border)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino and Joanna Chen In search of a creative way to stop militants and weapons smugglers from infiltrating across the Egypt-Gaza border, Israelis are talking about building a six-mile moat filled with Mediterranean seawater...

Al Qaeda: Plans for an October Surprise?(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Hosenball Is Osama bin Laden going to weigh in on the midterm elections? A senior counterterrorism official, anonymous, like other officials NEWSWEEK spoke to, because the subject is sensitive, says that based on previous...

Hospitals: Rx for Communication.(hospitals use videoconferencing systems to provide translation services)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Carmen Gentile and Chrissy Balz Imagine you're writhing in pain in an ER but unable to communicate with the doctor. It happens all too frequently, as growing numbers of non-English speakers land in hospitals that lack interpreters....

BeliefWatch: Spirit Filled.(speaking in tongues)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Lisa Miller What does it mean to speak in tongues? And who has the right, or the privilege, to do so? These questions, largely theological, have lingered at the fringes of American Protestantism. Now, as charismatic Christianity...

Movies: With the Chicks.(documentary about the Dixi Chicks)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: David Ansen It was in 2003, during the heated run-up to the war in Iraq, when the Dixie Chicks took to the stage at Shepherds Bush Empire in London and lead singer Natalie Maines remarked that she was ashamed that President Bush...

Cars: It Pays to Drive Green.(cities offer incentives to encourage use of hybrid vehicles)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Karen Springen If Joanne Aggens, a Wilmette, Ill., village-board member, trades in her 200,000-mile Subaru for a hybrid, she'll save $50 off the $75 price of her city vehicle sticker--a new clean-car perk she and her fellow board...

A Convention For Dummies: Experts on Everything.(authors of "how-to" books)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jenny Hontz The Dummies are coming to San Francisco! Alan L. Rubin, who organized the conference, wants to share his pride: as author of "Diabetes for Dummies," he knows how hard it is for Dummies to get respect. The 50 authors...

As Kids Grow, So Do Risks.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn, Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld Young adulthood isn't what it used to be. Children tend to linger. They're staying in college longer, often taking five or six years to finish. They're boomeranging home after...

Snap Judgment: Movies.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: David Ansen Catch a Fire Directed by Phillip Noyce Filmmakers have been documenting the horrors of apartheid for decades. Noyce ("Rabbit-Proof Fence") encourages us to feel the echo of current events. "Catch a Fire" tells...

Snap Judgment: Theater.("Butley")(Theater review)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Marc Peyser Butley Booth Theatre, New York Nathan Lane has spent so much time mugging in recent years--"The Producers," "The Odd Couple," "The Lion King"--that you forget the man can act. In "Butley," he plays Ben Butley, a...

Visions Of Hell; Two Yale grads and a Colorado pastor team up to present a demonic version of a haunted house.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Matthew Philips and Lisa Miller Worlds collided last month in Brooklyn. In a dark neighborhood of warehouses called DUMBO, in a theater usually reserved for edgy bands and performance artists, real actors performed, straight up and...

OK, Sister, Drop That Sandwich! Cities fight panhandling by outlawing food giveaways in parks.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Matthew Philips Walking around downtown Orlando, Fla., feels like strolling through "The Truman Show" 's fictional town of Seahaven. But spotless sidewalks, a tidy business district, lush parks and lakes belie a real city with real...

Extreme Makeovers; In Virginia, three elite women's colleges reinvent themselves and find a new mission in a coed world.(Mary Baldwin College, Sweet Briar College, Hollins College)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Julie Scelfo with Amanda Milner-Fairbanks Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., looks like the Hollywood version of an idyllic Southern campus. Pale yellow buildings with white columns surround a rolling, green lawn. But inside the...

Plotting Pluto's Comeback; Some astronomers want to reclaim the status of planet for the distant ball of rock and ice.
November 6, 2006... Byline: Jerry Adler To Bob Millis, director of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., Pluto is still the ninth planet, no matter what the International Astronomical Union chooses to call it. It was Lowell's founder and namesake,...

Positively Broadway; When Twyla met Bob: a fascinating train wreck?(Theater review)
November 6, 2006... Byline: David Gates Many people who revere Bob Dylan already know what they think of the Broadway musical "The Times They Are A-Changin'." Granted, it was Dylan who approached the choreographer Twyla Tharp after her hit show with Billy...

Style: Glorious Food Books.(Book review)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Dorothy Kalins For the first time in years, there's reason to celebrate the food books of fall. The mindless (and presumably profitless) trend of chef's ego books has slackened in favor of more thoughtful reads. Finest among them...

The Checklist.(picks from entertainment and popular culture)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Our top picks for the week ahead. Watch 'House' and other Fox shows, back from hiatus after the World Series. "The O.C." 's topnotch premiere (Thursday) is already online for free at myspace.com/fox. Buy 'Shoes: A History From Sandals to...

Road Test: Nissan Versa SL; Little car, big ride.(Product/service evaluation)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Tara Weingarten I love things that are short and sweet. That's why Nissan's new ultracompact Versa grabs me. I liked it all: its stature, the time it takes to fill up at the pump and mostly its price. Inside, though, it's spacious...

UNCORKED / PORTUGUESE REDS.(wine)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... 90/$15 Churchill Douro Churchill Estates 2004 This is the U.S. debut for the Estates bottling from Churchill, a well-known port house. It offers pure berry and mineral flavors. 89/$7Symington Family Estates Tinta Roriz-Touriga...

Health: It's All In The Bark.(Pycnogenol)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Anne Underwood When explorer Jacques Cartier was stranded in Canada in the winter of 1535, many of his crew members developed bleeding gums and skin lesions from scurvy. But a local Indian gave them a remedy: a tea brewed from the...

Technology: A New Way To Blog.(blogging service called "Vox")(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy Some bloggers aren't in the game to garner fame, earn fortune or take down politicians--they simply want to share their thoughts, songs and videos with friends and family. That's the target audience for Vox (vox.com ),...

Fashion: Growing Manes.(hair extensions)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Meghan McCain Once a well-kept secret among Hollywood divas, hair extensions have stepped into the spotlight. Unlike wigs, which cover your hair, extensions clip or bond onto your own strands to add fullness and length without...

Gourmet: From the Ground Up.(Italian white truffles)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Byline: Tara Weingarten About this time every year, foodies go mad and spend a small fortune on a large, ugly fungus: the Italian white truffle. Available only from mid-October to early December and found mainly in the woods of northern...

Taking Off Your Shoes; Osama bin Laden could get through the line if the name on his license was the same as that on his ticket and he wasn't packing Oil of Olay.(Column)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Anna Quindlen This one's for you! Yes, you, the guy in the security line at Newark airport who confiscated my pomade because the jar was marked 3.5 ounces when the Transportation Security Administration regulations mandate less...

Hello, You've Got Game Show! Viewers dig 'Gold Rush,' a new Internet series from reality-TV's Mark Burnett. Here's how he made AOL a 'Survivor.'.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts This week on "Gold Rush": who will walk away with $1 million in genuine gold bars? Will it be Michael Kearney of Memphis, who holds a world record for graduating college at 10? Will it be David Delaserda, the...

The Party's Over Edition.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Reminder: The CW is NEWSWEEK's distillation of the ever-changing thinking of Beltway pundits and the chattering classes. Bush (down) Says backing Dems is backing terrorists. In the old days, presidents left the low road to surrogates. ...

But No Free Toaster.(bank "neighborhood store")(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern What's big-ger than an ATM kiosk but smaller than a bank branch? A bank "neighborhood store." Umpqua Bank, a regional bank based in Portland, Ore., is peppering the Sacramento-to-Seattle landscape with dozens of tiny...

Talking Fabrics.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Linda Stern Here's a bright new idea for textiles: fabric that displays glowing, moving color images and text. Dutch tech firm Philips Research has developed Lumalive fabric, which is embedded with light-emitting diodes powered by...

Quick Read.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 13, 2006... Byline: John David Sparks Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow This saga of Andras Istvan Grof's transformation from refugee of Hungarian communism to titan of Silicon Valley capitalism is a...

All Hail the Entrepreneur; Big-and-old companies remain important. But in a global marketplace, start-ups are our best weapon.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Carl J. Schramm Entrepreneurship is transforming America--not just for a few, but for all of us and for the better. Consider: Today roughly 45 million Americans, about 30 percent of the labor force, run their own businesses....

Brightcove: A Safe Harbor? An Internet TV company plots strategy against YouTube and Google.(Interview)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Steven Levy Since google bought youtube for $1.65 million last month, CEOs of other Internet video-related companies have been very popular. Jeremy Allaire is no exception. His two-year-old firm, Brightcove, has so far focused on...

The Color Of Money; How green is their Silicon Valley? The redoubtable venture capitalists of Kleiner Perkins are now betting $200 million on environmentally friendly technology.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone Silicon valley venture capitalists are typically reluctant to invest in companies more than an hour's drive from their offices. Far-flung start-ups are simply too difficult to manage. So it was curious, a few weeks ago,...

Romantic Getaways.(Hotel review)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Jenny Hontz The weather may be cool, but there's nothing like a romantic getaway to heat things up again. Plenty of resorts cater to lovebirds or honeymooners with special settings and services. These spots should help rekindle any...

Take a Seat, Buddy.(massage chairs)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Megan Cokely Can't make a special trip to the spa every day? We feel your pain. But now you can pamper yourself in the comfort of your own living room with a range of innovative massage chairs from England. Sterling's Symphony...

Life in the Slow Lane; Remember the fabled highfliers of yesteryear: Microsoft, Amazon and Wal-Mart? Now they're promising not to grow quite so fast. And Wall Street loves them for it.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan One of the surest signs of middle age is that you actually listen when outsiders tell you that maybe it's time that you started to slow down. Consider, if you will, what's happened lately with Microsoft, Amazon.com and...

Capital Ideas.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Have you been saving money for college (or any-thing else) in your children's names? You used to get a tax break, but no more. A federal law passed in May raised the potential taxes on these accounts, as of last...

Letters to the Magazine.
November 13, 2006... A Southern Democrat's Personal Story While several readers of our cover story applauded Harold Ford Jr.'s winning personality and moderate views, others said Democrats have a shot at power not because of any unified message but because of...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Jon Meacham Thirty years ago, almost to the week, NEWSWEEK published a cover story calling 1976 "the year of the evangelical." In the presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter's born-again faith was bringing new attention to...

Too Funny- Or Too Far? He's an anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic, unhousebroken 'journalist'--and the hero of the most talked-about comedy in years. 'Borat' is certainly edgy. But it also paints a portrait of America that will give you nightmares--if you can stop laughing.(Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)(Movie review)
November 13, 2006... Byline: David Ansen (With Sean Smith, Allison Samuels And Jac Chebatoris) There's a malicious rumor going around that anyone over 35 won't find "Borat" funny. Then how do you explain all those rave reviews from old farts like, well, me? I...

The Brain Behind Borat; Fiercely private. Deeply funny. A closer look at a mystery man.(Sacha Baron Cohen)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon (With Ginanne Brownell in London) For a brief moment in December 2004, the "Borat" movie was on the brink of collapse. The original director had left--"creative differences" with the star, the usual stuff--and the...

The Lessons I Didn't Learn in College; When I got my first job after graduating, I found that life's real tests start when final exams end.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Caitlin Petre (Petre lives in New York City.) To think there was once a time when I thought nailing the interview was the hardest part of getting a job. I recently applied to be a cocktail waitress at an upscale bowling alley in...

An Evangelical Identity Crisis; i'?Sex or social justice? The war between the religious right and believers who want to go broader.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Lisa Miller (With Debra Rosenberg, Matthew Philips, Howard Fineman, Anne Underwood, Karen Breslau, Jonathan Darman and Lee Hudson Teslik) It was a cold Halloween in Colorado Springs--The high barely hit 27 degrees--as Dr. James...

Church Meets State; The left often complains that evangelicals have too much influence in American life. But evangelicals themselves grumble that the politicians they help elect leave much of their agenda undone. So what impact has the religious right actually had on public policy? An overview:.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Debra Rosenberg with Karen Breslau and Michael Hirsh; graphic by Jessica Ramirez and Marc Bain JUDGES This may be the religious right's biggest policy success. George W. Bush not only named two seemingly conservative U.S....

A New Social Gospel; Many evangelicals are chafing at the narrowness of the religious right. A new faith-based agenda.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Michael Gerson (Gerson was a speechwriter and policy adviser to President Bush. He now is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a NEWSWEEK contributor.) During my time in the White House, the most intense and...

The Democrats' Engine Room.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Howard Fineman No one accuses Eliot Spitzer of being a nice guy. His handshake is bone-crunching, his wide smile vaguely predatory. As attorney general of New York state, he terrorized Wall Street, collaring a pin-striped menagerie...

The Color of Change; Why are we still debating whether race should be a factor in college admissions?
November 13, 2006... Byline: Ellis Cose Affirmative action may not be the most divisive issue on the ballot, but it remains an unending source of conflict and debate--at least in Michigan, whose citizens are pondering a proposal that would ban affirmative...

Dead In the Water; In an excerpt from 'Sea of Thunder,' a new book about Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement in history, men pay the human price of war. A true sea story.(Excerpt)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Evan Thomas During the Second World War, it was very unusual to be standing on the deck of an American warship and actually see a Japanese vessel. Most sea battles in the Pacific War were fought at night or from great distances--by...

A Dissent: The Case Against Faith; Religion does untold damage to our politics. An atheist's lament.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Sam Harris (Harris is the author of the New York Times best sellers "Letter to a Christian Nation" and "The End of Faith.") Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the greater antiquity...

Morality Tale: A Pastor's Fall From Grace; He was a national evangelical leader, until a scandal brought him low. The Rev. Ted Haggard's rocky journey.(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Darman and Andrew Murr (With Karen Breslau, Richard Wolffe and Susan Moran) The Rev. Ted Haggard had boyish dimples and a perpetual placid smile, but spoke of demons on earth. As a young pastor in Colorado Springs, Colo.,...

Trailers, Secrets And Los Alamos; How could a clerk walk off with a nuclear trove?
November 13, 2006... Byline: John Barry and Mark Hosenball It began as a routine police call. At 4:16 p.m. on Oct. 17, two Los Alamos County police officers were dispatched to the Royal Crest Trailer Park. The cluster of mobile homes is located next to Los...

Newsmakers: Oscar and Divorce, Emma Thompson.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Devin Gordon, Nicki Gostin Oscar the Interloper Is it Oscar's fault that yet another Hollywood marriage has gone kaput? Reese Witherspoon won her statue this year; now she and hubby, Ryan Phillippe, are splitting. We smell a...

Perspectives.
November 13, 2006... "We're as confident as anyone can be." Marjorie Roher, of the Montgomery County, Md., Board of Elections, on the functionality of electronic voting systems heading into the midterm elections "I was buying it for me, but I never used...

Iraq: A New Enemy Emerges--'The Shiite Zarqawi'.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Scott Johnson Ever since the radical Mahdi Army leader Moqtada al-Sadr joined the Iraqi government, his power on the streets has been slipping. Now U.S. and Iraqi officials worry that even more violent men might be taking up his...

Documents: To Saddam, From Mars.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Michael Isikoff National intelligence Director John Negroponte shut down a government Web site after the disclosure that it had posted nuclear-research documents from Iraq's pre-Gulf War I weapons program. Set up in March at the...

The Web: Any Space for MySpace?(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone Tapping into the closed Japanese market can be as difficult as learning the language. A decade ago, Rupert Murdoch's attempt with local Internet powerhouse SoftBank to buy broadcaster TV Asahi was so widely viewed as a...

Transition: William Stryon, 81.(Obituary)
November 13, 2006... Byline: David Gates Styron belonged to a real Lost Generation: the post-World War II American writers (Baldwin, Mailer, Cheever) whose books pleased both critics and a large readership--and who thought that was normal. His first novel was...

Maybe It Is the Shoes!(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Allison Samuels Stephon Marbury's $15 basketball shoe made its debut in stores in August, and 3 million pairs have already been sold. Last week the shoes made an even more important debut--on an NBA court, as the season got...

BELIEFWATCH School Veil.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Matthew Philips There's a new fashion on college campuses, but it's not one you'll find at Abercrombie any time soon. It's the higab, the traditional Muslim headscarf that denotes modesty and reverence to God, and it's being worn...

Rappers & Rebuttals.(using hip hop rhyming in high school debates)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Lee Hudson Teslik Forty Seattle teen-agers gathered at the University of Washington this summer to practice for their high-school debate teams. Seminars included break-dancing and deejaying. Some counselors were local hip-hop...

Sending Babies Abroad.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Malak Hamwi Celebrity adoption cases like Madonna's overshadow the reality that intercountry adoption is not a one-way street. The United States--the largest receiving country--also sends some children to be adopted by families...

MUSIC How to Sell Plastic CDs in a Digital Era.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Steve Friess The program looked like "MTV Unplugged." There was Barry Manilow, performing six songs and chatting with an interviewer--for QVC. The TV shopping channel sold 43,000 copies of Manilow's latest album, "The Greatest...

The Worst of Both Worlds? Scare stories about global warming may end up justifying policies that hurt the economy without much curbing of greenhouse gases.(Column)
November 13, 2006... Byline: Robert Samuelson It seems impossible to have an honest con-versation about global warming. I say this after diligently perusing the British government's huge report released last week by Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist...

Investors Sing, 'Hertz So Good'.
November 13, 2006... Byline: Allan Sloan If you ever wanted to know what lures people to Wall Street, take a look at Hertz. I'm not talking about the company's world-famous car-rental business. I'm talking about the $3.5 billion that the Street and Hertz's...