Newsweek articles from November 2008

Newsweek archives from November 2008

The Queen of Denial.(Entertainment; BOOKS)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Louisa Thomas Men have long vilified Cleopatra, but she's earned a royal treatment. Cleopatra has always been a player in other people's dramas, if in different roles: she can be a coquette or a feminist, a martyr or a...

Thrift Is the New Fashion.(Daniel Gross; MONEY CULTURE)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Daniel Gross Time was, national crises stimulated saving. But thrift today has a negative, miserly connotation. Thrift, like the repossession business, is one of those classic countercyclical industries. When the gross domestic...

The Right Way Back.(Cover Story; THE PRESIDENT'S INBOX)
November 3, 2008... MEMORANDUM TO: The president-elect RE: The economy FROM: Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City The stock market has plummeted. The credit markets are frozen. Unemployment is rising. Housing foreclosures are...

Sure Beats the Airport Floor.(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Tiffanie Wen A night at an airport hotel is usually about as comfortable as hunkering down in a plastic chair in the departures terminal. But several airports have created first-class havens that could be destinations in their own...

Solid Scents That Can Last.(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Elisa Mala Even the most pungent scent eventually fades into the ether, which may be why fragrances are now becoming heavier--literally. Resembling lip balm, solid perfumes are long-lasting and portable. Marc Jacobs's eponymous...

Quick Read.(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else )(Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank the Titanic, Blew Up the Shuttle, and Led America Into War )(The Ten Roads to Riches )(Book review)
November 3, 2008... Byline: John Sparks Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else By Geoff Colvin With everything from houses to 401(k)s (as well as collateralized debt obligations) turning out to be worth a...

In Search Of a New Road Map.(Enterprise; MY TURN)
November 3, 2008... Individual governments are trying to manage the global financial crisis. What's really needed is a gathering of high-level experts to report back in a few months. Despite officials' best efforts to fight raging financial fires, it's a good...

Don't Toss Out That Old Gadget.(Enterprise; CONSERVATION)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Lily Huang Good design can mean dated products can have renewable life cycles. Over the summer, a really cool piece of gadgetry went on the market and, in the mere blink of three days, into more than a million pockets. New...

Cash Is the New Black.(Enterprise; RETAIL)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Jessica Ramirez Hard times mean the rich are selling a few Cartiers. There's very little that can come between Melanie Fascitelli and designer labels like Missoni and Jimmy Choo. The successful 32-year-old New Yorker--like many...

How a Tiny Toy Makes Big Bucks.(Mattel Inc.)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton; With Patrick Crowley Hot Wheels are hot again. Parent company Mattel is now worth more than GM. Got an old Beach Bomb VW model in the attic? You're rich! On weekends, Edwin Norman likes to hit the Richwood Flea...

Lots of Woe: Car Dealers in Crisis.(Enterprise; FINANCE)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Keith Naughton; With Hilary Shenfeld Ten percent of U.S. showrooms could be gone by late 2009. WAL-Mart might not have difficulty selling Hot Wheels this year, but auto dealers are struggling to move the real thing. Just ask...

From Aisle 3 to the Top.(Enterprise; LEADERSHIP)(Interview)
November 3, 2008... Best Buy's president started out as a sales associate. When Brian Dunn began working as a sales associate at Best Buy in 1985, the company had just a handful of stores, the clerks wore skinny leather ties, and VCRs constituted cutting-edge...

It Costs More to Save.
November 3, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy Eco-elitism comes with a price tag. That dress made of leaves and flowers will be dead by morning. Between Brad Pitt's new biodegradable body wash for Kiehl's and recent green issues of glossy magazines like Vanity...

Shifting Gears at Dell.(Dell Inc.)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland The PC maker used to be an industry icon. Now it's had to remake its marketing and manufacturing. Dell Computer soared to the top of the PC industry in the 1980s and '90s by innovating not so much on the...

Happy Birthday, Harvard B-School.(Harvard Business School)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Daniel Mcginn For a century, the place been turning out corporate leaders. But it's not all cause for celebration. The institution has flaws, and now's the time to address them. As birthdays go, the centennial that took place...

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 3, 2008... 'There Is a Silver Lining': Spirits were lifted a bit by Fareed Zakaria's article about a positive outlook for the gloomy economy. "I'd forgotten there is always a bright side, but your sunshine-yellow cover was a nice reminder," a reader said....

The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham Free advice is often worth what you pay for it, and it is funny how people who do not have a particular job are full of wisdom about how to do it. (You can apply the same point to, say, in-laws, marriage and child...

The Good Bad News.
November 3, 2008... Byline: George F. Will If the nation wants a really Rooseveltian intervention in the economy, it should celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday. Two axioms: all news is economic news. And economic news is always bad. All news is economic...

Stomping Through A Medical Minefield.(Health)(Paul Offit with his new book Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Claudia Kalb The author of a new book about autism says exactly what he thinks about vaccines and other hot topics. Paul Offit--salt-and-pepper hair, wire-rimmed glasses, Phillies fan--hardly seems like the kind of guy who'd...

Cures for the Health-Care Headache: McCain.(John McCain's medical care policy)
November 3, 2008... The Republican's plan means big changes for the employer-based health-insurance system. Some say it would cover more than 21 million people without insurance. Critics say it would mean more uninsured. 'I want to leave money in your pocket....

Cures for the Health-Care Headache: Obama.(Health; CAMPAIGN 2008)(Barack Obama)
November 3, 2008... The Democrat's plan would mean more government programs and between 26 million and 34 million more people with health insurance. Opponents say it would also mean higher health-care costs. 'Now is the time to keep the promise of affordable,...

How the Plans Could Affect You.(Health; CAMPAIGN 2008)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Forget Joe the Plumber--what's in store for you, and the rest of the country, if McCain's or Obama's reforms are enacted? These six groups might see very different outcomes. Single person with no insurance Neither plan forces her to...

The World That Awaits.(Cover Story; COVER STORY: THE PRESIDENT'S INBOX)(Cover story)
November 3, 2008... MEMORANDUM TO: The president-elect RE: Foreign policy FROM: Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations There are only two and a half months--76 days, to be precise-- between Election Day and your...

We Should Talk to Our Enemies.(Cover Story; INTERNATIONAL)
November 3, 2008... One of the sharpest and most telling differences on foreign policy between Barack Obama and John McCain is whether the United States should talk to difficult and disreputable leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Venezuela's Hugo Chavez....

Britain's Comeback Kid.(International; INTERVIEW)(Gordon Brown )(Interview)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Lally Weymouth Prime Minister Gordon Brown was sinking in the polls, until world markets plunged even further. His star was thought to be waning, but ever since the global financial crisis broke, British Prime Minister Gordon...

What Vietnam Teaches Us.(Cover Story; BOOK REVIEW)(Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam)(Book review)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Henry Kissinger A new look at the brilliant yet flawed McGeorge Bundy illuminates mistakes we're still making today. For America, the Vietnam War was the traumatic event of the second half of the last century. Entered into with...

'That Was Amateur Night'.(International; Q&A)(Interview)
November 3, 2008... Byline: John Barry Robert Gates dueled with the Soviets, but even he's daunted by today's challenges. Some of Barack Obama's advisers have talked publicly of keeping on Robert Gates as secretary of defense in a Democratic...

A Cure for the Long-Gone Lonesome Blues.(Entertainment; MUSIC)(Brief biography)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Lorraine Ali Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last. According to Hank Williams, Mother's Best Flour makes "the best biscuit you ever hung a tooth...

The View From 'Nowhere'.(My Turn)(Essay)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Dave Kiffer; Kiffer is the newly elected mayor of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Our town in Alaska sorely needed a bridge to its airport. Instead, we became a national punch line. Two years ago the small Alaska town of...

The Palin Problem.(Campaign 2008)(Sarah Palin)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Darman If McCain loses, the GOP will have a head vs. heart decision to make about the party's veep pick. John McCain's defeat will be a lonely one. The old soldier has always taken pride in proving no one owns him--not...

Why McCain Won.(Jonathan Alter; BETWEEN THE LINES)(John McCain)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Alter Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory: How That Scenario Could (But Likely Won't) Play Out. The conventional wisdom, which I share, is that Barack Obama will win this election, perhaps by a healthy margin....

What Have We Created?!(Howard Fineman; LIVING POLITICS)(Barack Obama)(Column)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Howard Fineman It is eerily quiet at Barack Obama's headquarters, an open expanse that takes up the entire 11th floor of an office tower in Chicago's Loop. It's nearly as silent as a study hall, which is appropriate, since most of...

The Jordan Gospel.(Politics; REFLECTIONS)(Excerpt)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Vernon E. Jordan Jr. In an excerpt from his book 'Make It Plain,' a collection of his speeches, Vernon Jordan looks back to explain the here and now. How the men and women obligated to 'disturb the unjust peace' gave us the...

Meet Radio's Newest Soloist.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Allison Samuels Jamie Foxx--actor, singer, comedian--has his fingerprints all over Hollywood. His latest gig: Sirius Radio's "The Foxxhole." He spoke with Allison Samuels. What made you want to do radio? Dick Gregory told...

Even The Pope Couldn't Save Him.(Newsmakers)(Raffaello Follieri)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Raffaello Follieri-- you know, Anne Hathaway's sleazy ex-boyfriend who pled guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering--is going to prison for a while. A judge sentenced him to 54 months behind bars, and he'll probably...

Thank Heaven For Little Boys.(Newsmakers)(Charlie Sheen's twins)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Charlie Sheen a cad? Denise Richards may still be singing that tune, but Sheen would prefer to be called a dad. Sheen's real-estate investor wife, Brooke Mueller, is pregnant--with twins. In case you're keeping score at home, that will make...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
November 3, 2008... "Down in money, down in the polls, we got 'em just where we want 'em." Sen. John McCain, embracing his underdog status in a joint interview with Gov. Sarah Palin on NBC "Nightly News" "Mark my words. It will not be six months before...

Not The Change They Wanted.(Periscope; MCCAIN CAMPAIGN)(Sarah Palin's luxury clothing)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Suzanne Smalley The disclosure that the Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on clothing and accessories for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family set off recriminations among...

Nukes: Too Deep to Hit.(Periscope; IRAN)(Iran's underground nuclear facilities)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball Western intelligence experts believe that Iran's nuclear facilities are so deep underground that it would be difficult for Israel to wipe them out, or even significantly damage them, with a quick airstrike. In order...

The Rupe Faux Kerfuffle.(Periscope; PUBLISHING)(Rupert Murdoch's reaction to Michael Wolff's book "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch")(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff's new book, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch," won't hit bookstores for another month. But in a time-honored publishing-industry tactic,...

I Condemned That Joke Before I Cracked It.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(scale that measures political jokes)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... A weekly mathematical survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low you can go. Under fire for a joke about John McCain and Depends, Sen. John Kerry blunders through a squirrelly defense, reminding us why...

Neiman Marcus Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... What do you call a hockey mom with a $150,000 clothing allowance? A drag on the ticket. Obama UP-Bracing for a last-minute McCain surge-- even if it doesn't come. Steady as she goes. McCain SIDEWAYS-Finally gets off Ayers to focus on...

What Fall Classic?(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT SPORTS)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... A ho-hum World Series has CW looking to football and the return of the NBA. Can Celtics repeat? And how 'bout them Cowboys? World Series DOWN-Philly and Tampa? Ugh. Even if it goes seven games, will likely be one to forget. Brett Favre...

Vice: The Recession-Proof Bet.(Periscope; BUSINESS)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Eve Conant It's 8:30 p.m., the stock market is down 700 points, and Rick's Cabaret in Manhattan is packed. Drinks are flowing, women in electric-blue gowns are peeling off layers onstage, and if the Wall Street clientele is...

We Say We Want A Revolution.(Periscope; OPINION)(United States presidential elections)(Column)
November 3, 2008... On Nov. 4, Barack Obama will be elected as the next president of the United States. The real excitement won't come from watching that foregone conclusion come to pass. No, the big question is, will Democrats nationwide simply "win" the...

Clothes Make The Ice Man.(Periscope; FASHION)(Sean Avery)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Marc Peyser You might say that Sean Avery is the human equivalent of jock itch. It's his job, as the baddest badass in the National Hockey League, to annoy his opponents, to get under their skin--anything to gain an edge. Like the...

Cornel West.(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Whether writing a treatise on racism or appearing in the "Matrix" trilogy, the Princeton professor enlivens every medium he touches. His latest book, "Hope on a Tightrope," is a "best of" compilation. My Five Most Important Books 1....

Click In Remembrance Of Me.(Periscope; BELIEF WATCH)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Lisa Miller 'How can we provide authentic worship through the Web for people who are not part of the church?' With a scrap of bagel and a sip of Crystal Light, Beth McDonald gave communion to her husband. Then, after a...

Gossip Girls, With God In Their Hearts.(Periscope; FAST CHAT)("Good Christian Bitches" writer Kim Gatlin)(Interview)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... In the hyperrich and hyperreligious Dallas enclave known as the Park Cities, Bible study is a contact sport. Author Kim Gatlin, a wealthy, gorgeous divorcee, was inspired to write "Good Christian Bitches" about the backbiting women in her...

Why We Believe.(Society; SCIENCE)(belief in paranormal phenomena)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Sharon Begley; With Karen Springen in Chicago and Kurt Soller in New York Belief in the paranormal reflects normal brain activity carried to an extreme. It wasn't immediately obvious to Walter Semkiw that he was the...

Why We Need Wingtip Warriors.(Dahlia Lithwick; THE VERDICT)(role of lawyers in the United States presidential elections)(Column)
November 3, 2008... Both sides have elite lawyers on standby in case the election goes into constitutional overtime. It's become a truism of elections that both camps "lawyer up" before the big day. Briefcase to briefcase, wingtip to wingtip, both Barack...

Diet Trick: Stop Eating.(The Tip Sheet; NUTRITION)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Karen Springen and Anna Kuchment Saint Augustine once said that "fasting cleanses the soul [and] raises the mind." Were he alive today, he might be surprised to see the fast detached from its spiritual roots and transformed into...

The Truth About Eating.(The Tip Sheet; MYTHS)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Karen Springen; Karen Springen It's the season to avoid temptation: the kids' leftover Halloween candy, the pumpkin pies, the holiday cookies. To help you keep off extra pounds during the holidays, TIP SHEET debunks common nutrition...

Mad About MRIs.(The Tip Sheet; IN THE NEWS)(Magnetic resonance imaging)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Joan Raymond Can MRI technology do a better job than mammography in detecting breast cancer? That question has been on the minds of many women after Christina Applegate revealed that her breast cancer was discovered after her...

The 'Jaws' Look is Best.(The Tip Sheet; TEETH)(braces for teenagers)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Caitlin McDevitt More parents are buying into the notion that even adolescents shouldn't be stuck in unsightly orthodontia. But are the prettier (and pricier) alternatives to braces better? Most orthodontists say no. This summer,...

Rating the Green Guides.(The Tip Sheet; ONLINE)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Karen Springen A growing number of online green guides help consumers choose food, toys, cosmetics and household products made by socially responsible companies. TIP SHEET provides a guide to the guides. * goodguide.com: This...

Checklist: Our Top Picks For the Week.(The Tip Sheet)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... See "Two Museums, One Culture" at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Mass. This ambitious survey of icons from the 16th through the 19th centuries includes 16 rare works from Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery ($5; russianiconmuseum.com). ...

Piper, Please Don't Drop Him.(Kathleen Deveny; MODERN FAMILY)(Piper Palin)(Column)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Kathleen Deveny; With Tara Weingarten I sometimes say things that I later regret. We all behave differently with our kids when we think no one is watching. I'M STILL A LITTLE OBSESSED WITH SARAH PALIN'S FAMILY. I'M most...

Who's My Daddy?(The Tip Sheet; DNA)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Joan Raymond If you can buy pregnancy and ovulation kits over the counter, it only follows that drugstore paternity testing would be next. Last November, Identigene, a Salt Lake City DNA-testing company (dnatesting.com), began a...

Why Obama Needs a Tina Fey.(Entertainment; TELEVISION)(Barack Obama)
November 3, 2008... Byline: Joshua Alston What good is political satire if comedians shy away from the biggest target? If self-sacrifice is the mark of a true patriot, then Mike Barker is an American-flag pin incarnate. Barker is an executive producer of...

Waiting in Line.(Anna Quindlen; THE LAST WORD)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Anna Quindlen If the millennials seize the (election) day, they could transform the terms of American civic engagement for decades to come. Over the past decade American children have, from time to time, lined up at malls and...

Why We Need to Call a Pig a Pig (With or Without Lipstick).(Entertainment; BOOKS)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Jennie Yabroff We know Orwell for his novels, but it's the way he saw the politics of language that makes him relevant. In 1944, a young British writer named Eric Blair sent the publisher Jonathan Cape a manuscript for a...

A Wasp for All Seasons.(Entertainment; BOOKS)(George, Being George)(Book review)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Malcolm Jones A biography--oral, of course--of George Plimpton. It's poetic justice that the late George Plimpton should be the subject of an oral biography, since he perfected the form wherein people's recollections of a...

Today's Forecast: Cloudy.(Daniel Lyons; TECHTONIC SHIFTS)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Daniel Lyons People are going to be putting their information not into some device but into some service that lives in the sky. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems used to call it "the big friggin' web-tone switch" ("Web tone"...

A Very Brady Confession.(Turning Point)( Maureen Mccormick)
November 10, 2008... How the actress who played Marcia overcame cocaine and depression For most of my life people have expected me to be perfect. That's because I played the role of Marcia Brady--a pretty girl from a flawless family--from 1969 to 1974. She was...

A Darker Future For Us.(Cover Story: The Economy)
November 10, 2008... It's not just the financial crisis: higher taxes, energy costs and health spending also threaten growth. We Americans are progress junkies. We think that today should be better than yesterday and that tomorrow should be better than today....

To Govern a Conservative Country.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 10, 2008... 'America the Conservative': Readers speculated about what it would mean for Barack Obama to lead a center-right nation. "How might a President Obama govern? One thing we can agree on, whether liberal or conservative, is this country will never...

The Editor's Desk.
November 10, 2008... Byline: Jon Meacham In his new book, "The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence," NEWSWEEK columnist Robert J. Samuelson makes a compelling case that the current crisis is only one of a series of...

Taliban Two-Step: Can't Sit Down Yet.(International)
November 10, 2008... Everyone's talking about talking to the Taliban. But before we jaw-jaw, there will be more war-war. Don't even ask Mullah Sabir about peace talks. There's nothing to talk about, says the tall, burly Afghan, one of the Taliban's...

The New Mainstream.(Politics; IDENTITY)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Orlando Patterson; Patterson, author of "The Ordeal of Integration," is professor of sociology at Harvard University. Obama's win would be the culmination of a process of inclusion that began with Andrew Jackson. Victory for...

The Change Agent.(Politics)(Andrew Jackson)
November 10, 2008... Our politics are rooted in the grand, complicated presidency of Andrew Jackson. In late January 1861, president-elect Abraham Lincoln was at home in wintry Springfield, Ill., contemplating his course. The South was seceding, the Union in...

Narcissus Has Left the Pool.(Entertainment)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan A trio of memoirs tells all about the lives of Hollywood heartthrobs. In 1954, Life Magazine ran a photograph of a trio of Hollywood heartthrobs. Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Robert Wagner posed hanging off a...

Untangling Charlie Kaufman.(Entertainment; MOVIES)(Synecdoche, New York)(Movie review)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Jeremy McCarter Up all night with the director of 'Synecdoche' This is lame. I really should not be writing myself into an essay about Charlie Kaufman. Or should I? Kaufman does that sort of thing all the time. In "Adaptation,"...

The Laugh Factory.(Entertainment; MOVIES)('Zack and Miri Make a Porno', 'Role Models')(Movie review)
November 10, 2008... Byline: David Ansen Comedies mixing raunch and sentimentality are wildly successful, but they are starting to feel stale. If a new American comedy starts out with curses that would have made your great-grandmother blush and an...

Batting for the Cure.(My Turn)(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Michael Goldsmith; Goldsmith lives in Heber City, Utah. Diagnosed with a deadly but uncommon illness, I call upon the game of my youth to take action. I received my death sentence in September 2006 when doctors told me I had...

But Words Will Never Hurt Me.(Politics; BUSH)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey; With Suzanne Smalley and Anne Belli Perez The president, friends say, is handling the attacks on him with characteristic equanimity. If George Bush took the insults personally, he didn't let it...

Spread The Wealth? What's New?(Campaign 2008; THE BIG IDEA)
November 10, 2008... McCain's attack implies that an Obama presidency would lead us toward the Swedish model. Unlikely. In the last lap of his campaign, John McCain is claiming that Barack Obama "believes in redistributing wealth." The problem with this charge...

Hey, Brad, Get Ready For Cloris.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Cloris Leachman)(Interview)
November 10, 2008... Cloris Leachman-- At 82, the oldest (and spunkiest) contestant ever on "Dancing With the Stars"--was voted off the show last week. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Are you demanding a recount? I should have. I don't know what possessed me...

Elisabeth Unplugged.(Newsmakers; STRAW POLL)(Elisabeth Hasselbeck)(Brief article)
November 10, 2008... Poor Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Her co-workers never seem to enjoy her view on "The View." But as she's been appearing on the campaign trail with Sarah Palin, things have gotten extra heated. A sample: Joy Behar: Calls Elisabeth "delusional."...

Is He Cashing Out?(Newsmakers)(Brief article)
November 10, 2008... Joaquin Phoenix says he's quitting acting at 34. But he's such a good actor, we can't tell if he's serious. The announcement came at a red-carpet event, where Phoenix seemed more out there than Paula Abdul. He says he'll focus on his music--he...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
November 10, 2008... "I was shocked by the number Obama was able to draw -- It's just a stunning number." CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, on Sen. Barack Obama's 30-minute television campaign ad, which drew 33.6 million viewers across seven channels--more than...

The Prospect Of An Odd Couple.(Periscope; ISRAEL)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Kevin Peraino One morning this past summer, Barack Obama sat down around a conference table in Jerusalem's King David Hotel with Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's Likud Party. Neither man ran a country but both had high...

Here Today. Tomorrow?(Periscope; CIA)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Mark Hosenball No matter who wins the presidential election on Nov. 4, U.S. spy agencies worry that the intelligence community could be big losers, with heads rolling either way. Sources close to both campaigns did little to...

Cooperation Hits a Snag.(Periscope; SYRIA)(Brief article)
November 10, 2008... Byline: Dan Ephron and Mark Hosenball Syrians say the Oct. 26 U.S. commando raid across its border targeting a Qaeda smuggler came as a surprise, ruining what appeared to be a thaw in relations between the two countries. Just two months...