Newsweek articles from October 2003

Newsweek archives from October 2003

Free Pass for The President.(press coverage of George W. Bush)(Column)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen The most underplayed story of the past month was the one about the events of September 11 and Saddam Hussein. There is no direct link between the two. This despite the fact that George W. Bush and the members of his...

Business's Killer I.O.U. New factories? More workers? They'll have to wait. Pension shortfalls are costing corporations billions.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Keith Naughton With car sales surprisingly strong, J. T. Battenberg III, CEO of auto-parts maker Delphi Automotive, would like to expand his factories and hire some workers. But he can't. And it's not because his products aren't in...

A New 'Wind Tunnel' for Companies.(experimental economics and business forecasting)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Rana Foroohar Companies are always trying to predict the future. These days, the field of experimental economics--which replicates market and business scenarios in the lab--is giving the crystal ball an upgrade. Hewlett-Packard...

Conventional Wisdom: FISH OR CUT DEBATE DIVISION.(political humor)(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... When Bush joined the National Guard, it was a way to avoid combat. How ironic that as prez, he's relying on these folks to fight his open-ended war. C.W. Bush - U.N. speech aimed at U.S., not U.N. Neither is...

Mail Call and Corrections: Important Concerns Facing Today's Kids.(Letter to the Editor)
October 6, 2003... Readers responding to our Sept. 22 cover package on children's health and safety overwhelmingly wrote in on the subject of allergies. While some pointed to specific environmental factors, cleaning products and foods as the culprits, one couple...

Here's a Bet for Mr. Rumsfeld.(Donald Rumsfield on the United Nations and management of postwar reconstruction)(Column)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria When it comes to Iraq, the Bush administration's attitude toward the world seems strangely self-defeating. Even though America's armed forces are strained beyond their limits, the bill for reconstruction is...

Surrender Monkeys --Not: The NATO supreme commander speaks out.(General James L. Jones on relations between the U.S. and France)(Interview)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey Gen. James L. Jones is the first U.S. Marine to serve as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Having grown up in France, where his father worked for an American company after WWII, he has a keen sense of...

Bringing Down the House.(government braces for protests, Beijing, China)(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Melinda Liu in Beijing Chinese officials are trying to head off a Tiananmen-style confrontation. A major party meeting is scheduled for mid-October in Beijing, and the fear is that the plenum will spark public protests against a...

Iraq's Mr. Popularity: The French have staked out a position as the Un-America. But that doesn't mean their advice is necessarily wrong.(Jacques Chirac)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey What is wrong with those Iraqis? The United States and Britain freed them from Saddam Hussein and, sure, the vast majority say that's great: a poll released last week finds that 62 percent think liberty is worth...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker My kids love "Friends." So when I can make it home by 8 o'clock on Thursdays, we order takeout Chinese food and watch as a family. Some things about the show have always bothered me, like the cast's lack of diversity...

Those Who Hold the Keys Are Listening: At the hospital I was committed to as a teenager, I confronted doctors I once considered the 'enemy'.(psychiatric survivor tells her story)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mindy Lewis I stand at the podium looking out at the audience: more than a hundred psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, supervisors, psychologists and other members of the hospital staff. It is a momentous day for me. I am the...

What, Me Worry? HOME ALONE: The numbers are off. The world won't heed his call to arms. But if Bush is fretting about his future, he won't show it. Inside Karl Rove's game plan.(George W. Bush)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman and Tamara Lipper Two Septembers ago, George W. Bush seemed to have found a home in Manhattan. Standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center, bullhorn in hand, the president summoned a seething country and a...

Phoenix From the Ashes: Kofi Annan was a quiet diplomat reluctant to battle America. An assault on the United Nations in Iraq changed all that.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe Inside the dowdy lobby of the United Nations headquarters, opposite a collection of children's paintings about world peace, there's a photo display of about two dozen U.N. officials. Through the course of last week,...

The Unbuilding of Iraq: PERFECT STORM: Wrongheaded assumptions. Ideological blinders. Weak intelligence, missteps, poor coordination and bad luck. How Team Bush's reconstruction efforts went off the rails from day one.
October 6, 2003... Byline: John Barry and Evan Thomas The Iraq war had yet to begin, but some nasty fighting was already going on back in Washington between the Department of Defense and the Department of State. Last February, retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner was...

Cut! No Sequels, Please. The crazy recall campaign rolls into its final frame.(California gubernatorial recall election)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau The big-budget thriller that began with Arnold Schwarzenegger's dropping a bomb on "The Tonight Show" ends with next Tuesday's recall vote--but not before a climactic chase scene that's one part "Terminator 3" and one...

Up, Up and Away: Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett may be best known for his round-the-world solo balloon voyage last year--but now he's aiming even higher.(Interview)(Biography)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler Steve Fossett was home last week in Beaver Creek, Colo.--not where you usually find him--keeping an eye on the wind. Before that, he was in Omarama, New Zealand, waiting for the right weather conditions to fly his...

Out of the Blue: Five years ago 'undersea tourism' meant scuba diving in the shallows. Now, all it takes to fathom the deepest waters is bravery, curiosity and a few thousand bucks.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael There are corners of the ocean that Navy Capt. Alfred McLaren has never seen, but to hear him recount his life story, it's hard to believe they'll stay hidden from him for long. At the age of 4, he decided his...

Let's Go to Space! One hundred years after the Wright brothers' famous flight, a new breed of entrepreneur is pushing new technologies to their limits, turning science fiction into reality.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone It was a perfect morning in the Mojave desert last week and almost a calamitous one. At dawn, a white twin-tailed airplane made of graphite composite emerged from the secrecy of an enclosed airport hangar and taxied to...

A Taxicab at 30,000 Feet: Aviation mavericks are trying to mint a new class of airplane--and air travel.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone It's hard to expect world-altering change from the two biggest airplane manufacturers, Boeing and Europe's Airbus; they have too big a stake in the status quo. Boeing's new plane, the 7E7 Dreamliner, due in 2008, will...

Travels With Brittany: Goodbye, roasted marshmallows. A generation of adrenaline-driven teens takes camping to a new level.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows Brittany Lagrega, 14, is leaving Long Island, N.Y., in a few days for a camping trip on steroids--rock climbing in the Grand Tetons, white-water kayaking and hiking more than 30 miles with a 50-pound pack on her...

Cool Stuff.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... LAND, SNOW & WATER: NEWSWEEK searched high and low for the latest in adventure-travel gear--lightweight fabrics, must-have gizmos and a few big-ticket items for the athletically insane. Here are our picks. 1. Scalpel by Cannondale...

Snow Games.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... 1. R:11 Puls-Ti by Atomic State-of-the-art downhill design. These skis feature titanium-rod "pulsers" that glide back and forth just slightly, reducing vibrations and helping skiers carve tighter turns. The hourglass shape allows for flotation...

Water Sports.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... 1. UltraLite Backpacker A-Sym by Hennessy Hammock Great for warm-weather camping or snoozing by the sea, this tent, which is also a hammock, weighs just under two pounds and has won accolades from Soldier of Fortune and Dwell magazines. $149....

Newsmakers.(Interview)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr, Jennifer Ordonez Beautiful Losers? Baseball's winners begin the postseason this week, but the losers have the best shot at immortality. Heading into the final Sunday, the Detroit Tigers had lost 119 games, and with...

Perspectives.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Daily Herald, AFP, "The Sharon Osbourne Show," World Net Daily, Associated Press, State Hornet (Sacramento), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York Post, BBC...

Terrorism: Islamic Clerics at Guantanamo: Worrisome Ties.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Andrew Murr The Pentagon is re-examining its military-chaplain program after officials confirmed that Islamic clerics assigned to minister to suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,...

Bioterror: Stepping On Toes?(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Michael Hirsh Tommy Thompson, the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge have one thing in common--they both love to talk about how much better prepared America is for a bioattack like the...

Iraq: The Specter of Lebanon.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball American intelligence agencies are working to prevent a "worst case" scenario for U.S. personnel in Iraq: a suicide car or truck bombing like the one that destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut in October...

Transition.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 6, 2003... GEORGE PLIMPTON, 76 Plimpton died in his sleep last Thursday night; that day he'd put to bed the 50th-anniversary issue of his Paris Review. If you can imagine a high-profile Zelig, that was Plimpton. He helped wrestle Sirhan Sirhan down...

Books: God in 60 Seconds.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Geoffrey Gagnon No subject can't be helped with a cheat sheet--even school prayer. That's why, after the Texas Senate passed a bill giving students a full minute of prayer or silent time, Deborah Knapp published some help for the...

Technology: Grandma's Wired and Retired.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Meredith Sadin In the next 10 years, 77 million baby boomers will retire. They're "an accident waiting to happen," says Bruce Rosenthal, of the Center for Aging Services Technologies. But high-tech companies are currently testing...

Ads: Something to Chew On.(Clark candy bars)(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Michael Hastings Nothing says it better than chocolate. So it's no wonder that the favored treat for Gen. Wesley Clark's grass-roots campaign is the Clark bar. The New York for Clark wing alone has already bought 40,000 of the...

Road Trip: Are You There, God? It's Me, Tom Levinson.(Interview)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Elise Soukup In the summer of 1999, Tom Levinson, a fourth-generation Jewish New Yorker and a recent Harvard Divinity School grad, packed up his 1994 Nissan Altima and hit the road to talk to people about God. Seventy cities, 105...

WMD: Thfey're History.(weapons of mass destructionff)(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael Investigators have found evidence of biological weapons in Iraq, NEWSWEEK has learned. The discovery was made south of Mosul, in the ruins of a desert fortress at Hatra. And the weapons are... not what you think....

Bar Games: Seeing Eye To Eye.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Brian Braiker How bored were Sean Linezo, James Miller, Michael Johnson and Jay Hufford? So bored that they took an interest in staring contests. They're screening their documentary, "Stare-Master" (of course), at bars--and then...

Fairy Tales: Once Lost, Now Found.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Elise Soukup Some bad news: in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid," the mermaid doesn't get her prince. In fact, she dies. More bad news: that's not the only one of Andersen's stories that has been told wrong. "Andersen...

Gambling: Money Mag.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Steve Friess Here's a tip if you're headed to Las Vegas: stay away from the slot machines near buffet lines. They're set for fewer payouts because the casino gods know people there care about eating big, not winning big. It's...

WUSA: Don't Dis The Soccer Daddies.(Women's United Soccer Association)(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr A successful world Cup may help resurrect the women's pro-soccer league--which folded just days before the tourney began. But if the WUSA does return, it had better be with a brand-new marketing plan, says James Chung, a...

The Limits of Media Power: We're often accused of spreading 'gloom and doom' and threatening the economy. The first charge is sometimes true. The second isn't.(Column)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson In my business, you receive a lot of unsolicited advice and abuse. Some years ago a reader proposed that I "drop dead." Another well-wisher later suggested that "the best thing you could say is nothing at all."...

Travel: Got a Ticket To Drive.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten You could hop in the family minivan, tour the countryside and call it a driving vacation. Or you could jump into a sports car and whip around hairpin turns like Jeff Gordon. Now that's a driving vacation....

Food: We Want S'more!(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten When was the last time you had a s'more? Back in the Girl Scouts or on a family camping trip? Now gourmet versions of the gooey chocolate-marshmallow-and-graham-cracker concoction have become a trendy do-it-yourself...

Getaways: Hotel Rooms Fit For A King.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Michelle Jana Think you were meant to be royalty? Now's your chance. Book a room in these regal surroundings. Just remember: they're all BYO tiara. CHATEAU DES OLLIERES, NICE, FRANCE With hand-painted ceilings, marble...

Road Test: Roomba Pro Elite: Hates dirt. And pets.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Kate Stroup "The Jetsons" completely failed to deliver. Here it is, 2003, and still no flying cars. No instant dinner. And, perhaps most tragically, no Rosie the Robot. But now there's the Roomba Pro Elite, a second-generation,...

Ask Tip Sheet: Now that the National Do Not Call Registry is caught in legal limbo, is there anything we can do to stop telemarketers? -Julie Marshall, Hoboken, N.J.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Pat Wingert Contact your local attorney general--more than half the states now have their own registries. Then add your name to the Direct Marketing Association's do-not-call list (dmaconsumers.org). Its members will honor your...

Strokes: New Risk Factor.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael Iceland's deCODE Genetics has attracted controversy since its July 2000 IPO, when bioethicists came out swinging, accusing the firm of invading people's privacy. DeCODE wasn't trying hard enough to get people's...

Money: Jet-Set Spending.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Why tie your credit card to one airline? With cards like MBNA's World Points MasterCard, Fleet's Power Rewards Visa or Capital One's Miles One Visa, you can trade points for a ticket on any airline (usually with no...

Computers: High-Tech Hooky.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Dhurata Zhuta With summer over, the closest you'll get to a sandy beach is that photo on your screen saver. But it doesn't have to be that way; here are some slacker hints for ducking out of work, with no one the wiser. ...

UNCORKED - WHITE BURGUNDY.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Burgundy--the ancestral home of Chardonnay, the world's most popular white grape--is dotted with tiny vineyards. Its white Burgundies tend to be both inconsistent and expensive. But they do inspire fierce devotion. The 2001 vintage was just...

Wildlife: Animal Planet.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme Now is prime time for wildlife viewing, as critters head to warmer climes, fatten up for winter and look for mates. Our favorite fall destinations for nature lovers: There's Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, where...

Technology: Let There Be Light.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Barney Gimbel Sure, you've stocked up on flashlights and candles, but next time the power goes out, can you find them in the dark? That's why Victorinox, the makers of Swiss Army knives, integrated a bright LED flashlight into its...

Law: Lord Of The Ring.(Brief Article)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Raina Kelley Who cares if Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck ever get married? All this on-again, off-again (on-again?) nonsense is giving us one very big headache. No, we here at Tip Sheet are much more concerned about the fate of J....

Losing 'Friends': They won't be there for you--not much longer, anyway. Behind the scenes as 'Friends' begins its final season, and great sitcoms become an endangered species.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Marc Peyser You'd think it was a simple enough scene. Chandler, Joey and Rachel are in their apartment--that is, the apartment Joey and Chandler shared before Chandler moved in with Monica and Rachel had the baby and moved in with...

Strokes: New Risk Factor.(Correction Notice)
October 6, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael CORRECTION APPENDED Iceland's deCODE Genetics has attracted controversy since its July 2000 IPO, when bioethicists came out swinging, accusing the firm of invading people's privacy. DeCODE wasn't trying hard enough...

Deep in The Art Of Texas: Dallas gets the ideal home for a great collection.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan Back in the spring of 1999, Dallas real-estate developer Ray Nasher paid a visit to the Italian architect Renzo Piano at Piano's spectacular studio high above the Mediterranean outside Genoa. With his late wife,...

Pay 2 Play: There's a gold rush in the fledgling market for downloadable music. Now comes the test: how big will the fan club be?
October 13, 2003... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts There's no shortage of comeback acts in the music business these days--Simon & Garfunkel, Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac. Now, add Napster to the list. The online music service, which was shut down in 2001 after...

Cleaning Up a Dirty Business: We're seeing whole new patterns of misdeeds that continued way past the point when Enron imploded. It should have been a wake-up call.
October 13, 2003... Byline: With Barney GimbelWith Barney GimbelSLOAN is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. SLOAN is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. When the Enron scandal broke two years ago, optimists...

Conventional Wisdom: LOOSE LIPS EDITION.
October 13, 2003... Why is it that when American soldiers are KIA, it's no longer front-page news? Have combat deaths in Iraq become a dog-bites-man story? C.W. Bush = Another stumbling policy week with Intimigate leak scandal and Iraq....

Mail Call: An Officer, a Gentleman and a Candidate.(Letter to the Editor)
October 13, 2003... Most readers responding to our Sept. 29 cover story on Gen. Wesley Clark were elated and optimistic about Clark's entry into the Democratic race for president. " 'Who is this G.I.?' " reiterated a Vietnam vet, quoting our cover headline....

Paris Versus Philadelphia: America has a cheerful understanding of nationalism expressed through democracy. Europe has a horror of popular nationalism.(Column)
October 13, 2003... Byline: George F. Will America's thinking about its engagement with the world is being bedeviled by the insistent asking of the wrong question, which is: how can we close the rift with Europe caused by the Bush administration's...

Inside Al Ansar: Jailed militants tell NEWSWEEK how their group has adapted to fight U.S. occupation.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh Taha Mahmud remembers thinking he was going to die. He was thrashing through knee-deep mountain snow toward his last hope of safety, the Iranian border. High overhead in Iraq's sky, U.S. warplanes homed in on...

'I Met Bin Laden': An exiled founder of Ansar Al-Islam on the occupation of Iraq.(Interview)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball Between december 2001 and May of last year, Mullah Krekar was the leader in Iraq of Ansar Al-Islam. He served both as spiritual guide and warlord for the militant Islamist group, which controlled a small enclave in...

Japan Is Back (No, Really!): While everyone is wondering how China will reshape Asia and the world, perhaps the country to be watching is Asia's other giant.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Have you wondered whether anything's been happening in the world beyond Iraq? With America--and many others--fixated on the ups and downs of the security situation, the search for weapons, the machinations in the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Every Tuesday morning, we have an editorial meeting that starts with a short conversation about the cover. But when we started talking about this week's story on Kobe Bryant, we didn't finish for almost an hour. Some...

Pulp Friction: Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' is a superstylized bloodbath. NEWSWEEK's David Ansen thinks it's brilliant, but shallow. Tarantino thinks he's half right.(Interview)
October 13, 2003... Byline: David Ansen SYNOPSIS: On her wedding day in El Paso, the Bride (Uma Thurman), her unborn child and her entire wedding party are slaughtered by assassins. She alone survives, and after emerging from four years in a coma in a...

The Walking Wounded: In Clint Eastwood's dark, devastating adaptation of 'Mystic River,' shattered lives never go back together.(Movie Review)
October 13, 2003... Byline: David Ansen In a working-class Boston neighborhood, a young boy named Dave Boyle is playing stickball on the street with his friends Sean and Jimmy when he's abducted by men posing as cops. Over the course of the next few days,...

Who'll Buy Mel's Movie? Probably not a major studio, but an indie just might bite.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Sean Smith Mel Gibson's "The Passion" isn't an easy sell. In fact, it seems no major studio wants to touch it. "It's not worth the aggravation," says a studio head. "Even if it makes money, it's not going to be 'Titanic'." And with...

When a Blast From the Past Is Just a Whimper: Misplacing my eyeglasses--again--is annoying; forgetting old friends is downright embarrassing.(Column)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Amy Rackear I once thought my mother was a real ditz. As teenagers, my brother and I were frequently dispatched to find her chronically elusive keys and eyeglasses. Her absent-mindedness was, I believed, just one of many...

Secrets and Leaks: Pssst... You might think this Washington leak investigation will peter out like most others, with no culprits and no penalties. But here's why this one may be different.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff In Washington, so-called leak investigations--formal inquiries by the Justice Department into the publication of classified information--are like endless replays of the movie "Casablanca": the...

Are We There Yet? It began as a free-for-all, then settled into a two-man race. But the recall stayed a circus till the end.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau By the time it was over, the Great California Recall of 2003, which began as a kind of amusing, exasperating freak show--"It's democracy at its best!" "No, it's politics at its worst!"--settled down to a more...

You Want To Fight? A series of deaths may take down Toughman.(series of amateur prize fights )
October 13, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley Al Dore loves playing the tough guy. With his black ostrich boots and garish, diamond-encrusted rings, the flamboyant 67-year-old looks and acts like a small-time fight promoter. Which in fact he is. For more than...

Kobe Off the Court: It's his defining feature: an intense focus on basketball that has made Kobe Bryant one of the game's greatest, but left him self-absorbed and socially stunted. Now he's on trial for rape. The book on Kobe.(Biography)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels It was Saturday night in suburban Philadelphia, spring of 1995, and 17-year-old Kobe Bryant had invited his high-school sweetheart, Jocelyn Ebron, on a date. Most other teenagers in the upper-middle-class enclave of...

Rush's World of Pain: Dumped by ESPN and accused of drug use, the titan of talk is suddenly struggling to find the right words.(Rush Limbaugh)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores However gleefully Rush Limbaugh courts controversy, he could do without his current morass. First, the conservative radio host inflamed opponents with racial remarks about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan...

Brianna: The Little Girl That Could.(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Dirk Johnson Left at home alone for nearly three weeks, 2-year-old Brianna Lee somehow managed to fend for herself. Wandering about her Florida apartment foraging for food, she survived on whatever she could...

Hey, Rat Out That Source! Reporters shouldn't fear leaking sometimes if it's in the public interest.(Column)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Jonathan Alter Can I tell a quick leak story? The year was 1987 and Oliver North was testifying before a congressional committee investigating the Iran-contra affair. As I sat listening to him in the Senate Caucus Room, I couldn't...

Newsmakers.(rock singer Courtney Love, rap singer Ludacris)(Interview)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez and Jac Chebatoris, Lorraine Ali Courting Trouble We all have bad nights--read the police report in any small-town paper--but when you're Courtney Love, you make headlines, even when there's not much underneath...

Perspectives.(miscellaneous quotations include comments from Rush Limbaugh on his allegedly racist remarks, George W. Bush on Sammy Sosa, and a man who claims to own part of the moon)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: CNN, Longview News-Journal, Review-Journal, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Paris News, Los Angeles Times, Birmingham News, Newsweek Reporting, Advocate "I know I'm right... I'm not going to retract...

Arafat: No Way Out: The Mideast in Deepening Chaos.(Israeli government moves closer to expelling Yasir Arafat, United States appears stymied in relations with the region)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe and Dan Ephron Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, is a time of deep reflection and symbolism about the challenges that life presents. In the midst of another cycle of violence in Israel, that symbolism rarely...

Threats: Six Smuggled SAMs.(as Bangkok, Thailand readies for Asian economic summit, newspapers report on evidence of possible terrorist attacks)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Joe Cochran With less than three weeks to go before Bangkok hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been ridding the capital of beggars, stray dogs and street hawkers. But...

First Lady: Waiting for the West Wing to Notice.(Laura Bush)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Tamara Lipper While her husband fended off hostile questions, First Lady Laura Bush was miles away, delighting photographers by receiving not one but two gallant kisses from French President Jacques Chirac. In seconds, she'd done...

Kennedys: Hidden Ties.(The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings)(Book Review)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Elise Soukup Oh, how Richard Nixon would have loved to have gotten his hands on Joseph Kennedy's letters before the 1960 election. The letters, quietly released by the JFK library in November 2000 and explored in this week's "The...

Unretouched: Dylan, Original.(Bob Dylan portrayed in book of photographs)(remastered albums released on compact disk)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: David Gates Look at that face: Bob Dylan at about 20. Photographer-musician John Cohen took it in 1962, and he's just put out a book of these images (many never seen before) called "Young Bob" (powerHouse Books). It's hard to...

Transition.(Elia Kazan dead at 94)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 13, 2003... Byline: David Ansen ELIA KAZAN, 94 The most influential and intense theater director of midcentury America, Kazan also discovered and nourished a new breed of actors. His best films-- "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront," "East...

Survival: Turn to The Tart.(stores see surge in Pop-Tarts sales in anticipation of hurricane)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Jason McLure As hurricane Isabel drew nearer last month, Americans braced themselves by stocking up on batteries, water and... toaster pastries? While reviewing sales data, retailers like Wal-Mart and Giant Food discovered a surge...

Transition.(death of tennis star Althea Gibson)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2003... Byline: Elise Soukup ALTHEA GIBSON, 76 Hers is a true American tale. The daughter of a sharecropper, she went on to become the first black woman to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (both of which she did twice). Ultimately, she won 56...