Newsweek articles from October 2004

Newsweek archives from October 2004

The Book of Bob; Bob Dylan is about to publish a remarkably candid, long-awaited memoir. He gave us the first excerpt, and we sat down for an extraordinarily wide-ranging talk.(singer/songwirters memoir entitled Chronicles )(Interview)(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... When I tell Bob Dylan he's the last person I'd have expected to turn autobiographer, he laughs and says, "Yeah, me too." It's not just that he guards his privacy so carefully that he's arranged to meet in a motel room someplace in the...

Mortal Kombat, Election Level; How historic could it be if two presidential candidates were brave enough to reach across the divide and say the people deserve better?(issues of morality and the U.S. presidential campaign, 2004)(Column)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen When I was a kid, the games people played could be divided into those of the body and those of the brain. Stickball and bocce, poker and chess. I had kids of my own by the time the dominant form became that hypnotic...

Delectable Detective; Author of 'No. 1 Ladies' conjures a new sleuth.(Alexander McCall Smith)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Jones Alexander McCall Smith gets away with a lot. He not only writes novels from a female perspective--he writes best- selling novels from a female perspective. His "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" mysteries--six novels...

'On the Run'; By the late '60s, Dylan had been anointed--by whom and as what, he didn't know. An exclusive excerpt on the infuriating, dizzying wind tunnel of fame.("Chronicles, Volume One")(Excerpt)(Cover Story)
October 4, 2004... Byline: From "Chronicles, Volume One" by Bob Dylan. To be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. (c) 2004 by Bob Dylan. I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race....

Grande Plans; Yes, it can seem like there's a Starbucks on every corner, but Howard Schultz says his company is just warming up. A look at how he's rewriting the rules of retailing.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone You can't go near the City Centre mall in downtown Seattle without seeing the coquettish mermaid logo of a certain international coffee company. There's a Starbucks kiosk just inside the mall entrance. Not a hundred...

Why All the Black Eyes? Critics say CBS's controversies are no coincidence.(U.S. television network CBS Inc.)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts In a tongue-in-cheek video intended to warm up a crowd of advertisers in May, CBS president Leslie Moonves strolls into a bar. He meets a notorious bunch, including actors playing Martha Stewart and Steve...

Conventional Wisdom; Podium Rules Editions.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Going into debates, Bush for the first time ever has lost the low-expectations game, as Kerry is expected to be verbose and unappealing. CW Bush = More beheadings, suicide bombs and "miscalculations." His...

High-Fiber Sewers.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jordana Lewis You thought sewers were old tech? Renaissance Integrated Solutions of Armonk, N.Y., wants to prove otherwise. For just $4 extra per foot, it will now replace decaying municipal sewer pipes and lay fiber-optic cable at...

The Cash Is Back.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are in demand again. A wave of eager institutional investors who've historically been averse to risky investments--such as European pension accounts--are trying to get into the funds...

Car 54, Is That You?(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern The government is getting behind Wi-Fi for automobiles--and not because it wants to make sure you can IM your friends while zipping along the freeway. The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of...

If Only the Travel Itself Were Easy.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Online travel agents are wooing corporate managers with improvements that go way beyond what the typical vacation-planning consumers see on the Web. That's because travel management has become big business, as companies...

'Is That an Elk's Head In Back?'.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Coming soon to a strip mall near your office: Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Last year the privately held firm opened a branch a day, topped the list of college-graduate recruiters and made serious inroads into the corporate...

But Forget the Shrimp Cocktail.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Ah, the good old days, when first class really meant something: shrimp cocktail, china and crystal--and an extra $1,000 or more tacked on to the price of your ticket. Now the seafood might be a chicken breast, but at...

Quick Read.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Clif's Notes Four years ago Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson got a $120 million offer for his energy-bar company--and turned it down. Now he's written "Raising the Bar," explaining why. The way he sees it,...

Bonbons for Cell Phones; Trip Hawkins made his mark with computer games. Now he's trying to pitch mobile entertainment.(founder of software company Digital Chocolate)(Interview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Trip Hawkins has always had twin fixations: computers and play. As a kid in Pasadena, Calif., he played endless hours of Strat-O-Matic dice baseball, then he took game theory at Harvard, before a Stanford M.B.A. led to...

Is This Any Way to Run An Airline? Michael O'Leary has already made Ryanair the hero of European travelers and the bane of its rivals. What will he do for an encore? Free seats for everybody!(Correction Notice)
October 4, 2004... ***** CORRECTION: In "Is This Any Way to Run an Airline?" (Enterprise, Oct. 4), we reported that Ryanair claimed its average ticket is priced "570 percent lower than British Airways'." In fact, Ryanair claimed that British Airways'...

Forget Gym. It's Now 'Spa.'; Executives want more than a treadmill. But you don't need to go to Bali for a 'purifying bath ritual.'(Industry Overview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Brian Braiker When Jack O'Kelley was planning his firm's Florida work retreat, he knew what he wanted: "a large, lovely spa." (Well, who wouldn't?) As a scout for Katzenbach Partners' annual off-site, he sought out all the crucial...

A Floor of One's Own; You deserve a 'club level' room. But know which club.(luxury hotel service)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Brian Braiker Business travel may have suffered since 9/11, but those exclusive, limited-access floors at many upscale hotels are flourishing. "Club level" provides the weary road warrior with executive services like VIP check-in,...

Fingertip Windows; OQO may be the ultimate gadget for road warriors. It's an 'ultra-PC'--a cross between a PDA and laptop.(personal computers, personal digital assistants)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone It's only supposed to happen with a sports car or diamond ring. But the employees at San Francisco's OQO can't take their company's sleek new computer out in public without drawing attention. On airplanes, buses and...

A PC Just For Games; Alienware's ALX may be the coolest machine yet. All you need is $5,000.(personal computer)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Peter Suciu Liquids and computers typically don't go together--any parent of a toddler can tell you that. But a new, literally cool PC for high-end gaming may change things. Inside Alienware's ALX chassis snake tubes of liquid that...

Majestic Hits a Homer; A family-run shop will be making the uniforms for all big-leaguers next year.(sports apparel company Majestic Athletic)(Company Profile)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Late one Saturday night last February, Faust Capobianco IV learned the biggest baseball trade in years was about to go down: the Texas Rangers were sending Alex (A-Rod) Rodriguez, the league's highest-paid...

Expense This.(pricey restaurants)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Kathryn Williams Some restaurants practically dare patrons to expense their meals. The menu at Norma's in Le Parker Meridien in Manhattan literally does that--right alongside the $1,000 price tag on its "Zillion Dollar Lobster...

Tip-Top for Laptops.(travel bags)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Marie Valla It's been your confidant and best friend. so why are you carrying around your beloved laptop in a dull case? Here are functional and elegant alternatives. You can't go wrong, for example, with Longchamp's minimalist...

Capital Ideas.(leasing cars)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn If you leased a car in the late 1990s, you got a terrific deal. All told, you paid less than the car's true worth and the lessor swallowed the loss. On SUVs you saved $5,000 or $6,000, compared with the cost of...

A Spooky Month; Who's afraid of October? Many investors are, given its record of delivering nasty market surprises. But the real worry will play out over years, not in just one month.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan (Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com.) The stock market hasn't exactly been setting the world on fire lately. Despite rallying sharply in 2003, the market's had no momentum this year:...

Budget Airlines: It's Been a Bumpy Ride; Ryanair is soaring, but discount air travel has been a risky business. From smooth takeoffs to crash landings, a look at the turbulent history of flying for peanuts:.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Andrew Romano Braniff: Known for aiming to fly anywhere with a landing strip, Braniff was the first (but not the last) major U.S. airline to go bankrupt in the wake of deregulation in '78. Braniff never recovered, but its...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
October 4, 2004... Mudslinging and the Race for the White House Readers responding to our cover story on the viciousness of the presidential campaign urged the candidates to tone it down. One said John Kerry and George W. Bush should "learn to behave with a...

No Place Is Safe; Life in Baghdad: Some suicide bombings don't even get headlines anymore.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland (With Joseph Contreras in Baghdad, Eve Conant in Washington, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Emily Flynn in London and Eric Pape in Paris) Bricks and plaster blew inward from the wall, as the windows all shattered and I fell to...

'Close Down Fronts'; Musharraf on terror, Iraq and U.S. exit strategies.(Pervez Musharraf)(Interview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth In spite of his close alliance with the Bush administration in the war against terror, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf last week made clear he has some policy disagreements with the White House. In a...

How to Pick a War President; Time to debate: This is the first foreign-policy election in a quarter century. Voters are scared; they want to know who will be the best commander in chief. Here's what to look for.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Forty-four years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, the first presidential debate in American history was held in Chicago. Between 60 million and 70 million Americans watched Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy discuss the most...

Trouble on Oily Waters; A bear market for freelance soldiers in Africa?(International Peace Operations Association)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Tom Masland The International Peace Operations Association has a lot more clout at the Pentagon than the name might suggest. Calling itself an "association of military-service provider companies," it's the...

The Editors Desk.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker My parents were children of the civil-rights movement and fans of folk music, so as a child I listened to early Bob Dylan records like "The Times They Are A-Changin'." As I grew older, I fell in love with his electric...

God Save The Queen; Latifah takes a risky leap into smoky jazz standards.(Biography)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali Back in 1993, rap icon Queen Latifah challenged the growing misogyny of hip-hop by demanding, "Who you calling a bitch!?" in her hit single "U.N.I.T.Y." The music she loved was changing, and so was she. Now you can...

What the Huckabees?! David O. Russell's new movie is a strange, frenetic, metaphysical comedy. Bring your decoder ring.(Movie Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: David Ansen Unlike Altman or Scorsese, who have instantly recognizable styles, David O. Russell ("Flirting With Disaster," "Three Kings") never takes you to the same place twice. He's a tough guy to pigeonhole or predict. Now, in...

Taking the High Road, Riding the Shoulder; As a cyclist, I'm prepared to suck my share of exhaust, but I shouldn't have to fear for my life.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Becca Hutchinson (Hutchinson lives in Newark, Dela.) For more than a year now, I've ridden my bike to work. This wasn't something I began as a means to save the world or improve myself. When I first took up the practice, it wasn't...

The Ground Game; 'F2F': Yes, debates are important. But the real action is in the trenches. The high-tech tactics for getting bodies to the polls.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Tamara Lipper and T. Trent Gegax in Washington, Arian Campo-Flores in Florida, Rebecca Sinderbrand in Wisconsin, Holly Bailey in New Hampshire, Richard Wolffe with Kerry and Susannah Meadows in New York) The...

At Last, the Two Shall Meet...Face to Face, Chin to Smirk; All summer, you watched George W. Bush and John Kerry snipe and sneer at each other from a distance. Now, see them do it live, on the same stage! The upcoming presidential debates could push Kerry over the top--or seal the deal for Bush. A NEWSWEEK guide to verbal combat.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Text by Weston Kosova and Holly Bailey (Illustration by John Kascht) KERRY: THE SUBSTANCE He may have a reputation for being wooden and aloof, but Kerry is a formidable debater--he was named class orator at Yale--who has...

Town-Gown Showdown; A Harvard graduate student stands trial for murder.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Chelsea Lowe and Dirk Johnson (With Jonathan Murad) They came from different worlds. Alexander Pring-Wilson, 25, a Harvard grad scholar, could speak several languages. "Sander," as his friends know him, figured to become a lawyer,...

We're Dodging The Draft Issue; If we need to occupy another country that threatens us, we will either do it with the help of our allies or the conscription of our kids.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter It's a potentially lethal issue--the kind that could make young voters swarm to the polls and their nervous parents change their minds about supporting President Bush. Republicans are peeved over Democratic claims...

A Miracle in the Snows of Montana.(Matthew Ramige)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau with Jim Mann in Kalispell Last Wednesday, Wendy Becker and her family were planning a funeral for her 29-year-old-son Matt. That was after officials in Montana had announced that Matthew Ramige was one of five people...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jac Chebatoris, Jennifer Ordonez, Keith Naughton Q&A: Nancy Sinatra She'll always be her father's daughter, but Nancy Sinatra, 64, has never been shy about making a name for herself, either, most famously with the '60s hit...

Perspectives.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, St. Petersburg Times, CNN, Associated Press, "Memorandum Of Understanding," CNN, New York Times, Associated Press, St. Paul Pioneer Press, New York Post "This will be Arkansas...

Homeland Security's Info: Miles from Nowhere.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff Security officials can't quite explain why singer Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was on a U.S. government "no fly" list. Homeland Security officials diverted his D.C.-bound jet to Bangor,...

Supreme Court: And the Nominees Are...
October 4, 2004... Byline: Cliff Sloan and Stuart Taylor Jr. Be it George W. Bush or John Kerry, the newly elected president will likely have vacancies to fill on the Supreme Court. Four justices are older than 70, and rumors have swirled for years that Chief...

Politics: Greetings, Columbus.(Arnold Schwarzengger)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau There's not much Arnold Schwarzenegger can do to help George W. Bush in California: polls give John Kerry a double-digit lead. But he can have an impact in Ohio, which Bush strategist Karl Rove once called "ground...

Plans: Next, War on Syria?(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is...

Breast Cancer: A Ribbon's Far Reach.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen The pink parade starts again in October, the 20th annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In Times Square, 3M is building the World's Largest Pink Ribbon using Post-it notes with a ribbon imprint. There's ChapStick in...

Games: Inside the Mansion.(Playboy Mansion videogame)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Peter Suciu For 50 years it's been the magazine that everyone reads for the articles. Thanks to a new videogame, you'll get to try your hand at running Playboy magazine and living the life of founder Hugh Hefner. Though players...

Fast Chat: Writing From the 'Hip'.(Hip: The History)(Interview)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Devin Gordon Did you know that the term "hip" comes from a West African Wolof tribal word meaning "to see"? That Charlie Parker so adored Woody Woodpecker that Bird mimicked the bird's laugh in his sax solos? New York Times...

Tiger: Not Out of the Woods Yet.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Devin Gordon On a lovely afternoon in Manhattan last week, two black SUVs pulled up in front of a Starbucks on Fifth Avenue. As bodyguards in both cars debated whose turn it was to make a coffee run, Tiger Woods, dressed in a...

Weddings: Here Come the Brides.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Amy Miller, a New York-based pharmaceutical rep, is getting married in January. Twice. Once on Jan. 5 in Mexico and once on Jan. 21 in New York. "The first one's for us," she explains. "The second one's to appease...

Presidents and Jobs (Again); I've said you should discount rhetoric that they can easily affect the number or quality of new jobs. Many readers were appalled by the message.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Every presidential election is an exercise in hope and exaggeration. We hope "our" candidate's triumph will uplift the nation. But the usual campaign exaggerations may deceive and disillusion us. In two recent...

Mating Behavior 101; Social scientists have recently begun to study sex on campus, in search of the truth about 'hooking up'.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn It was just after sunset on a warm day at the College of New Jersey. Under a rising moon, the soccer team ran the field in the lighted stadium. Outside the student union, a guitar duo played an acoustic set. And in a...

Mags for the Modern Would-be Mom.(Conceive)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Claudia Kalb Long before "intracytoplasmic sperm injection" and "zygote intrafallopian transfer" entered the baby-making lexicon, there was one way to conceive: sex. But today, with tens of thousands of high-tech fertility babies...

They Dress to Express; Political T shirts--on the right and the left--pit teenagers against their school administrators.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Vanessa Juarez (With Claire Sulmers) When Tim Gies was a sophomore at Michigan's Bay City Central High School, the United States was preparing to go to war in Iraq, and Gies became so passionate about politics that he began wearing...

Ivory Tower: Teachings Of Tupac; A tenure dispute in the hip-hop department.(Harvard University African-American studies professor denied tenure)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: William Lee Adams The class: "Hip Hop America: Power, Politics and the Word." The textbook: "Yo Mama's Dysfunctional." The university: Harvard. The professor's tenure status: denied. This past summer, two years after the...

Memo to Bloggers: Heal Thyselves; Taking the low road is a well-trodden path to big readership, just as it is in Old Media.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Things are quiet on the Where Is Raed blog these days. Quite a contrast to the weeks preceding the Iraqi war, when self-described "accidental journalist" Salam Pax (a pseudonym) became an international celebrity by...

Amazon's Search Engine: Book It!(A9.com)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Peter Suciu The latest entrant in the search-engine wars, A9 (a9.com ), doesn't try to reinvent search technology but focuses on making searches more efficient and accessible. A subsidiary of Amazon.com, A9 culls information from...

SWING STATE WATCH; Debate and Switch?(Presidentail elections 2004)(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Andrew Romano The polls are uneven, but both campaigns agree: Bush leads by a few points. Expect that to change after Thursday's face-off. Kerry will up the heat; W will up the charm. And the winner could take all. SPOTLIGHT:...

Health: Don't Call Me 'Four Eyes'.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Earlier this year Shaina Borowicz, 13, switched from glasses to colored contacts. "I don't think I look good in glasses," she says. Naturally brown-eyed, Borowicz (right) each day chooses from her collection of five...

Travel: Fall Foliage.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley It's leaf-peeping season, and here are some of the best ways to see the show before you have to rake: 1. Drive the Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway, Lake George, N.Y.: Enjoy a 100-mile view of five...

Road Test: Jaguar S-Type R; A sexy beast.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Jaguar purists still lament Ford's purchase of the venerable British company, but I say the brand still has plenty of panache. The tweaked redesign of the 2005 S-Type has long, curvaceous lines that nod to the...

Style: Shrinking Jean Pool.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Men's jeans are getting a makeover this fall, with slimmer fits borrowed from women's lines. Energie ($199; at select Bloomingdale's), Gap ($78; gap.com) and Tommy Hilfiger ($90; tommy.com for locations), pictured,...

Money: Stash The Cash Here.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Money-market funds are coming to life after the Federal Reserve's repeated rate hikes. Average annual yields crossed the 1 percent mark last week and, for the first time since 2002, beat the average money-market rate...

Must Have: Capitol Mistake.(Review of 100 Words Almost Everybody Confuses and Misuses)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley You're in a job interview and suddenly you can't remember the difference between "infer" and "imply." If you make a mistake, you'll signal to your potential employer that you're an illiterate. If this nightmare seems...

In Season: Figuring On Figs.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Julie Scelfo It took centuries for Americans to appreciate what Greeks and Romans knew long ago: fresh figs are a treasured delicacy. The Black Mission variety from California, known for its pink flesh and intensely sweet flavor,...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane All my pencils are No. 2. Are there any No. 1 pencils? --Rebecca Little, Chicago, Ill. Just like college hopefuls, pencils are distinguished by their grades. While the No. 2 represents the most widely used one,...

Health: Trial And Error.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Until now, patients have had to rely on warning labels to learn about the dangers of their medication. But on Oct. 1, when the pharmaceutical-industry trade group PhRMA launches clinicalstudyresults.org , it...

Technology: Berry Mobile.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 4, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy If you're a member of the "CrackBerry Generation"--those addicted to the handheld e-mail gadget known more benignly as the BlackBerry--you might have been wondering whether its creator, RIM, would come out with a...

Choose, Lose or Snooze; Two tepid TV events--one a mini-series, the other a documentary--about Democrats' making a run.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser Fed up with politics? Don't look for an escape on TV, where every day will soon be Election Day, even where you'd least expect it. Next week the Sundance Channel debuts "Tanner on Tanner," a sequel to the acclaimed 1988...

Red Hot MoMA; New York's great modern museum is reborn, thanks to $425 million and an unlikely architect named Taniguchi.(Yoshio Taniguchi)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan Early one evening last spring, on the edge of the Inland Sea in Japan, architect Yoshio Taniguchi was showing off the construction site of a small museum he'd designed. Taniguchi, 67, is silver-haired and tall...

Velvet Underground; A novel about a privileged 1960s radical on the run.(The Darling by Russell Banks)(Book Review)
October 11, 2004... Byline: David Gates Russell Banks is hardly the friskiest novelist, but in "The Darling," a Graham Greeneish downer/thriller set during Liberia's gruesome civil wars, he does tip us one knowing wink. The narrator's name-dropping WASP...

Tough Beat; William Donaldson is Wall Street's top cop, facing the nearly impossible task of policing a sprawling, fast-moving financial system. But is he fighting the right battles?(Biography)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino It was a tough job to fill. Who could possibly be recruited two years ago to take over the Securities and Exchange Commission, and rescue it from several tumultuous years? The SEC, after all, had become a punch...

Conventional Wisdom; Special iPodium Editions.
October 11, 2004... You know someone has won a debate when the other side tries to call it a tie. Call in the body-language consultants and head for St. Louis. CW Bush - Even righties say he was off. Trying for knockout, opened...

Mail Call: Health and the Mind.(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... Readers responding to our Sept. 27 cover story on what science is learning about the mind-body connection had wide-ranging opinions. Many praised the coverage, as one who said, "I am happy that medical science is beginning to see that an ounce...

Modern Life In NFL Nation; Pro football produced the first black celebrity featured in a national corporate advertising campaign, for Hertz. O. J. Simpson. Oh, well.
October 11, 2004... Byline: George F. Will A fat lot Keats knew about autumn. "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"? Fiddlesticks. It is football season, the distilled essence of modern life. It is sex (pneumatic cheerleaders), violence (when the 1976...

Iraq's Election Day; U.S. officials are talking about excluding some areas in the Iraq vote. Is that a formula for civil war?
October 11, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras (With Rod Nordland in Baghdad and Mark Hosenball and Eve Conant in Washington) Carlos Valenzuela is no stranger to organizing elections in troubled lands. The long-haired, jeans-clad United Nations official has...

'Living Dead' No More; The women of the Afghan capital are thriving. Now they'd like to spread those freedoms.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai During the reign of the Taliban, when movies, music, television and women's education were banned, Roya Sadat wanted to be a filmmaker. She wrote scripts, and studied books on drama and moviemaking that...

Americans Eat Cheese, Too; Sixty-six percent of Americans favor working within the United Nations, even when it adopts policies that the United States does not like.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The Bush campaign believes it has found one soft spot in John Kerry's debate performance. In the days after the contest, the president has relentlessly hit one theme: that Kerry is a wimpy multilateralist. "I've been...

'We Are Prepared'; Interview: Iran won't make nuclear bombs, says the minister. But if Israel attacks, Iran is ready.(Kamal Kharrazi)(Interview)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth Bush Administration worries over Iran are mounting: about its nuclear program, about Iran's murky role in the mayhem of Iraq, about ties to terrorists. What does Tehran have to say for itself? Iran's foreign...

Madmen, Rogues & Nukes; Biggest threat: Bush and Kerry agree on their worst nightmare: nukes in the hands of terrorists. So who can best prevent it?(Cover Story)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh and John Barry Even Jim Lehrer, the moderator, seemed a bit surprised. He twice asked the candidates: both of you really believe this is the "single most serious threat" to America? Nuclear proliferation is, after...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 11, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker Spin is spin, but sometimes faces tell the real story. In the "spin room" after last Thursday's presidential debate, Howard Fineman knew as soon as he saw the tense expressions of Bush advisers Ken Mehlman and Ed...

The Glare of the Lights; A gripping movie about high stakes and high school.(Friday Night Lights)(Movie Review)
October 11, 2004... Byline: David Ansen In Odessa, Texas, high school football is no casual pastime, it's a passion religious in its fervor. And the teenage boys who play for the Permian Panthers--Texas's most successful high-school team--are treated, in...

Life Isn't Beautiful; It's crunch time in the war between Miramax Films and parent company Disney. But who'll get crunched?
October 11, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith Probably no one in modern Hollywood has been responsible for more great movies than Harvey Weinstein. The co-chairman of Miramax, who runs the company with his brother, Bob, all but created the independent-film market...