Newsweek articles from October 2005

Newsweek archives from October 2005

By the Tube, For the Tube; You're not qualified to govern this country if you don't understand the uses of TV. Those in public life should be required to watch it.(Column)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen On the second day of judge John Roberts's confirmation hearings, CNN's Jeff Greenfield felt moved to ask a question. The guest was Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, and Greenfield inquired why his fellows on the...

Slow-Motion Makeover; John Mack has boosted morale at Morgan. Now comes the hard part: ending the politics, and lifting the stock.(securities company Morgan Stanley)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino Shortly after John Mack took over as chief executive of Morgan Stanley nearly three months ago, he held a town-hall meeting with the company's brokerage division. The audience had reason to worry. After all, the...

Conventional Wisdom; UNLOVELY RITA EDITION.(Hurricane Rita)(brief satirical comments on current events)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Second storm in a month shows again how weak our emergency readiness remains. Can anyone here play this game? CW Bush = Empathetic photo op foiled by sunny weather in San Antonio. But at least he's learned to pay...

Mail Call: Poor, Helpless and Caught in Harm's Way.(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... Readers grappled with the hard questions surrounding poverty and race--subjects explored in our Sept. 19 Special Report--that arose in Katrina's wake. One reader wrote that "it's about time" the issues were addressed; another agreed, finding...

The Good Heart; Diet and exercise are not the whole secret to cardiovascular health. Mounting evidence suggests that your psychological outlook is just as important.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood (Graphics by Josh Ulick) You can call it the Northridge Effect, after the powerful earthquake that struck near Los Angeles at 4:30 on a January morning in 1994. Within an hour, and for the rest of the day, medics...

The Dangers of Chronic Distress; Are you worried, irritable and socially inhibited? A simple test may help predict the health effects.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Michael Craig Miller, M.D. (Miller is editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Years ago, when the psychologist Johan Denollet was first working with cardiac...

Avoiding Dementia: Fitness and Your Brain.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Steven K. Feske, M.D. (Feske is a neurologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital. For more information about the heart-brain connection, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) People who take care of...

Love Is Real Medicine; Loneliness fosters cardiovascular disease. Fortunately, there's an antidote.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Dean Ornish, M.D. (Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. His books include "Love and Survival" and "Dr. Dean...

Designing Heart-Healthy Communities; We've had enough of good advice. The real secret to fitness is to live in an environment that encourages it.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley and Karen Springen Forecasting heart disease is becoming an ever-finer art, as researchers learn more about the risk factors. But here's a predictor you may not have heard about: street address. In a study published...

Drug Treatments: Making the Right Choice.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: James L. Januzzi, M.D. (Januzzi is a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) Thanks to an array of drugs developed over the last 30 years, most people today can...

A Healthy Toast; It's not just wine that protects the heart. All alcohol has cardiac benefits--in moderation.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood (With Ben Whitford) There is nothing like the joy of finding out that something sinful is actually good for you, whether it's sex, chocolate or a glass of fine red wine--or, for that matter, beer, schnapps, whisky or...

Staying Safe: How to Quit Smoking.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Nancy Rigotti, M.D. (Rigotti, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, directs the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. For more information on smoking cessation, go to...

Searching for Hidden Heart Risks; New technologies offer incredible images, but more traditional tests are probably all you need.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Peter Libby, M.D., and Patrick J. Skerrett (Libby is chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Skerrett is editor of the Harvard Heart Letter. For...

Rebuilding the Heart; Stem cells seem to rejuvenate failing hearts. The trouble is, doctors still don't understand how.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael A million lonely ballads notwithstanding, with time, the human heart can recover from an emotional wound. In medicine, however, the prognosis is often bleaker, and time only makes a physical injury worse. If starved...

Best Treatments: Managing Heart Failure.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: G. William Dec, M.D. (Dec is chief of the cardiology division at Massachusetts General Hospital and DeSanctis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.) One day stem...

Hey, Doc, Minimize It; Heart surgeons are offering patients new operations that dramatically reduce wear and tear on the body.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: David Noonan Barry Goodman, 46, is a chiropractor, yoga teacher, surfer, kayaker, swimmer, cyclist and father of four who has worked hard throughout his life to stay fit and healthy. Unfortunately, he is also part of a family with...

The Smallest Patients; To help babies with heart defects, doctors can now operate in the womb.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb Melissa Paske was 29 weeks pregnant with a girl when she asked her doctor for a second ultrasound. Her belly had been scanned at 24 weeks, and there was no medical reason to take additional images. But, says Paske,...

When Should You Start to Worry? A Harvard heart doctor addresses your concerns.(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Dr. Thomas H. Lee (Lee, an internist and cardiologist, is network president of Partners HealthCare System and CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, which was founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He...

A 'Culture of Health'; Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has put his state on a fitness regimen. Can he do the same for America?(Interview)(Cover Story)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Barrett In the Spring of 2003, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee weighed more than 280 pounds. He'd just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes--and seen a close friend die of a heart attack at 69. So the Republican governor...

North Korea Hold 'Em; Washington used to have most of the chips in six-party talks over Pyongyang's nuclear program. But Beijing is the key player now--for better and worse.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Melinda Liu (With Sarah Schafer in Beijing and B. J. Lee in Seoul) High-stakes diplomacy is not unlike "Celebrity Poker." In both there is a big stage, a rapt audience and swift reversals of fortune. And in...

'Terrorist Administration'; Chavez attacks Bush, and warns about oil prices.(President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Lally Weymouth Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez is a bete noire of the Bush administration. He's a populist on the Castro model who wants to steer Latin America firmly to the left. He also rules a key oil-producing country, which...

Saudi Storms; As hurricanes batter the American coast and send oil prices up, Al Qaeda is watching, and drawing lessons.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey The shoot-out earlier this month around a seafront villa in the Saudi Arabian city of Ad Dammam lasted almost 48 hours, and ended only when security forces brought in light artillery. They blasted the opulent...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker I teared up," says our usually dry-eyed medical correspondent, Claudia Kalb. "I couldn't help it." She had gone to Children's Hospital Boston to report on the amazing new world of fetal heart surgery. Touring the...

Out of the Rubble... Condos and Slots? We will never re-create the Biloxi I loved as a child, but we must try to build something just as unique.(Biloxi, Mississippi)(Column)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Annalyn Swan (Swan, a former NEWSWEEK editor, lives in New York.) I walk toward the beach, past the centuries-old oak that has overhung my family's cemetery lot for generations. Half is still standing--the other half, broken away....

The Battle to Rebuild; In a fierce cultural storm, the future of the Lower Ninth is buffeted by race and politics.(fallout of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, New Orleans, Louisiana)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas and Arian Campo-Flores (With Sarah Childress, T. Trent Gegax and Daren Briscoe Graphic by Andrew Romano and Kevin Hand) The Lower Ninth was going under, again. Floodwaters from Hurricane Rita had breached the levee...

A Washington Sand Trap; A golf outing trips up a widening circle of power brokers.(corruption investigation surrounding dealings of lobbyist Jack Abramoff)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff David Safavian wasn't expecting visitors. A relatively senior White House official--he oversaw federal contracts for the Office of Management and Budget--the 38-year-old Safavian had been working around the clock on...

Rita's Lessons; First, a slow-footed response. Then: hyperactivity. Back-to-back storms test Bush's ability to lead in a crisis.(Correction Notice)
October 3, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "Double Trouble On Refinery Row," the graphic accompanying "Rita's Lessons" (Oct. 3), the designation and boundaries of the state of Alabama were inadvertently omitted. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** ...

The Dispossessed: 'This Is Like a Prison'; Katrina drove them from New Orleans. Rita made them move again. Life on the road for a frustrated group of evacuees.(civilian evacuation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez It's a journey without a destination. Almost a month ago, Glenda Smith, 42, was flooded out of her home in New Orleans. Along with seven family members, including two infants under the age of 6 months, she spent...

Newsmakers.(country singer Gretchen Wilson)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Jac Chebatoris, Susannah Meadows Q&A: GRETCHEN WILSON Self-proclaimed "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson went from filing for bankruptcy to selling more than 4 million records with her anthem for the common gal. A few days before...

Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: Bloomberg, AP, New York Times, AP, The Washington Post (2), Children's Hospital Boston, The Washington Post, AP "Houston is weathering the storm." Houston Mayor Bill White, on a weakened Hurricane Rita's...

CIA: 'An Agency Version of the "Jerry Springer Show"'.(Central Intelligence Agency)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball Personal and political feuding at CIA headquarters is turning into a soap opera. Morale has declined for months as CIA chief Porter Goss has purged senior managers and critics have assailed the agency for fumbling...

Iraq: 82nd Faces Allegations.(allegations of prisoners abuse)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh and John Barry The Bush Administration has long insisted any abuse of prisoners in Iraq or Afghanistan violated official U.S. policy--that it was committed by those on the Abu Ghraib night shift. But a new report by...

The Border: A Redoubt Is Razed, But Will It Stop Illegals?(bulldozers demolish Mexican border town of Las Chepas)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Andrew Murr and Monica Campbell To hundreds of migrants who arrive each day in Las Chepas, Mexico, this town just south of the New Mexico border is a place to gather their wits before trekking to the Promised Land. To Gov. Bill...

Fast Chat: The War Inside.(Jennifer Miller, author of "Inheriting the Holy Land")(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daniel Klaidman As the daughter of veteran State Department negotiator Aaron Miller, Jennifer Miller found the Middle East conflict hard to escape--even at the family's dinner table. In "Inheriting the Holy Land," the 25-year-old...

John Paul II: From the Pontiff's Pen.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Andrew Nagorski John Paul II made no secret of his interest in the political upheavals and religious controversies in his native Poland. But a book of his private correspondence about to be published in Poland demonstrates an...

Transition.(Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Nick Summers SIMON WIESENTHAL, 96 A survivor of 12 concentration camps, Wiesenthal pursued Nazi war criminals around the globe for almost 60 years. The relentless investigator played a role in the capture of more than 1,100...

Food: The School Of Julia.(author Julie Powell finds inspiration from chef and cookbook writer Julia Child)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz In the summer of 2002, Julie Powell's prospects seemed bleak. Despite a degree from Amherst and "seven years of three-quarters-finished novels in drawers," she was still a 29-year-old New York secretary with...

Media: Snap, Send--And Sell.(Scoopt.com solicits and sells photos to the media)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano On Sept. 2, Stephen Bell watched from his U.K. office window as a black Mazda crashed into a cluster of cars parked below. Then he snapped a photo of the wreckage and sent it to Scoopt.com. Soon, Bell's pic was in the...

Capitalism vs. Democracy; We often assume they go hand in hand, but recent elections in Japan and Germany provide a sobering reminder that there are deep conflicts.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The recent German and Japanese elections deserve more attention than they've got because they illustrate the uneasy relationship between capitalism and democracy. Capitalism thrives on change--it inspires new...

Keeping Her Promise to Our Kids.(Correction Notice)
October 3, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: "Keeping Her Promise To Our Kids" (Periscope, Oct. 3) erroneously stated that 60 percent of the children in Tempe, Ariz., live below the poverty line. We should have said that about 60 percent of the children in Tempe's...

eBay's Bet: The Skype's the Limit.(eBay Inc. purchases Skype Technologies S.A.)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy When I talked to Meg Whitman last week, we used plain old telephones. But since both of us belong to the 54 million-member Skype community--a global society one joins simply by signing up to use that company's voice...

Blog Watch.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... A mainstream-media look at weblogs. Dailykos.com, one of the leading lefty blogs, recently launched streetprophets.com, billed as "an exploration of religion and values from the perspective of the Left." Few companies have their...

Ask the Technologist.(listening to audiobooks using Apple iPod)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy (SUBMIT QUESTIONS AT ASKLEVY.NEWSWEEK.COM) I listen to audiobooks frequently while I'm driving. Can Apple's iPod allow me to download audiobooks and play them through my car radio? --Sam Martin, Center Ossipee, N.H....

Food: Hey, Ma, Pass The Spatula.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment and Karen Springen (With Nicki Gostin) At 11, New Yorker Benjamin Deutsch is a pie-making expert. He especially loves the feel of the dough: mixing it, rolling it, tasting it and shaping it into a perfect crust. "He...

The Checklist.(sound recordings, books, television programs, and more)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Our top picks for the week ahead. HEAR: 'Unfabulous and More.' The niece of Julia Roberts, 14-year-old Emma, has her own TV show, movie career (as Nancy Drew) and now album. Uh-oh, Jamie Lynn! EAT: Prune plums. These small, oblong...

Ask Tip Sheet.(portrayal of watches and clocks in advertisements)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Nicole Joseph Why do most advertisements show watches and clocks set to the time 10:10? --Kyla Kinzler, Santa Barbara, Calif. Advertisements have a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time. Their main purpose: to grab...

Road Test: Pontiac G6 GTP Coupe; Beefcake on the block.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten Think American muscle cars are too bold, loud, twitchy and obnoxious? Then size up the G6 GTP coupe. Though not technically a muscle car, it has its share of beefcake traits. There's generous torque from a...

Sports: On The Way To The Top.(the sport of "stacking")(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Kids across the nation are discovering the latest hot game: rapidly stacking cups into formations. Some 1 million people in the United States and Canada are playing, often in P.E. classes, according to the World...

Health: When Ragweed Takes Flight.(caring for ragweed allergies)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (aafa.org ) estimates that as many as 20 percent of Americans are allergic to ragweed, so don't assume your itchy throat and watery eyes are a cold. Commonly found poking...

Technology: Must Love Robo-Dogs.(robotic pet dogs)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Who needs a real pooch when you can adopt a robotic dog? These canines come with more tricks than Lassie--they sit up, bark, roll over, even play music. Which puppy wins best in show? Tip Sheet unleashed them all....

Style: Flash Some Skin.(handbags)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Allison Samuels Still clinging to your summer tote? It's time to trade up. This fall, skins, hobos and studs are the arm candy of choice. Luella's Gisele bag looks like something a hip doctor might carry. (Look for less expensive...

Cheat Sheet: Truman Show.(the writings of Truman Capote)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" was a landmark in nonfiction. The new movie "Capote" tells the story behind the story. Want to prepare? Start with the original material. The 1965 book ($14) recounts a family murder...

Alone With Her Words; Joan Didion's spare, stunning memoir of loss and grief.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan These are the first words Joan Didion wrote after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in December 2003: "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it...

Hybrid Nation? Nope. In spite of $3-a-gallon gas, carmakers are still betting big on SUVs. Look out, Prius--here comes the Nitro.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton (With Joan Raymond) To Cleveland real-estate agent Kim Bittner, the incredible bulk of a Hummer H2 was always oddly alluring, but just too over the top. For one thing, it wouldn't fit in her garage. And with runaway...

Conventional Wisdom; HERE COMES DA JUDGES EDITION.
October 10, 2005... After all the hoopla, Roberts confirmation gets lost in GOP meltdown. Now for a bloodier fight: filling O'Connor's heels. CW DeLay - Calls indictment "partisan politics," a subject with which he has some familiarity....

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
October 10, 2005... The Cost of Disaster: Can We Afford It? Readers continued to ponder the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, particularly the overall costs of the disaster discussed in our Sept. 26 issue. Many wondered how the government planned to pay for...

VRA, All of It, Forever? The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the noblest law of the 20th century. Some of its provisions, however, are now weird--and worse.
October 10, 2005... Byline: George F. Will The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 and included a number of "emergency" provisions that were set to expire as early as 1970 but were extended and amended in 1970, 1975 and 1982. They will soon be extended for a...

No More Illusions; Americans used to dream of building a strong, unified, pluralistic Iraq. Now the possibilities are a very loose federation, or violent disintegration.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Michael Hastings (With Michael Hirsh and John Barry in Washington, Melinda Liu in Basra and Joe Cochrane) For more than a decade, Abu Sajad's small convenience store was a fixture in Doura, an...

The Germans: A Lot Like Us; Last year Germany became the world's No. 1 exporter, larger even than America, despite the fact that the U.S. economy is five times as big.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) German voters have spoken. "We don't want to become Americans." That's how a senior German politician explained the recent election to me. And it's the conventional...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker The most powerful man in Congress, a fiercely partisan Texan, was in scalding water for abuse of power and in danger of losing his throne. His party, which had enjoyed a seemingly unassailable reign over the House,...

Curious George; Everything you thought you knew about Clooney--the roguish guy's guy and lady-killer--is true. So how'd he direct one of the best and smartest movies of the year?
October 10, 2005... Byline: David Ansen It's party time, 2:30 in the morning, and George Clooney, a dapper, urbane Hollywood star of the old school, is surrounded, not surprisingly, by a small sea of women ooh ing and aah ing over his latest movie. Each wants...

At 39, I Want the Baby Without the Blame; Waiting until I was ready has made conceiving difficult, but was there really any other choice?
October 10, 2005... Byline: Melissa Cole Essig (Cole Essig lives in Long Beach, Calif.) I'm outing myself. Until now I've refused to talk about it with the friends, family and even strangers who are perfectly comfortable asking when I'm going to have children...

Troubled Waters; War, storms, leak probes--and a growing array of ETHICS CLOUDS. Dark days for the Republican Party.(Cover Story)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift (With Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper) In the Tom DeLay era--now at least temporarily ended--a meeting of the House Republican Conference usually was a ceremonial affair, at which...

The Exterminator; Expelled. Born again. Tom DeLay's Rise--and the risks that could end it.(Cover Story)
October 10, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In the graphic "DeLay's Wheeling and Dealing," under the heading of "Messing With Texas," NEWSWEEK writes, "Oct. 6, 2004: Asking the FAA to track the Texas 5, a group of at-risk Dems who fled Austin to stall the...

Tom DeLay's House of Shame; Congress has always had its share of extremists. But the DeLay era is the first time the fringe has ever been in charge.(Cover Story)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Alter A decade ago, I paid a call on Tom DeLay in his ornate office in the Capitol. I had heard a rumor about him that I figured could not possibly be true. The rumor was that after the GOP took control of the House that...

A Family Affair; After the storms hit, Louisiana's ruling clan became both victims and volunteers. Meet the Landrieus.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Melinda Henneberger Three days after the storm, Moon and Verna Landrieu's children sent out the search party. None of the nine of them had heard from the former New Orleans mayor and his wife since they'd set out at the last...

Wildfire: 'I Was Thinking About Katrina'; As fire season starts, Californians are more inclined to heed calls to evacuate.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Andrew Murr and Jennifer Ordonez Kayvan Taherpour was happy to evacuate. Last Wednesday afternoon, as hot Santa Ana winds whipped the Topanga wildfire toward the neighborhood's hillside homes, Los Angeles police pounded on doors...

An Angel's Dirty Secret; How hostage Ashley Smith's drug use shaped her ordeal.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Susannah Meadows and Arian Campo-Flores (With Melanie Lasoff Levs and Catharine Skipp) Ashley Smith regretted the words the moment they came out of her mouth. While she was held hostage in her apartment last March by Brian...

The Senate: Doubting a Trust; The SEC is trying to show politics won't play into its scrutiny of a stock sale by Sen. Bill Frist. Easier said than done.(Cover Story)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino The Securities and Exchange Commission is known as Wall Street's top cop for good reason, boasting a list of past targets that's supposed to show it doesn't play favorites--including celebrities like Martha...

Newsmakers.(Toni Collette)(Interview)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, David Gates, Jac Chebatoris Q&A: TONI COLLETTE She charmed us in "Muriel's Wedding," scared us in "The Sixth Sense"--and is about to make us cry in the tear-jerker "In Her Shoes." She spoke with a fellow Aussie,...

Perspectives.(Correction Notice)
October 10, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In our Oct. 10 Perspectives, we credited Walt Handelsman's cartoon to Matt Handelsman. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: AP, MSNBC, Baltimore Sun,...

CIA Leak: 'Awkward' Talk Helps Free Miller From Jail.(Judy Miller)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff New York Times reporter Judy Miller broke her silence and agreed to testify before a federal grand jury last week. This followed tense, often acrimonious negotiations that began after special Justice Department...

Spies: Who's in Charge?(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball A key question raised by 9/11 reform legislation is how involved the new National Intelligence czar will be in managing human-spy operations of the CIA and military agencies, which sometimes compete for informants....

Oil: Offshore-Drilling Debate.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Holly Bailey Amid worries over rising fuel costs, congressional Republicans are pressing for a vote as early as this week to roll back a moratorium on oil and gas exploration off the nation's coasts. The move could prompt a...

Evacuations: The 'Contraflow' Effect.(evacuation of civilians in emergencies)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball One early lesson learned from Hurricane Katrina: emergency workers are as anxious as anyone to protect their families. New Orleans authorities had trouble mobilizing local buses to evacuate victims because bus...

America's Best: Relief in a Good Read.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: An Oct. 10 Periscope item, "Relief in a Good Read," misstated the name and location of the publishing company that donated 750,000 books to Book Relief. The company is Townsend Press, not Townsend Books, and it is located...

Cabbies: A Sartorial Sea Change.(dress codes for taxi drivers)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen Cabdrivers have to watch what they wear now. The International Airport Ground Transportation Association voted unanimously last week to strongly recommend a taxi-driver dress code: closed-toe shoes, a collared shirt...

Hollywood: Striking a New Prose.(screenwriter Dan Futterman)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Marc Peyser There aren't many screenwriters who will happily give credit to their wives for one of their best lines, but then there aren't a lot of writers like Dan Futterman. For one thing, Futterman is getting major acclaim for...

Memoirs: Gunning to Be in Print.(soldiers' memoirs on Iraq War)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup A young man, recently out of school and wanting to see the world, joins the military--and gets shipped to Iraq. In gutsy, sometimes profane prose, he takes you on a soldier's-eye view of the front lines of the war....

Transition: Constance Baker Motley.(Brief Article)(Biography)
October 10, 2005... Constance Baker Motley, 84 After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1946, Motley worked for the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, fighting restrictions that barred blacks from living in white neighborhoods. And she would keep...

Under the Influence: 'The Squid and the Whale'.(motion picture)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano Winner of the two top prizes at Sundance, Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" (Oct. 5) is a no-budget film a clef about egghead divorce. The surprise: it's one of this fall's must-see flicks. Feeling out of...

Reality Check On the Bubble; The housing streak rests on solid fundamentals: plentiful jobs, new immigrants and rising incomes among the well-to-do and older boomers.
October 10, 2005... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) It ain't over 'til it's over. Home buyers keep hitting real estate out of the park. The prices of existing homes rose in August at the fastest pace in a quarter century. New...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Spook)(The City of Falling Angels)(Vita)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones, Nisid Hajari Spook by Mary Roach Her choice of subjects--corpses in her last book ("Stiff") and now the search for the soul--suggests Roach is not your average science writer. Funny, inquisitive and uncowed by...

The Mind of an Inventor; He built his first computer as a child. In his 20s, he had moved on to supercomputers. Now Danny Hillis is thinking of bigger things.(Interview)
October 10, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy ARE INVENTORS BORN, OR ARE THEY MADE? Danny Hillis, who can't remember a time when he wasn't trying to make mind-blowing stuff, comes at the question, as usual, from an unexpected angle: potential inventors are un...