Newsweek articles from October 2007

Newsweek archives from October 2007

Riding in the Slipstream.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise)(business opportunities for United States companies created by Japan's hybrid car market dominance)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross The Japanese are way ahead in manufacturing hybrid cars. The good news: American entrepreneurs are cashing in on side products like souped-up batteries. When it comes to hybrids, the heavyweight tussle between...

Killing The Consumer.(Giving Globally)(The Last Word)(lung cancer; smoking)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen Since lung cancer has outstripped breast cancer as a killer of women, younger smokers have to be constantly created to fill the death gap. In a world of uncertainty, there's always one group you can count on: the...

The Rake's Progress Giving Up The Ghost.(Giving Globally)(Books)('Exit Ghost')(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Byline: David Gates Roth first wrote about a Nathan Zuckerman in "My Life as a Man" (1974). Back then he was a novelist invented by another invented novelist, David Tarnapol. Then he got real. Philip Roth puts his longtime alter ego,...

Who Should Pay For Health Benefits?(Giving Globally)(Health)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Keith Naughton; With Hilary Shenfeld Unions start shouldering the burden of medical costs. When Don Jones went to work on the tire line at Goodyear in 1970, he says the company promised him free health-care coverage for life....

Can I Stay Longer?(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; BYTES)(hotels)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Hotels are getting more fabulous. With even mid-tier rooms sporting Egyptian cotton linens, granite baths and Wi-Fi, the bar is being raised for upscale spots worldwide. U.S. luxe hotels have higher occupancy rates and...

Hey, Look, Boss: No Hands!(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; BYTES)(Avis Rent A Car; chauffeurs)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Here's a new accessory for rental cars: a driver. Avis Rent A Car is offering chauffeurs to its customers in 10 top business markets, including New York, L.A., Chicago, Washington, Detroit and the Bay Area. A driver...

Quick Read.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; BYTES)
October 1, 2007... Byline: John David Sparks Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference -- The Revolutionary Old-School Approach by James M. Kilts, John F. Manfredi and Robert L. Lorber Jim Kilts may not be a celebrity CEO, but he's...

A Photographic Vision.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; MY TURN)(Shutterfly)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jeff Housenbold; Housenbold Is The Ceo Of Shutterfly. Shutterfly was a survivor of the dotcom crash. Now it's a leader in online photographic services and a trusted brand. The CEO explains how he did it. Facing adversity at a...

The Quiet Giant.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise)(Adobe; Bruce Chizen)(Interview)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy Adobe's CEO on his brand, piracy and Microsoft When you think of software-application giants, you think Microsoft. For Web giants, it's Google or Amazon. But aside from so-called creative professionals, not many...

Friendly Skies.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; BUSINESS TRAVEL)(Gore Design Completions )
October 1, 2007... Byline: Daniel McGinn You think your little corporate jet's impressive? Step aboard a private Boeing 767 or new Airbus 380 designed just for you. Fly right! For business travelers, the last few months have been the summer from hell --...

A Plushy Plague?(Giving Globally)(Enterprise)(Giantmicrobes, Inc.)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Kuchment This company's stuffed toys: Ebola, mad cow, flu and the Black Death Drew Oliver hit upon his big idea after reading a memoir by scientist Richard Feynman. In "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" the author...

Blissful Boutiques.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; HOTELS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Small, intimate hotels are big in Asian cities. Design is everything. Boutique hotels are popping up in Asia's cosmopolitan cities. In recent years, Hong Kong and Singapore have led the trend. Now...

Straight Talker.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; LEADERSHIP)(corporate image)(Excerpt)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Richard M. Smith In the Internet era, bad news travels fast. A guru explains how companies should play smart defense. Robert Dilenschneider is a legendary corporate communications consultant. As CEO of Hill & Knowlton and,...

Savoring Sparkles.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Chanel Fine Jewelry)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Lorna Shaddick The clear skies and glittering water of summertime are gone, but there's a way to remember them: the aquamarine, pink, turquoise and blue of sea-colored gems. The latest collection at Chanel Fine Jewelry centers on...

Spice Island.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Zanzibar)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Ginanne Brownell And Silvia Spring Known as the spice island, Zanzibar is a beguiling mix of Arabic, African and Indian cultures. From Stone Town's tiny streets to isolated coral reefs, this paradise off the coast of Tanzania draws...

Capital Ideas.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise)(child savings)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Maybe it's time your kids started pulling their weight. With tough new kiddie tax rules, it doesn't pay to feed their savings accounts: the interest they earn is taxed at your rate until they're 18, and next year that...

Caribbean Hold 'Em.(Giving Globally)(Enterprise; BUSINESS TRAVEL)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat Antigua vs. the U.S. in an online gaming dispute Antigua is better known for beaches than trade disputes. But next month this tiny Caribbean resort could begin using a World Trade Organization ruling to...

NO HEADLINE.(Giving Globally)(Letters)(Hillary Rodham Clinton; presidential campaigns)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... Mail Call: How Hillary Clinton Would Govern Readers for the most part were far from supportive of Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency. One woman said, "After 15 years of watching Hillary in action, I still have no idea what her true...

The Editor's Desk.(Giving Globally)(Top of the Week)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham It did not take long. Only 4 months old, Jennifer Mansua has already been infected by the malaria parasite. Her mother, Cecilia Nakabu, brought her child to the Kintampo Health Research Centre in central Ghana, where...

The Search For Solutions.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)(vaccine development; Clinton Global Initiative)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael; With Scott Johnson In Kintampo, William Underhill In London And Sarah Kliff A doctor, a banker, an engineer and a scientist are working separately -- and together -- to bring lifesaving vaccines to children around...

Our Greatest Challenges.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)(developing vaccines; disease control; child health)(Brief article)(Photograph)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Marc Bain There is no shortage of problems around the world, but there is also a wellspring of generosity. Turn the page for a look at where the money is going. Marc Bain CAPTION(S): photo PATIENT: A girl awaits...

Cool, Clear Water.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)(water crisis; ancient water-supply technologies)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Christian Caryl; With Sudip Mazumdar In Rajasthan The forgotten virtues of Chinese foot pumps, buried aqueducts and other ancient water-supply technologies The people of Qara had written off their town's buried assets. More...

Give One, Get One.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)(One Laptop Per Child project)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy The $100 (well, $200) laptop is ready to change the world, if people will buy it for the kids who need it. Walter Bender, the software chief of One Laptop Per Child -- the much-ballyhooed, as-yet unproven project to...

A Reward For Good Behavior.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)(Achievement in African Leadership Prize; Mo Ibrahim)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat A billionaire wants to give $5 million to African leaders who rule responsibly. Mo Ibrahim's ideas have been labeled wacky before. A decade ago, when even American consumers were just getting used to cell...

Saving The World Is.(Giving Globally)(Giving Globally)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Bill Gates The evidence is in: we can stop diseases like malaria and TB from killing millions of people each year. Last year my wife, Melinda, and I visited an AIDS clinic in Durban, South Africa. We met women who had walked...

The Whispers Of War.(Giving Globally)(International)(role of military intelligence in preventing war between Israel, Iran and the United States)
October 1, 2007... A Secret Raid, Nuclear Ambitions and the Next Crisis Sam Gardiner plays war for a living. A former Air Force colonel who helped write contingency plans for the U.S. military, Gardiner has spent the 20 years since his retirement staging...

Shanghai Softens Up.(Giving Globally)(China)(Shanghai, China hosts the 2007 Special Olympics)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Duncan Hewitt And Melinda Liu A tough town undergoes a crash course in compassion. Shanghai is different from most Chinese cities. Even before the birth of the People's Republic in 1949, the Shanghainese were more Western, more...

It's Not 'Star Wars'.(Giving Globally)(Fareed Zakaria; Energy's Future)(environmental and economic advantages of using natural gas)(Interview)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Robert Hefner says natural gas offers a bridge to a squeaky-clean 'hydrogen economy.' Before Robert A. Hefner III came along, many people assumed natural gas was limited in its quantity and uses. But since its...

Blackwater Down.(Giving Globally)(International)(Blackwater USA, a mercenary organization working in Iraq who allegedly shot at civilians)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Larry Kaplow And Michael Hirsh; With Kevin Peraino In Baghdad A noonday shoot-out in Baghdad prompts angry calls for Western security contractors to be reined in. Hassan Jabir Al-Mayahi was in a hurry. The Iraqi lawyer had a...

A Nuclear 'Litmus Test'.(Giving Globally)(International; Interview)(United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency director general Mohamed ElBaradei)(Interview)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran is not a 'clear and present danger.' But his patience is limited. As rumors of war gather around Iran, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency and its...

Torrents Of Arabia.(Giving Globally)(Movies)(The Kingdom)(Movie review)
October 1, 2007... Byline: David Ansen 'The Kingdom' is full of action -- and full of itself. The prologue to "The Kingdom" bombards us with pro-vocative facts about Saudi Arabia, its vast oil resources, terrorism and the close links between the Saudi...

Me And Igi And The Fickle Finger Of Fame.(Giving Globally)(My Turn)(In memoriam)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Chanan Tigay; TIGAY lives in San Francisco. As a struggling actor, I never got my big break. But one small role showed me the life of a true artist. THE AD IN BACK STAGE SOUGHT A young "Woody Allen type" to star in an...

The Miracle Workers.(Giving Globally)(Politics)(influence of the religious organizations on the United States presidential elections)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant For 25 years, evangelicals have voted Republican. But the Democrats are courting, and their efforts may have a prayer. Richard Land had never met one-on-one with a chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The...

The Compromise Of A Conservative.(Giving Globally)(Politics)(possibility of Newt Gingrich to join the 2008 United States presidential elections)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman If all hope is lost, Gingrich could, at the very least, articulate the GOP party platform. It's hard to take Newt Gingrich seriously when he says he might run for president. In the nearly nine years since he...

Let's Make An Oil Deal.(Giving Globally)(Politics)(impact of Hunt Oil Co. owner Ray Hunt's oil exploration deal in Iraq on ongoing peace negotiations)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Wolffe And Gretel C. Kovach; With Larry Kaplow A Bush family friend may be undermining Iraqi peace. Ray Hunt isn't your typical Texas tycoon. Unlike other billionaire oilmen who hype their legends in the press, Hunt...

Up and Coming: Casey Affleck.(Giving Globally)(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh By Ramin Setoodeh It's been a while since anyone cared about an Affleck movie. But that'll change now that Casey, Ben's kid brother, is starring in two big films: "The Assassination of Jesse James" and "Gone...

Legal Briefs.(Giving Globally)(Newsmakers)(celebrities' custody cases and court settlements)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Sure, everyone's riveted by the latest O.J. saga, but there are other courtroom contretemps worth watching: A RUFF DAY IN COURT: The Denise Richards-Charlie Sheen custody battle continues. Now she doesn't want their daughters sleeping at...

Rosie And Barbara Vie For The Lowest Common Denominator.(Giving Globally)(Newsmakers)(Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... SHE'S NOT EVEN ON "THE VIEW" ANYMORE, BUT ROSIE O'Donnell is still stirring up trouble. In her new book, "Celebrity Detox," she suggests that Barbara Walters should retire. That prompted two other interviewers to fight for a Rosie sit-down. We...

Perspectives.(Giving Globally)(Perspectives)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Quotation sources: AFP, AP, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, AP, New York Times, Politico, Boston Globe, AP "Evidently some innocent lives were lost." George W. Bush, on a violent clash involving private security contractor Blackwater USA...

Conventional Wisdom Watch.(Giving Globally)(Periscope)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Mad Men Edition When you thought America was moving beyond race, the inflammatory case of the Jena (La.) Six reminds us of the ugly years. Can't we all get along? Bush DOWN America's biggest problem: not health care, not Iraq, but a...

Al Qaeda's Feuds And Fears.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; TERROR)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau Lonely, marginalized and suddenly suspicious that he was losing his grip over the organization he helped create, Osama bin Laden finally decided that enough was enough. At least that's the explanation...

Grilling A Bush Pick.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; JUSTICE)(Democrats' views regarding President George W. Bush's choice for attorney general, Michael Mukasey)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff After President Bush settled on Michael Mukasey to be his next attorney general, White House officials were privately worried about how conservatives would react given the ex-judge's lack of "movement" credentials....

Rise Of A Secret Unit.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; IRAQ)(formation of Department 2800, a militant Lebanese Hizbullah movement)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball In his report to Congress earlier this month, Gen. David Petraeus claimed that Iran has a deadly new ally in its proxy war against U.S. forces in Iraq: a secret unit of the militant Lebanese Hizbullah movement called...

A Vegas Crew, But It Ain't Ocean's 11.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; O. J. SIMPSON)(Simpson's accomplices on his felony charges)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Andrew Murr and Suzanne Smalley No one focuses on his good qualities, but say this much for O. J. Simpson: the disgraced football star still knows how to pull a team together. In Las Vegas for a pal's wedding -- he was going to be...

Pledging Even More Allegiance.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; IMMIGRATION)(changes made to the United States citizenship test)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil For the first time in two decades, the U.S. citizenship test has been revamped -- and the new version, which will be unveiled this week for use starting Oct. 1, 2008, will mark a profound shift in what it takes to...

Beliefwatch: Profane.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; BELIEFWATCH)(Christian groups' reactions to Kathy Griffin's Emmy Award acceptance speech)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Some stories are best told straight. On Sept. 8, Kathy Griffin, a bawdy, foulmouthed comedian, accepted an Emmy Award for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," and in her acceptance speech she explained that while...

A Life In Books.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(the author's five favorite books)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Edmund White It's no surprise that Edmund White, admired for his exhaustively researched historical novels "Fanny: A Fiction" and this year's "Hotel de Dream," would spend four of his five picks for all-time must-reads on classic...

Speech Impediment.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; EDUCATION)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Lorraine Ali Lost in the recent firestorm over the nation's first bilingual Arab-English public school -- the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., which opponents have argued will become a breeding ground for...

This Is Your Brain On Sports.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; Science)(Fox Sports Net's new television show Sport Science)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Starr Coming out of the sunshine into the murky indoor light, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger can't quite believe his eyes. "Cool. Crazy cool," he says, as he surveys a vast playground: a mini football...

Bonds Ball: Bang Zoom to the Moon?(Giving Globally)(Periscope)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Starr After buying Barry Bonds's record-setting 756th home-run ball for $752,467, hip-hop fashion mogul Marc Ecko wants you to decide its fate. On vote756.com, he offers three choices: send it to the Hall of Fame, brand it...

The Bernanke Era Has Begun.(Giving Globally)(Robert J. Samuelson)(United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Last week the Fed shifted its emphasis from fighting inflation to preventing panic. Was that the right call? Certainly it was the popular call. It's Ben Bernanke's moment of truth. The Federal Reserve --...

Snap Judgment: Movies.(Giving Globally)(Movies; SNAP JUDGMENT)(Into the Wild and The Darjeeling Express)(Movie review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Into the Wild How you respond to Sean Penn's vital, lyrical, unsettling adaptation of Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book -- whether you find the idealistic Christopher McCandless's (Emile Hirsch) search for freedom...

Freegan Ride.(Giving Globally)(Environment)(anti capitalist society movement)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Raina Kelley Are freegans oddballs or sages? NEWSWEEK's Raina Kelley spent a month living as one to find out. Before June of this year, I thought only the sad and desperate ate garbage. Then I discovered the freegans. For those...

A Year Of Selling Books.(Giving Globally)(Culture)(popularity of "year of" books, books about year long quests or projects)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jennie Yabroff A rash of memoirs by people spending 12 months following rules shows self-deprivation is strangely hip. There are lots of rules in the Bible. A. J. Jacobs decided to abide by them all. He followed the Ten...

In 'Dark Energy,' Cosmic Humility.(Giving Globally)(Sharon Begley)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley To the ancients, exploding stars were bad news. To astronomer Adam Riess, poring over data from a telescope in Chile, it looked like supernovas were still cursed. He and his colleagues were measuring the brightness...

Mothers To Blame.(Giving Globally)(Ideas)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jennie Yabroff; With Kendall Hill In Australia Hysteria around moms suspected of murder can warp judgment and logic. Kate McCann rarely cries in public, even when talking about her missing daughter, Madeleine. McCann has been...

The Noble Scavenger on The Living-Room Couch.(Giving Globally)(Environment)(freegans, a group of people who are against consumerist lifestyle)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler; FROM FREEGAN.INFO There have been romantic rebels against civilization almost since it began. But civilization has a way of winning out. They claim to model themselves after the very earliest human cultures, bands...

The Constitution In Peril.(Justice)(books criticizing the United States government's policies regarding Iraq and terrorism)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey The War on Terror didn't start as an attack on Americans' rights, but several new books argue that's exactly what happened. A slew of recent books about the Bush administration's wars (at home as well as...

Taking The Junk Out Of Junk Food.(Business)(Frito-Lay Inc. switches to using sunflower oil to make healthier products)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez How Frito-Lay is re-engineering its munchies to make healthier snacks Except for the occasional oversize bag of naked Cheetos lying around (they're not yet covered in fluorescent orange cheese flavoring), the...

The Darkest Secret.(Turning Points)(child sexual abuse)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Teri Hatcher By revealing the painful story of her sexual abuse as a child, actress Teri Hatcher hopes to help other victims. I'm 7. "Do you want to go with me?" asks my uncle. I wanted to go. I remember that. I remember...

There's No Inflation (If You Ignore Facts).(Business)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross Imagine that a cardiologist told you that aside from the irregular heartbeat, the stratospheric cholesterol count and a little blockage in your aorta, your core heart functions are just fine. That's precisely what...

Conventional Wisdom: Doo Run Run Edition.(Periscope)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... As Bush said at a No Child Left Behind photo op, "Childrens do learn when standards are high." Oy. Prez candidates DOWN Leading Dems can't deliver on Iraq troop levels. GOPs duck debate at black college. Who wants to win? ...

Mail Call: Greenspan on America's Economic Course.(Letters)
October 8, 2007... Readers commenting on our cover story "The World According to Greenspan" weighed in on the economist's book excerpt and tenure in Washington. "If it were possible to nominate a president for domestic affairs, I would float the name of former...

The Editor's Desk.(Top of the Week)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Mitt Romney wants to make clear -- respectfully but unmistakably -- that he is not George W. Bush. Aboard his campaign plane last week in California, en route from Redding to Hayward, Jonathan Darman and Lisa Miller...

Sleepwalking Toward DD-Day.(The Last Word)(Demographic Deluge, on January 1, 2008, majority of baby boomers reach the age of 62 and begin receiving entitlements)
October 8, 2007... Byline: George F. Will Congress, creating yet another entitlement, is not at all inhibited by the Law of Holes, which is: When you are in a hole, quit digging. Last Thursday was 96 days before DD-Day, the day the Demographic Deluge...

Blood In The Streets.(Burma)(political unrest in Myanmar)
October 8, 2007... Byline: George Wehrfritz And Joe Cochrane; With Jonathan Kent In Kuala Lumpur And Anuj Chopra In Rangoon The generals may be able to reassert control, but they are not likely to kill the spirit of resistance shown by the country's brave...

The Next Musharraf.(Pakistan)(Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, Pervez Musharraf's replacement as Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Ron Moreau And Zahid Hussain; With Mark Hosenball In Washington A Westernized, chain-smoking spy could soon become the most powerful man in Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf could hardly be flattered to think why some people are so...

How America Learned To Liberate.(History)
October 8, 2007... The campaign to free Italy foreshadowed battles to come, from Berlin to Fallujah. Few successful wars of liberation have been more roundly condemned or more quickly forgotten than the American-led campaign to free Italy, which began 64...

Tough Talk From the Top.(Interview)(Interview)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Lally Weymouth With leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, two very different presidents seek support for the changes they hope to bring to their homelands. Palestinian Authority Pres. Mahmoud...

Heard On The Street.(Iran)(Iranians' reactions to insults aimed at their president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Maziar Bahari Why America is losing the 'sticks and stones' battle. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a lucky man. Even Amir supports him. Amir is a gay Iranian who left the country five years ago and now lives with his...

The Hollywood War Front.(Movies)
October 8, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Angry filmmakers are gung-ho on Iraq movies, but the war as entertainment is proving to be a tough sell to audiences. After a screening of his incendiary Iraq War movie, "Redacted," at the Toronto Film Festival last...

Missing The Past, Embracing The Future.(My Turn)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Gayatree Siddhanta Sarma; Sarma Lives In Poughkeepsie, N.Y. My idyllic childhood may be gone forever, but through my daughter, a new one awaits. This summer, I took my 6-YEAR-old daughter, Priya, to the county fair. Because we...

Mitt's Mission.(Cover Story: Politics)(Mitt Romney )
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman And Lisa Miller; With Elise Soukup And Daniel Mcginn Voters can't connect with a candidate they feel they don't know. Mitt Romney has to decide how much he wants to share. For Mitt Romney, it all started in a...

'We've Got To Fix Ourselves'.(Cover Story: Politics; Q&A)(Interview)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman and Lisa Miller In an interview with NEWSWEEK, the GOP presidential hopeful looks for some separation from the president. High above California, between campaign stops last week, presidential candidate Mitt...

A Schmoozer Shares All.(Jonathan Alter)(Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. )
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter LBJ has 'compulsive, even lunatic strains.' Rumsfeld is 'the rottenest.' Gore has a 'mystical fervor.' Or so wrote Schlesinger in his journals In recent years, keeping political diaries has fallen out of...

A War Reporter's Last Great Dispatch.(Periscope; Interview)(David Halberstam )
October 8, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham It is, in a way, his final testament. When David Halberstam was killed in a car accident in California in April, he had just finished "The Coldest Winter," a compelling and engaging history of the Korean War. NEWSWEEK's...

Q&A: Ben Stiller, Heartbreaker.(Newsmakers)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Stiller stars in a remake of the 1973 comedy "The Heartbreak Kid," though he called from the set of his next film, "Tropic Thunder." He talked with Nicki Gostin. In the movie your dad plays your dad. Is there a...

Disney Girl Vs. Jersey Boy.(Newsmakers)(Miley Cyrus, Bruce Springsteen)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fiercest rocker of all? Believe it or not, it's Disney Channel star (and achy-breaky spawn) Miley Cyrus. Her tour is the hottest ticket in the country. She's even giving the Boss a beatdown: Name:...

Tequila, With A Twist.(Newsmakers)(Tila Nguyen)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Would you be friends with someone named Tila Tequila? It doesn't matter, because she doesn't have time for you anyway. Tequila, 25, already has more than a million friends on MySpace, which is enough to qualify a...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)
October 8, 2007... "Give us freedom! Give us freedom!" Antigovernment protesters led by Buddhist monks during a demonstration in Burma against the country's repressive junta. At least 13 people have been killed in clashes with military and police. "You...

Reaching Across The Aisle On Iraq.(Periscope; Defense)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh Donald Rumsfeld had little stomach for talking to members of Congress, Democrat or Republican. But his successor as Defense secretary, Robert Gates, can't seem to get enough of them -- especially Democrats. This...

Fast Chat: Close Listener.(Periscope)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Susannah Meadows Chris Matthews tends to show little patience for politicians on TV, but as he writes in his new book, "Life's a Campaign," he's learned a lot from them. One of the big lessons? The power of listening. NEWSWEEK's...

Northern Exposure.(Periscope; Alaska)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff And Tony Hopfinger Hillary Clinton and other Democrats recently returned hefty campaign contributions after learning that top "bundler" Norman Hsu was a fugitive. Now Republicans on Capitol Hill are wrestling with...

New York State Of Mind.(Periscope; Justice)(Brief article)
October 8, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, is likely to be confirmed by the Senate -- but he might not get off to the smoothest start. The retired federal judge is expected to disqualify himself...