Newsweek articles from September 2001

Newsweek archives from September 2001

Can't Touch This.(Thousand Words)(Little League World Series pitcher Danny Almonte)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... He's Only 12 years old, but check out the delivery. Last week Danny Almonte, a wiry, left-hander from the Dominican Republic who has lived in the United States less than two years and can't speak English, pitched the third perfect game in the...

Bylines.
September 3, 2001... Much More Than Minor Aches and Pains Reporting for this week's cover story, Donna Foote met people who can't kneel, some who can't walk--and one who is even unable to hold a pen. "I had no idea [of] the suffering that's imposed by...

Armani After All: In rare interviews, Italy's legendary fashion designer talks about how personal tragedy shaped his determination to hold on to his empire, and why he is gambling on global expansion.(Business)(Giorgio Armani)(Industry Overview)(Interview)
September 3, 2001... One morning in June Giorgio Armani woke to smoke pouring from the ground floor of his palazzo in Milan. Trapped in his living quarters on the top floor, the 67-year-old dean of Italian designers waited while the firemen did their jobs. "I...

Travel Briefs.(Focus on Travel)(Uzbekistan)(Vancouver Island)
September 3, 2001... Central Asia Shopping the Silk Road Step into one of Uzbekistan's teeming bazaars, and things won't look much different from the days of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Yes, there are Nike T shirts and fake Chinese Levi's. But along the...

Cyberscope.(Humor)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... HOT PROPERTY Dilbert, Eat Your Heart Out Dear cubicle dweller: Scott Adams feels your pain. Self-acclaimed as "one of the world's leading authorities on what's wrong with cubicles," the "Dilbert" cartoonist teamed with high-tech design...

Mail Call: Our readers respond to our Aug. 13 issue.(Letters)(cover story, "The Truth About Fertility)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
September 3, 2001... How Late Is Too Late? Our cover story on fertility prompted an emotional response. "Infertility is a life crisis," wrote one reader. "It can bring on devastating depression." Women in treatment, said another, "are given false hope and led...

Focus on Travel: Back to the Balkans: With war mostly on hold, the fabled Adriatic coast lures Western tourists with an inviting blend of beauty and bargains. But don't expect air conditioning.(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... The Balkan beaches are back, hotter than ever. Ten years after the wars began and five years since combat raged along the coastline, Western tourists are venturing back to the sublime eastern reaches of the Adriatic Sea. From Croatia's Istrian...

For the Doers, Not the Viewers: Adventure racing ups the ante.(Focus on Travel)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... When Chicago Attorney Tony McShane needed to escape his harried routine of career, commuting and coaching, he decided to lose himself in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. And then navigate his way out. Hiking uphill and riding down on mountain...

A Surplus Of Surplus-Fetish: Both parties deserve the discomfort caused by their peculiar statements about surpluses.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... What we have here is a difference of opinion. Last week the Bush administration announced that, primarily because of the economic slowdown, the budget surplus for this fiscal year--which ends in five weeks; Congress has passed none of the 13...

A stain on Mr. Clean: How a money-laundering indictment in Europe could haunt Putin. A NEWSWEEK investigation.(International)(allegations concerning President Vladimir Putin's former association with a suspected money-laundering firm)
September 3, 2001... Say what you want about Vladimir Putin, he's always been known as Mr. Clean. Even when he was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, the Russian president cultivated an ascetic image, driving a humble Volga to work. That reputation served him well...

Mideast: Can a Wall Stop a War? It's the hot debate in Israel today. But many villages aren't waiting.(International)(growing sentiment in Israel for building walls between Israelis and Palestinians)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... The grim new face of Israel's future begins just down the street from Eyal Mizrahi's white stucco house in a development north of Tel Aviv called Bat Hefer. A stone's throw from the Green Line dividing Israel and the West Bank, an ugly barrier...

The Myth Of The Super-CEO: Rumsfeld and O'Neill are the latest chiefs to fumble in a place where power works differently.(World View)(International)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Harry Truman didn't think his successor had the right training to be president. "Poor Ike--it won't be a bit like the Army," he said. "He'll sit there all day saying 'do this, do that,' and nothing will happen." Truman was wrong about Ike....

My Principles Have Landed Me in Jail: If I were to comply with the FBI's subpoena, I'd betray my book research and my sources' trust. I won't do it.(My Turn)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... I am not a gambler or a murderer. I am a 33-year-old college English teacher and freelance writer. Yet since July 20, my home has been an 8-by-10-foot cinder-block cell at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Houston. Four years ago I...

From Bad to Worse: Rep. Gary Condit finally broke his silence, talking to media outlets including NEWSWEEK. But his evasiveness only added to his political woes--and suspicions he knows more than he's saying about Chandra Levy's whereabouts.(National Affairs)
September 3, 2001... It was a little bit like being led to the lair of a famous fugitive. A NEWSWEEK reporter was not told where he was going, just that he was to be ready at his hotel at 1:15 p.m. The driver who picked him up kept checking his mirror and at one...

'You Have Emotional Ties': Reeling from his ABC interview, Condit hits back at the press, and remembers the time he spent with Chandra.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)(Interview)(Excerpt)
September 3, 2001... A day after his primetime encounter with Connie Chung, Rep. Gary Condit and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, sat down with NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff at a condo in Modesto, Calif. Excerpts: ISIKOFF: What message didn't you get across [on ABC]?...

A Pro-Life Foreign Policy: While playing the moderate at home, Bush is using U.S. aid to win points with religious conservatives.(ABORTION)(National Affairs)
September 3, 2001... At first glance, John Klink seemed like the perfect pick for the job. A veteran relief worker who'd helped impoverished refugees in Haiti, Thailand and Morocco, Klink surfaced earlier this year as George W. Bush's choice to head the State...

Senator No's Last Stand: Helms blended attack politics, unwavering ideals.(CAPITOL HILL; National Affairs)(Senator Jesse Helms announces he will not seek another term)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... In the last few years, it was possible to think that Jesse Helms had gotten soft in his old age. The senator who sometimes sounded like he wanted to build a Chinese wall around the United States got teary at pictures of starving Rwandan...

Wildfires: 'I Didn't Want to Burn to Death': A young crew stumbles into an inferno in the Thirtymile Fire, the most lethal blaze in years.(National Affairs)(wildfires in the Western states)
September 3, 2001... As giant flames danced against the Western sky, the young Forest Service firefighters waited for marching orders, hungering for a chance at heroism. It was no secret the crew wanted a piece of the big, bad blaze at Libby Creek, the ferocious...

Mission: Take Back the Hills: A Virginia Democrat's blueprint for recapturing the red zone.(POLITICS; National Affairs)(Mark Warner hopes to become governor of Virginia)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... CORRECTION PUBLISHED 9/6/01: In "Mission: Take Back the Hills" (National Affairs, Sept. 3), we should have said that Mark Warner, Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial condidate, moved to the state in 1984....

Newsmakers.(high hopes for the teenage tennis star, Andy Roddick)(this and other newsmaker items are discussed)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Roddick Ready for Liftoff The word is out. Teenager Andy Roddick is the future of men's tennis. And you thought you were going to have to wait for the Agassi-Graff love child to grow up. Fresh off his first hard-court win in D.C. and...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... "I think I am a moral man." California Rep. Gary Condit, admitting "mistakes" but defending his honor in an interview with Connie Chung "If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl." Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman,...

Periscope.(Brian Regan charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, U.S. disappearing surplus and other articles)
September 3, 2001... ESPIONAGE The Satellite Secrets Are in the E-Mail Brian Regan was no 007. When the FBI arrested him at Washington's Dulles International Airport last week as he was about to board a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, they allegedly found a slip...

Star Wars And Social Security: Personal-investment accounts sound good, but if they're set up, will they actually work?(Business)(President George W. Bush's plan to reform Social Security)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... President Bush's plan for reforming Social Security feels like Star Wars all over again. It's a vast, faith-based shield that sounds as if it protects your retirement years. All you have to do is slip part of your Social Security tax into a...

Arthritis: What It Is, Why You Get It, and How to Stop the Pain: Twenty-one million Americans suffer from this potentially crippling disease and account for 7 million doctor visits each year. Yet with new warnings out about the best available pain relief, treating it is more complicated than ever.(Society)(warnings about Celebrex and Vioxx medications)
September 3, 2001... They are the chorus line of the evening news, the pinups of Modern Maturity: senior citizens in perpetual motion, heedless of arthritic knees, hips and shoulders, dancing, jogging and bicycling their way through a world populated exclusively by...

The Truth About Nontraditional Treatments.(Society)(seeking a cure for arthritis)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... In agony and desperate for relief, arthritis sufferers have been known to try just about anything. "Juanita," who posted the message, "A Crazy Arthritis 'Cure' " on a recipe-swapping Web site recently, says her friends swear by one bizarre...

The Survivor's Story: Robert Tools had a foot in the grave when he volunteered to receive the world's first fully implantable artificial heart. Now he's talking about fishing again.(MEDICINE)(Society)
September 3, 2001... Not many people achieve fame and anonymity at the same time, but Robert Tools managed it for nearly two months. Until last week he was simply "the patient"--the man who let surgeons place a plastic-and- titanium heart in his dying body to see...

Ready Aim... Hollywood has best-selling books in its sights, pop divas hit the high notes, wrtiers shoot to chill and TV dramas soar.(Arts and Entertainment)
September 3, 2001... MOVIES If Hollywood can refashion underwear model Mark Wahlberg into a box-office sure thing, why can't it turn a literary best seller into a good movie? Recent efforts yielded the odd Oscar contender ("The Cider House Rules") and the...

Torture Based On Sex Alone: Do women have special asylum claims? They do, and they ought to be recognized.(The Last Word)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Rodi Alvarado Pena cleans houses for a living, thinks about her two children in Guatemala and waits. For six years she has been in the United States seeking asylum, watching her case go back and forth in a flurry of dizzying inconsistency. One...

Exalted one.(death of singer Aaliyah)(A Thousand Words)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 10, 2001... She was beautiful and talented and when she died at 22, American pop music lost one of its brightest young stars. Aaliyah Dani Haughton, a hip-hop/soul singer known to her fans simply as Aaliyah ("Exalted One," in Swahili), died in a plane...

Books: A New Day for Ms. Millay: Sex, sonnets, substances--oh yeah, and the Pulitzer.(Savage Beauty)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... Still tacked above Nancy Milford's desk in Greenwich Village is a photo of two women taken 20 years ago. One is Milford; the other's a sharp-eyed old lady with cascading white hair. It's Norma Millay, who, after years of denying other scholars,...

Bylines.
September 10, 2001... Are the Mormons Ready To Meet the World? Kenneth L. Woodward reports that in the 25 years since his last visit, Salt Lake City has been reborn. The Mormons' home city is more sophisticated now, Woodward says. "There's jazz, and I could get...

Dumb Deals 101: Attention, class. Smart people can make really stupid mistakes. Here's a primer on some of the biggest investment fiascoes of recent years.(Business)
September 10, 2001... It's the season that parents love and children hate--back-to-school time. First assignment: studying one of the biggest investment lessons we're likely to see for a generation. To wit, when investment madness grips the world, big, smart...

Cyberscope.(consumer electronics and computer products)(Brief Article)(Column)
September 10, 2001... HOT PROPERTY Not Worth Skating Home About The good news for PlayStation 2 fans is that they finally have a skateboarding game to play. The bad news is that the game--ESPN X-Games Skateboarding ($50; konami.com)--isn't even as good as the...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
September 10, 2001... Corrections In "Mission: Take Back the Hills" (National Affairs, Sept. 3), we should have said that Mark Warner, Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, moved to the state in 1984. In "The Disc That Saved Hollywood" (Business,...

Mail Call: Readers respond to our Aug. 20 issue.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 10, 2001... Getting Under Your Skin The response to our cover story on skin cancer was one of enormous gratitude--to Sen. John McCain for speaking candidly about his melanoma, to Patti Davis for her tribute to her sister, Maureen Reagan, and to...

Best Feet Forward: Foot pain is bad enough, but it could be an early warning of something worse.(Focus on Your Health)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Joni Pelta wasn't looking forward to her trip to New York. The 42-year-old Atlantan had nothing against the city. She loved it, in fact. But she dreaded hobbling around town on a pair of aching feet. For several weeks she'd been in excruciating...

Patient Power: Your Family Tree of Life: Understanding the health histories of ancestors is a powerful guide to your best medical choices today.(Focus on Your Health)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... At 51, Irene Shephard was plagued by mood swings and sleepless nights. "Every single stereotypical thing that goes along with menopause, I had," says the Scranton, Pa., office manager. She considered hormone-replacement therapy. But would the...

Health Notes: Baby weight and intelligence as well as tips for winter exercise.(Focus on Your Health)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... BABIES The Weight Is Great While a heavy baby can make a mother moan in the delivery room, it may make her proud later on in the classroom. A report in the Aug. 11 issue of the British Medical Journal has found that when it comes to...

It's Hip To Say 'Ich Bin Ein Berliner'.(International)(the new Jewish Museum, in an increasingly modern Berlin, Germany)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Eager to shed its dark history, the city of Hitler's horrors and cold-war drama is recasting itself as the continent's cool new capital. This week's opening of the stunning Jewish Museum, a paean to German Jewry, will help to reconcile Berlin's...

Dick Gephardt, Unilateralist: The Democrat slams Bush's foreign policy, but his demand for U.S. labor standards is worse.(World View)(International)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In the past few months Democrats have been taking aim at the Bush administration's foreign policy, none more forcefully than Richard Gephardt, minority leader of the House of Representatives. In a speech on Aug. 2, Gephardt accused the...

The Koreas: Go North--If You Dare: For Seoul, the 'Sunshine Policy' has lost its glow.(International)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... It took only a few months for the enterprise to go from case study to basket case. In March 2000 a South Korean company named Taechang opened a mineral-water-bottling factory near North Korea's scenic Mount Kumgang. The water became an instant...

Bringing Back Tha Funk: The Isley Brothers reinvent themselves again.(MUSIC)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... Like many people around his age--48--Ernie Isley remembers watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan: how old he was (12), who else was there (his older brothers' guitarist, Jimi Hendrix). But Isley (who joined the family band a couple of years...

The Secret Life Of Pop Stars: Bjork, Iceland's quirky queen, gets intimate.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... Bjork's new album "Vespertine" takes its name from the botanical term for night-blooming flowers. It's fitting for an artist who seems to change her roles nightly--from actor to dancer to singer. The Icelandic pop star's phenomenal voice can...

Movies: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: A lost adolescent goes in search of family.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... A striking, unnerving coming-of-age film, "L.I.E." is the rare American movie that isn't afraid of ambiguity or confronting an audience's preconceptions. First-time director Michael Cuesta (who wrote the screenplay with Stephen M. Ryder and...

Final Score: O,What a Pity: The Bard gets sent back to warm the bench.(MOVIES)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... Completed in 1999, "O" has been bounced from distributor to distributor like a hot potato. This re-setting of "Othello" in an American high school was deemed too inflammatory after Columbine. Yes, there's a big body count (that Bard did like...

Losing Our Independence: What happened to the once lively, upstart world of nonstudio moviemaking?(Arts and Entertainment)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The new movie "The Man From Elysian Fields" poses some intriguing questions. What desperate acts will struggling novelist Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) resort to in order to support his family? Who is the mysterious entrepreneur (Mick Jagger)...

Checkmate! When the King Is Dethroned: I jumped at the chance to teach my son how to play chess--I just wasn't prepared for him to beat me.(My Turn)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The first time my son John, then 15, beat me at chess, I cried out so vehemently that my wife, my oldest son and my golden retriever all came charging into the living room. I was in a state of disbelief while John sat back with his miles-wide...

An American Dream: Bush's plan for one of the most sweeping immigration reforms in years--easing strictures on millions of illegals--is meeting harsh opposition in Congress. Could it work? Here is one Mexican's tale.(National Affairs)
September 10, 2001... To reach New York City, Ana crawled into the United States through a moonlit drainpipe, trudged across the Arizona desert, scrunched onto the floor of a car to Los Angeles and landed at La Guardia Airport with almost nothing. She had not...

Politics: Move Over, Gray Panthers: Suddenly, Social Security matters to baby boomers.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... It's the moment any boomer dreads: the arrival of the AARP membership invitation. Rep. Ellen Tauscher of California, who will turn 50 soon, recalls getting hers recently: "You tell yourself, 'There must be some mistake!' " But it's no mistake....

Death of a Small Town: Even the mayor is moving on in Bisbee, North Dakota, the next 'rural ghetto' victim.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Bob Weltin, a burly and bearded North Dakota homeboy with the oil-stained hands of a working man, squeezed tight on a cup of coffee in the Chocolate Shop on Main Street in tiny Bisbee, N.D. So much in his life has been slipping away. Weltin,...

Nixon on Nixon: Excerpt: He was an introvert in an extrovert's game. A new book by Richard Reeves paints a striking portrait of the inner 'RN', as revealed in his own words.(National Affairs)
September 10, 2001... Perhaps Sen. Robert Dole, a loyal Nixon acolyte, put it best: "The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president." A socially awkward loner, he ascended to the White House through sheer will,...

Crossing The Next Frontier: Bush's immigration-reform plan may well depend on his friend south of the border.(Between the Lines)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The census is yielding a bounty of eye-popping figures, but the most striking may be this: in California, harbinger of everything, nearly four in 10 residents now speak a language other than English at home. We knew that Hispanics had passed...

Newsmakers: This week: Fraud in the Little League, Dennis Rodman extinguishes a waitress, and Anne Heche has a secret language with God.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Say It Ain't So, Danny A field of schemes? It seems Danny Almonte--the Little League pitching phenom with a perfect game and a smile to match--is a fraud. A government investigation in the Dominican Republic has concluded that Danny is 14,...

Perspectives.(people in the news)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... "I am deeply worried about the working families all across the country." President George W. Bush, conceding that economic recovery is not in the near future "We're all entitled to grow up. George [W.] Bush had his problems with alcohol. I...

Periscope.(News Briefs)
September 10, 2001... EXCLUSIVE More Clues to Aaliyah's Ill-Fated Flight By Allison Samuels Aaliyah Haughton was buried Friday next to her grandmother in White Plains, N.Y., but the controversy surrounding her death is far from over. NEWSWEEK has learned that...

Fun Ethic Vs. Work Ethic? Our jobs aren't what they used to be, and the boundaries between labor and leisure are eroding.(Judgment Calls)(Business)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... The transformation of labor since the creation of Labor Day a century ago tells, in many ways, the story of modern America. Paid labor was then all-consuming, generally backbreaking, done mainly by men, often dangerous and, of course,...

In Search of Stem Cells: It turns out many of the 64 lines may be unusable.(SCIENCE)(Society)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... TV crews camped out, reporters swarmed, phones rang off the hook--and employees at the year-old biotech firm CyThera, Inc., felt so besieged that they took its name off the door. The sudden attention followed the announcement by the National...

A Mormon Moment: America's biggest homegrown religion is looking more Christian. But it's still a different world.(Society)
September 10, 2001... Mention "Mormons" and you think immediately of clean-cut missionaries, uniformed like ushers in white shirts and dark suits, canvassing for converts two by two through the neighborhoods of the world. Once a hated, hunted Utah sect, the Mormons...

Salt Lake's Big Jump: This sober city is getting ready to party.(Society)
September 10, 2001... Even though the Salt Lake City Olympics are still five months away, people have begun to ponder how Mormonism will mix with the Olympic spirit. For some, it all boils down to a single question: will I be able to get a stiff drink in this town?...

Law: The Dreadlock Deadlock: Fired for wearing a popular hairstyle, some people are going to court to fight back on religious grounds.(Society)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... In the fall of 1993 Christopher Polk transferred from FedEx's hub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in the Flatbush district of Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the country's largest community of Caribbean and African immigrants only...

Sports: Should Football Drop-Kick Parity? The NFL has gone to great lengths to keep teams evenly matched. But it may just be hurting the game.(Society)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... It would be hard to conceive of a stranger NFL odyssey than that of the 1999 St. Louis Rams, a squad that went from last place in their division to Super Bowl champs--despite being led by a quarterback who had more experience bagging groceries...

Fighting the Good Fight: Tom Hanks goes back to war with 'Band of Brothers'.(TELEVISION)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... The price of war is always high, but in Hollywood it's getting downright exorbitant. The bill for "Pearl Harbor" weighed in at $135 million, and it would have been higher if Disney had paid more than $4.99 for the script. So maybe it's not...

Reality on Foot: Taking the 'Survivor' formula off the island and on to the road.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
September 10, 2001... Claustrophobia has been good to reality TV. Not as good as Richard and the rats or Mandy and Billy's near-miss infidelities, but a major benefactor just the same. Most of the successful reality shows have operated by locking people up: in a...

The Attack: How It Happened.(Sept 11, 2001)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 13, 2001... The Attack: How It Happened planes, which they used to crash into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A look at how the devastating day unfolded and the havoc wreaked by these carefully coordinated attacks on the symbols...

Our Worst Nightmare.(September 11, 2001 attacks)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2001... September 11, 2001 Nothing like this has ever happened to America before. With chilling skill, terrorists struck at our heart last Tuesday, hijacking commercial jets, then crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--cold-blooded...

A New Date of Infamy: In the skies and across the nation, the worst terrorist strike in U.S. history is a story of horror, heroes and the resolve not to give in to killers.(United Airlines Flight 93 passengers fight back, Sept 11, 2001 terrorism)
September 13, 2001... Byline: Evan Thomas Jeremy Glick knew that he was probably doomed. The hijackers had told the 45 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark to San Francisco, that they planned to blow up the plane. But Glick, a...

A President Faces the Test Of a Lifetime: When the news broke, the Secret Service moved Bush deep into the interior, but by nightfall he'd returned to his besieged capital. The journey ahead of him--to reassure the nation and respond to an act of war--will be long and difficult, too.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Howard Fineman The safest place, they told the president, was in the air. The Secret Service insisted that George W. Bush flee west from Florida, away from the chaos and carnage of New York and Washington. There were, his top...

'I Saw Things No One Should Ever See': These are dispatches from the front. Schoolteachers and firefighters, parents and police, trauma surgeons and tourists--they all struggled to explain the inexplicable. Here are their voices.
September 13, 2001... Byline: With Arian Campo-Flores, Devin Gordon, Katherine Stroup, N'Gai Croal, Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Ness, Keith Naughton, Joan Raymond, Tara Weingarten, Adam Piore, Franco Ordonez, Mary Carmichael, Julie Scelfo and Gretel Kovach The...

'We've Hit the Targets': That message, allegedly sent by Osama bin Laden's men, makes him suspect No. 1. Can he be stopped at last?
September 13, 2001... Byline: Michael Hirsh At the time it seemed an empty boast, if a chilling one. On Feb. 7, 1995, Ramzi Yousef, considered the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was being escorted in shackles back to New York City. The FBI...

The War On Terror Goes Global: America alone cannot triumph in the fight against terrorism. It needs the help of freedom-loving nations everywhere. This is their struggle, too.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, will indeed be a "date which will live in infamy," as Franklin Roosevelt said almost 60 years ago, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But the analogy ends there. Last Tuesday's events are...

America, Unchanged: It's hard to imagine ever caring again about trivial or pedestrian concerns. But here's why we should try.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Jonathan Alter Summer is over in America. Fat and happy is history, a closed chapter in our national experience. By midday Tuesday, with the surreal horror sinking in, the sense spread widely that life in the United States will...

The Toll On Our Psyche: By striking at the icons of America's military might and economic strength, the terrorists aimed to deeply shake the way the nation thinks of itself.(Sept. 11, 2001)
September 13, 2001... Byline: Sharon Begley It was surely no accident that the terrorists struck at the symbols of America's military might and economic strength. Where the Pentagon stood intact and seemingly impregnable just seconds before, where the Twin...

The Producer: Joyce Carol Oates used to be dismissed as a human word processor (though she doesn't use one). But after 94 books, she sells better than ever--and gets raves.(Arts and Entertainment)
September 17, 2001... Joyce Carol Oates has been nominated for a National Book Award, been a finalist for the Pulitzer, reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, been chosen for Oprah's book club, had a title reissued by the prestigious Modern Library,...

The Emperor's New Prada? Hold on now--not everyone loves the fall's 'hot book'.(Arts and Entertainment)('The Corrections')(Review)
September 17, 2001... Reading Jonathan Franzen's much ballyhooed new novel, "The Corrections," turns out to be a lot like those long holiday weekends where you go home with your college roommate and then sit around watching his family fight the whole time. You're...

Raging Bull By Rushdie: A novel speaks volumes.(Arts and Entertainment)('Fury')(Review)
September 17, 2001... What do you get when you mix high-culture erudition (Homer to Hemingway) with pop-culture savvy (Ellen to Elian)? A prophet's vision of both civilization and souls in crisis with a watchmaker's obsessive sense of formal interconnectedness?...

Bylines.
September 17, 2001... George Bush vs. Al Gore: Here's the Untold Story Talk about timing. David A. Kaplan was lunching with his book editor after Election Day when the Florida recount came up. "I found the drama as irresistible as everybody else," Kaplan says....

Ford's Perfect Storm: Beyond the Firestone fiasco, the carmaker is facing a host of other problems. The pressure is on CEO Nasser to steer the ship to safety.(Business)(Ford Motor Co. CEO Jacques Nasser)
September 17, 2001... Ford CEO Jacques Nasser was exhausted and looking forward to a quiet dinner in the glass-walled executive dining room atop the company's world headquarters. It was late June and he had just returned to Detroit from Washington, where he'd...

Now Playing!!! The Celebrity CEO: With Wall Street trashing Hewlett-Packard's offer for Compaq, Carly Fiorina is experiencing the downside of her high profile.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... There's a good side and a bad side to being a celebrity CEO. When the world loves you, you can do no wrong, no matter how badly you're behaving. When you're out of favor, though, you can do no right. Witness the differing ways the world treated...

Cyberscope.(consumer electronics briefs)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 17, 2001... Hot Property: Forget the Rapper--Here's the CDJ With the advent of the CD, vinyl records are quickly becoming a thing of the past. That's a major problem for DJs, who over the last two decades have turned mixing and "scratching" into an art...

The Faulty Connection: Wireless: Why Europe's telecoms stumbled and fell in the race to build third-generation services.(Global Enterprise)(Industry Overview)
September 17, 2001... What a difference a little time makes. Twelve months ago, as the dot-com crash dispelled Silicon Valley smugness and sent investors into full flight from the Nasdaq, Europeans were still optimistic about technology. After all, they had Global...

Stealth Care for Networks: Computer security: How honeynets will be helping companies fight off the next big hack attack.(Global Enterprise)
September 17, 2001... Ryan Russell immediately recognized the characters scrolling down his PC screen. There, amid the arcana of Assembly language, were some Windows commands. They looked like part of the Code Red worm. But as Russell, an intrusion-detection...

Rooms With a View--And Then Some: Ideas: Five technology conferences that will offer something more substantial than hype about new products. The locations aren't too shabby, either.(Global Enterprise)
September 17, 2001... OK, so you have to go to Comdex. But don't those miles of Vegas aisles get you down? And the endless sales pitches for "solutions"? (We once heard a company brag that it had a solution for solutions.) Let's face it: trade shows don't exactly...

Mail Call: Our readers respond to our August 28th issue on credit-card debt, payment of reparations to the descendants of slaves, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni shrine.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 17, 2001... The Siren Song of Plastic Responding to our cover story on credit-card debt, readers were alarmed by the problem. "Unless we can muster the willpower to resist using our cards so routinely," wrote one, "we'll just dig ourselves deeper into...

PC, Phone Home! Making long-distance calls over the Internet hasn't attracted many users. That's beginning to change, as the technology and ease of use continue to improve.(Focus on Technology)(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... If you're confused about making phone calls over the Internet, don't apologize. The name alone--voice over Internet Protocol, or VOIP for short--is hardly inviting. It doesn't help that early adopters had horror stories to tell about bad voice...