Newsweek articles from September 2004

Newsweek archives from September 2004

Leaving on A Jet Plane; A perfect storm of recent historical events would make a draft more divisive and disastrous than ever before in the nation's history.(military draft)(Column)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen Most politicians think it's so radioactive, they won't go near it, and government officials keep insisting it's not going to happen any time soon. But the military draft is a subject that just won't go away,...

This Gore Is No Bore; An (almost) First Daughter writes a hilarious first novel.(first-time author Kristin Gore)(Interview)(Biography)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith The word "funny" is not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the name "Gore." Last year, when Miramax announced it had commissioned Kristin Gore, daughter of Al, to write a comic novel about a single woman...

An Empire Of Stories; Turkey's tortured history inspires two fine novels.(Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres)(Snow by Orhan Pamuk)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Jones Turkey is a novelist's dream, or perhaps a land dreamed by a novelist. A border country between Europe and the Middle East, it has for centuries been so many things to so many people--Christians, Muslims, Armenians,...

The Incredible W.(the policies of U.S. President George W. Bush)(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Weston Kosova and Holly Bailey (Illustration by John Kascht) Some days a guy can feel he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders. For George W. Bush it's every day. What with the menacing enemies he's got in Iraq,...

Judging Wall Street; When investors lose money, they can go to arbitration. Critics say the system is stacked against the little guy.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino Over the course of his long and prosperous life, 90-year-old Henry Hochman had amassed a fortune investing in WorldCom, the high-flying telecom company. As the stock rose and Hochman's net worth hit eight digits,...

Mail Call: Our Never-Ending Battle With the Bulge.(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2004... Our Aug. 23 cover story examining new research on fat cells prompted many readers to sound off on America's obesity problem. Many dismissed new medications and weight-loss techniques and emphasized the importance of exercise and diet. "Lab mice...

A War's Hidden Hands; As Americans and Iraqis slaughter each other, another player aims to reap big rewards: Iran.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Scott Johnson in Baghdad, Christopher Dickey in New York and Mark Hosenball and Eve Conant in Washington) Six months ago, Abu Sajjad was rolling in cash. His cloth shop is right in front of the Imam Ali...

Once Drawn to Zion, Now Glad to Leave; NEWSWEEK's departing correspondent on Israel's future.(Column)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Joshua Hammer During my first visit to Israel, in the spring of 1981, I almost decided not to go back home. The seduction began shortly after I arrived at Ben Gurion airport, when I was joined on the bus to Jerusalem by a dozen...

Don't Blame The Saudis; Consider the irony--one Bush administration reason for war in Iraq was to reduce our dependence on Saudi Arabia's oil.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) Last week oil prices finally stopped rising. They now hover around $43 a barrel, a 20-year high. The average American family will spend about $2,700 on gasoline this...

And Now A Mole? In the Pentagon, a suspected spy allegedly passes secrets about Iran to Israel.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff And Mark Hosenball (With Michael Hirsh and Daniel Klaidman in Washington and Dan Ephron in Jerusalem) It was just a Washington lunch--one that the FBI happened to be monitoring. Nearly a year and a half ago, agents...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
September 6, 2004... Byline: MARK WHITAKER Every summer, my wife and I take our kids to a little cabin in the Catskill mountains that we purchased as newlyweds almost two decades ago. It's a time for us to relax, see old friends--and hear what people are...

Voices Carry; Pop eccentric Bjork vocalizes with NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali about her instrument-free album.(Interview)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali Defying expectations has always been Bjork's favorite game. The eccentric musician from Reykjavik has experimented with electronica, show tunes and the sound of crunching snow. Her latest album, "Medulla," is almost...

You Go, Girl; Reese Witherspoon stars in a lavish 'Vanity Fair'.(movie adaptation of novel by William Makepeace Thackeray)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: David Ansen "She's no mere social climber," a character observes of Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's sumptuous condensation of "Vanity Fair." "She's a mountaineer." Scheming, beautiful, seductive and utterly self-serving, Becky--played...

Let's Give Our Kids Bach Before Britney; When children can't play an instrument or read notes, they can't appreciate all that music offers.(Column)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Maria Calidonna (Calidonna lives in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) Before I married my husband, my prospective mother-in-law told me, "Welcome to poverty." In those days, my husband-to-be worked as a high-school music teacher at a Roman...

The Road To Resolve; A Sober View: He partied hard, then dried out and found a fierce determination. How George Bush was saved--and never looked back.(U.S. President George W. Bush)(Cover Story)(Biography)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas, Tamara Lipper and Rebecca Sinderbrand It is an article of faith with the president and his advisers, repeated like a mantra, that George W. Bush is "comfortable in his own skin." President Bush himself thinks so: "I...

'I've Learned to Be Patient'; Bush scratches the four-year itch.(U.S. President George W. Bush)(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas and Tamara Lipper He is not a reflective man by nature, but the pause before his party's convention gave President Bush a chance to look back on the job and what it's taught him. Bush spoke with NEWSWEEK's Evan Thomas...

The Reluctant Campaigner; First Lady Laura Bush, making her peace with politics.(Cover Story)(Biography)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Tamara Lipper and Rebecca Sinderbrand Laura Bush has always sought ways to preserve her privacy in a very public family. One way has been to get as far away from them as possible. Each summer the First Lady and a group of childhood...

In the Driver's Seat; Changing Lanes: He's governed to the right. The convention's up the middle. Can Bush--and Karl Rove--have it both ways?(George W. Bush's campaign for re-election and the Republican National Convention)(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Tamara Lipper, Michael Isikoff, Susannah Meadows and Richard Wolffe) It was a warm summer day in Ohio, and on the Cleveland Browns' practice fields south of the city an eagle-eyed coach patrolled the sidelines....

The Man in the Middle; John McCain backs Bush--right?(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Melinda Henneberger There are Republicans convinced that John Kerry's idea of a war on terror is remonstrating sternly in French, and Democrats who see George Bush as the best recruiter Osama ever had. There are multitudes in both...

The Democrats' 'Toughness Gap'; The GOP throws 'red meat.' The PC Dems are loath to offend.(the different handling by Democratic and Republican parties of mud-slinging and viciousness in political campaigns)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter Shortly before the 1992 election, a World War II veteran approached NEWSWEEK and other major media outlets with an unsubstantiated story about how he said he saw President George H.W. Bush strafing unarmed Japanese...

Star Power; It's Bush's convention, but the 2008 jockeying has begun. Pretenders to the throne, and other bright GOP lights.(Republican National Convention, New York City, 2004)(aspirations and career outlook for several Republican politicians)
September 6, 2004... The Rock Star Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor Of New York City Three years after his resolute response to the 9/11 attacks made him America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani continues to shine brightly in the GOP firmament. He has campaigned...

Newsmakers.(actor William Shatner, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, former anchorpeople of The Today Show)(Interview)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Nicki Gostin, N'Gai Croal Q&A: William Shatner William Shatner is all over the place. The first season of "Star Trek" is out on DVD this week. He's starring in a new David E. Kelley drama called "Boston Legal." And another...

GOOOOOOAAAALL!!! The United States shined with some stunning performances, and Athens showed its stuff.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Mark Starr (With reports by Devin Gordon, Bret Begun, and T. Trent Gegax) As athletes readied for the mass frolic that signals the Olympics' close, Greece was indisputably the biggest winner here. Olympic chief Jacques Rogge has...

Perspectives.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Cnn.Com, Newsday, Usa Today, Agence France-Presse, Abcnews.Com, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Boston Globe, Black Enterprise, Associated Press "We're well positioned...

Crashes: Did 'Black Widows' Bring Down the Planes?(Russian government confirms terrorism as suspected cause of plane crashes)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Anna Kuchment Russian officials confirmed what the rest of the world suspected: that terrorism was a likely cause of two nearly simultaneous crashes of airliners that took off from the same Moscow airport one...

Abu Ghraib: 'Breaking' a General.(Pentagon report fails to include testimony by soldier regarding U.S. military intelligence procedures in Iraq)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh The Pentagon reports on interrogation practices at Abu Ghraib and other prisons were somewhat vague on how widespread the abuse was, especially by military intelligence. NEWSWEEK has learned that an especially...

Archeology: Questions in Qumran.(archaeological excavations calls into question history of the Dead Sea Scrolls)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael Yuval Peleg and Itzhak Magen are not revolutionaries. They work for the establishment--both respected archeologists have offices at the Israel Antiquities Authority. And, lest you have visions of Indy Jones, they've...

Career: Baghdad To Houston.(Iraqi boxer Najah Ali)(Brief Article)(Biography)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali The fight is never over for Iraqi boxer Najah Ali. At 4 feet 11 and 105 pounds, the 24-year-old light flyweight boxed his way from the dilapidated gyms of Baghdad to the Olympic ring in Athens. Though he left Greece...

Politics: Native Power.(politicians court the vote of Native Americans)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Ron DePasquale When Democrats clinched a South Dakota seat in the U.S. Senate and Arizona's governorship by razor-thin margins two years ago, a small voting bloc was credited with tipping the balance: Native Americans. So this year...

E-mail: Voice From the Grave.(Web site allows customers to log personal messages to be delivered by e-mail after their death )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: William Lee Adams Always wanted the last word? Now you can have it--from six feet under. LastWishes.com, a Dallas-based Web site, allows customers to create a list of people who will receive personalized messages, photos and videos...

Bocce: My Turn, Grandpa!(Italian ball game gains popularity)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: William Lee Adams The ancient sport of bocce suffers from an image problem. "It conjures up this picture of old Italians with a glass of wine and a stogie," says Mario Pagnoni, author of the definitive guide to the sport, "The Joy...

Books: Metal Defector.(Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... Byline: William Lee Adams At the age of 10, cherub-faced Seb Hunter wanted one thing for Christmas: heavy-metal band AC/DC's latest album, featuring the raunchy single "Let's Get It Up." Six years later he dropped out of his English...

Bush's Jobs Albatross; Politicians, the press and the public all buy into this notion that a president can deliver prosperity. Sadly, it isn't even a half-truth.(U.S. President George W. Bush)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson As Republicans gather in New York, the lackluster job market must dishearten President Bush. He had hoped that a strong economic recovery would favor his re-election, and in some ways, he's gotten his wish....

SWING STATE WATCH; The Gotham City Edition.(presidential campaign, 2004)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Andrew Romano As a wounded Kerry retreated to Nantucket and the GOP invaded New York, Bush tore through eight states in six days. Now the smoke has cleared -- and the race is tighter than ever. CAPTION(S): (text/map/charts) 9...

Health: Life Without Glasses.(choosing corrective eye surgery)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Barney Gimbel Ten seconds. That was all it took for Hugh Coffee to put on his contacts whenever the bell rang in the firehouse. After all, without those lenses, he couldn't run into a burning building. The contacts were a pain, but...

Food: Steakhouses.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Jenny Hontz Steakhouses are the sizzling new hot spots for hip urbanites. The prime picks: Lincoln Santa Monica, Calif. Celebrity-packed and retro-chic, blue-crab avocado fritters star alongside hormone-free beef....

Road Test / Subaru Outback; Clambake Mobile: L.L. Bean Edition 19mpg city/ 24mpg hwy; heated front seats; tire-monitoring system $32,770 subaru.com.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 6, 2004... ***** CORRECTION: The photo of a Subaru Outback featured in Tip Sheet's Sept. 6 "Road Test" is of the 2004 model, not the redesigned Outback. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Tara Weingarten CORRECTION APPENDED ...

Uncorked: Value Whites.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... White wine is the perfect antidote to August heat, especially when the bottle is under $10. Improved wine-making techniques and a string of good vintages mean you can stock up on favorites or explore something new without breaking the bank. 87...

Style: Male Lip Liner.(mustaches)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane Thanks to stars like Jude Law and Gael Garcia Bernal, the mustache is back. The two join a cast of leading men sporting the lip accessory made famous by Tom Selleck in the '80s. "These guys represent what's going on,"...

Money: Finance 101.(credit cards, banking tips for college students)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Giant lecture halls can be easier to navigate than those first credit-card bills. Some tips for new students: ^ CampusEdge is a new checking account from Bank of America (bankof america.com ) that comes with a Stuff...

Technology: New Life For 'Mixes'.(converting audiotapes, LPs to digital form)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Claire Sulmers Remember those mix tapes your college boyfriend made for you? Granted, some were better than others (so were the guys), but there's no reason you can't relive your glory days--on your iPod. While most music from that...

Perfect Weekend: The Hamlet By The Sea.(Sausalito, California)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Sausalito, the postage-stamp-size waterfront village just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, has a colorful past. Decades ago its mayor was a convicted madam. More recently, touristy shops flooded the...

Ask Tip Sheet.(head pain sometimes caused by ingesing cold food or drink)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane What causes a "brain freeze" when you've had something cold to eat or drink? --Karen Russell, Doylestown, Pa. The explosion of pain you feel after sucking down a Slurpee happens because the extremely cold...

Medicine: Know The Numbers.(preventing high blood pressure)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Claudia Kalb If its nickname, the "silent killer," isn't scary enough, the perils it can lead to surely are: kidney damage, heart disease and stroke. The culprit? High blood pressure. In a study published last week, researchers...

Design: Voter Chic.(clothing designers and stores offer t-shirts that play into election fever, 2004)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Want to help get out the vote? Designers have made it easy to spread the message with style this election year. The nonprofit Rock the Vote is distributing French Connection's cheeky FCUK YOU, I'M VOTING!...

The Lion Kings Return; After the tragedy, NBC tries a Siegfried and Roy sitcom.
September 6, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser There was the talking horse, of course. Also the heroic collie, the helpful dolphin and an entire planet of apes. Animals used to be a TV staple, but lately they've been put out to pasture, a.k.a. cable. That's going to...

Conventional Wisdom; Elephants in Gotham Edition.(humorous anecdotes on current events)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Like it or not, Tom DeLay has to come to New York City. Will the former exterminator pack his rat poison? CW Bush + Bad numbers on economy, Swift Boat charges shredded and Iraqi insurgents unbowed--yet he gains. Go figure....

Bill's New Bridge; The Clinton presidential library in Little Rock stunningly evokes the 'bridge to the 21st century' he envisioned. And guess who kept tweaking the design?(former U.S. president Bill Clinton)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan (Graphic by John Sparks) As former president Bill Clinton was facing heart surgery in a New York hospital last week, workers were busy finishing up his presidential library in Little Rock, set to open Nov. 18. The...

I Want a Movie! Now! For those who can't wait, Netflix and TiVo have an idea.(the two companies consider a joint venture that could allow consumers to download movies right off the Internet and onto their televisions)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone Netflix and TiVo ushered in an age of couch-potato bliss. Netflix lets its customers browse through its huge movie catalog on the Web and rent DVDs through the mail without having to worry about late fees. TiVo lets...

A 'Corporate Kleptocracy'.(results of investigation into corrupt practices of Conrad Black, former chief executive officer of Hollinger International Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... CEOs are a competitive lot, and not just about making money. For some, bragging rights also seem to come from expensing a spending spree. Remember ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski's $6,000 shower curtain? Conrad Black, Hollinger's ex-chief,...

The Real Cost Of 'Ownership'; Bush's plan is great marketing: show the goodies but not the price tag. The bill? That will come later--or maybe get sent to your kids.(U.S. President Georg W. Bush's social security policy)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan (Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com.) By now, if the Republicans did their job right, the term "ownership society" is still rattling around inside your head. It sure sounded great when...

Mail Call and Correction: Excavating and Pillaging Biblical History.(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2004... Readers unsettled by our Aug. 30 cover story on the looting of archeological sites in the Middle East also pondered what it means for the historical record. One decried those responsible for fueling the illicit trade. "Archeologists seek...

In the Three Pennsylvanias; The state may be for Bush a 'crucial' state that really isn't. Perhaps he will carry it only if he does not need to--only if he is surging nationally.(Column)
September 13, 2004... Byline: George F. Will Pittsburgh--re-ordained in Manhattan, George W. Bush headed for his 34th presidential visit to Pennsylvania. Tony Podesta dourly says Bush cabinet members are so thick on the Pennsylvania ground, "He could have a...

A Vision, and Little Else; President Bush mocked press reports, but if he really thinks that Iraq today looks like Germany in 1946, he's in for a rude surprise.(U.S. President George W. Bush)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) The Democrats could take a lesson or two from George W. Bush. The president gave a superb speech accepting the Republican nomination. He has come to deliver formal...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker Sometimes we know we're on to a great story by the length of time we spend discussing it in our weekly Wednesday cover meeting. Several months ago, Senior Editor David Noonan pitched a project on "Generation...

A Rapturous Return; It's been a rocky 10 years since Anita Baker's last CD--and a rocky few years before it. Where's she been so long?(Interview)(Biography)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Allison Samuels When Anita Baker vanished from the music charts and the public's view a decade ago, the sound of R&B was already changing from the lush love ballads that made her 1986 album "Rapture" a multiplatinum hit to what we...

Past the Boiling Point; 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is just the beginning. Brace yourself for the explosion of left-leaning documentaries.
September 13, 2004... Byline: David Ansen If talk radio and Fox TV are the preferred media of the right, film has emerged this year as the left's not-so-secret weapon. There's never been an election in which political documentaries played a significant...

A Great Adventure in The Shadow of War; As I explored castles and listened to oompah music, Germans came to terms with their brutal past.(author was an American teenager living in Frankfurt, Germany, during war crime trials of Nazis)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Mary Helen Dirkx (Dirkx lives in Duncanville, Texas.) In 1964-65, as the 20-month-long Auschwitz trial was coming to a close, I was a 14-year-old girl boarding at the dormitory of Frankfurt American High. I was 200 kilometers south...

Special Report; Photo Gallery of a Grand Old Party (And Its Discontents).(Republican National Convention, New York City, 2004)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... 'I WILL NEVER RELENT IN DEFENDING AMERICA... WHATEVER IT TAKES.' George W. Bush, September 2, 2004 CAPTION(S): Solemn vow: On a stage built to put the president out amid his people, Bush conjured 9/11 and pledged to make the world more...

Tending To The Flock; Soul Man: A White House aide keeps faith with the faithful.(Tim Goeglein, presidential aide to George W. Bush)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Melinda Henneberger So how do social conservatives really feel about the largely moderate face of the GOP convention? Just fine, thanks. In fact, the endless talking-head debates over whether they are furious, middling mad or only...

A Case Not Yet Closed; Turn The Page: In a new book, Sen. Bob Graham examines the embers of 9/11.
September 13, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff In the summer of 2002, congressional investigators probing the September 11 terror attacks made a startling discovery. A college professor and longtime FBI informant in San Diego had dealt extensively with two of...

Taking Aim At Our Enemies; Fresh Clip: The convention was a test run for new technologies to secure the homeland.
September 13, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh (With Eve Conant in Washington) For a year and a half, A.T. Smith lived, ate and slept the ultimate security nightmare. On Sept. 2, 2004, the president of the United States would speak in the middle of Madison Square...

Newsmakers.(actor Jeremy Piven)(Charlize Theron's neck injury)(Alec and Stephen Baldwin)(Serena Williams)(Interview)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Hilary Shenfeld, Sean Smith, Brian Braiker Q&A: Jeremy Piven Jeremy Piven earned rave reviews as a hard-charging Hollywood agent in HBO's "Entourage," and now he's to star in "Lucky 13," a movie about the cutthroat world of bar...

Perspectives.(quotations from people in the news)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: Associated Press, People Magazine, The Washington Post, Reuters, Miami Herald, New York Times, Reuters, MSNBC, Reuters (2), Associated Press(2) "I've never seen a hurricane of...

Classified Info: Springing a Leak.(FBI investigation into actions of Pentagon official Larry Franklin and American-Israel Public Affairs Committee)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff One measure of how seriously the Feds are pursuing an investigation into whether a Pentagon analyst leaked secret information to a pro-Israel lobbying group is the fact that FBI agents showed up...

Why He Might Stay.(Secretary of State Colin Powell)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh with Richard Wolffe For nearly two years, the settled wisdom in Washington has been that Colin Powell would never stick around for a second Bush term. The secretary of State, who began his tenure as the most popular...

Reluctant Apology.(basketball star Kobe Bryant apologizes to women suing him for rape)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr and Paul Tolme The carefully crafted apology from Kobe Bryant, issued after a dramatic hearing in Eagle, Colo., last week, was key to ending the criminal rape case against him. In it he conceded that, while he still...

Sunflower Power?(alternative sources for fuel)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael America may still depend on foreign oil for energy, but if blue-sky scientists have their way, in the future it will rely on ecofriendly domestic fuels--like plankton, sunflowers, gold or bananas, which may not be a...

Surveys: Doggone It!(humorous surveys on political matters)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Leave the matter of who's going to win in November to other media outlets. PERI brings you the polls that really matter: 25% of singles say they'd volunteer for a campaign to meet someone of the opposite sex...

Early: The Oscar Goes to...(contenders for best actor Academy Award, 2004)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith It's only September, but this year's best-actor race is already shaping up. Jim Carrey may finally get that Oscar nomination. Snubbed for "The Truman Show" six years ago, he dazzled critics this spring with his...

Fashion: Starting to Walk Tall.(clothing industry recognizes the need to fill gap for tall women)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup And you think it's hard for you to find jeans. Sisters Jennifer Caputo and Rebecca Caputo Carreras are both 6 feet tall. And thin. So the "big-and-tall" label just doesn't apply. "For a while, we wore a lot of men's...

Media: A New Campus 'Vida'.(magazine for Hispanic American college students)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Lisa Helem Jesus Diaz Jr., an NYU graduate, and four business partners were sitting around last fall chatting about their days as undergrads. "Because we were the first ones going to college, there were a lot of things that we...

How to Fix the Pension Mess; By law, pension plans are allowed to 'assume' that stock prices are rising, even when they aren't! (Don't ask me; I just write about this stuff.).
September 13, 2004... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reported by Temma Ehrenfeld and Barney Gimbel) Oops, we've done it again--drilled a blast hole into the bedrock of workers' financial security. In the mid-1980s, a laissez-faire Congress let the savings-and-loan...

The Power of No; It's an unanticipated legacy of the affluent '90s: parents who can't, or won't, set limits. Now a growing number of psychologists are warning of the dangers of overindulgence and teaching how--and where--to draw the line.(Cover Story)
September 13, 2004... ***** CORRECTION: In "The Power Of No" we misspelled the surname of a young woman we interviewed. Her name is Jenn Andrlik, not Andrlick. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Peg Tyre, Julie Scelfo and Barbara Kantrowitz...

Round Table: Experts Weigh In.(Cover Story)
September 13, 2004... How much is too much? How do you say no? Are we teaching our kids everything they need to become kind, self-sufficient adults? These are questions that keep parents up at night. We asked a panel of experts--who between them have raised 17...

SWING STATE WATCH; Putting the Pedal to the Metal.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Andrew Romano Kerry's the windsurfer, but it was Bush who emerged last week with the breeze at his back. Where did they go when the balloons dropped? Hint: it's not Disneyland. Welcome to the homestretch. CAPTION(S):...

It's Camp Chardonnay.
September 13, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten It's fall harvest in Napa Valley. Workers slice ripe, heavy grape clusters off the vines. They taste a grape or two, pronounce them sweet, wield the knife and toss the cluster over their heads into a bucket strapped...

Outdoors: Animal Attacks.(how to prevent them)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... If "Open Water" has you fearing all creatures great and small, study these tips from "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook." Alligator attack: Gators are quick, but only in short bursts. So run far and run fast. But if one clamps...

Road Test: Ford GT; Hunk Of Muscle.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Test driving Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Bentleys, one expects lookie-loos. But with a Ford? Clearly, this is no ordinary Ford. With a warplike 205mph top speed, the GT is one of the most anticipated sports cars to...

Meal Ticket: Best Pizza.(pizza restaurants, northeastern United States)(Restaurant Review)
September 13, 2004... While their service and decor aren't upper-crust, these pizza joints are sublime when it comes to their perfect pies. Their savory aromas may tease you while you stand in line, but with one bite you'll know heaven was worth the wait. ...

Getting iMac Right.(the Apple iMac G5)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone The first colorful iMac, unveiled in 1997, weighed 40 pounds. The dome-shaped follow-up, with its flat-panel screen, weighed 21 pounds. Those computers were cute, but with the new, 18- pound iMac G5, it is tempting to...

Fund Fees Fall Fast.(Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group Inc. cut prices to compete)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern It's a price war. last week Fidelity Investments dropped to rock bottom its fees for five key index mutual funds, undercutting price-leader Vanguard. Fidelity capped charges at 0.1 percent on its Spartan 500 Index Fund,...

Ask Tip Sheet.(origin of the expression "pardon my French")(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane What is the origin of the term "pardon my French"? --Natasha Kasten, St. Louis, Mo. French stereotyping is the root of "pardon my French," an excuse for foul language. The phrase emerged in the 1800s, according...

Buy Now, Ski Later.(price deals at ski resorts, U.S.)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Byline: Claire Sulmers The temperature may still be rising, but rates on ski packages are falling. Vail Resort's Perfect 10 Pass guarantees 10 days of skiing and riding at Vail, Breckenridge, Arapahoe Basin, Keystone and Beaver Creek for...