Newsweek articles from September 2007

Newsweek archives from September 2007

Disinvited to The Party.(Republican Party's Rudy Giuliani)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen One of the complaints you hear a lot from readers when you're in my line of work and live in my part of the country is that you can't understand America from the vantage point of New York City. I'm beginning to think...

Fall Preview: Books.(Book review)
September 3, 2007... 'Exit Ghost,' Philip Roth, October : Roth says goodbye to his longtime fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. (The four novels collected in the Library of America's new "Zuckerman Bound" include a prehistory of this fictional fiction writer...

You, Too, Can Have A Bionic Body; New materials and high-tech procedures are driving a surge in hip, knee and even ankle replacements.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael Susan Burke's left knee was humbling her. At 54, she wanted to hike and whitewater raft through the national parks or, at the very least, to stroll around the block with her husband at night, as she'd always done....

A Case of Prius Envy; Honda introduced the gas-electric car to America, but Toyota's Prius became the synonym for 'hybrid.' Here's how Honda hopes to regain its enviro street cred.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Keith Naughton (with Mary Chapman) Peter Kessner, a devout environmentalist, bought a Honda Civic hybrid four years ago to show everyone that he wants to save the planet. The only problem: no one noticed, since, other than the...

Mail Call: The Global Warming Debate; Readers weigh in on climate change and its causes.(Letter to the editor)
September 3, 2007... Our Aug. 13 report on the global-warming "denial machine" elicited more than 250 passionate responses. One reader declared the article "a public-service piece," adding, "It doesn't take a great intellect to figure out that humans are having a...

The Editor's Desk.(on correspondents' reports)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Sami Yousafzai, NEWSWEEK's correspondent in Afghanistan, wasn't counting on the interview. In reporting this week's cover story on the six-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, Sami reached out to a Taliban source who told him...

Taking On Tourette's; A new approach to stopping tics before they happen offers hope to thousands who live with the disorder.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Marg MacKrell was just 3 when her parents noticed the first signs of what turned out to be Tourette syndrome. The blond toddler began sniffing her fingers repeatedly, and over the next six...

When Opposites Attract; Washington and Lafayette were oddly matched, but joined forces in the great, close-run fight for equality and freedom.(Pres. George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas On July 27, 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette and 14 other French military officers arrived in Philadelphia hot, filthy and exhausted. They had slipped past the British blockade in Charleston, S.C., and trekked for 32 days...

Into Thin Air.(Osama bin Laden's whereabouts)(Cover story)
September 3, 2007... Byline: This story was reported by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border; Zahid Hussain in Islamabad; Rod Nordland in Tora Bora; Mark Hosenball, Michael Hirsh, Michael Isikoff, John Barry, Dan Ephron and Eve Conant in...

Black-Gold Booster; Energy's Future: A onetime oilman admits we need alternatives, but says there's plenty of petroleum left.(Lee Raymond)(Interview)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Lee Raymond succeeded as an oilman by staying focused on oil. (In the mid-1980s, he was responsible for unwinding the alternative-energy program at his former company, Exxon.) Now chairman of the National Petroleum...

Pakistan's Power Game; Former leader Benazir Bhutto on the tumult in Islamabad.(Interview)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Lally Weymouth It looks like Pervez Musharraf's days as president of Pakistan may be numbered if he does not change course. With one rival, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, threatening to return to Pakistan, Musharraf has been...

Fall Preview: Music.(Sound recording review)
September 3, 2007... 'Graduation,' Kanye West, 9/11: West's third record drops the same day rival rapper 50 Cent releases his new CD. A showdown has ensued (naturally), and 50 has vowed to quit the rap game forever if West outsells him (country crooner Kenny...

Mt. Vernon, Va.: Washington Slept Here.(George Washington's residence in Virginia)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Michael Beschloss Shortly before George Washington retired as president in 1797, two of his cherished house slaves--Martha's helper Oney Judge and their chef, Hercules--ran away. Tracked down at Washington's order, Oney tried to...

Fall Preview: Movies; Summer's over, school is back, but the consolation of fall was always that the best films, shows, CDs and books were ripe for picking. Now there's too much competition, too much stuff. How to figure out what's worthy? Here is a warts-and-all preview, arranged from sublime to subprime.(Movie review)
September 3, 2007... 'No Country for Old Men,' 11/9: The mighty Coen brothers have been in a rut. Their last two films, "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers," both big-studio comedies, flopped. But they're back on familiar ground with this eye-popping...

The Love That Will Finally Speak Its Name; It took the death of my dear life partner for me to find the courage to come out of the closet.(Personal account)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Loraine Barr I was born at a time when to have romantic feelings for another woman was known as "the love that dare not speak its name." I first read Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" around 1938, in my impressionable...

Perfect Stranger.(Politics)(U.S. presidential candidates)(Correction notice)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey ***** We incorrectly reported that Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson were not on the Iowa ballot ("Perfect Stranger," Sept. 3). In fact, each candidate was on the ballot, but none chose to actively...

Bush's History Problem; In Vietnam, our adversary had an alternative ideology. That is not the case in Iraq.(George W. Bush)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh Much was changing in Vietnam when I visited in December 1991, in the waning hours of the Soviet Union. The coziness between Moscow and Hanoi, once comrades, had curdled into mutual contempt. The Russians, aware their...

Newsmakers.(interview with Scarlett Johansson)(Interview)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Scarlett Johansson Her last performance was in a Justin Timberlake music video, but Johansson returns to movies as the nanny in "The Nanny Diaries." She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Did you have a nanny growing...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
September 3, 2007... "I say to the president... 'Pick whatever number you wish'." Sen. John Warner, on his proposed withdrawal of an as-yet-undetermined number of U.S. troops from Iraq by winter "Sentencing is about a final accounting. It is a closure;...

Periscope: Special Shafted Edition.
September 3, 2007... On the heels of Utah coal disaster, Bush admin greenlights 'mountaintop mining' to wreck environment. Nice crowd. Bush (down) Old take: Don't dare compare Iraq to Vietnam. New: Reason to fight on--we should have stayed in Vietnam. ...

A Doctor Says She Didn't Murder Her Patients.(Anna Pou)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Julie Scelfo The tragic deaths at New Orleans's Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina were among the most notorious examples of the vast human suffering that resulted from the flooding of the city--and the government's...

Iraq: Another Troubling Report Enters the Fray.(National Intelligence Estimate)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball Spies normally abhor publicity, and many U.S. intelligence officials are dismayed that once secret intelligence reports have now moved to center stage in the debate over war. National Intelligence Estimates, like the...

BeliefWatch: Ever After.(polygamy issue among Mormons)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller No group is more emphatically and publicly opposed to the practice of polygamy than the Latter-day Saints. The topic is, however, irresistible and perennial. While the Mormon Church banned plural marriage more than 100...

Dissent on The Front.(U.S. Army paratroopers' opinion piece in the New York Times)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Nick Summers and Catharine Skipp Are there consequences for soldiers who write publicly, and prominently, against the war? Eight are finding out. "We have failed on every promise," wrote seven 82nd Airborne paratroopers in a stark...

Cancer's New Pitch.(Periscope; Charity)(Correction notice)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Daniel McGinn ***** In "Cancer's New Pitch" (Periscope, Sept. 3) the name of Los Angeles designer Julia Fikse was misspelled. NEWSWEEK regrets the error ***** Two summers ago a group of Philadelphia-area women who...

A Life in Books: Michael Pollan.(Interview)(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... In "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Michael Pollan said we're all eating wrong. For this interview, he had his own dilemma. He took a long look at his bookshelf, then called us back. My Five Most Important Books "Walden" by Henry David...

ALCOHOL: War's Liquor Legacy.(Brief article)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil Every American war has inspired a cocktail. There's the Artillery Punch (Civil War), the French 75 (WWI), the Kamikaze (WWII) and the Napalm shot (Vietnam). So what about Iraq? The top contenders World Peace: A...

Campus Crusaders; The complicated story of tiny Patrick Henry College, where Christian students prepare for the world's fight.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Va., is the kind of place that would make most coastal liberals run screaming. A tiny college with about 500 students, its stated goal is to "prepare Christian men and women who...

The Catch-22 Of Economics.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson We are now in the "blame phase" of the economic cycle. As the housing slump deepens and swings in financial markets widen, we've embarked on the usual search for culprits. Who got us into this mess? Our...

The Blackboard Bungles; Three authors take us inside today's classroom. These flies on the wall reveal how we might fix our schools.(The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle; Tested; A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools)(Book review)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Peg Tyre In 1965, after Jonathan Kozol was fired from his job in a Boston public school for teaching his African-American fourth graders a Langston Hughes poem that was not part of the curriculum, he went on to write a book that...

Putting Brains On the Couch.(use of electroencephalogram to diagnose bipolar disorder)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley (With Jeneen Interlandi) For doctors who treat illnesses that strike from the neck down, a patient's symptoms are only the first step toward a diagnosis. No sooner do they hear "It hurts when I climb stairs" than they...

Era of the Super Cruncher; Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.(Super Crunchers)(Book review)
September 3, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler If the editors of a magazine--NEWSWEEK, for instance--want to know what interests their readers, their resources are limited. They can count cover sales, but that only tells them about one story a week. They can convene...

Dollars for Scholars; A bold experiment pays parents to do the right thing.(New York's experimental program 'Opportunity NYC')
September 3, 2007... Byline: Raina Kelley Paying kids for good grades is a popular (if questionable) parenting tactic. But when school starts next week, New York City will try to use the same enticement to get parents in low-income neighborhoods more involved...

Fall Preview: Theater & Art.
September 3, 2007... 'Young Frankenstein,' 11/8: Can lightning strike twice? We don't mean the lightning crackling around the mad doctor's spooky castle. We mean: can Mel Brooks have a monster hit transforming his 1974 movie comedy into a Broadway musical, just as...

Fall Preview: Television.
September 3, 2007... 'Dirty Sexy Money,' 9/26: Start with that title: so deliberately sleazy, so nakedly provocative that it must be a joke, right? Yep, it's a joke, and it's a good one. ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" is a rollicking satire, a cathartic slap at a...

Truly, Madly, Deeply; Theresa Duncan created acclaimed videogames. Jeremy Blake was a digital-art pioneer. They were talented, successful and in love. And then they committed suicide. How the technology that infused their work helped destroy them.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil On July 10, Jeremy Blake returned to his downtown Manhattan apartment from a day of meetings with plans to relax with a bottle of Scotch. The 35-year-old digital artist, whose work is already enshrined in the...

From a Sunny Mordor to the Garden State; Junot Diaz's first novel is worth all the waiting.(The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)(Book review)
September 10, 2007... Byline: David Gates It's been 11 years since the Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz published his first book, the justly celebrated story collection "Drown." Back then, the novelist Francisco Goldman predicted that Diaz would become "a...

Securing (Or Not) Your Right to Vote.(analysis of California's electronic voting machines)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy Next year we'll have the second presidential election since the horribly botched one in 2000. Can we expect better? An answer comes from the highest election official in the most populated state in the Union. Worried...

Blog Watch: What's and What's Not; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs.(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Should MTV's hit reality show "The Hills," about four affluent girlfriends in Los Angeles, be seen as "Sex and the City" for a younger generation? Gawker.com seems to think so. The blog jezebel.com ponders a recent Cosmopolitan story on...

The New Money Pit; It started with subprime mortgages. Now owners of McMansions are defaulting, and the effects of the housing bust are beginning to ripple through the economy.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross (With Eleazar David Melendez in Henderson, Alice Chen in Merced, Lynn Waddell in Tampa and Temma Ehrenfeld in New York) Walking through the gated community of Black Mountain Vista on a hill in Henderson, Nev., Thomas...

Mail Call: Changing the Way Millions Connect.(Letter to the editor)
September 10, 2007... Readers of our cover story on Facebook were intrigued by the online behemoth, but the majority were worried by the impersonal nature of such social interaction. One said, "I'm honestly puzzled by this Internet-friendship phenomenon. I wish...

The Editor's Desk.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Howard Baker sensed it early. In 1966, after he became the first Republican senator from Tennessee since Reconstruction, he asked his aide Bill Hamby to keep an eye out for fresh talent for the nascent state GOP. By...

Now, Defining Decency Down.
September 10, 2007... Byline: George F. Will Last week, a U.S. senator's 27-year congressional career crashed and burned and his life unraveled in public ignominy, and a presidential candidate announced his disgust in a way that did him no credit. The U.S....

Well-Rounded Docs; That's the goal as medical schools seek out and admit more nonscience students. English majors welcome.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Sarah Kliff One week into his premed classes at Washington University in St. Louis, Ryan Jacobson was rethinking his plan to become a doctor. His biology and chemistry classes were large, competitive and impersonal--not how he...

Baghdad's New Owners; Shiites now dominate the once mixed capital, and there is little chance of reversing the process.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Larry Kaplow (With Iraqi Staff in Baghdad) It was their last stand. Kamal and a handful of his neighbors were hunkered down on the roof of a dun-colored house in southwest Baghdad two weeks ago as bullets...

Why We Need a Draft; An Iraq veteran and 9/11 survivor says that we cannot win until all Americans sacrifice.
September 10, 2007... Byline: CPL. Mark Finelli (Finelli is an inactive, noncommissioned officer in the Marine Corps.) Maybe we would have only lost those three instead of 13," I thought to myself on a dusty Friday in Fallujah in early November 2005. I was...

Stalin's Tipping Point; The battle for Moscow--the biggest, bloodiest clash in human history--helped turn the tide against Hitler. But the Soviet leader came closer than most realize to defeat.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Andrew Nagorski By mid-October 1941, most of Moscow's residents were convinced that their city was about to be overrun by the Germans. The NKVD, as the Soviet secret police was then called, had prepared the first of what promised...

Go Ahead, Make Her Day; More than 30 years after 'Taxi Driver,' Jodie Foster grabs a gun and gets her revenge in 'The Brave One.'.(Interview)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Devin Gordon Over the course of her new film, "The Brave One," Jodie Foster kills eight people. She plays a public-radio host named Erica Bain who survives a brutal attack in New York's Central Park during which her fiance is...

The Train to the Plain; Crowe and Bale keep '3:10 to Yuma' on track--barely.(Russell Crowe and Christian Bale)(Movie review)
September 10, 2007... Byline: David Ansen James Mangold's remake of the 1957 Western "3:10 to Yuma" is a decent-enough entertainment, though it's hardly going to breathe new life to a genre whose demise has been reported for at least 30 years. What this version...

What Grandma Kept Hidden From Us; Deep down, I didn't want to know the truth about Babushka if it meant dealing with my own mortality.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Anya Ulinich (Ulinich lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.) By the time I took my 2-year-old daughter to visit her great-grandmother in Moscow, we hadn't seen my Grandma Gita in more than a year. After my grandfather's death, Grandma had spent...

Grin and Bear It; His story sings--a small-town boy who became a senator and a star. But does he have the requisite fire in the belly? We'll soon see.(Fred Thompson)(Cover story)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey (With Richard Wolffe, Eleanor Clift, Eve Conant and Mary Carmichael) Fred Thompson does not want to meet the Butter Princess. Everywhere he turns at this morning's meet-and-greet at the Minnesota State Fair, he is...

Talk to the Hand; You know about Republican Sen. Larry Craig's arrest on disorderly conduct charges in a Minneapolis bathroom. But do you know about the cop he tried to solicit?
September 10, 2007... Byline: Keith Naughton (With Hilary Shenfeld, Catharine Skipp, Kevin Taylor and Suzanne Smalley) A 49-year-old traveling salesman allegedly seeking sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom in June noticed a boyish young man with short, sandy...

A Rush to Judgment; 'Until Proven Innocent' is harshly critical of the city and campus response to the Duke University rape case.(Book review)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Evan Thomas (With Roya Wolverson) On March 28, 2006, the four co-captains of the Duke lacrosse team accused of gang-raping an exotic dancer met with university president Richard Brodhead. One of the captains, David Evans,...

Last Stop on The 'V'-Train.(values)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter Earlier this year, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig explained why he favors Mitt Romney. "First and foremost," Craig said, "he has very strong family values." That platitude had power for Craig, as it did for his party. But it...

Newsmakers.(Tim Gunn)(Interview)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Q&A: Tim Gunn The "Project Runway" star knows his way around the closet, so we asked him to come raid ours (see the video online). He then spoke to Ramin Setoodeh about his Bravo show, "Tim Gunn's Guide to...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
September 10, 2007... "[He's] leaving, but these questions remain." Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, pushing for further investigation into whether departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave false testimony to Congress "I'm sure that there are going to be...

Conventional Wisdom: Wide Stance Edition.
September 10, 2007... Even before Petraeus report, Bush decides to request another $50 billion for Iraq--and doesn't tell Secretary of Defense Gates. Beautiful. Bush (down) Another great week: A.G. out, a GOP scandal, Iraq bad as ever, Katrina anniv. is...

A Systematic Failure.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Daren Briscoe Louisiana politicians and the federal government have had two years to fix the sewers of St. Bernard Parish since Hurricane Katrina destroyed every pump and lifting station in the 30-mile network. Little to nothing...

Why Gonzales Bailed.(Alberto Gonzales)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Richard Wolffe Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told friends he resigned last week at the urging of his wife following a summer vacation. But he had plenty of reasons to leave the capital. Just days earlier,...

Fund-Raising: Oprah's Obama Blowout.(Oprah Winfrey's support of Barack Obama)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Allison Samuels Oprah Winfrey has said she's not interested in running for president--but can she help elect one? On Saturday afternoon, Winfrey will throw the flashiest fund-raiser of the 2008 cycle when she welcomes about 1,500...

Defending The Surge.(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Dan Ephron What could Gen. David Petraeus possibly say next week to convince a never-more-skeptical Congress that the troop surge in Iraq is working? A 5,000-word blog entry penned by one of his key aides and widely linked by...

BeliefWatch: Memoirs.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Some experiences just inspire people to pick up a pen. Convinced that what they saw, felt or heard was profound and unique, these writers are moved to share. Jury duty is one such experience. Parenthood is another....

Dial and Tribulation.(United States Do Not Call Registry)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Kurt Soller At county fairs in Pennsylvania this summer, visitors lined up for the Ferris wheel, pie-eating contests--and to renew their spot on the state's Do Not Call Registry. Who knew that the list, which was established in...

Separation Anxieties.(resegregation in public schools)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips This fall, returning students might not have to try so hard to fit in--but that's not necessarily a good thing. According to a new report, more public schools are filled with students of the same racial and economic...

Brown's the New Black.(New York Fashion Week features Charlie Brown and the 'Peanuts' characters)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Kurt Soller Charlie Brown is neither tall nor skinny enough to be a model, but he's still landing on the runway. At this week's Fashion Week in New York, more than 20 designers are bringing the Peanuts characters to life in a...

A Life in Books: Claire Messud.(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... After listing four male authors, Claire Messud ("The Emperor's Children"), racked her brain for a fifth writer. "It should go to a woman," she finally decided. Here's whom she picked. My Five Most Important Books "Anna Karenina" by...

A Successful Balancing Act.(rebalancing investments)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) The riot in the credit markets confound- ed investors once again. The major stock markets had just clawed their way back to their levels of seven years ago. Long-term holders...

The Dogmatic Doubter; The nun's leading critic argues that the psychic pain revealed in a new book was a byproduct of her faith.(Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light)(Critical essay)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Christopher Hitchens The publication of Mother Teresa's letters, concerning her personal crisis of faith, can be seen either as an act of considerable honesty or of extraordinary cynicism (or perhaps both of the above). These...

Movies: Snap Judgment.(In the Shadow of the Moon, Exiled)(Movie review)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: David Ansen In the Shadow of the Moon Directed by David Sington When you've traveled to the moon and looked back at Earth, it tends to change the way you look at the world. For Alan Bean, who was part of the Apollo 12...

Older, Fitter and Faster; Kristine Lilly may be the greatest female soccer player ever.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Mark Starr When the American women's soccer team triumphed in the World Cup eight summers ago, Kristine Lilly was the quiet one. The media's adoring coverage--which created an unlikely new breed of American sports heroes--centered...

Beyond Nice Looks.
September 10, 2007... Byline: Charlene Dy and Christina Gillham A growing movement in the design industry seeks to go beyond esthetics and into more socially responsible work. Last week, the prestigious European design organization, Index, held its annual Design...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.
September 10, 2007... Rent the first season of "30 Rock, " new to DVD. If you haven't yet seen this hilarious show, starring Tina Fey and the singular Alec Baldwin, now's your chance. Trust us: you won't be sorry. Donate to Hire a Hero , a nonprofit program...

Boating Bargains.(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Fall is a great time to go cruisin' for bargains on cruises. It's the season when the big lines reposition their ships for winter travel: the big boats leave Europe and the Mediterranean and head for Florida and the...

PSP Loses Weight.(Sony PlayStation Portable )(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Cathy Lu Like Nintendo's DS last year, Sony's Play-Station Portable is getting a much-needed nip-and-tuck. The new PSP is only three quarters of an inch thick, down from nine tenths. And thanks in part to a slimmer battery, the...

Road Test / Volvo C30; A Swede's Nod to Mod.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
September 10, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten Eye the back of the C30 and I bet you wouldn't identify this two-door hatchback as a Volvo. Where's that telltale boxy look? The Swedes say they visited the Milan Furniture Fair for design inspiration. It worked....

Quick Read.(Enterprise)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 17, 2007... Byline: John David Sparks Bo's Lasting Lessons by Bo Schembechler and John U. Bacon Leadership tomes from successful college coaches are practically a genre unto themselves. Most are as interchangeable in both advice and voice as the...

Playing Dress Up.(Enterprise; Marketing)(fashion consultant's job in dressing celebrities)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Dana Thomas In the age of red carpets and 24/7 paparazzi, celebrities need pros to help them look fab. For luxury brands, those stylists' choices bring priceless exposure. Rachel Zoe blew into the Jimmy Choo Oscar suite at the...

Ray-Ban Revival.(Enterprise; Executive Life)(Ray-Ban Wayfarers )(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Ashley Nash-Hahn The last time Ray-Ban Wayfarers were this popular, a young Tom Cruise was sporting a pair while rocking out in his skivvies to Bob Seger in "Risky Business." Lately there's been a big comeback of the black,...

American Forgetting.(The Last Word)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen Instead of expanding, we contracted. Instead of a new juncture, we retreated to old ways. It's all there at the construction site. At the construction project that has replaced the site of one of America's...

How Apple's iPhone Ate The New iPods.(The Technologist)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy Fall means football, back to school, presidential politics -- and new iPods. Once again Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets a chance to trounce his hapless competitors in the digital-media area by unveiling better stuff at lower...

The Role Of A Lifetime.(Turning Points)(role as a family man)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Michael Douglas In his 60s, the star has discovered that his basic instinct is to be a good husband and father -- and to make pancakes. It's hard to balance work and family. I work in an industry that has a relatively short...

Excuse Me, Mr. Ford.(Business)(Ford Motor Co.)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Keith Naughton How to tell the man whose name is on the building that you're overhauling the family firm he once ran As Ford Motor Co.'s sales continued to drop this summer, the company's new CEO, Alan Mulally, made a visit to...

Meet The Parentocrats.(Enterprise; Bytes)(types of consumers)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Marketing execs have been tagging new consumer types -- from yuppies to alpha males -- for decades. But to replace those outmoded labels, the New York branding firm Consumer Eyes has profiled nine new 21st-century...

Where It's Always A Windy Day.(Enterprise; Bytes)(alternative energy derived from winds)(Brief article)
September 17, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Here's an idea for anyone who's ever felt the traffic blow by a busy highway: why not capture the wind created by the cars and turn it into energy? That's the thought behind two new alternative-energy projects. Austin,...