Recently added articles from Newsweek:
Is There a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?(Culture; Back Story)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; Kelley, Raina ... Byline: Raina Kelley Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. But anger isn't the half of it--as David Letterman may now be learning. Here are the five stages through which Mrs. Letterman can expect to travel, in the words of other aggrieved helpmates who've been there. ...
Freed at Last.(International)(Maziar Bahari)
Nov 02, 2009; Dickey, Christopher ... Byline: Christopher Dickey After 118 days in captivity, Maziar Bahari returns home. Day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari did not see the face of his ...
Atlas Hugged.(Culture; Books)('Atlas Shrugged' and 'The Fountainhead')(Book review)
Nov 02, 2009; Sanford, Mark ... Byline: Mark Sanford; Sanford is the governor of South Carolina. In my experience, people who've read Ayn Rand's books either love them or hate them. I'm one of the few who fall somewhere in between. When I first read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s, I was blown ...
In The Beginning Was the Word -- Now Come the Drawings.(Culture; Art)
Nov 02, 2009; Jones, Malcolm ... Byline: Malcolm Jones For the better part of the Christian era in Western civilization, illustrating scenes from the Bible was not a job for artists. It was the job. As late as the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and their wannabes spent their days illustrating ceilings and ...
Bear Chasers.(Culture; Music)(music group Grizzly Bear)
Nov 02, 2009; Schoemer, Karen ... Byline: Karen Schoemer If, like me, you're just getting hip to the Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear, you'd better check the mirror and wipe the giant L off your forehead. About a zillion cultural eons ago--well, in August--Grizzly Bear went from being just another hitless, ...
My Dinners with Jason.(Culture; Food)(Jason Epstein )
Nov 02, 2009; Reed, Julia ... Byline: Julia Reed Julie had Julia; I had Jason. I met Jason Epstein almost 25 years ago when I was sent to interview him for a rival newsmagazine. He was the legendary editorial director at Random House, a cofounder of both The New York Review of Books and the Library of ...
Hear Her Roar.(Business)(working women )
Nov 02, 2009; Foroohar, Rana ... Byline: Rana Foroohar and Susan H. Greenberg; With Anita Kirpalani in New York Working women are poised to become the biggest economic engine the world has ever known. It hasn't been easy to find a bright spot in the global economy for a couple of years now. Growth ...
'The Good Times Do End'.(Business)(Interview)
Nov 02, 2009; Smith, Richard M. ... Byline: Richard M. Smith The lead investigator into Enron's collapse on lessons learned. It's been eight years since Enron collapsed into bankruptcy, but memories linger in corporate boardrooms, where directors are charged with preventing a reprise of the ...
The Foundation for a New Prosperity.(Business)(Interview)
Nov 02, 2009; Reilly, Nick ... Byline: Nick Reilly The CEO of Avon on unleashing the economic potential of women worldwide. Over her decade-long run as CEO of Avon, Andrea Jung has not only turned the once ailing company around by tripling profits, but also has employed an unmatched force of women ...
Letters: 'Why College Should Take Only 3 Years'.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 02, 2009; ... In the name of saving money, a shortened education for all students is heralded as not only possible but prudent. The human psyche be damned! William G. Durden, President, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. My college made it difficult to graduate early. The loss of an ...
The Great American Ideological Crackup.(The Editor's Desk)
Nov 02, 2009; Meacham, Jon ... Byline: Jon Meacham Shortly after the 2004 presidential election, i was chatting with a senior figure in the Democratic Party when, inevitably, the talk turned to why John Kerry had lost. My interlocutor's theory of the case: the voters did not know the truth about George W ....
Hope Springs Eternal.(COVER STORY)(Cover story)
Nov 02, 2009; Quindlen, Anna ... Byline: Anna Quindlen ASSESSING A YOUNG PRESIDENCY: Barack Obama campaigned as a populist firebrand but governs like a cerebral consensus builder. The founding fathers wouldn't have it any other way. From time to time the American people participate in a mass ...
Timeline of President Obama's first year.(Politics)(Barack Obama)(Chronology)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... DEC. 1 Introduces National-Security team, including Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Robert Gates staying on as Secretary of Defense. JAN. 5, 2009 Chooses Leon Panetta to head CIA in surprise pick. JAN. 13 Threatens ...
The PDQ Presidency.(Politics)(Viewpoint essay)
Nov 02, 2009; Alter, Jonathan ... Byline: Jonathan Alter; Alter is at work on a book about Obama's first year. The oath of office notwithstanding, the Obama Presidency began Nov. 4--not Jan. 20. Election night 2008 went late in Chicago. Many campaign staffers who had spent two years helping Barack ...
Timeline of President Obama's first year.(Politics)(Chronology)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... MARCH 9 Lifts ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. MARCH 30 Rejects restructuring plans of auto giants GM and Chrysler, and announces incentives for consumers to buy cars. APRIL 12 Orders navy to kill Somali ...
How Will Michelle Obama Make Her Mark?(Politics)
Nov 02, 2009; Samuels, Allison ... Byline: Allison Samuels Military families, organic gardening, and a failed Olympic bid do not a lasting legacy make. Michelle Obama decided to go all in. Ever since her husband took office in January, the first lady has been cautious about the causes she embraced ....
Timeline of President Obama's first year.(Politics)(Chronology)(Brief article)
Nov 02, 2009; ... June 4 President Delivers major speech on conflict between Muslims and the West; asks for cooperation to end violent extremism. June 23 Publicly condemns government crackdown on demonstrators in Iran--after more than a week of protests. June 26 ...
The Dissident Who Came In From the Cold.(International)(Nikita Belykh)
Nov 02, 2009; Matthews, Owen ... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Nikita Belykh is radically remaking Russia's vast Kirov region. The country's democratic future may depend on his success. Dozens of villagers are lined up at the gates of the decrepit local boatyard on a breezy Saturday morning ...
'My Advice is Simple: We Have to Make Peace'.(International)(Shimon Peres)(Interview)
Nov 02, 2009; Weymouth, Lally ... Byline: Lally Weymouth The Israeli president on Iranian nukes and a lasting agreement. Israel's presidency is supposed to be a ceremonial post. But at 86, Shimon Peres remains one of the most well-respected and influential figures in the country, frequently consulted ...
'My Preoccupation Now is This Plan'.(International)(Salam Fayyad )(Interview)
Nov 02, 2009; Weymouth, Lally ... Byline: Lally Weymouth The Palestinian prime minister on building the institutions of self-government. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has taken to heart the example of the early Zionists, who built institutions before Israel was declared a state in 1948. He ...
