Recently added articles from Newsweek:
Is the Coalition Still Willing?(Back Story)(report on military troops withdrawn)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; ... Byline: Research by Nick Summers Sources: Brookings Institution, Globalsecurity.Org, Icasualties.Org Not anymore: effective Jan. 1, the Multi-National Force-Iraq will be rechristened the United States Forces-Iraq. The last of our 38 allies pulled out in July, but even at peak ...
'Up in the Air': Where the Child Things Aren't.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen According to the usual Hollywood script, Jason Reitman's Up in the Air should not be coming to a theater near you--or anywhere else. It's exactly the kind of film the big studios don't want to make anymore: a mid-budget ($25 million), hard-to-classify ...
'Me and Orson Welles': The Boy-Wonder Years.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Mccarter, Jeremy ... Byline: Jeremy Mccarter It must have seemed that black had turned white and upside had turned down when Orson Welles, a man used to being praised as the youngest this and most brilliant that, began to hear himself mocked as "an international joke" and "the youngest living ...
'The Lovely Bones': To Heaven and Back.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen If anybody could bring The Lovely Bones to the screen, Peter Jackson would seem a perfect fit. The director of the worldly Heavenly Creatures (teenage girls, murder) and the otherworldly Lord of the Rings certainly has a vision broad enough to encompass both ...
'Invictus': A Whole New Ballgame.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen A number of sports movies have one-word titles (Rocky, Hoosiers), but they're not usually in Latin. Clint Eastwood's Invictus is not your ordinary sports movie, though it comes to a rousing climax at the 1995 Rugby World Cup match between South Africa and New ...
'Crazy Heart': Bridges Bares His Twangs.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen Once a headlining Country and Western star, Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is now lucky to get a gig at a bowling alley in Pueblo, Colo., which is where we first meet him in Crazy Heart. At a grizzled 57, he's a broke, chain--smoking alcoholic with four marriages ...
'The Last Station': Down for the Count.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, and Christopher Plummer offer a grand display of acting fireworks in The Last Station, writer-director Michael Hoffman's juicy account of the fraught final year of Count Leo Tolstoy's life. The tale depicts a tug of war over ...
'Brothers' - PTSD: The Film.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Setoodeh, Ramin ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh By Ramin Setoodeh The jury might still be out on what to do in Afghanistan, but the public has spoken on war movies: nobody buys tickets to them anymore. It's a good thing that Hollywood hasn't seemed to notice (or care), because this year ...
'A Single Man': Gucci Goo.(Culture; Movies)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Ansen, David ... Byline: David Ansen Making his debut as a movie director, the fashion designer Tom Ford has ambitiously chosen to adapt Christopher Isherwood's masterly 1964 short novel A Single Man. In its day, the book was quietly revolutionary in its matter-of-fact depiction of a fateful day ...
Apocalypse Now.(Culture; Movies)(The Road)(Movie review)
Dec 07, 2009; Setoodeh, Ramin ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh There are grim movies, and then there are movies that should list the Grim Reaper in the credits. No Country for Old Men, the 2007 Oscar-winning drama, falls into the latter category, but it's as cuddly as a hamster compared with The Road, the latest ...
November 30, 2009 '118 Days in Hell'.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Dec 07, 2009; ... 118 Days in Hell Public and behind-the-scenes pressure clearly led to Bahari's release. Why aren't the media and State Department doing the same for U.S. citizens held overseas? Rayner Colton Brooklyn, N.Y. Maziar Bahari's article reminds me of the tale of Rubashov ...
Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012.(Editorial)
Dec 07, 2009; Meacham, Jon ... Byline: Jon Meacham Gallup is not asking about him in its prospective polling, and his daughter Liz's recent Fox News Sunday allusion to a presidential run provoked good-natured laughter, as though the suggestion were just a one-liner. Float the hypothetical in political ...
The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care.(Health)(Cleveland Clinic)
Dec 07, 2009; Adler, Jerry ... Byline: Jerry Adler And Jeneen Interlandi Cleveland Clinic is both highly effective and fiercely efficient. So why are its methods so rare? The Cleveland Clinic, where president Obama went in July to see high-quality, cost-efficient medicine in action, has ...
Abortion's New Battleground.(Politics)(on health care legislation)
Dec 07, 2009; Marcus, Ruth ... Byline: Ruth Marcus; Marcus is a columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post. Will pro-choice Democrats kill health-care reform? Probably not--and that's a good thing. In the end, I predict, their bluff won't be called. Abortion-rights supporters have ...
Triumph of the Turks.(International)
Dec 07, 2009; Matthews, Owen ... Byline: Owen Matthews and Christopher Dickey; With Sami Kohen in Istanbul Turkey is the surprising beneficiary of our misadventures in the Middle East. Archibald Wavell himself could scarcely have imagined how horribly accurate his prediction would prove to be ....
An Empire at Risk.(COVER STORY)(United States economy)(Cover story)
Dec 07, 2009; Ferguson, Niall ... Byline: Niall Ferguson; Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard and the author of The Ascent of Money. We won the cold war and weathered 9/11. But now economic weakness is endangering our global power. Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal ...
Perspectives.(celebrity quotes)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; ... Byline: Sources, clockwise from top left: CNBC, People, AP, Haaretz, New York Times (2) 'It was facial lacerations -- nothing that serious.' Windermere, Fla., Mayor Gary Bruhn, on the condition of Tiger Woods, who was hospitalized after he drove into a fire hydrant and a tree. ...
Dangerous 'Sarkonomics' in France.(Scope; InternationaList)(Nicolas Sarkozy's economic policy)
Dec 07, 2009; McNicoll, Tracy ... Byline: Tracy McNicoll Nicolas Sarkozy, known for co-opting opponents and leaping left to right, has one of the finest political minds of his generation. But you can't say the same about his economic savvy. The French president has a habit of putting the economy at the mercy of ...
Brazil Pays the Poor.(Scope; InternationaList)(economic growth)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; Margolis, Mac ... Byline: Mac Margolis Brazil has become an unlikely leader in the global campaign against poverty. Since 2002, some 27 million Brazilians have climbed up to middle-income status, and inequality has fallen steeply. Most remarkably, the world economic crisis has not derailed this ...
A Supreme Loss of Faith In Iran.(Scope)(Islamic Republic of Iran)(Brief article)
Dec 07, 2009; Abdo, Geneive ... Byline: Geneive Abdo; Abdo is a fellow at the Century Foundation and editor of InsideIran.org. With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad securely in power, Iranian reformists have clearly lost the battle for Iran's presidency. Yet they could yet win the larger battle against Ayatollah Ali ...
