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In the August 18-25 double issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 11): "What Bush Got Right." Fareed Zakaria assesses what President Bush has done right in American foreign policy that his successors might choose to emulate or continue. Plus: the jingoism of Chinese who return to the homeland after living overseas; Fannie, Freddie and the subprime mess that might have been avoided; an interview with T. Boone Pickens; and videogame players no longer on the margins of the industry. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 08/10/2008 10 Aug 2008 16:05 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK Cover: What Bush Got Right Fareed Zakaria Looks At President Bush's Successes In American Foreign Policy; 'Blanket Criticism Of Bush Misses An Important Reality' The Foreign Policies In Place Now 'Are More Sensible, Moderate And Mainstream. In Many Cases The Next President Should Follow Rather Than Reverse Them' NEW YORK, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A broad shift in America...

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In the June 16, 2008 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, June 9), "A New Kind of Recession," Senior Editor Daniel Gross and Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria explain why upbeat forecasts for a quick economic turnaround were wrong and what can pull us out of this financial crisis. Plus: Barack Obama and John McCain's shortlists for vice president, the bizarre side of the Gitmo trial, Tufts University's Nerd Girls and the latest mercenary videogame, Metal Gear Solid 4. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 8 Jun 2008 17:18 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK Cover: A New Kind of Recession Changing Our Approach in Handling the Current Financial Crisis Will Be Key to Turning Economy Around Despite Optimism, Employment Rates, Oil Prices and Market Drops Indicate a Quick Economic Turnaround is Not Likely NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Hopes for a quick economic turnaround were essentially dashed on Friday when the Labor Department reported that Amer...

18 May 2008 18:54 Africa/Lagos Democratic National Committee Must Read: McCain Vs. Lobbyists WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just days after at least four McCain campaign aides resigned, three of whom after news reports revealed that their lobbying groups had worked on behalf of the repressive regime in Myanmar and the energy lobby, a new report shows that McCain's problems with lobbyists are not over. According to Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, McCain's "finance co-chair Tom Loeffler['s] ... lobbying firm has collected nearly $15 million from Saudi Arabia since 2002 and millions more from other foreign and corporate interests." Another McCain aide, finance director Susan Nelson, was paid $ 15,000 a month by Loeffler's firm while she was on the campaign payroll even though "Federal election law prohibits any outside entity from subsidizing the income of campaign workers." Time and again, McCain demonstrates that his calls for higher et...

The May 5, 2008 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 28), "Obama's Bubba Gap," examines how Barack Obama's opponents are tapping into Americans' fear of the "other" and painting him as an out-of-touch elitist. The cover package also includes essays on how race and class are playing out on the campaign trail. Plus: Bill Clinton's gaffes; a Texas town's fight against the proposed border fence; how climate change may wreak havoc on agriculture and the Mother's Day gift guide. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 04/27/2008 27 Apr 2008 16:25 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: Obama's Bubba Gap Deep Rooted Race and Class Issues are Changing the 'Hope' Election to a 'Fear' Election Wary of His Wide Appeal, Opponents are Painting Obama as an Out-of-Touch 'Elitist' NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- There was a time, not so long ago, when the advisers to John McCain worried about running against...

The April 14, 2008 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 7), "Who's the Greenest of Them All?" finds out where the presidential candidates stand on the environment and what's keeping environmental groups from endorsing one of them. The cover package also includes the top 10 fixes for the planet; Dan Gross on what Iceland can teach the world and how Major League Baseball is going green. Plus: the popularity of parent coaching and Julie Andrews on her new memoir. (PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 04/06/2008 6 Apr 2008 17:01 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: Who's The Greenest of Them All? Growing Public Concern Over Environment Will Put Pressure on Next President to Rethink America's Policy on Global Warming Environmental Groups Still Undecided on Which Candidate has Strongest Ideas on Tackling Green Issues NEW YORK, April, 6, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- If the United States wants to have a voice in setting the new course of energy and te...

The April 7, 2008 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 31), "Womb for Rent." Newsweek explores the often-misunderstood practice of surrogacy and the reasons why it is on the rise in United States, especially among military wives. Plus: the two sides of John McCain, the crusader and the pragmatist; Barack Obama's record and stance on affirmative action; why poor Afghani girls are becoming opium brides; and a review of Martin Scorsese's film, "Shine a Light" about the Rolling Stones. (PRNewsFoto/Newsweek) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 03/30/2008 30 Mar 2008 18:07 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK Cover: Womb for Rent Number of Surrogate Mothers on the Rise in the United States Controversy and Negative Stereotypes Do Not Deter Many Women from Helping Others And Themselves NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The concept of surrogacy is decried by conservative Christians, viewed as a form of prostitution by far-left feminists and debated by medical ethicists ...

23 Mar 2008 17:04 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: When 'Barry' Became Barack Newsweek Reconstructs Time When Obama Moved from Using 'Barry' to Formal Barack and Impact it Made on Him 'It was when I Made a Conscious Decision: I Want to Grow Up,' Obama Says NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- When Sen. Barack Obama moved from using the name Barry to Barack, his formal name, it was part of his almost lifelong quest for identity and belonging -- to figure out who he is, and how he fits into the larger American tapestry. Part black, part white, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, with family of different religious and spiritual backgrounds -- seen by others in ways he didn't see himself -- the young Barry was looking for solid ground. At Occidental College, he was feeling like he was at a "dead end," he tells Newsweek, "that somehow I needed to connect with something bigger than myself." (Newsweek: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080323/...

2 Mar 2008 15:31 Africa/Lagos [b]NEWSWEEK: COVER: Mr. Right, R.I.P. [/b] NEWSWEEK LOOKS AT WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.'S CONSERVATISM AND HOW IT'S FALLING APART TODAY DAVID BROOKS ON BUCKLEY: 'He changed the personality of conservatism.' MICHAEL GERSON: 'The loss to conservatism and to America is real ... Buckley Jr. leaves an unfilled spot where wit and joy once stood.' NEW YORK, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In the current issue of Newsweek, Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas looks at how William F. Buckley Jr. largely inspired and held together the conservative movement that is collapsing today. "He changed the personality of conservatism," New York Times columnist David Brooks tells Newsweek. "It had been sort of negative, and he made it smart and sophisticated and pushed out all these oddballs and created a movement." More recently, says Brooks, conservatism has "lost something." In the conservatism spawned by talk radio and TV, the hater...

Brian Leubitz of Calitics.com, Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft.com and David Oatney of The World According to Oatney have been invited to join Newsweek's politics blog, The Ruckus . More details .

NEWSWEEK PHOTO: The Sunni Civil War. 3 Dec 2007 21:13 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, December 10, 2007 Issue COVER: Inside Putin's Circle. (Atlantic and Latin America editions). Moscow Bureau Chief Owen Matthews and Special Correspondent Anna Nemtsova report that Russia's real politics happens in and around the Kremlin, and it's a ruthless battle for money and influence. As Vladimir Putin prepares to step down (as he's constitutionally obliged to do), the clans that control the power of the Russian state are maneuvering frantically to protect their business empires-and, in some cases, their lives. Matthews and Nemtsova also report that the battle also involves ideological disagreements on economic and foreign policy, disagreements that will determine whether Russia emerges as a more or less autocratic, more or less open to free markets and Western influence. http://www.newsweek.com/id/73233 (Photo: http://www.newsco...

25 Nov 2007 18:17 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: Rudy's Roots How Growing Up in a Family of Cops and Hoods Shaped Giuliani's Moral Universe NEW YORK, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In the December 3 Newsweek cover "Rudy's Roots" (on newsstands Monday, November 26), a team of correspondents look at presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's background and influences that explain his moral code, which is at once rigid (in public) and flexible (in private life). Click here for the High Resolution Photograph As Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley write, on the one hand, Giuliani has been a crusader against outlaw policemen, as well as mobsters, pornographers, drug dealers, crooked businessmen and politicians and death-dealing jihadists. He now offers himself as the presidential candidate who would deliver us from evil, from terrorism abroad and corruption at home. On the other hand, he was the man who appointed Bernard Kerik, now under indictm...

NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, OCT. 15, 2007 Issue COVER: Biology Reborn. (All overseas editions). In recent months, a perfect storm of new technology and research has blown apart 20th-century dogma in the fields of biology and genetics, writes Lee Silver, a professor of molecular biology at Princeton. He writes that many scientists now believe that heredity is the result of an incredibly complex interplay among the basic components of the genome, scattered among many different genes and even the vast stretches of "junk DNA" once thought to serve no purpose. The result of this seemingly modest conceptual breakthrough has been a torrent of new discoveries. Scientists around the world have identified alterations in the sequence of DNA that play causative roles in a range of common diseases, including types 1 and 2 diabetes; schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; glaucoma; inflammatory bowel disease; rheumatoid arthritis; hypertension; restless legs syndro...

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In the July 16 Newsweek cover "Black & White" (on newsstands Monday, July 9), Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and Correspondent Daren Briscoe report on whether Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who wants to be the nation's first black president, can appeal to both black and white, while still being true to himself. Obama faces many challenges in what he calls his "improbable candidacy," but few are as complex or emotional as the politics of race. World Exclusive: NEWSWEEK Cover: Black & White on Barack Obama