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NEWSWEEK Media Lead Sheet/March 24, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:02:38 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/MARCH 24, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, March 17). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859-LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com-or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078-Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: "The Petraeus Generation" (p. 29). Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh and Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas report that five years after the war in Iraq began, Gen. David Petraeus has changed the way his officers think and the way the U.S. Army fights. "You can't kill your way out of an insurgency," Petraeus told Newsweek, in an interview in his Baghdad headquarters last month. The objective, he repeats over and over, is no longer to take a hill or storm a citadel, but to win over the people. Young officers have learned, often on their own, operating with unprecedented independence, the intricacies of Muslim cultures. It is hard to overstate the achievement of this Petraeus Generation of officers, but their success is terribly fragile. While the skills these American officers have gained are critical in murky conflicts like Iraq, they are not universally valued or trusted within the Pentagon. Also features officer profiles. With Baghdad Correspondent Larry Kaplow.

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THE MONEY CULTURE: "Mismanagement 101" (p. 22). Senior Editor and Columnist Daniel Gross writes the greenback last week hit new lows against foreign currencies. The dollar is so sad, we should consider renaming it the dolor. "At some level, the dollar's woes reflect the world's collective verdict on the ability of the United States-businesses, individuals, the government, the Federal Reserve-to manage the global financial system and the world's largest economy," he writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123469

THE MILITARY: "The Fight Over How to Fight" (p. 38). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and National Security Correspondent John Barry report on the challenge facing the world's greatest superpower at the beginning of the 21st century. The American military must continue to ready itself for high-tech warfare; it must still be able to fight "big wars" against rising powers like China. At the same time, it must anticipate what military planners blandly term "low-intensity conflict." The tension over which war to prepare for has created a generational divide in the American military, particularly the U.S. Army, between old bulls who want to focus on all-out combat and young upstarts who believe firepower is not enough.

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INTERNATIONAL: "Bottom of the Barrel" (p. 42). Hong Kong Bureau Editor George Wehrfritz and Special Correspondents Erika Kinetz and Jonathan Kent report that millions of Asian workers producing goods sold in the U.S. are trapped in servitude. Some of the world's leading computer makers don't want you to know about Local Technic Industry. It's a typical Malaysian company: sleazy labor brokers outside the country tricked the workers into paying huge placement fees for jobs that yield a net income close to zero. And they can't quit, even if they find out the very brokers who brought them have cheated them. Malaysian law requires guest workers to sign multiple-year contracts and surrender their passports to their employers.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123481

POLITICS: "Unintended Consequences" (p. 47). Investigative Correspondents Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff report on how the fine print of the Patriot Act snagged Eliot Spitzer and the odd connection between the anti-terror law and Spitzer's trysts with call girls illustrates how laws enacted for one purpose often end up being used very differently once they're on the books.

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"The Deep Blue Divide" (p. 49). Senior Editor Julia Baird reports that for many Democrats, what started out as a glowing opportunity for a historic presidency has become a depressing display of division and anger trumping reason. Because the policy differences between Clinton and Obama are minor, the debate is not about substance; it's been mainly about character and identity in a contest between a black man and a white woman. Historians insist that intraparty bitterness is nothing new. But growing anger about perceived racism and sexism is souring what was once excitement.

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"Trying Times for Trinity" (p. 50). Senior Editor Lisa Miller reports that in the context of Trinity United Church of Christ's South Side neighborhood, the church and its messenger-Rev. Jeremiah Wright-were rarely controversial. But now, in the larger context of Barack Obama's run for the Democratic nomination, they are. Otis Moss III, Trinity's new young and charismatic pastor says the press has mischaracterized the church; it is "very much in the traditional vein of the African-American church. Caring for seniors, loving our young people and the focus on Christ and the cross is central to this church."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123604

REPORT FROM THE FRONT: "'I Have A Very Deep Well of Empathy'" (p. 52). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman interviews independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader about why he's running for office and if Clinton and Obama will begin pulling troops out of Iraq immediately. "I don't believe Obama and Clinton, that they want to get out of Iraq and they actually will get out of Iraq ... There is no way, given their behavior in the Senate, which is about all we can predict from," Nader tells Newsweek.

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POLITICS: "Foreign Battleground" (p. 54). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh reports that both the Clinton and Obama camps have exaggerated their claims against the other on foreign policy issues, a mutual bloodletting that can only benefit John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123488

BUSINESS: "Making Airline Travel Feel Less Like Torture" (p. 56). National Correspondent Daniel McGinn reports that airlines have embarked on a wave of upgrades, many of which include innovative new kinds of seating, installing ever-more-cushy seats to keep their biggest-spending customers flying.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123470

"A Penny Saved Is a Penny Spent" (p. 58). Washington Correspondent Eve Conant reports that as talk of recession and belt-tightening makes headlines, there is a generation (which includes her, age 36) that racks up debt the way previous generations used to squirrel away pennies. An upcoming study by the Journal of Consumer Research finds that people ages 18 to 40 are most likely to say they're spending beyond their comfort range.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123471

SPORTS: "In Defense of Cheering" (p. 62). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports that competitive cheerleaders are more like extreme athletes: daredevil adrenaline junkies who often perform exhausted or hurt and love their sport with an addict's devotion. And unlike more-revered athletes-such as football players or even gymnasts-cheerleaders have to contend with lack of respect from their peers and frequent mockery.

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MEDICINE: "Mysteries and Complications" (p. 64). Senior Writer Claudia Kalb reports that the culture of autism is hitting prime time and federal courts. Passions about autism are running higher than ever. Despite its high profile, however, autism is one of the most complicated neurological disorders known.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/123474

TIP SHEET: "No Buddha Required" (p. 71). Special Correspondent Tina Peng looks at some of the new offerings, as well as some of the classics, to begin studying meditation techniques. "Recent studies have shown meditation can yield a host of health benefits, from increased concentration to some relief from depression," she writes. "And it can be surprisingly easy to get started."

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Newsweek Media Lead Sheet/March 17, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:21:34 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/MARCH 17, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, March 10). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “Hear Her Roar” (p. 28). Newsweek examines gender, class and Hillary Clinton in its cover package that includes essays from Newsweek writers and beyond on the complex feelings Hillary stirs in many women. Author Tina Brown writes in a guest essay that, “Hillary’s appeal to the boomer gals is wider and deeper” than the gender wars of the past. “It’s a revolt that has been overdue for a while and has now found its focus in Clinton’s candidacy,” writes Brown, who spent time on the road with the Clinton campaign. Among the other voices featured is Monica Crowley, a nationally syndicated radio host and panelist on “The McLaughlin Group,” who offers advice from the conservative right.

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“The Legacy of My Grandmother” (p. 31). National Correspondent Allison Samuels writes that while some of her “more socially progressive girlfriends have expressed surprise and dismay” that she has no particular allegiance to Hillary Clinton, for her grandmother, “being a woman in control wasn’t something she had the luxury of deciding to fight for. She just was.” Samuels notes that in her grandmother’s lifetime—as well as her mother’s and, to some extent, hers—“race, not gender, has been the defining narrative.”

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“Sorry, Hillary, But Girls Already Rule” (p. 32). Reporter Sarah Kliff writes that Barack Obama’s mobilization of the youth vote doesn’t surprise her. But what shocks her is “how thoroughly uncool it is to back Hillary and how her twentysomething supporters are regularly put on the defensive for having the audacity to vote against hope, change and revolution.”

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“Push Us Around At Your Peril” (p. 33). Newsweek.com Editor Deidre Depke writes on whether the press is really ganging up on Clinton. “If Hillary Clinton hopes to be president, the answer had better be yes. Voters young and old—particularly women—have rallied to her side when what they see as the drumbeat of anti-Clinton rhetoric beats loudest,” she writes. “It was a bit by ‘Saturday Night Live’ guest host Tina Fey and Clinton impersonator Amy Poehler that helped send the sisterhood to the polls, armed and outraged.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/120068

“Scenes From a Tea for Two” (p. 34). Contributing Editor Eleanor Clift writes that she recognizes that Hillary’s in the fight of her life, “But I’m having a hard time with her campaign tactics. When she airily dismisses Barack Obama as someone who just makes a speech, she’s insulting all the people who are drawn to him, including many who support her.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/120074

“Lessons Learned From Last Time” (p. 36). Chief of Correspondents Mark Miller writes that little has changed since the many, often contradictory public narratives of Hillary Clinton were first set in 1992. “I thought then and believe today that Hillary Clinton is such a vexing public figure largely because she is a woman in the transitional generation that dramatically challenged gender roles and assumptions that led to the post-feminist world in which we now live,” he writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/120072

“Forced to Choose Under Pressure” (p. 38). Associate Editor Raina Kelley writes about the pressure she feels as a black woman. “As just one registered voter out of millions, why do I have to tell everyone I know who I am voting for? I cannot help but feel that my character hangs in the balance.”

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“It’s not Her. It’s That Marriage” (p. 38). Senior Editor Lisa Miller examines whether what America wants in a First Marriage is something more mythic than real. “Much of the hesitance I hear about Hillary in my (admittedly small) circles is a hesitance over seeing that marriage (say it in irritated italics) back in the White House for four or eight more years,” she writes.

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“Am I Betraying the ‘Sisterhood’?” (p. 39). Associate Editor Jessica Bennett writes that for her and her college friends Hillary is no longer the candidate of inspiration. She—like nearly every other young person she knows—has been sold on the Obama rock-star brand. “Yet while the fear of betraying the ‘universal sisterhood’ doesn’t have the same impact for twentysomething women as it does for our second-wave feminist mothers, we remain conflicted about the candidate so many love to hate,” she writes.

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THE TECHNOLOGIST: “Gone, Without a Trace” (p. 25). Senior Editor Steven Levy explores the downside of technology’s trend toward smaller and smaller devices, after throwing away his MacBook Air with the newspapers.

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BETWEEN THE LINES: “My Mother’s Painful Quandary” (p. 40). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes about the “excruciatingly painful” choice facing his mother, now 80, this political year as she tries to decide between Clinton and Obama, both of whom she has met. Her “dilemma is bound up in her own history in the women’s movement and in the brutal world of Chicago politics. But it’s also representative of the conflicting feelings experienced by some of the older women who make up Hillary’s most committed base. In that sense, she’s a Democratic Everymom,” he writes.

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POLITICS: “Always Their Own Worst Enemies” (p. 41). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas, National Correspondent Martha Brant and San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau report that big reason behind Hillary Clinton’s dramatic comeback against Barack Obama last week was the “red phone” ad. In the latest Newsweek Poll, when voters were asked “Who would you most trust to answer the phone at 3 a.m.?,” 45 percent answered John McCain, 27 percent said Hillary Clinton and 18 percent chose Barack Obama. Of course, it is impossible for voters to truly know how a presidential candidate will respond to a crisis in the Oval Office. But there are clues in Hillary Clinton’s background.

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LIVING POLITICS: “The Pennsylvania Polka” (p. 43). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that “Hillary Clinton begins the Pennsylvania political polka with a lead,” and if Obama wants to win he “has to contest the primary with all his might, even at the risk of a fight with Clinton that leaves them both damaged for the fall.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/120170

POLITICS Q&A: “‘A Common Experience’” (p. 44). National Correspondent Suzanne Smalley interviews Hillary Clinton, fresh off her wins in Texas and Ohio, about her relationship with women voters, her comeback strategy and why her candidacy is good for the Democratic Party. “We both have strong constituencies. I think my constituencies are broader and deeper and more likely to produce winning margins in the general election. But [Obama] also has obviously energized African-American voters, young voters, and we need to bring them together. We need to have a unified Democratic Party because we’re going to win in November,” Clinton tells Newsweek.

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TIP SHEET: “Get Ready for Digital” (p. 66). Special Correspondent Cathy Lu offers tips to help consumers navigate and prepare for the 2009 transition from analog to digital television transmission. “The good news,” she writes, “is that the majority of couch potatoes will be unaffected when the switchover occurs.”

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NEWSWEEK Media Lead Sheet - March 10, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:32:14 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/MARCH 10, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, March 3). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “Mr. Right, R.I.P.” (p. 27). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas looks at how William F. Buckley Jr., who died last week at 82, largely inspired and held together the conservative movement that is collapsing today. “He changed the personality of conservatism,” says New York Times columnist David Brooks. “It had been sort of negative, and he made it smart and sophisticated and pushed out all these oddballs and created a movement,” Brooks continues. Social conservatives tend to be a gloomy lot because they have a dark view of human nature…But Buckley was as sunny and hopeful. He believed that if government would just leave man alone, the human spirit would triumph, Thomas writes. Also in a guest essay, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, looks at Buckley from the world of the left.

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“Where We Go From Here” (p. 35). Contributor Michael Gerson writes, “Excessive mourning is inappropriate when a good man dies full of years and honors. But the loss to conservatism and to America is real. The departure of William F. Buckley Jr. leaves an unfilled spot where wit and joy once stood.” The speechwriter and policy adviser to President Bush continues that, “Buckley knew that politics, above all, is the realm of ideas, not merely tactics and power. For conservatives, those ideas do not change with time and circumstance.”

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THE MONEY CULTURE: “The Unspeakable R Word” (p. 24). Senior Editor and Columnist Daniel Gross writes that in recent weeks, abundant evidence has pointed to a recession—a broad-based contraction of economic activity—from rising unemployment claims to the continued pain in housing. But “Wall Street economists, whose employers have been experiencing their own private recession since last summer, haven’t shrunk from using the R word,” Gross writes. “But in certain quarters of Washington, euphemism and understatement, verging on outright denial, are par for the course.”

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MEDIA: “The Myth of Objectivity” (p. 36). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes that while there is a tendency among politicians to blame all their woes on the press, the press’s impact on elections is murky. “The mainstream media are prejudiced, but not ideologically. The press’s real bias is for conflict…It is the human drama that most compels our attention. The voters will take it all in (or not). And then make up their own minds.” With National Correspondent Suzanne Smalley.

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BETWEEN THE LINES: “How Much Change Is Change?” (p. 39). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes “The 2008 presidential campaign has featured rising expectations of real change, especially if Obama makes it all the way. It’s not too early to begin to think about what, exactly, this change would mean. How would we define it? How would Obama execute it? Two years from now, will we know if we’ve achieved it?”

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POLITICS: “Man in the Middle” (p. 40). Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball offers a guide to the facts and faces in the case of Antoin (Tony) Rezko, a prominent real-estate developer and power broker, as Federal prosecutors in Chicago are set to begin laying out evidence in a corruption case and his connection to Barack Obama. With Chicago Correspondent Karen Springen.

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INTERNATIONAL: “China’s New Empty Nest” (p. 41). Beijing Bureau Chief Melinda Liu reports that an aging Chinese population is transforming the family as more kids are leaving their hometowns—even the country—in search of jobs. Although for centuries in China, boys were considered the best form of social security, now many young couples are rethinking the meaning of family and now say they prize daughters over sons for their loyalty.

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BUSINESS: “Arab–America’s Store” (p. 42). Midwest Bureau Chief Keith Naughton reports that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, hopes to attract Arab-American shoppers when it opens a store this week, like no other among its 3,500 U.S. outlets, in Dearborn, Michigan—home to the largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East. Wal-Mart’s Arab-American emporium provides a preview of the retail giant’s latest strategy to boost business as it reaches the saturation point in its American expansion.

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WASHINGTON: “C’mon and Be A Bureaucrat” (p. 43). Reporter Tony Dokoupil reports on the government’s intensifying effort to recruit a new generation of civil servants —and busting the “myths” of government work— amid the biggest hiring crisis in U.S. government history. With more federal employees expected to retire in 2008 than in any previous year, many agencies are flashing unprecedented signing bonuses and scholarships to attract new talent. But despite these enticements the U.S. struggles to woo a generation of young people who see a more productive and lucrative future in the private sector.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117856

TRAGEDY: “How Grim Is My Valley” (p. 44). Chief Foreign Correspondent Rod Nordland reports on the epidemic of young suicides sweeping the South Wales coal-mining town, Bridgend. The only link among the suicide victims seems to be popular social-networking Web sites like Bebo, where most and possibly all of the Bridgend victims were members. Many of the victims posted messages on the public memorial pages of those who preceded them in suicide.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117749

SOCIETY: “Extinction Trade” (p. 47). Science Columnist Sharon Begley reports that endangered animals are the new blood diamonds as militias and warlords use poaching to fund death. The State Department and some members of Congress suspect a link between illegal wildlife trafficking and terrorism, but admit that, “the evidence is anecdotal,” says Claudia McMurray, assistant secretary of State.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117875

PROFILE: “East Side Story” (p. 51). Senior Editor Malcolm Jones reviews Richard Price’s latest novel, “Lush Life.” While it may look like a murder story it’s really a tough guy’s love letter to the old neighborhood—the Lower East Side. “Lush Life” is a beautiful novel that gets in your face and under your skin. Tough-minded and tender, often in the same paragraph, it is very much a city boy’s tale, a book-length and ultimately very heartfelt love letter to a dangerous, beguiling place,” Jones writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117830

BOOKS: “Lo Mein Street, U.S.A.” (p. 56). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports that although Americans love Chinese food, in her book “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,” Jennifer 8. Lee says the irony is that much of what we think of as Chinese food isn’t Chinese at all. Chop suey is an American creation. Fortune cookies were invented in Japan. The cuisine’s appeal lies in its dual nature: Chinese food is at once regional and universal, foreign and familiar.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/117833

TIP SHEET: “Loose Lips Sink Shifts” (p. 59). General Editor Anna Kuchment offers tips on how to navigate your company’s rumor mill —separate the good from the bad, learn to deflect, set a time limit, don’t over-share and never gossip by email—and use them to your advantage.

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Media Lead Sheet/February 4, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:29 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/FEBRUARY 4, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, January 28). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “Road to Recession” (p. 39). Senior Writer Daniel Gross looks at the signs that are pointing to a recession in America and whether or not that will pull the rest of world down with it. A recession is defined as a widespread contraction in economic activity lasting more than a few months, and because of the lag in financial data, recessions typically aren’t officially declared until long after they start. In short, the U.S. could already be in one. “Though world markets stabilized by late last week, buoyed by the Fed’s rate-cut action and a proposed stimulus package of $150 billion that was hastily cobbled together by leaders in the House of Representatives and President Bush, the question remains: how ugly will it get, and when will it end?” Gross writes.

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POLITICS: “Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” (p. 24). Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley, with a team of Newsweek correspondents, reports on the impact former president Bill Clinton may be having on his wife’s presidential campaign. He claims the feuding between Barack Obama and his wife is media-driven and he’s right, for now at least. The voting public seems less interested in the feuding than do the pundits. But whether Clinton’s attacks are part of some grand campaign strategy is almost beside the point. He is an unstoppable force of nature, a keenly intuitive politician who is not going to be part of someone’s strategic plan unless it’s his own, and even then he’ll roar off in a different direction if his mood or his instincts move him.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105679

“Here an F.O.B., There an F.O.B.” (p. 30). Investigative Correspondents Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report on some of former president Bill Clinton’s business ties and whether they may have an impact on Hillary’s campaign. Bill Clinton is a private citizen and does not have to disclose most details about his charitable and business ventures. But his private dealings raise inevitable questions about who might come seeking favors if he and Hillary move back into the White House.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105650

POLITICS: “A Complete and Utter Buzz Kill” (p. 29). White House Correspondent Holly Bailey reports on the short presidential campaign of Fred Thompson. In July, Thompson gave a series of speeches that flopped and he raised about $2 million less than he’d hoped. By August, he had gone through three campaign managers.

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INTERVIEW: Presidential candidate Barack Obama (p. 32). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter talks to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama about the campaign. Alter asks him about what Bill Clinton called the “contact sport” of politics. “It’s not my preference. Do you remember when [Michael] Jordan’s Bulls were playing the Detroit Pistons? They had the ‘Jordan Rules’ [defense] ... But until the Bulls learned to push back, it was going to be hard for them to win. It’s not something I shy away from, but not something I relish. We’re not going to back down.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105568

“Everything to Everyone” (p. 33). Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores reports that as the Democratic nominating contest barrels toward Feb. 5, the stark racial divide between blacks and Hispanics appears to be hardening. Clinton’s support among Latino voters has always been stronger than Obama’s, and until recently she was also leading among African-Americans. Since Obama’s victory in Iowa, however, blacks have coalesced behind him, perhaps realizing his candidacy is viable. While many commentators have dwelled on racial tension between the two groups, in reality, the divide has more to do with the candidates’ inherent appeal and the effectiveness of their outreach.

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“I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore” (p. 36). Society Editor Julia Baird reviews a new book of essays about Hillary Clinton titled “Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers.” The essays—written mostly by New York intellectuals—dissect Clinton’s femininity, sexuality, clothes, mothering, marriage, mystique and, of course, likability. Or, more precisely, why so many educated, middle-class women have a visceral response to her. Imagine if men wrote a book about Clinton containing this kind of minutiae—the same women would turn and savage them for trivializing her.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105568

INTERVIEW: Afghan President Hamid Karzai (p. 47). Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Lally Weymouth talks to Karzai about Pakistan and his country’s relationship with Iran. “We have had a particularly good relationship with Iran the past six years,” Karzai says. “It’s a relationship that I hope will continue. We have opened our doors to them. They have been helping us in Afghanistan. The United States very wisely understood that it was our neighbor and encouraged that relationship.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105561

INTERVIEW: Israeli Defense Chief Ehud Barak (p. 48). Barak tells Weymouth that he was critical of the interpretation of the recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran because, “We think that they are quite advanced, much beyond the level of the Manhattan Project … They are clearly developing missiles, and there is no reason to develop missiles that can fly 1,500 miles if you just want to … it’s usually for unconventional warheads.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105562

PROJECT GREEN: “The Chemicals Within” (p. 50). Correspondent Anne Underwood reports on the number of household products that contain chemical compounds that could be affecting our health. A report released in November found that typical Americans carry traces of potentially hazardous classes of compounds found in common household products like shampoo and upholstery. Their presence doesn’t necessarily indicate a health risk. But the shocking thing is that we really don’t know the health effects of many of the chemicals on the market today, Underwood reports.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105588

CULTURE: “Rise of the Real People” (p. 58). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports on a trend in fashion where bloggers are showing clothes worn by real people around the world. Fashion-industry folks say the trend of using real people to sell clothes attests to a fatigue with skinny, expressionless models in ads and on runways. As proof, they point to the negative publicity surrounding the painfully thin models at last spring’s Fashion Week.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/105588

TIP SHEET: “A Recession Handbook” (p. 60). Contributing Editor Linda Stern offers some guidance on how to protect yourself from bad times: Protect your job. Stay visibly busy, says one New York headhunter. Protect your portfolio. Stick with your plan, and use Wall Street’s dismal days to cherry-pick bargain stocks for the next expansion. Don’t rush into bonds, make paying down your debts a priority, remind yourself that recessions are a normal part of a healthy economic cycle, and resist panic.

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Media Lead Sheet - Jan. 28, 2008 Issu (on newsstands Monday, January 21)

Pressroom — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:16:17 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/JANUARY 28, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, January 21). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com. Please Note: Newsweek offices will be closed on Monday, January 21st for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

COVER: “The Party’s Over” (p. 22). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes that President Bush has left the GOP in a precarious state. But the party’s candidates can learn much from his failures. “It is too late to reinvent the party’s core beliefs,” writes Thomas. “But the GOP candidates can embark on a more humble mission: to show, in effect, some humility. By examining Bush’s hubris, his almost willful disregard for annoying counterarguments, the Republican candidates can demonstrate a greater level of critical open-mindedness and self-awareness—they can show that they are not deluded by wishful thinking and Manichaean narratives.” With White House Correspondent Holly Bailey, National Correspondent Suzanne Smalley, Washington Correspondent Pat Wingert and Correspondent Sarah Elkins.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96527

LIVING POLITICS: “Homeward Bound” (p. 27). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that the presidential candidates blew through Las Vegas “like conventioneers” in search of the big score in the Nevada caucuses. But as “one of America’s fastest growing metro areas, Las Vegas is now also the leader in mortgage foreclosures. A city built on faith in luck suddenly feels a little scared, as the dream of cheap loans for homes vanishes for the hotel employees who comprise the aspiring middle class,” he writes. Yet, the question remains “who has the right cards to deal with it?”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96528

POLITICS: “How My Party Lost Its Way” (p. 28). “A dispirited Republican Party struggles to find its post-Bush path,” Michael Gerson, the former senior adviser to President Bush and speechwriter, writes in a guest essay. “In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble. The party “became closely identified with President Bush—and President Bush became closely identified with Iraqi violence and chaos. The slow response to rising sectarian conflict in 2005 and 2006 left an impression of stubbornness in a losing cause,” he writes. “Now the frustrations of the last two or three years—the resentments of every group that has felt ignored, marginalized, helpless, slighted or unfairly blamed—are being taken out on the Republican presidential candidates. As each one of them steps forward from the crowd, he is greeted by ideological sniping.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96377

BOOK EXCERPT: “Fishing for a Way to Change the World” (p. 30). Newsweek excerpts the forthcoming book by Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg “The Bush Tragedy.” The book explores all the factors that contributed to President George W. Bush’s downfall, from his family to his circle of political advisers.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96372

FACING FACTS: “A Dispute Over the Dream” (p. 35). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes that “the angry tone of the campaigns reflected not just the tightening of the race, but also something considerably more emotional: the feeling by many supporters of both candidates [Clinton and Obama] that this campaign is about making history and that the other candidate stands in the way.” Cose, however, adds that few people he has spoken to thought race or gender would be the determining factor.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96026

POLITICS: “Careful What You Wish For” (p. 36). Newsweek’s political team reports that for the 2008 presidential candidates, getting elected may be the easy part. With a sluggish economy, an ailing health-care system, an immigration mess, the environment and foreign policy, the next president’s got issues. With Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores, Research/Reporter Sarah Kliff, Senior Editor Michael Hirsh, Senior Editor Daniel Gross, Correspondent Jennifer Barrett, Correspondent Jamie Reno and Senior Editor Jerry Adler.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96375

“Daring to Touch the Third Rail” (p. 39). National Correspondent Allison Samuels reports that, Michelle Obama—known as “The Closer”—hasn’t backed away from discussing race, thus becoming the point person in her husband’s campaign to reach the African-American vote. Understandably nervous about the safety of her husband, “I tell people something bad could happen, and I think about that. How could you not?” she tells Newsweek. “But something great could happen as well.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96446

THE MONEY CULTURE: “To the Rich, From America” (p. 17). Senior Editor and Columnist Daniel Gross writes in a letter to America’s wealthy, that despite tax breaks, cuts on the levies on dividends and capital gains, signs indicate that they are not doing their part to help the economy by spending in the U.S. “Just when the economy has started to take on water—and we don’t know if we’ve just sprung a leak or we’ve hit an iceberg—it seems like the wealthy are piling into the lifeboats. So consider this a plea not to abandon us…after all we’ve done for you, it’s the least you can do,” he writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96364

IRAQ: “The Great Moqtada Makeover” (p. 44). Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh reports that U.S. commanders are engaged in talks with Shiite militants for the first time since 2003 about “splitting the seams” within Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army—the Shiite militia—and working with moderates in the group to isolate the radicals, similar to the strategy adopted to tame the Sunni insurgency. Although Sadrists deny any dialogue with Americans, U.S. commanders hope they can turn Sadr’s Shiite supporters the same way they have former Sunni insurgents.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96370

HEALTH: “Birth, the American Way” (p. 46). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports on a graphic new documentary, “The Business of Being Born,” executive produced by Ricki Lake, that questions why one third of American women have Caesareans instead of vaginal births. Some doctors say the increased rate of Caesareans is partially attributable to maternal demand. While others say it is because it increases profitability for hospitals.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96400

CULTURE: “Finding Meaning In Each Mouthful” (p. 48). Senior Editor Jerry Adler reports that each morsel we lift to our lips dribbles symbolism, or so say two new high-profile books that urge us to eat more plants, for glamour or for good—in search of deeper meaning.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96401

MOVIES: “There Will Be Oscars” (p. 51). Senior Editor Devin Gordon and Movie Critic David Ansen moderated Newsweek’s 11^th annual Oscar Roundtable with George Clooney—the class clown, Daniel Day-Lewis, Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Marion Cotillard, the French star of “La Vie en Rose,” and “Juno” star Ellen Page.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96123

ENTERTAINMENT: “A Real Cliffhanger” (p. 58). Los Angeles Correspondent Jennifer Ordoñez reports that due to the ongoing writer’s strike, soap–operas, already suffering from a lack of viewers, will run out of scripts soon, creating panic amongst fans and producers. But, an end to the strike won’t solve the genre’s problems. Competition from cable TV and the Internet, and fewer women staying home, also contribute to the gradual decline of its audiences.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/96365

TIP SHEET: “The ‘How To’ of Leading a Happy Life” (p. 60). Correspondent Jennifer Barrett offers tips to increase one’s happiness.

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tipsheet/default.aspx

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Newsweek: Media Lead Sheet - January 21, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:39:25 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/JANUARY 21, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, January 14). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859-LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com-or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078-Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: Hillary Clinton: "'I found my own voice.'" (p. 31). Editor Jon Meacham opens the cover package on the 2008 election by examining Hillary Clinton's dramatic comeback win in New Hampshire and whether the battle for the Democratic nomination is one that will be determined by the historically complicated issues of race and gender. Meacham writes that, "Torn is a tough word, but... it aptly captures how many Americans, and not just Democrats, already feel about 2008. Some women are nursing guilt over supporting Obama; some African-Americans worry they are doing the wrong thing by voting for Clinton. And these are early days: we are only just beginning to grapple with the questions of race and gender that the campaign will raise again and again through November." The campaign now moving out of the largely white states of Iowa and New Hampshire to the rest of the country will soon mean that the politically engaged across America will be presented with the likelihood that a woman or an African-American will be the Democratic nominee and perhaps the president. And, as Clinton says, it's a good "problem" for America to have, he writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91795

"'I Get a Little Wonky'" (p. 36). Meacham interviews Hillary Clinton about finding her own voice that led to her win in the New Hampshire primary. She also discussed issues that ranged from her childhood in suburban Park Ridge, Ill., to John Wesley, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr. and, of course, Barack Obama. "I get so focused on what I want to do as president that I get a little wonky. I get a little out there, with details, with five-point plans for this and 10-point plans for that, and I think that what I'm proposing really is both achievable and important, but it's not what gets me up, so why should it get voters excited?" Clinton says. "So I went back to listening, and to really engaging the voters, and just laid it all out there for them to make their judgments."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91756

POLITICS: "The Incremental Revolutionary" (p. 39). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and Chicago Correspondent Karen Springen report on the reality of Barack Obama's central claim as a candidate-that he is a change agent, a lifelong reformer who will heal Washington by bringing together feuding politicians of both parties-examining his voting record in the U.S. Senate and in the Illinois Senate.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91755

"The Dirty War Moves South" (p. 43). Investigative Correspondents Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball and Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas report that 2008 promises to be a banner year for gutter politics and technology serves as a force multiplier for crude partisan passion. A Newsweek investigation suggests that political hit jobs are already rampant and likely to get worse. Some are done the old-fashioned way-anonymous fliers left on windshields or shoved under doors-and some, increasingly, by hard-to-track e-mails and automated phone calls.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91664

INTERVIEW: "'I Could Outcampaign Anybody'" (p. 44). White House Correspondent Holly Bailey talks with John McCain on the campaign trail, two days after his New Hampshire primary win, about how he found his footing. "I feel great. One of the pivotal moments for me was over July 4 weekend. I was coming back from Iraq with Lindsey Graham, and I realized that I owed too much to those kids

fighting over there to give up. It gave me gumption to stay in and fight for what I thought was right, no matter what political failure or defeat I might take ... I said at the time I could outcampaign anybody, and I think we did that in New Hampshire," McCain tells Newsweek.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91667

LIVING POLITICS: "No Room for Rudy" (p. 46). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that, "Rudy Giuliani sees Florida as his Cape Canaveral: the launching pad for his better-later-than-never campaign." "But that's where the good news ends for Giuliani," Fineman writes. "Even if Florida might be congenial territory, the ideological lay of the land in his party is not. Of the three groups that compose the modern GOP-hawks, who want an aggressive foreign policy; evangelicals, who fret about family values, and tax cutters, who think government asphyxiates economic growth-Rudy has yet to find a home in one."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91665

BETWEEN THE LINES: "Is Penn Mightier Than Axe?" (p. 49). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter profiles the chief strategists for the Clinton and Obama campaigns. "Hillary's man Penn is a pollster by profession and the quintessential Beltway guy. Obama's 'Axe,' who has been with him since the early 1990s, is a hardheaded reformer who made his reputation as a media consultant with TV ads focused on character. Penn's weapon is his brain; Axelrod's is his gut," Alter writes. "I'm not a big believer in the idea of presidential candidates as creatures of their handlers... But in an age of James Carville and Karl Rove, it helps to know a little something about the chief strategists in the candidates' corners."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91666

BUSINESS: "The Economy Sucks. But Is It '92 Redux?" (p. 52). Senior Editor and Columnist Daniel Gross reports that America's faltering economy may be the deciding factor in the 2008 election. "Not since James Carville helped Bill Clinton take the White House 16 years ago by reminding him 'it's the economy, stupid,' has the nation's economic state played such a key role in a presidential campaign," Gross writes. "Today, the nation is perilously close to sliding into a recession." With Special Correspondent Ashley R. Harris and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Andrew Murr.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91655

HEALTH FOR LIFE: "A Guide to Predicting Your Medical Future" (p. 59). General Editor Mary Carmichael and Correspondent Roxana Popescu offer a detailed guide to the medical exams you need, and those you can do without-in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond-in this installment of Newsweek's ongoing "Health for Life" series, in conjunction with Harvard Medical School. The package also looks at advances in personalized medicine-how your molecular structure means personalizing medicine for you.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91657

BOOKS: "Death of a Nation"(p. 76). Senior Editor Malcolm Jones reviews "The Republic of Suffering," a new book on the Civil War. "The horrific Civil War body count, estimated at 620,000 dead, is a well-known statistic. Less familiar, but of no less importance, is what all that dying did to the populations north and south of the Mason-Dixon line during the war and for decades to come. It is that gap in our understanding that historian (and Harvard president) Drew Gilpin Faust so brilliantly addresses," Jones writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91653

THE ARTS: "Lights, Camera, Austen"(p. 78). Senior Editor Cathleen McGuigan reviews "The Complete Jane Austen," a 10-week series of films based on all six novels airing on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. "They have all the ingredients we've come to expect: lyrical landscapes and opulent country houses; star-crossed lovers tripped up by snobs, fools or connivers. But these new films also point to the perils of translating Austen to the screen," McGuigan writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91691

TIP SHEET: "The Right Stuff" (p. 80). General Editor N'Gai Croal reports from the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the latest and greatest gadgets that will change our lives.

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tipsheet/default.aspx

Newsweek: Media Lead Sheet - January 14, 2008 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:37:52 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/JANUARY 14, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, January 7). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859-LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com-or Brenda Velez at 445-4078-Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: "'OUR TIME FOR CHANGE HAS COME'" (p. 30). Obama's victory in Iowa has made not only news but also history. "This is the campaign I always wanted to run. If it doesn't work, it's not because of the organization we built or the respectful tone that we set," Obama tells Newsweek. Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe and Newsweek's political team report that Obama's high-minded themes of hope and change-and not getting your hands dirty-can come off as earnest, even naïve in the world of hardball presidential politics. But Obama is also a streetwise Chicago politician who put together a campaign machine formidable enough to take on the Clintons and win. But for a more direct, unvarnished approach to politics, his wife Michelle has thrown herself into the cause and the competition. Where Obama emphasizes hope and self-belief in his stump speech, Michelle Obama throws down a challenge to voters to step up.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84581

FACING FACTS: "An Obama-Carter Reality Check" (p. 35). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes that Barack Obama's win in Iowa, "is a moment similar to where the country was in 1976, when another largely untested idealist won Iowa's Democratic Caucus... It is quite possible that Obama can succeed where (President Jimmy) Carter failed, but not without helping America to embrace the fact that changing is a lot harder than talking about it; and that being an agent of change ultimately means shaking up things for many people who are quite comfortable with the status quo," Cose writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84539

POLITICS: "'A Measure of Our Progress'" (p. 36). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe talks with Sen. Obama a day after the Iowa caucus, about what his victory in an overwhelmingly white state says about America today. "It means that America is hungry for change... You know, when the American people get it in their minds that they have the power to change things, it's very hard to stop them," Obama says.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84474

"The Pilot vs. The Preacher" (p. 39). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and White House Correspondent Holly Bailey report that John McCain and Mike Huckabee have been exceedingly polite to each other, aiming their scorn at Mitt Romney. Openly praising each other while slyly knifing a mutual foe can work for a while. But if Romney goes down in New Hampshire and McCain and Huckabee roar into South Carolina as the two front runners the love fest between them could be long over, Newsweek reports. With Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley, Correspondent Sarah Elkins and Washington Correspondent Steve Tuttle.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84582

LIVING POLITICS: "The Huckabee Problem" (p. 42). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that, "...in Washington and the savvier precincts of elsewhere (Nashville, for example), Republicans and their secular conservatives allies are distraught at the thought of Huckabee as the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84583

BETWEEN THE LINES: "How Tomorrow Became Yesterday" (p. 44). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes that, "Iowa Nice" is over. "The sweet culture of the cornfields that made Hillary's weeklong attacks on Obama in late November one of the dumbest political strategies of recent years is giving way to states with a more bare-knuckle tradition. The question is how rough the Clintons and their wide circle of political operatives will get," Alter writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84540

THE MONEY CULTURE: "Why We Can't Stop $100 Oil" (p. 23). Senior Editor Daniel Gross writes a hundred factors helped push the price of a barrel of oil to $100. "But it's safe to say that oil's breaching three figures last week was explicitly not due to the venality of Exxon Mobil's bosses, or to our inexplicable hesitancy to drill for methane in the Grand Canyon, or to the lack of subsidies for schemes to process bacon fat into diesel. In fact, it's becoming evident that it's not about anything Americans do, or don't do."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84530

PAKISTAN: "Al Qaeda's Newest Triggerman" (p. 46). Special Correspondent Sami Yousafzai and South Asia Bureau Chief Ron Moreau profile Baitullah Mehsud-a Pakistani man who is being blamed for most of the recent suicide bombings in Pakistan and Benazir Bhutto's assassination-the newest Enemy No. 1 in the War on Terror, who has transformed his clan's mountainous badlands in the northwest corner of Pakistan into a safe haven for Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and outlawed Pakistani jihadists.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84535

IRAQ: "'The Reality Is Very Hard'" (p. 48). Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh and Baghdad Correspondent Larry Kaplow interview Gen. David Patraeus, who has led the most dramatic turnaround in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Patraeus is the first to admit it owes much to decisions taken by Sunni insurgents and Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia to suspend attacks. Patraeus also discusses wrestling with the idea of talking to people who had attacked and maybe even killed Americans.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84537

REAL ESTATE: "With Lust in our Hearths" (p. 53). In an excerpt from National Correspondent Daniel McGinn's book "House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes," McGinn writes that our fascination with homes continues even as housing values have fallen. During the heyday of the boom, "many of us spent far too much time talking about, valuing, shopping for, refinancing or just plain ogling houses. It's a set of behaviors I call House Lust. Even in the currently gloomy times, there's ample evidence that much of this obsession remains intact," McGinn says.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84529

PROJECT GREEN: "The Baby Bottle Blues"(p. 53). General Editor Anna Kuchment reports on changes in the marketplace for baby products because of the concerns of parents about the safety of plastics. This month, Handi-Craft Company, which manufactures Dr. Brown's bottles, is rolling out its first bottles made of glass.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84533

TELEVISION: "Good Mourning, Baltimore"(p. 54). Senior Editor Devin Gordon previews the fifth and final season of HBO's critically acclaimed "The Wire"-calling it the last chance to catch what may be TV's best drama ever. "I think 'The Wire' is going into the archive as an artifact of where we were as a country when we fell on our a-- and became a second-rate society," creator David Simon tells Newsweek.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84555

CULTURE: "Holy Hot Flash, Batman!"(p. 59). Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff reports that women are finally breaking into the boys' comics club. With the release of this month's "Wonder Woman" No. 14, the superhero gets her first permanent, ongoing female scribe, Gail Simone, just as alternative and foreign comics by women are gaining visibility.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/84531

TIP SHEET: "When It's Quitting Time" (p. 60). Contributing Editor Linda Stern reports on more and more couples who are leaving jobs mid-career and offers some guidance on the best ways to make the transition to a smaller, perhaps sweeter life.

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tipsheet/default.aspx

Media Lead Sheet - Dec. 3 Issue (on newsstands Monday, Nov. 26)

Pressroom — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:25:38 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/DECEMBER 3, 2007 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, November 26). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “Rudy’s Roots” (p. 30). Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley looks at GOP 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). The roots of Giuliani’s outsized, complex adult personality can be traced back to his childhood and youth in New York City and Long Island, to a family of cops and hoods and to a Catholic culture with a strict moral code but always holding out the possibility of redemption and grace. 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. With Investigative Correspondents Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, Religion Editor Lisa Miller and Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72121

THE MONEY CULTURE: “The Sermon on the Mall” (p. 22). Senior Writer Daniel Gross writes about the holiday shopping season and the annual doom and gloom predictions that come with it, and never really pan out. “Hardy American consumers have clearly conditioned themselves to shop till they drop in the frenzied five-week period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, no matter the distraction,” Gross writes. And evidence suggests that buying toys for children, jewelry for spouses and “fruitcakes for those random folks for whom we have to buy presents isn’t a matter of choice. It’s compulsory at some level.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72017

IRAQ: “There’s No Place Like … Iraq?” (p. 38). Baghdad Correspondent Larry Kaplow, Chief Foreign Correspondent Rod Nordland, and Special Correspondent Silvia Spring report that thousands of Iraqis are finally returning to Baghdad, lured by news of lessening bloodshed in the city and increasingly unwelcome in the neighboring lands where they tried to escape the war. Although they’re scarcely a fraction of the roughly 2.2 million who have fled into exile since 2003, they represent a big shift: for the first time since the war began, more Iraqis seem to be reentering the country than leaving.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72029

CAMPAIGN 2008: “Barack Strikes Back” (p. 42). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe reports from the Barack Obama campaign, where the oblique, exceedingly polite Obama has vanished. The new Obama exchanges blows with Hillary Clinton—in his own voice. Obama wanted to run a different style of campaign, true to his central message and he wouldn’t sling mud. That approach seemed sure to fail. Clinton’s message that she was tough and experienced, and Obama wasn’t, was defining him and he wasn’t responding. So at a debate in Philadelphia last month, he confronted his main rival head-on.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72035

MIDDLE EAST: “Messiah On a Hill” (p. 44). Jerusalem Bureau Chief Kevin Peraino reports on Palestinian billionaire Munib al-Masri, who, like a Palestinian Ross Perot, recently announced he was

forming a movement called the Palestine Forum to challenge the two major Palestinian factions. Al-Masri has a couple things going for him. One is the depth of Palestinian anger. Since its May coup in Gaza, Hamas has been strangled by Israeli and international sanctions. “If elections were held today, there’s no chance Hamas would win,” says Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72025

BUSINESS: “Ben & Jerry’s Bitter Crunch”(p. 50). Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley reports on some Ben & Jerry’s embittered franchisees who say the company misled them into investing their life savings in stores that were doomed to failure and did little to help them stay afloat. Ben & Jerry’s says the complaints are either exaggerated or just plain wrong, and don’t represent the experience of most of its franchisees.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72016

CRIME: “Murder Most Wired” (p. 51). Special Correspondent Barbie Nadeau and Paris Bureau Chief Christopher Dickey report on the gruesome homicide case of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. Italy’s Communications Police, a special division focused since the 1990s on pornographers, pedophiles and terrorists, have taken the lead in the case. Cell phone tracking gave police some of the initial breaks in the investigation, and they exploited the Web phone service Skype to nail the location of a key suspect after he’d left the country.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72027

FAMILY: “Love, Loss—and Love” (p. 53). Chicago Correspondent Karen Springen reports on what families go through after the death of a child from cancer. Every year, about 25,000 kids under age 10 die, most from congenital analomies, unintentional injury (mainly car accidents), premature birth and cancer. The loss of a child can put tremendous stress on even the best marriages and the closest families. Springen talks to experts about how families can cope.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72013

CULTURE: “A Director Confronts Some Dark Material” (p. 56). Senior Editor Devin Gordon previews the upcoming film version of “The Golden Compass” and reports on the religious controversy surrounding it. The Catholic League accuses author Philip Pullman of using the film as bait to lure children to his novels, where they will be ensnared by his atheist agenda. Pullman tells Gordon his only agenda is to get us to “turn the page.” The film is an honest adaptation of the book. Director Chris Weitz says the film is not an attack on people of faith; it tells a story “that attempts to rescue the religious spirit from its perversion into political power.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72020

THE ARTS: “Makeover for a Motor City Gem” (p. 60). Senior Editor Cathleen McGuigan reports on the reincarnated Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum stuffed with masterpieces that no one knows about. Detroit, a shrunken metropolis with a battered economy and a big image problem, is also a city of wondrous treasures, with the symphony, vibrant jazz and hiphop scenes, stunning architecture and the DIA. The $158 million DIA make-over made the expanded and renovated galleries easier to navigate and the art is displayed in a radical, user-friendly way.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/72014

TIP SHEET: “The Season to be Wary” (p. 63). Contributing Editor Linda Stern offers some guidelines on how to shop safely this holiday season and avoid toys that may contain lead or pose other dangers. Clean out the toy box, toss toys that your toddler has been chewing. Unpainted wood blocks are always a kid pleaser and stuffed animals, books, videos and athletic equipment might be a better choice than lots of brightly painted plastic pieces.

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tipsheet/default.aspx

Media Lead Sheet - November 26 Issue (on newsstands Mon., Nov. 19)

Pressroom — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:54:24 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/NOVEMBER 26, 2007 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, November 19). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Jan Angilella at 212-445-5638—Jan.Angilella@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “Books Aren’t Dead. (They’re Just Going Digital.)” (p. 57). Senior Editor and Columnist Steven Levy explores how technology is poised to change the way people read, write and publish books. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes he can improve upon one of humankind’s most incredible devices with the release of the Amazon Kindle, a handheld e-book device that can store hundreds of books in its memory. Bezos hopes the device will leapfrog over previous attempts at e-readers and become the turning point in a transformation toward Book 2.0. While literary critics are bemoaning a possible demise of print culture, book lovers on the Internet are waiting for a chance to refurbish the dusty halls of literacy. “If you’re going to do something like this, you have to be as good as the book in a lot of respects,” says Bezos. “But we also have to look for things that ordinary books can’t do.” Levy also reports on other initiatives underway to digitize libraries and how this connectivity will also affect the publishing business model. Also part of the cover package, as the first journalist to get his hands on the device, Levy reviews the Amazon Kindle, available Monday, November 19 at www.Newsweek.com.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983

PERISCOPE: “Trouble on The Takeoff” (p. 8). National Security Correspondent John Barry reports that three years after Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract to upgrade the 30-year-old Marine One fleet, industry sources say that major tinkering with the company’s design has left the bird 2,000 pounds overweight. Efforts to fix the problem have required such rethinking of its structure that, in the words of one source, “we’re essentially designing a new helicopter.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71006

IRAQ: “Baghdad Comes Alive” (p. 31). Chief Foreign Correspondent Rod Nordland reports that on returning to Baghdad after an absence of four months, the Iraqi capital is showing signs of life. Shops and street markets are open late again and the Baghdad Zoo is open once more. But the calm is all too fragile, and it’s an opportunity the government cannot afford to miss. Al Qaeda in Iraq is starting to look like a spent force, especially in Baghdad. The civil war is in the midst of a huge, though nervous, pause. Yet, patching up Baghdad’s social fabric may prove a lot harder than defeating Al Qaeda.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/70990

ESPIONAGE: “Dangerous Liaisons” (p. 35). Investigative Correspondents Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff report on the speculation that former FBI and CIA employee Nada Nadim Prouty, who pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States in a federal courtroom, is a “Hizbollah mole” with terrorist ties.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/71107

MIDDLE EAST: “Condi’s Southern Strategy” (p. 36). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh reports that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice knows something about the corrosive power of hopelessness, and she worries it is happening in the Middle East, where violent radicalism is spreading in the absence of an alternative path. Palestinians and Israelis both know by now, she says, “that even ordinary people can be driven to violence if there’s no hope.” Rice is drawing a connection between the plight of the Palestinians and her experience as a black woman in white America, a clear sign of how personally she’s taking the mission to create a Palestinian state—a task that has obsessed and defeated many a secretary of State before her.

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POLITICS: “The Wrath Of John” (p. 37). White House Correspondent Holly Bailey reports that heading into the primaries—and trailing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in national polls and the money chase—there is an edge, and urgency, to John Edwards that wasn’t there in his 2004 campaign. The man who once refused to disparage fellow Democrats now excoriates Clinton at every opportunity. To stand out, he is returning to the skills that made him rich and celebrated, turning the country into a courtroom and putting the front runners on trial.

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MILITARY: “A Learning Disability” (p. 40). Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Dan Ephron reports that, unlike many American veterans who went to college on the generous GI Bill after World War II, today’s scaled-down version of the GI Bill is falling short for veterans. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, who fought in Vietnam and whose son recently returned from service in Iraq, wants to raise the annual allowance of the current GI Bill. “All I’m saying is, let’s give them the same educational chance.”

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JONATHAN ALTER: “Rudy’s Loyalty Problem” (p. 49). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes that Judith Regan’s sensational lawsuit filed against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation feels thin and offers little evidence. But Alter notes that she is not your basic disgruntled employee. She was an important player in the FoxRudy power axis, now aiming for the presidency. “Turncoats are dangerous, and Regan is a skillful and brazen enough media manipulator to keep this story humming for months,” he writes.

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SCIENCE: “Are the Kids Alright?” (p. 52). Science Columnist Sharon Begley reports that new research questions whether early warning signs such as teen sex inevitably lead to problems. “There is one unquestionably real consequence of thinking of your child as troubled, or slow, or difficult, or uninterested in school: it can subtly shift how you treat him and what you expect of him, turning harbingers into self-fulfilling prophecies,” she writes.

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WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP: “To Shoot for the Stars” (p. 54). Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz talks with Astronomer Heidi Hammel, who’s helping to build the next big space telescope after Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2013. “A lot of people think science is a real solo thing…But nowadays, for the most part, science is done in a collaborative environment,” Hammel says.

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MOVIES: “Princess Power” (p. 66). Associate Editor Ramin Setoodeh and Assistant Editor Jennie Yabroff report that Disney has long made princesses a lucrative myth among kids and tweens, but now its targeting middle–class women as well. Women around the country now opt for “princess weddings.” For Disney, Princess is a $4 billion business that’s on its way to becoming the most successful marketing venture ever.

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“The Roles They Are A-Changin'” (p. 68). Senior Editor David Gates reviews “I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes’s oblique, fragmented fictional portrait of Bob Dylan. “Despite a couple of slow stretches—and Dylan has them, too—‘I’m Not There’ turns out to be worthy of its subject. This isn’t faint praise. It’s a full-on rave,” he writes.

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MUSIC: “Brown Is the New Gold” (p. 70). Senior Writer Lorraine Ali reports that with his fancy footwork and dazzling performances, 18-year old Chris Brown may be pop music’s last great hope. King of Pop Michael Jackson’s dusty throne now has a foreseeable heir, which is no small feat in an ailing music industry—it really does seem like Brown is only just getting started.

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TIP SHEET: “Holiday Gift Guide” (p. 73). Associate Editor Raina Kelley looks at how not to panic about wedging another gift-giving season into your crammed schedule, with a list of fun and funky presents for all your nearest and dearest this holiday season—from the top chef, powerbroker or baby genius to the fashionista or gearhead.

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Media Lead Sheet - November 19, 2007 Issue

Pressroom — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:48:08 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/NOVEMBER 19, 2007 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, November 12). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “1968: The Year That Made Us Who We Are” (p. 42). “There was at the end of 1968 an event that remains an inspirational symbol for the challenges ahead. For the Sixties were also the glory years of the American space program, and of astronauts such as Captain Jim Lovell,” writes former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, in his forthcoming book, “BOOM! Voices of the Sixties,” excerpted in the cover package in which Newsweek looks back at one of the defining years of the 1960s—1968—a turbulent period in American history. Senior Writer and Political Correspondent Jonathan Darman writes that the 1968 election is four decades old, and yet we’re still rehashing that moment—that era—in the 2008 contest. Barack Obama was born in the 1960s, but is not of them. Such is the constant promise—I am not the ‘60s—of his presidential campaign—heartfelt, but ultimately hard to believe. Just look at the gray-haired ‘60s idealists inside the senator’s own brain trust who see him as the fulfillment of 40 years’ worth of hard work. John McCain is also the ‘60s. McCain knows what Obama should have learned by now: the ‘60s are impossible to escape. They will define the 2008 presidential election, just as they have defined American politics, and American culture, for the past 40 years.

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“The Worst Week” (p. 44). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes that in a year of tumult, one five-day span in early spring ‘68 was disorder distilled culminating in the assassination of King. Lyndon Johnson’s presidency was collapsing. Robert Kennedy had openly announced his intention to reclaim the throne in the memory of his brother. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader, was on his way back to Memphis to rally striking sanitation workers. On April 4^th he was assassinated.

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ELLIS COSE: “Why I Write” (p. 49). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose recounts the personal impetus “…that shook my world, upended my life and turned me into a writer,” from the July 1966 Chicago Riots to the April 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “After the riot, I pondered why it was that my city, my world, was so divided by color. And why was it that the distance between those two worlds seemed so difficult to bridge?” he writes. “After the riots of April, my interest in journalism grew. The more I read the more convinced I became that I had something to contribute.”

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“Faces of A Fiery Year” (p. 50). Congressman John Lewis, Ethel Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Walter Cronkite, the crew of Apollo 8 and others who spoke out—and stood out—in the monumental events of 1968, are included in a photo essay by photographer Nigel Parry.

“It’s Ms. America To You” (p. 58). Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz explores one of the most iconic moments in the feminist movement, when women dumped symbols of female oppression—girdles, steno pads, and stilettos—into a “freedom trash can.” Bras went in, too, but none were burned, in the midst of the infamous and symbolic protest in 1968 staged outside the Miss America pageant. Kantrowitz talks with the lead protester and Judith Ford, who was crowned Miss America ‘68.

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SHARON BEGLEY: “What the Beatles Gave Science” (p. 59). Science Columnist Sharon Begley writes about the spring of 1968 when the Beatles traveled to the Maharishi’s ashram in northern India to mediate. “The high-profile visit still echoes 40 years later—in, of all places, science, for the trip popularized the notion that the spiritual East has something to teach the rational West,” she writes.

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“Tuned In, Turned On” (p. 60). Senior Editor David Gates writes that although the times they

were a-changin’, in the arts, only music kept pace. Despite all the potentially rich tension and upheaval,

1968 didn’t produce much fiction, film or art worth remembering. But popular music, in energetic transition from old to new—and new to old—left its mark.

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“A Century of Destiny” (p. 61). Senior Editor Jerry Adler writes that 1968 wasn’t the only year that changed everything in America. Other years, like 1908—America’s year of destiny—were equally significant and are jostling for starring roles in history. “Like other narrative forms, history must have its stars and supporting players. Some years need no introduction, like 1492 or 1776. … Some years demand a little more effort from the historian to justify a place in the spotlight.”

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EXCERPT: “The Earth Behind A Man’s Thumb” (p. 62). Newsweek features an excerpt of Tom Brokaw’s forthcoming book ‘BOOM! Voices of the Sixties.’ Brokaw writes that, “Apollo 8 would fly to the moon, orbit around the dark side, and return to Earth in the last week of December 1968…the training for the momentous flight went on feverishly all during 1968.”

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POLITICS: “So Happy Together” (p. 31). Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball reports that the Clintons’ billionaire archenemy, best known as the man behind a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary Clinton said was out to destroy her and her husband, Richard Mellon Scaife, is recently eager to endear himself to the former president. While Scaife isn’t ready to sign on to Hillary’s campaign—he’s still a Republican. But Scaife’s lawyer, Yale Gutnick, says Bill Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife are now members of a “mutual admiration society.”

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CRIME: “Arthur Bremmer Is Alone” (p. 32). Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores and Correspondent Catharine Skipp report that Arthur Bremmer’s release from prison—where he behaved well enough to shave 17.5 years off his 53-year sentence for the attempted assassination of Alabama Gov. George Wallace—raises unique concerns. Whether he retains any homicidal tendencies 35 years after his crime remains a mystery, especially since he refused any mental health evaluation or treatment during his confinement.

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POLITICS: “The Kingmaker’s New Subject” (p. 33). Within the cultural force of evangelicalism, there are three approaches to politics, represented by three personalities. They are the prophet—James Dobson, the priest—Rev. Billy Graham, and the kingmaker—Pat Robertson, Michael Gerson writes. “Robertson’s public endorsement of Giuliani last week surprised many. It should not have. His predisposition has always been to influence Republican politics from the inside. …But Robertson’s endorsement of a pro-choice candidate has exposed deep political fault lines within religious conservatism.”

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PROJECT GREEN: “‘It’s All About Energy, Stupid!’” (p. 34). San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau reports that the presidential candidates, it seems, have figured out what venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have known for years: green is Topic A. This year’s campaign buzzword is “energy independence.” Along with health–care plans and strategies for Iraq, the candidates are churning out detailed proposals to slow climate change and wean the country from imported oil.

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“Toyota’s Green Problem” (p. 38). Midwest Bureau Chief Keith Naughton reports that the environmental community has turned on Toyota, riding high not long ago as the auto world’s green leader, for siding with Detroit in opposition to tougher new gas mileage laws. The fuel economy debate has taken the automaker from paragon to pariah quickly in environmentalists’ eyes.

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TIP SHEET–TO YOUR HEALTH: “Logging On To Those Extra Pounds” (p. 68). Correspondent Joan Raymond reports that from websites like ediets.com to well-known players like weightwatchers.com, web-based weight loss programs are a booming part of the $30 billion U.S. weight loss industry.

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MEDIA LEAD SHEET/NOVEMBER 12, 2007 ISSUE

Pressroom — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:59:49 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/NOVEMBER 12, 2007 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, November 5). To book correspondents, contact LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859—LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com—or Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078—Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: “The Billion Dollar Wild Card” (p. 30). One year from Election Day, Newsweek takes an in-depth look at the people—and places—that could have a major impact on Campaign 2008, including a profile of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the $1 billion wild card who represents a formidable threat to the traditional party nominees. “If it happens, it’s a billion-dollar campaign,” Kevin Sheekey, Bloomberg’s chief political adviser, told Newsweek. Plus, a new Newsweek Poll shows, almost exactly a year before Election Day, Hillary Clinton’s lead for the party’s nomination remains unchanged with 44 percent of the overall Democratic vote, compared to 24 percent for Barack Obama (down a point since Newsweek’s August poll) and 12 percent for John Edwards (down two points). The ’08 campaign coverage also includes an extensive online component featuring video interviews with the candidates, an interactive election map, a polling center and more.

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THE TECHNOLOGIST: “The Search for a Candidate” (p. 22). Senior Editor and Columnist Steven Levy writes that a new battleground for presidential candidates is a secret war in search ads in the Google and Yahoo era of campaigning —and John McCain is the frontrunner in this shadow race. After a slow start, candidates finally have begun exploiting this new medium, finally figuring out that this vehicle is an ideal way to reach potential voters—and especially donors.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/67920

REPORT FROM THE FRONT: “‘What She Can’t Do Is Have It Both Ways’” (p. 40). Senior Washington Correspondent Howard Fineman and Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe debut “Report From the Front” with an interview with Sen. Barack Obama. With the Iowa caucuses, a must win, just eight weeks away, Obama talks about the sense of urgency in his campaign and amps up his new willingness to criticize Democratic front runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom he calls “disingenuous.”

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THE BATTLEGROUND: “Iowa’s Field of Dreamers” (p. 42). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe examine why the Iowa caucus, although arcane and confusing, has a critically important role in the 2008 presidential race. An odd place to anoint as kingmaker (or kingbreaker) in the race for presidential nominations, Iowa is in the center of the country, the classic “heartland.” While it is fairly well balanced between liberals and conservatives, it is notably older and whiter than the rest of the country.

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BETWEEN THE LINES: “Congenital Lawyer Redux” (p. 48). Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes, “the lawyer is back.” The Hillary Clinton he followed around New Hampshire last week is “a much-improved model from the old days,” he writes. “But politicians, like ordinary mortals, only change around the edges.”

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POLITICS: “Putting Faith in a ‘Black Chick From Brooklyn’” (p. 50). Washington Correspondent Eve Conant reports on what the Democratic Party’s new Faith In Action Initiative is doing to court religious voters, and profiles Brooklyn’s Rev. Leah Daughtry, the group’s charismatic leader charged with the daunting challenge to shake Democrats free of their image as a faith-averse party.

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THE SLEEPER: “The Other Man From Hope” (p. 52). White House Correspondent Holly Bailey reports on why Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee may be the dark horse for the GOP nomination, winning converts by cultivating a regular-guy image.

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“Rocking 'Til the Cows Come Home” (p. 54). Editorial Assistant Andrew Romano reports on the time he spent with Mike Huckabee and his classic-rock cover band, Capitol Offense. “People substitute politics for their lives,” Huckabee says. “That’s a terrible thing. Politics is not a life. I’m a real person. I’m a musician. And I refuse to become subhuman to run for office.”

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IRAQ: “A Civil War On Campus” (p. 60). Baghdad Bureau Chief Babak Dehghanpisheh reports that the Iraqi university system is breaking down along sectarian lines with Sunnis and Shiites dividing classrooms. A UNESCO report shows that amid Iraq’s low-grade civil war, hundreds of college students and teachers have been kidnapped or killed since 2003.

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ELLIS COSE: “From a Prison to Princeton” (p. 61). Contributing Editor Ellis Cose writes about Abass Hassan Mohamed’s journey from one of three refugee camps carved out of the Kenyan desert and collectively called Dadaab to Princeton University—where he’s now a junior. “For kids in Dadaab without his diligence and luck, options are few,” Cose writes. “An estimated 7 million refugees worldwide are similarly ‘warehoused’... That number gives only a hint of the daunting odds a would-be Abass has to overcome.”

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BUSINESS: “Google Goes Globe-Trotting” (p. 62). Senior Editor Steven Levy recently tagged along as the only reporter on a marathon 16-day worldwide trip with a group of 18 Google associate product managers (APMs), who were on a mission to see firsthand the humble, unwired ways of life experienced by billions. The experience provides a rare look into Google itself—its management philosophy, its future, its values and its attempts to maintain its vision in the face of tremendous growth.

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CAUSES: “Do-Gooders Gone Bad” (p. 68). Senior Editorial Manager Arlene Getz reports that the many activists who have brought issues like Darfur into living rooms has been astonishingly effective, but there is a downside. For all their success in raising public awareness, there’s been little improvement on the ground. And critics say the activists’ growing influence hasn’t always been helpful, with the simplicity of their messages sometimes getting in the way of response.

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EDUCATION: “The Writing on the Wall” (p. 69). Associate Editor Raina Kelley reports that technology is affecting the written word with increasing numbers of children growing up without learning proper handwriting or cursive script. New research shows handwriting fluency is a fundamental building block of learning, and educators are trying to wedge it back into the curriculum.

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BROADWAY: “The Pride of Frankenstein” (p. 73). Senior Editor Cathleen McGuigan and Correspondent Nicki Gostin, in an exclusive interview, talk with Mel Brooks on why he loves doing Broadway as his newest musical, “Young Frankenstein,” opening this week. “The great, great, great thing about Broadway is that you get what you got into show business for—the immediate payoff…This is why I got into this, for this love and appreciation. There’s nothing like a live show. You can’t get goose bumps watching a movie, but you can always get goose bumps at musical theater.”

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TIP SHEET-PARENTING: “Who Needs Preschool” (p. 83). General Editor Anna Kuchment offers tips on the benefits of preschool—what it is, how to decide if your child needs it and, if so, how to select the right program for your toddler.

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MEDIA LEAD SHEET/OCTOBER 22, 2007 ISSUE

Pressroom — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:41:16 GMT

MEDIA LEAD SHEET/OCTOBER 22, 2007 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, October 15). To book correspondents, contact Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078-Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com-or LaVenia LaVelle at 212-445-4859-LaVenia.LaVelle@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: "Love & War" (p. 28). Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey and Reporter Jessica Ramirez report on the marriages that have come out of the war in Iraq. Unlike previous wars, which have resulted in nearly 1 million marriages between soldiers and civilians, only a few hundred couples have united after more than four years in Iraq. One reason is that this is a war where the threat of the insurgency means that everyone is treated as a potential enemy and human interactions that could lead to a relationship are impossible while separated by barbed wire and growing blast walls. The few couples who have overcome these obstacles have powerful, moving stories but have also had to sacrifice and endure months and years of waiting for visas to come through before starting their lives together.

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FAREED ZAKARIA: "The End of Exceptionalism" (p. 35). Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes that while good news doesn't sell, it's worth pointing out that there are important positive trends afoot these days. But increasingly the United States is becoming the odd country out. "The task of our political leaders is to make Americans understand this new world and explain how the United States has thrived and will continue to thrive in it. They should be equipping Americans to compete in the world rather than blaming others and turning inward," he writes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/43356

NATIONAL: "The Man Behind Blackwater" (p. 36). Editor at Large Evan Thomas and Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball profile Blackwater CEO and founder Erik Prince. They report that he does not want what they [Blackwater] do to "be completely misrepresented as it has been to the media." During a recent interview with Newsweek Prince defended his company and the actions of its soldiers. Prince says that Blackwater USA soldiers are in a "noble tradition," insisting that Blackwater men are not "mercenaries," a "slanderous term" used by Blackwater's detractors, "an inflammatory word they use to malign us," says Prince. Mercenaries, he says, are professional soldiers who work for a foreign government. Blackwater's men are "Americans working for the American government."

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INTERVIEW: "It's Worth Dying For" (p. 42). Special Diplomatic Correspondent Lally Weymouth interviews Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, about the upcoming presidential elections, why his forces are deadlocked with the pro-Syrian opposition, and the Syrians who are killing parliamentarians associated with his March 14th Movement. "We all know that the Syrian regime is doing this. Action must be taken...like isolation, to make the Syrians understand that killing members of [Lebanon's] parliament will have consequences for them," he says.

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"Before We Bomb Iran..." (p. 45) Senior Editor and Columnist Jonathan Alter writes about a grass-roots and bipartisan campaign to "divest" from Iran, just as the international community divested from South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1970s and ‘80s. To date, more than a dozen states have divestment bills that are either pending or passed. Alter adds that "divestment has the feeling of a movement whose time has come, if for no other reason than the alternative-war-will send oil over $100 a barrel and get a lot of Iranians (and, soon enough, Americans) killed."

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IDEAS: "From Barricades to Blogs" (p. 44). Correspondent Jennie Yabroff reports on feminism today and why older feminists worry that Equal Rights Amendment-era feminism's declaration that "the personal is political" has been lost on the latest generation, who they feel don't realize that their personal struggles should be addressed collectively. The place for that may be in the blogosphere.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/43419

BUSINESS: "The Latte Era Winds Down" (p. 46). Senior Editor and Columnist Dan Gross writes that for the past several years, American consumers from all income levels have been trading up-splurging on a growing array of luxury products. Now, many are motivated by frugality, environmentalism and the job and real-estate markets and are shunning luxuries and returning to basics.

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HEALTH: "What's Chemo, Mommy?" (p. 48). General Editor Mary Carmichael reports how families cope when a parent is diagnosed with a serious illness. Some hospitals are using the Web to focus on helping families outside the hospital, while others have highly trained clinicians on call to help with dilemmas from the mundane to the technical, to the profound, such as telling a child that the treatment isn't working.

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JUSTICE: "A Justice's Candid Opinions" (p. 50). Weymouth interviews U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas about his memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," his confirmation hearing and his time on the court, which he says has been a humbling experience. "When you decide cases, you want to try to get it right...I will only do what is necessary to discharge the responsibilities under my oath. I will not do things for histrionics. I will not do things so people will think well of me. I will only do this job."

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ON SCIENCE: "The Case for Chutes and Ladders" (p. 51). Senior Editor Sharon Begley writes about how a new field, called educational neuroscience, is hitting its stride with a new program at Harvard University, and might help improve the way parents and educators teach young children. While findings from the studies are promising, not even researchers who are forging this new field claim their findings are enough to revolutionize curricular decisions.

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INTERNATIONAL: "The Opportunity They Never Had" (p. 52). Special Correspondent Monica Campbell reports on the Grupo Indaparapeo, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping Mexico's youth from joining the northward exodus and provides opportunities for a better life in their own country. To combat the northern Migration, Horacio Tovar, an engineering professor sought out expats living in the U.S. and asked them to help set up scholarships to give kids the opportunity to go to college-a luxury many could not otherwise afford.

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THE ARTS: "A Dark and Stormy Life" (p. 54) Begley reports on David Michaelis' new book, "Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography." In it he reveals that the talented creator considered himself as bland and boring as his comic-strip alter ego, Charlie Brown, and drew artistic inspiration from failure. Michaelis, who spoke with Begley about the book, had unparalleled access to Schultz's friends and family.

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CULTURE: "Ms. Hilton Gets Serious. Please Stop Laughing" (p. 58). Associate Editor Ramin Setoodeh reports on Paris Hilton's effort to break away from her party-girl image and perhaps land a new reality TV show in the process. Hilton discusses her upcoming trip Rwanda to visit schools and health-care clinics. The trip will be filmed and the footage will likely be used for a developing reality show called "The Philanthropist," featuring selfless celebrities helping the world's poor.

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TIP SHEET: "Take a Literary Field Trip" (p. 61). General Editor Anna Kuchment reports on vacation tour companies that take travelers through their favorite books. Tour companies such as literarytraveler.com, classicalpursuits.com, thehoursnyc.com, and britishtours.com take tourists to sites once frequented by literary greats or real locations used in books.

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