Oppo War 1992 exploded into the open with a series of news stories that portrayed Perot as a billionaire busybody, eager to ferret out damaging information about business competitors, employees and political foes. The incendiary charge was leveled by The Washington Post. It reported that Perot, in 1986, had “launched” investigations against the then Vice President Bush. The motive: Bush was not a partner in Perot’s own crusade to find American MIAs in Asia....
A Fertile Discussion Congratulations to NEWSWEEK for capturing the heart of a movement that for decades has sought to promote the link between the way we farm, our health and the health of our planet (“Should You Buy Organic?” Sept. 30). Of all the truths presented in your cover story, nothing stands out more than the last line: “But an organic ethic could be the very key to our survival....
Each of the 10 conference championship games bring various levels of intrigue, and the two-day event will put the cap on the college football regular season. Here’s Sporting News’ guide to conference championship weekend, including start times, TV channels and a reason to watch every game. MORE: SN’s updated college football top 25 SEC championship game LSU (12-0) vs. Georgia (10-1) When: 4 p. m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 7 Where: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta TV broadcast: CBS...
Black female * 51 * Divorced * Works in an accounting dept. Likes solving word puzzles. Watches ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ ‘Matlock.’ Lives in South-Central. Two years’ college education. Black female * 25 * Single * County-hospital worker. Likes rap music, Scrabble and computer games. Lives in Gardena. One year college. Thought it ‘awful’ for anyone to be accused of such a crime. White female * 61 * Divorced * Retired gas-company employee....
At first glance, George Bush the Elder is the epitome of the carefree retiree, happily “out of the loop,” alarming his loved ones by skydiving on his 75th birthday. But those who know the Old Man know the goofy-stuntman act isn’t all there is to the former president. In ways public and private, he is an active hand on deck of his son’s presidential campaign: less than a captain, to be sure, but far more than a dotty kibitzer....
Swift has spoken in-depth about her feud with Scooter Braun and her former music label, Big Machine Label Group, in the past year. Now, the conversation has pointed directly at the awards show. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the AMAs: Scooter Braun Buys Big Machine Braun, who managers singers Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Justin Bieber, acquired the majority rights to Big Machine Label Group in June....
Even those involved in the effort to stage the World Cup in America admit to a huge challenge. The potential for failure on a grand scale–sparsely filled stands, scant attention from the media, broadcasts on obscure cable stations–is great. “We’re on a missionary enterprise,” said former secretary of State Henry Kissinger (now vice chairman of the tournament’s organizing committee) last week. “We’ve got to make this sport as popular in the United States as it deserves to be....
Having previously resisted calls to follow - or at least mimic - the AFC’s 3+1 foreign player rule that sees one spot restricted to players from other AFC member nations, FFA has finally flagged a change to the rules. From the start of the 2018-19 season, A-League clubs will be allowed five imports in their playing squad but one of those spots will have to come from another Asian country....
Questioning Cuba, this same Chinese expert claimed: “from time to time, there are alleged political factors behind the concept of human rights.” He then asked “what is the response of Cuba to the politicization of human rights in the implementation of the Convention Against Torture?” China is hardly in a position to make any recommendations on human rights to Iceland, while calling out the Cuban regime is a case of the pot calling the kettle black....
An Important Book you haven’t gotten around to reading: Any excellent new book that helps assess the challenges of global climate change … even if it’s by Al Gore. The book you most care about having children read: “Italian Folktales” by Italo Calvino. My kids would not tolerate anything like Grimm’s fairy tales; they were too dark and depressing. But there was something playful about the Italian fairy tales that they adored....
The experimental procedure, called photo-refractive keratectomy (PRK) and performed only by ophthalmologists, uses a new “excimer” laser to treat moderate degrees of nearsightedness (myopia). Glasses and contact lenses correct myopia by bending or refracting the light entering the eye so that it strikes the retina precisely. PRK does the same thing by changing the shape of the cornea (the eye’s clear protective covering). Controlled by computer, the excimer laser used in PRK emits short, high-energy pulses of cool ultraviolet radiation....
“Call It Sleep” was an astonishing projection of the mind of a small boy, David Schearl, growing up in the slums of New York’s Lower East Side. Roth picks up his autobiographical hero (now called Ira Stigman) in 1914, when the family moved to the mixed Irish-Jewish enclave of Harlem, and takes him to 1920 when he is 14 years old. Ira is a youth of many “stigmas”–his anxiously burgeoning sexuality, which leads to a quasi-incestuous episode with his earthy mother, his rejection of his Jewishness amid the tauntings and beatings of the Gentile boys....
Getting a taste of Olympic glory will prove more daunting. When she was chosen in 1982 at 15, Baraki was one of the youngest women ever to play on the national team. Now she is a 35-year-old mother of three, and has picked up a basketball three times in the past 10 years–including during a recent shoot-around with a NEWSWEEK correspondent. (She had to remove her burqa first.) Baraki is 20 pounds heavier than during her playing days and has lower-back problems....
Hill’s follow-up performance against undermanned Lamar of the Southland Conference was more of the same, only this time the stats weren’t as eye-popping because his minutes were limited against the FCS opponent. MORE: Week 2 photos | Winston’s short day | Barrett’s tough outing | Kessler emerges — When Hill exited the game with 7:13 left in third quarter, the sophomore was 17 of 26 for 283 yards and four touchdowns — one more than his total against South Carolina....
Get a load of Earl Sinclair. He’s the natural evolution of Ralph Kramden, Archie Bunker and Dan (Mr. Roseanne) Conner. Except evolution isn’t quite the word. The year is 60,000,003 B.C. Earl is a cigar-chomping, blue-collar megalosaurus, and he’s just been canned from his job as a tree pusher for the Wesayson Development Corp. Lumbering into the kitchen of his prehistoric digs, he has only gruff words for his wife: “Look, I don’t give a damn about your day....
With that, American control of Chrysler came to a startlingly abrupt end. When Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp. announced their $36 billion “merger of equals” in 1998, it was hailed as a marriage made in heaven. At the time, Chrysler was the world’s most profitable and cost-efficient carmaker, while Daimler was renowned as the planet’s premier luxury carmaker. DaimlerChrysler became the new model for a global automotive powerhouse and its stock soared into triple digits, forcing rival automakers into mergers of their own....
NEWSWEEK: The Democrats have retaken both houses of Congress. How similar is this election to 1994, when the Republicans turned the tables on the Democrats? Gary Jacobson: This was a national referendum, just as 1994 was a national referendum. They were both elections where you had one party in charge of all the major institutions and that gives people a very clear target if they are unhappy. They used their vote to express their feelings about national politics and issues-primarily dissatisfaction with the war and the policies of the Bush administration....
Toni Kroos’ 95th-minute winner against Sweden on Saturday looked to have given Germany a World Cup lifeline, but their pathetic performance in the 2-0 loss to South Korea on Wednesday ensured that they were eliminated from the World Cup at the group stage for the first time in 80 years. And in truth, they got exactly what they deserved. Had they simply seen off a South Korea side who had already been beaten by Sweden and Mexico they would have got away with it....
