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First time I didn’t think much of it, but now I think there’s something going on. Yes, I sometimes eat at McDonalds. Yes, I made a special effort not to eat at McDonalds before I came to Taiwan. It was a long process of becoming friendlier with this evil fast food chain and now I [...]

Man! Obama sure is lucky that he has more money and academia, most major newspapers, and almost all of the television networks on his side. He's going to need it when he goes against the vicious GOP attack machine this fall. Poor guy. In more evidence that I have, in fact, entered an alternate reality, Newsweek claims that the Republican attack machine, not theirs, is the scarier monster. Have t

Why The Week is gaining on Time and Newsweek Commentary: Plus, more kudos to Sports Illustrated’s Gary Smith By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Apr 28, 2008 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Watch your back, Time and Newsweek. The Week is here to stay. This upstart magazine publishes a compilation of the week’s biggest news events, culled from media outlets [...]

Andrés Calamaro es tapa de la revista Newsweek Argentina. El cantante habla de politica, sobre su admiracion por Sandro, las peleas con Charly Garcia y Gustavo Cordera de Bersuit y su paternidad. Entrevista imperdible.Fuente: eBlog

The latest Newsweek national poll shows Barack Obama with 54 percent; Hillary Clinton 35 percent. The "bitter" attack seems to have completely backfired. Americans are sick of dirty campaigns and lying politicians, but that's a lesson that Hillary and McCain probably won't learn until Obama is sworn in next January.read more | digg story

The latest Newsweek poll, conducted over the last few days, has Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton by nearly 20 points among registered Democrats. The survey of 1209 registered Democrats found that Obama leads Clinton 54% to 35% - a massive turnaround from the March Newsweek poll which had the split favoring Obama 45% to 44% - a statistical tie.The amazing turnaround has come in a month where Obama has been subjected to increasing pressure by the Clinton camp and the media. Of particular note is the fact that this poll was conducted after the "bitter" comments which were apparently to have played badly among Democrats. Not so according to these figures.These latest results will be another blow to the Clinton campaign in the lead up to the crucial vote this Tuesday in Pennsylvania. The o

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I just happened to come across a Newsweek Article titled "The Internet, Bah! Hype Alert: Why Cyberspace isn't, and will never be, Nirvana" The article goes into many reasons on how the internet is not going to change the world, some of my favorites.The article speaks about how no online databases will replace the daily newspaper. That usenet more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harassment and anonymous threats. No one wants to read a book on a disc, or take a laptop to the beach, the article even states "that you'll soon be able to buy books and newspapers straight over the internet." The internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data, lacking reviewers or critics. and there are even those pushing computers into schools, which the article states is a w

Great piece over at Newsweek... Barry Obama decided that he didn't like his nickname. A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry. Obama recalls it slightly

Clinton's schedules reveal curious deletions - NewsweekExcerpt:"The early days of 1996 were tense times inside the Clinton White House. On Jan. 4, the First Couple's top personal aide reported that she had stumbled upon Hillary Clinton's long-lost Rose Law Firm billing records—documents that had been requested by Whitewater prosecutors two years earlier. Ken Starr quickly subpoenaed the First Lady to testify before a federal grand jury, leading to her historic four-hour appearance at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington on Jan. 26 of that year.But anybody looking through Hillary Clinton's newly released White House records for clues as to how she handled this personal crisis will find … absolutely nothing. The more than 10,000 pages, released by the National Archives in response

Following the New York Times expose on McCain's connection with lobbyist friends, Newsweek catches McCain in a web of lies. McCain's recent statements contradicts testimony he gave under oath in 2002.So did McCain commit perjury in 2002 or is he lying now?read more | digg story

This was simply an insightful and informative read courtesy of Jonathan Alter of Newsweek.(Synopsis - According to Alter, Senator Clinton could win out the remaining primaries and still would trail Obama in pledged delegates when all is said and done.)"So no matter how you cut it, Obama will almost certainly end the primaries with a pledged-delegate lead, courtesy of all those landslides in February. Hillary would then have to convince the uncommitted superdelegates to reverse the will of the people. Even coming off a big Hillary winning streak, few if any superdelegates will be inclined to do so. For politicians to upend what the voters have decided might be a tad, well, suicidal. The Clintonites can spin to their heart's content about how Obama can't carry any large states be

  This makes me SO MAD! What's wrong with these people?! Not only is this cruel and unnecessary but it's short sighted and so far short of strategic it's tragic. These people are stealing the future right out of the hands of their children! I can't even WRITE about this, I get so mad. The saddest part of this is that international governments are so much less likely to care about the decimation of priceless animal species than they are about a couple of dollars a barrel for crude. If governments can sit by and watch civil wars and genocide, what hope is there for the animals?! Big Business: Wildlife Trafficking | Newsweek Animals and Pets | Newsweek.com

Newsweek's has a recent cover story on how Tokyo beat out Paris and New York to become the best restaurant city in the World. Readers of my blog would have read about Michelin awarding Tokyo an astounding 191 stars (posted here).Some interesting nuggets from this Newsweek article:About a third of all TV broadcasts in Japan are devoted to food. Tokyo has 160,000 restaurants, compared with 13,000 in Paris. Japan food bloggers are hugely prolific, cataloging their meals in painstaking detail (and, often, with cell-phone photos). One housewife whose blog documents her quest for the country's best bread proudly notes that she's visited 384 bakeries in the city of Kobe alone.Sukiyabashi Jiro's 82-year-old owner, Jiro Ono, has spent the past 50 years perfecting his sushi technique. "I've only bee

Newsweek magazine is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. And distributed throughout the United States and internationally. What if, a Filipino person like me published as a cover of weekly issued of newsweek magazine, maybe there’s so many protest will arose and they will banned the newsweek magazine from being non-sense cover of it. But it’s a joke of course, and its all my dream to come true. But thanks to my knowledge and talent, because I can use a software program called “Adobe Photoshop” and I can make my own cover. And thanks to Friendster site also to blogger.com that I used as a medium to published my designed cover. That’s all thanks

Yesterday, I was on Myspace, writing back and forth with my friend Cliff, who is a fellow Art Department alum of Hampton University. On his page, I saw two photos that literally had me laughing out loud at my desk. Since Cliff is cool with me placing them here, I feel the need to share. Ladies [...]

Screen shot from JohnEdwards.com featuring him on the cover of Newsweek in which they call him "The Sleeper" candidate who could win in Iowa. John Edwards has strong support in Iowa but does not get the media attention that Obama or Clinton gets on the trail. This past week John Edwards was on the cover of Newsweek in which they called him "The Sleeper" candidate. John Edwards usually comes in a very close third in most polls in Iowa behind Clinton and Obama but has a very good chance of winning in Iowa according to Newsweek. While the media focuses on Clinton and Obama they are missing out on Edwards who is known for working harder than anyone else. Edwards campaign bus the "Main Street Express", which runs on bio-diesel, has visited all 99 counties in Iowa. According to Newsweek, the significance of visiting all of the counties is that all of the precincts get the same amount of delegates. While Obama and Clinton focus on the larger cities Edwards is vis

If search-engine rankings are supposed to represent a kind of democracy--a reflection of what Internet users collectively think is most useful--then search-engine optimizers like Fishkin are the Web's lobbyists. High-priced and in some cases slyly unethical, SEOs try to manipulate the unpaid search results that help users navigate the Internet. Their goal is to boost their clients' (and in some cases their own) sites to the top of unpaid search-engine rankings--even if their true popularity doesn't warrant that elevated status.As online shopping grows, search-engine rankings can make a difference between success and failure on the Internet. This holiday season, 10.8 percent of shoppers will find their way to online retailers via Google alone, according to research firm Hitwise. And SEO fir

Excerpt:"The most dramatic result to come out of the poll, which is based on telephone interviews with 1,408 registered Iowa voters on Dec. 5 and 6, is Huckabee's emergence from the shadows of the GOP race into the front runner's spot in just two months. The ordained Southern Baptist minister now leads Romney by a two-to-one margin, 39 percent to 17 percent, among likely GOP caucus-goers. In the last NEWSWEEK survey, conducted Sept. 26-27, Huckabee polled a mere 6 percent to Romney's 25 percent, which then led the field."http://www.newsweek.com/id/74215

Magazine ridicules North American Union, superhighway as baseless conspiraciesIn an exclusive interview with WND, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul fired back at Newsweek for an article labeling the NAFTA Superhighway a baseless conspiracy theory.read more | digg story

Because Time didn’t want him: “Time thought this wouldn’t be like hiring George Stephanopoulos,” my source explained. “They think Karl is essentially like an unindicted coconspirator in a whole string of felonies.”

Here is a copy of the email I sent to Newsweek canceling my subscription. Feel free to use all or part of it to cancel your own subscriptions:I found out today that in response to the Bush Administration puppet’s “outrage” put on in response to your decision to hire DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas as a contributor, you have decided to hire Karl Rove to create “balance”. This infuriates me and I would like to cancel my subscription. Here is a portion of the resume of the man you think deserves a column in a (soon to be formally) well-respected news source: Newsweek reported that Karl Rove was one of the people who leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame, who was working on nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East. Evidence indicates Karl Rove arranged for at least 8 US Attorneys to be fired who were not submissive to the Bush Administration. The positions were then filled with interim US Attorneys, like Tim Griffin, Karl Rove’s prot

When you subscribe to Newsweek 54 + 4 Free and you consider that it shows up 56 times per year, do you ever wonder if the magazine is really that important. It used to be that magazines were just something you picked up at a checkout counter like a grocery store or at a newsstand. But then they became a tool for customer satisfaction in professional situations. Are you a professional who sees clients in an office, such as stock broker or investment advisor? If so, you will usually need to have clients wait somewhere in your office for their appointments, whether for just a few minutes or for as long as an hour or more until you are ready to provide them with your services. If this is the case in your professional situation, you probably have given a good deal of thought to how you can keep those clients occupied while they wait. Otherwise, they may arrive in your office feeling stressed out or annoyed by their boredom. This may have an effect on how well you are able to serve them. Man

20 September 2007 (Newsweek) - Newsweek magazine features an interview with Matthew Tocheri, one of the investigators behind the Hobbit wrist study. ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall ‘hobbits’ who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human—and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed. by Jessica Bennett It was an astonishing discovery: the skeletal remains of a new human species that lived for eons on a remote island while man colonized the rest of the planet. Back when it was first discovered in 2003, on the tiny Indonesian island of Flores, the three-foot-tall adult female skeleton was dubbed “the hobbit,” because she—and the 11 other skeletal remains that were found like her—bore more of a resemblance to the Tolkien fantasy characters than to modern humans. The hobbit’s discovery presented evidence that as recently as 12,000 years

Summer's over, school is back, but the consolation of fall was always that the best films, ripe for picking. Now there's too much competition, too much stuff. How to figure out what's worthy? Here is a warts-and-all preview, arranged from sublime to subprime.read more | digg story

The season of college rankings is upon us, and just in time for the National Championship UF Gators' first kickoff, the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek "How to Get into College" Guide (on sale Aug. 20) has dubbed Florida's top football school among the nation's 25 "hottest" universities. As part of its annual guide to help families navigate the overwhelming college application and decision process, Newsweek/Kaplan this year created a feature called “The 25 Hottest Schools in America." It takes schools with top academic programs and ranks them according to the "extra buzz" they're generating, according to a company press release. UF, with a championship football team and a basketball team that won the national title two years in a row, was dubbed "Hottest For Sports Fans." Harvard University was named “Hottest for Rejecting You,” but given the enrollment freeze UF just established to save money, it could vie for that title soon. The full list follows. Babson College, “Hottest for

The Newsweek is presenting a special report this week about Islam and Muslims in America It is very interesting despite it may not be fair or giving the complete true picture yet it still interesting and worth reading because I believe it is from the rare in depth look in the Muslim community in America There are Muslims who are participating in writing this special report by the way , one of them is Daisy Khan who I remember from the American documentary "Muhammad:Legacy of a prophet"    The good thing in the coverage that it can be considered a real American confession that the American Muslim society is suffering despite what it had been and still is presenting to this country , I do believe that they are the real victims but they were not the only community that suffered from discrimination in the American history thought In the coverage they covered very important problems like the lack of American born Emams and the Internet extremis

Apple iPhone Review - Newsweek, “iPhone has already made its mark. Even those who never buy one will benefit from its advances, as competitors have already taken Apple’s achievements as a wake-up call to improve their own products. But for all its virtues, the iPhone is still a risky venture because it’s yet to be proven that, despite the wow factor, millions of people are ready to pay several hundred dollars more than the going rate for phones—and in some cases, paying even more to bail out of their current mobile contracts. There’s also a potential backlash from those sick of the hype. During our iPhone conversation, however, Jobs professed that he wasn’t concerned about inflated hopes, and certainly not whether he would meet his own projections of 10 million sold in 2008: “I think we’re going to blow away the expectations.”” Full review of Apple iPhone Similar Posts:Apple iPhone Review - NYTimes Apple iPhone Review - All Things Digital Microsoft Zun

The National Education Association issued an interesting statement yesterday slamming the school rating system used by No Child Left Behind, and using two Hillsborough schools as examples. Under No Child - which looks at how well students do on their state’s standardized test, in this case the FCAT; and how well different subgroups do, including poor kids, minority kids and disabled kids - both Hillsborough High and King High are deemed in need of progress. So how can it be, the NEA statement implies, that both schools are on Newsweek’s list of the 100 best high schools in the country? The NEA statement goes on to say “Newsweek’s evaluation is based on those schools doing the best job of preparing students for advanced academic work and college students.” It notes that Newsweek looks at how many students are taking AP and IB classes - which is true. But the NEA fails to mention that under the Newsweek system, the number of AP and IB test-takers at each school is divided by

This should come as no real surprise to anyone. The writing was on this wall before the wall was even built. One only has to look around the blogosphere itself to sense the smell of death that permeates the Bush administration. The Republican debate showed the candidates in a mad dash to distance themselves from George Bush. Sen. McCain was the only one to even come close to embracing the administration. How's that for irony? In the past I would have called this "dogged determination" on the part of the President. Now I am not quite sure what to make of it. George Bush has already cost the Republican party the majority in the Congress and the Senate. I expect that the loss of the White House itself to be next. Anyone that wants to "take the temperature" of my readers can check out my Opinion Polls Section. I have been repeatedly surprised by them. ~RJH Newsweek story link NEWSWEEK Poll: Bush Hits All-Time Low George W. Bush has the lowest presidential approval r

Newsweek: That Night at Duke - They spent a year accused of kidnapping, assault and rape. Now, though, the three Duke lacrosse players were told they were 'innocent.' The inside story of the infamous evening.Excerpt:"After the A.G.'s announcement, Finnerty and Seligmann, as well as their parents, some siblings and Finnerty's girlfriend, spoke to NEWSWEEK about the experience. The magazine also obtained the handwritten statements given by Evans and the other two team captains, Daniel Flannery and Matthew Zash, to the Durham police two days after the alleged rape. The statements, never before made public, and interviews with defense attorneys familiar with the evidence, tell the real story of what happened that night."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18110003/site/newsweek/Alex

Newsweek: CBS Will 'Do the Right Thing' - Media honcho Sumner Redstone on the fate of shock jock Don ImusExcerpt:"By handing Imus' fate to Moonves, Redstone appears intent on avoiding yet another controversy about his own management style. Last year, the mogul kicked Tom Cruise to the curb, publicly blasting the star's erratic behavior and severing his lucrative production agreement with Paramount Pictures. (The studio is also owned by Viacom.) Cruise, a member of Scientology, had made controversial statements about his religious beliefs. Yet many Hollywood veterans were stunned by the Viacom founder's public disassociation from a star who had generated billions of dollars at the worldwide box office. Redstone's unilateral action on the Cruise matter also left Hollywood and Wall Street confused about who, exactly, was in charge of day-to-day management at Viacom, effectively undermining then-CEO Tom Freston. The Viacom board, led by Redstone, later fired Freston, who helped launc

Down to Will Smith as the actor who brings in the most money, according to an annual ranking by Newsweek. With a worldwide career box office of $4.4 billion, Smith now has the unofficial title of Most Powerful Actor in Hollywood, followed by Johnny Depp at No. 2 and Ben Stiller in third place. Newsweek determines its annual power rankings through interviews with studio heads, agents and producers. Smith, 38, was a unanimous No. 1 choice. The rapper-turned-actor, as Newsweek points out, is “bankable in every genre,” whether sci-fi ("I, Robot"), action-comedy ("Men in Black"), romantic comedy ("Hitch") or drama ("The Pursuit of Happyness"). "He can do anything," says one top studio exec. "The audience has enormous affection for him—we're talking a Tom Hanksian level of likability." Just as in music, Smith’s feature films have consistently connected with crossover audiences. "He's the black Jimmy Stewart," says an industry ins

After my recent post about Elizabeth Edwards and cancer (Edwards campaigning for cancer), cancer gets the cover of Newsweek. Isn’t that great? Great in the sense that at least the word about cancer gets spread, of course with some misleading statistics, yet Newsweek also needs to survive and not kick to many people in the [...]

In a recent Newsweek interview with our man, Dan Radcliffe, he discusses Order of the Phoenix, what a great director David Yates has been, and yes, his love life! In regards to whether or not he'll still play Harry in the last two films, he had this to say:Will you make the last two films?If the script does justice to the book, it would be foolish not to do the sixth, because I think the book is so incredible and the part is so brilliant. [The seventh book has not been published yet.]I also assume it would be hard to walk away from Harry at this point.Yes. I've come this far. If I'd stopped after the third film, someone could have come in and there would have been time for the fans to get used to him. At this stage it would be a bit harder, certainly.You can find the rest of the web exclusive interview on the Newsweek site. Order of the Phoenix will be released in the US on July 13, 2007, and we can see him play our Gryffindor hero once again!

There is an excellent piece from Newsweek about the differing views on the war between two close friends in the Senate: John McCain and Chuck Hagel. These are two men who are both thinking about running for President in 2008 and are two of the few combat veterans in Congress. They have long been close friends, but are nearly polar opposites on Iraq.Hagel is "obsessed" with the war in Iraq, says his brother Tom, who served with him in Vietnam. "You can't have a conversation with him without this coming up." During Christmas, Hagel looked "markedly older and grayer than when I saw him this summer down at the beach," says Tom. In an interview with NEWSWEEK last week, Hagel teared up when he began talking about a Purple Heart ceremony he had attended in August in Lincoln, Neb. "You're sitting there thinking, Was this a waste?" said Hagel, who voted for the original congressional resolution backing the war despite raising serious doubts about whether the invasion made sense. He added, som

Newsweek has another article on Chuck Hagel that's worth a look. Here are some excerpts:One Republican—we'll call him "Candidate A"—has among the highest support levels for President George W. Bush's conservative agenda in the Senate. He championed the president's 2001 tax cut, which many Republicans believe is the litmus test of today's GOP. After initially voting to give Bush the authority to go to war, he became an early and outspoken critic of the Iraq policy, a view now endorsed not just by the American public and Democrats but by Republicans as well....You would think that Candidate A would be a strong favorite for the nomination and Candidate B destined for political oblivion. But no. Candidate A, Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, is seen as damaged goods, with little chance to be nominated. Candidate B, Arizona Sen. John McCain, is now the front runner....In a GOP debate, McCain would not be able to use his military experience as a trump card on Hagel. But Hagel and the othe

I'm saying it's a fictional creation," Simpson said Sunday in a telephone interview. "It has so many (factual) holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn't write it" His comments came as Newsweek published a story for its current issue paraphrasing the chapter, called "The Night in Question," which the magazine said it had obtained from an anonymous source. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman after a yearlong trial. A civil jury later held him liable for the killings. On Sunday, Simpson again denied killing the couple. Simpson declined to provide a copy of the chapter to The Associated Press."I don't have it," he said. "I shredded everything I had about it, and I thought I shredded it from my memory" Newsweek's account of the chapter describes Simpson as becoming angry with his ex-wife at his daughter's dance recital. He later went to her condominium to scare her,

I'm saying it's a fictional creation," Simpson said Sunday in a telephone interview. "It has so many (factual) holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn't write it" His comments came as Newsweek published a story for its current issue paraphrasing the chapter, called "The Night in Question," which the magazine said it had obtained from an anonymous source. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman after a yearlong trial. A civil jury later held him liable for the killings. On Sunday, Simpson again denied killing the couple. Simpson declined to provide a copy of the chapter to The Associated Press."I don't have it," he said. "I shredded everything I had about it, and I thought I shredded it from my memory" Newsweek's account of the chapter describes Simpson as becoming angry with his ex-wife at his daughter's dance recital. He later went to her condominium to scare her,

Tras la puesta en marcha del nuevo plan para Irak, ya empiezan a aparecer las primeras reacciones en los medios de información y en la prensa americana. Newsweek comenta que el presidente Buch, sabía probablemente que el movimiento de envíar más tropas a Irak, sería impopular.Leamos los comentarios de Newsweek:- Cuando el presidente George W. Bush había declarado-anteriormente- al principio de este mes que la única manera de calmar la violencia sectaria en Irak era enviar a más de 20.000 tropas americanas adicionales, él sabía probablemente que el movimiento sería impopular. De hecho, la última encuesta de NEWSWEEK encuentra que la llamada de Bush para un refuerzo de tropas está opuesta por dos tercios (68 por ciento) de americanos y está apoyada por solamente un cuarto (26 por ciento). Casi la mitad de todos los respondedores (46 por ciento) desea considerar a tropas americanas fuera de Irak "cuanto más antes" Leer[+] Artículo completo- Encuesta de NEWSWEEK

Newsweek has another good article about Senator Hagel on their website (that I believe will be in the Feb. 5th issue of the magazine) that is well worth a read. Here are a few of my favorite excerpts:Viewed from afar, the stuff inside Hagel looks like the stuff that makes Republican presidential candidates. He is a third-generation party member who grew up idolizing Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. He says he was the only student in his Roman Catholic high school to support Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election—and when he cast his first vote, an absentee ballot from Vietnam, it was for Nixon's winning ticket in 1968. His conservative credentials are impeccable: according to Congressional Quarterly, he voted with the White House more times in 2006 than any other senator. He is manly, Middle American—and when he talks about military matters, he exudes the cool confidence of a warrior-statesman who knows that war is hell....Hagel may be the one