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Newsweek International

Newsweek International is a consumer magazine covering general interest issues with editorial content. Newsweek Inc. publishes this periodical weekly. Fareed Zakaria is the Editor.

Articles from Vol. 157, No. 09, February 28

A Singer Undone by Accusations
Byline: Tracy McNicoll Amid horrific Nazi madness, Wiera Gran sang love songs in the Warsaw Ghetto. Within the walls of that grim urban cage, the 25-year-old petite Jewish beauty drew crowds to the ghetto's Cafe Sztuka, crooning standards from happier...
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Drones on Hold. but Why?
Byline: Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai, and John Barry At first, Taliban militants and local civilians in the Waziristan badlands along Pakistan's Afghan border thought that bad weather was responsible for the lull in attacks by armed Predator drones....
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Egypt Isn't Turkey
Byline: Norman Stone If history is any guide, there will not be an Ataturk in Cairo. A hundred years ago, Egyptians looked down on Turks: etrak bi itrak, ran the pun. "Turks are clods." Egyptians had Westernized first, had a modern Army that...
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Freedom Train
Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh A journey through Egypt after the revolution. To see firsthand how the momentous changes in Egypt are playing out, a NEWSWEEK writer and a photographer traveled by train from Alexandria to Aswan, a journey of roughly...
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Goodbye and Good Riddance
Byline: Daniel Altman Why the WTO could soon be obsolete. Representatives of 153 nations and regions will meet in Geneva this week to try and salvage one of the longest and most laborious trade negotiations in modern times. For almost a decade,...
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Pound for Pound, the Best Football Player in the World
Byline: Mac Margolis Forget Kaka: pint-size Marta is Brazil's new star. When Marta Vieira da Silva was 10, a skinny tomboy in Dois Riachos, her hometown in the Brazilian dust bowl in the northeastern state of Alagoas, her team coach gave her...
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The Politics of Reincarnation
Byline: Melinda Liu It's probably best not to even try making sense of Beijing's pronouncements on the 14th Dalai Lama and other Tibetan spiritual leaders: you'll only make your head hurt. Last week the officially atheist Chinese government's State...
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Tweeting to Iran
Byline: Reza Aslan By now, it's clear that social media has played a critical role in fomenting and sustaining public protests across the Middle East. The Facebook page set up by Google executive Wael Ghonim--which racked up nearly 400,000 followers...
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'What the Bible Really Says about Sex'
These "experts" at analyzing Scripture decide in advance what they want to discover and then, lo and behold, they find it. If they took a Rorschach test, they'd find phallic symbolism in every inkblot. Please, give me a break. J. Edward Hakes, Parkville,...
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'Wrought by Neglect, Not War'
Byline: Kanan Makiya Decades later, the author goes back to find love--but no victory. I returned to Baghdad the week after Saddam's monument in Firdos Square fell. The last time I had seen the city in which I was born and raised was 1968, the...
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