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...first comes psychological healing. During an interview with the New York Times on Thursday (the audiotape of which was shared with Newsweek, TIME and National Public Radio), when asked if she might have a breakdown, Betancourt, who is poetically articulate in English, French and Spanish, admitted she senses that moment is coming. "It's like the roaring of the waves," she said. "I know it's getting closer. I know it's time for me to stop because I don't want to be submerged by depression...
...week unfurled from there in ways that only solidified the growing sense that the election is quickly becoming Obama's to lose. A series of national polls suggested that Obama's lead over McCain was expanding. Two of them - one by Newsweek, the other by the Los Angeles Times - showed his lead jumping to double-digits. The McCain campaign quickly - and rightly - criticized the polls' methodology, claiming each over-sampled self-identified Democrats. Other polls, like those by Gallup, Rasmussen and Time, suggest a narrower race. But the Obama folks capitalized on the perception shift by dispatching campaign manager David...
...East Asian Studies in 1985, Bogert bought a one-way ticket to China. She quickly found a job with The Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau as what she calls the “eyes and ears” of the correspondents. Eventually, she moved on to Newsweek, first as a freelance stringer and then as a staff reporter...
...decade later, Bogert had covered major international crises across the world for Newsweek, and she said she was ready to move on. The breaking point came, she said, when her editor asked her to travel to the south of France and recreate Princess Diana’s last days after her death...
Americans should not fear the rise of developing nations, said Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, at an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store Thursday evening. The discussion, held at the First Parish Church, featured questions by history professor Niall C. Ferguson and focused on what Zakaria described as the “rise of the rest,” particularly China and India. Zakaria—whose new book “The Post-American World” was released this month—said that the modernization of developing countries could actually benefit the U.S. Zakaria...