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Newsweek Obama has found an unusual supporter in former First Lady Laura Bush.
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Most political pundits have been quick to blame the oil disaster on Obama. Within a couple of days conservatives began calling it "Obama's Katrina," referencing his predecessor's response to the 2005 disaster. But Friday morning, Obama found an unusual supporter—former First Lady Laura Bush.
Newsweek Even More Bad News About the Oil Spill: Slick to Travel up the Atlantic Coast
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Using computer models of ocean currents, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, part of the Commerce Department, conclude that once the oil in the uppermost ocean has been picked up by the Gulf of Mexico's energetic Loop Current, it is likely to reach Florida's Atlantic coast wi...
Newsweek Isolating Israel Isn’t the Answer
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The flotilla debacle left Israel more isolated than at any time since 1973. The last time this happened, its leaders gravitated to another pariah—the apartheid South African government.
Newsweek With BP’s stock rapidly declining, is now the time to buy?
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pparently we should all be buying BP stock right now. At least that’s the recommendation of the people paid to know these things. Two days after the stock tanked 15 percent, erasing $30 billion of BP’s market capitalization, and not one analyst thinks you should sell it?
Newsweek How to Punish BP: Slate and Newsweek readers offer their suggestions.
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Your Most Creative, Incisive, and Sadistic Ideas for How to Punish BP.
Newsweek A bit of advice: if you want to be in the closet, you can’t be on Facebook and Twitter.
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Hiding your sexuality in social media can be a full-time job. It can also provide a life-changing opportunity.
Newsweek Steve Jobs says all is well at Foxconn because they have "restaurants and movie theatres and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it's pretty nice."
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Thirteen workers have commited suicide, or tried, this year at a Chinese factory that makes products for Apple. But Jobs says all is well because they have "restaurants and movie theatres and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it's pretty nice."
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The Oil-Spill Trustworthiness Guide: Obama
Speaks Out, Landry Moves Down, and Suttles Lays Low.
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As the spill in the gulf continues to spread, how credible are the major players? Here's a guide to those closest to the ongoing disaster and who is believable and who isn't.
Newsweek Al Gore and his wife Tipper always seemed slightly mismatched.
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They were an odd couple from the start, a teenage romance that tried—and, after 40 years, failed—to bridge the divides that were inherent in it from the start: political versus nonpolitical Washington; pure, driven ambition versus another day at the beach; a need to internalize and intellectualize v...
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Unmanned drone attacks are inspiring
homegrown terror.
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Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad says he was driven by anger over dozens of unmanned drone attacks that he witnessed during his most recent five-month visit to his home in Pakistan.
Newsweek Plugging Oil Leak Won't Stop Political Fallout
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The flow of oil may soon end, but the political and environmental fallout is just getting started. More ›
Newsweek Gary Coleman passes away at 42
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Gary Coleman’s name became a stand-alone punchline, but that was no fault of his own. Granted, there was some unpleasantness later in his life by his own doing, but he had already made his biggest mistake, which was becoming a child star to begin with. Is there any other arc for child stars?
Newsweek Why this year’s U.S. Senate midterms are shaping up a lot like 1980, when Republicans picked up 12 seats. Half of them lasted only one term.
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Calculating the impact of the BP spill on the midterm elections is almost as hard as measuring the flow of oil from the hole in the ocean floor. Everybody’s got their own assessment. As President Obama scrambled to prevent the burgeoning ecological crisis from turning into a political nightmare, lat...
Newsweek BP Disaster Plan Lacked Realistic Solutions
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Before flooding the gulf with oil, BP’s plan to handle a disaster was alarmingly short on solutions.
