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Journalists strive to be??influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured...
Where would we be??without report cards? They help schools rank students--and, increasingly, teachers--and are used to evaluate everything from automobiles to laptops to corporate workplaces. But the medical profession has long been reluctant to publish specific data on infection rates, surgical complications or medication errors that would help the public decide which doctors or hospitals do a better job of caring for their patients...
...Be??careful what you wish for, Mr. President. Now that he has won re-election, the bloody mess in Iraq remains George W. Bush's No. 1 responsibility and the one most likely to define his presidential legacy. The British experience occupying the country in the 1920s offers unhappy instruction. That expedition's commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute...
Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be??the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
...heading. The list does not include many outstanding Americans who lead in the arts. The visionary architect, the composer, the actor, for example, may all make distinguished contributions to the quality of American life. But TIME was looking for people whose effect upon the society was?and will be???more tangible and direct...