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...Several years ago, a reporter named Gregory Vistica, who worked for Newsweek at the time, got wind of a big story. A former commander had heard from a troubled SEAL that his unit, led by the young Kerrey, had been involved in a Vietnam raid that went horribly wrong. Vistica pursued the tale until he turned up the Navy's dusty "after action" reports on the events of Feb. 25, 1969, in the isolated peasant village of Thanh Phong. Late in 1998, when Kerrey was contemplating a second run for the presidency, the reporter put those 30-year-old documents...
...love; a close friend his age died. "He was starting to look at his life in a lot of different ways," says Steve Jarding, his chief political operative at the time. In late 1998, Kerrey considered another White House run in 2000, then decided against it. As a result, Newsweek opted not to publish Vistica's story. "There's something going on in your psyche," Jarding told Kerrey, "that says you don't want to be here." Four months ago, he left the Senate to become president of the New School University in New York City; he and second wife...
...foreigners from meddling in Russia's affairs. Ted Turner, the American founder of cnn who was prepared to buy Gusinsky's stake in NTV, is now likely to drop out of the deal following Gazprom's boardroom takeover that forced more than 300 staffers to walk out in protest. Newsweek severed ties with the freshly purged Itogi - which the American magazine had helped publish since 1996 - and asked the reconstituted periodical to stop using the Newsweek logo. Western governments scrambled to find creative ways of gently expressing their unqualified outrage. The European Union's envoy to Moscow murmured that...
...other feature we're debuting this week is Global Agenda, Michael Elliott's new weekly column. Elliott, who lives in New York, is one of the great journalistic talents of our time, having held top jobs at the Economist, Newsweek and, most recently, eCountries. Over the years he has also served as a law professor, a civil servant and a TV documentary filmmaker. The column will focus on the global economy and how it's changing all of our lives. This week's effort starts with news of a recent catamaran circumnavigation and ends up making some insightful observations about...
...Global Agenda, a new weekly column by former Economist and Newsweek editor Michael Elliott...