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THIS WEEK @ USNEWS
Highlights from the magazine and usnews.com
Dec. 16, 2003
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END OF THE ROAD (Web Exclusive)
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!"
--Paul Bremer, announcing the capture of Saddam Hussein
His image, strong and virile, gazed from countless buildings when he ruled Iraq like
his personal fiefdom. In his gleaming palaces, he greeted courtiers and diplomats in
hand-cut suits and beautiful silk ties. After he rebuilt ancient Babylon, his name was
engraved in gleaming stone alongside those of Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi. But when
he emerged from his fetid spider-hole on Saturday, Saddam Hussein resembled nothing so
much as one of those fairy-tale trolls who live under bridges, his lank hair tangled
and greasy, his grey-streaked beard a thicket that looked like an old scrub brush.
Saddam Hussein was captured Saturday night in a raid near his hometown of Tikrit:
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JESUS IN AMERICA (Cover Story)
"One way you figure out your place in America is figuring out what you think about
Jesus."
--Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University and
author of a new book, "American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon"
As two new scholarly studies show, for more than two centuries Americans have been
busy recasting the image of Jesus to suit contemporary sensibilities and to advance
personal or political agendas. From the revivalist sermons of the 19th century's
Second Great Awakening to the '70s rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" to Mel
Gibson's forthcoming film depicting Christ's Passion, those engaged in representing
Jesus always claim to be returning to the real Galilean.
Behind the wild success of The Da Vinci Code lies a centuries-old urge to recapture
the original Jesus:
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BUSH'S SECRETS (Investigative Report)
"I think they have an overreliance on the utility of secrecy. They don't seem to
realize secrecy is a two-edge sword that cuts you as well as protects you."
--Steven Garfinkel, a retired government lawyer and expert on classified information
about the Bush administration
For the past three years, the Bush administration has quietly but efficiently dropped
a shroud of secrecy across many critical operations of the federal
government--cloaking its own affairs from scrutiny and removing from the public domain
important information on health, safety, and environmental matters. The result has
been a reversal of a decades-long trend of openness in government while making
increasing amounts of information unavailable to the taxpayers who pay for its
collection and analysis.
The administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye, far more than
has been documented. Here's how�and why:
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WHO KILLED ANNA MAE? (Special Report)
"Had this been a white person in the Republican Party, they would have solved it right
away."
--Roger Amiotte, an Indian cattle rancher who found Anna Mae's body at the bottom of a
30-foot ravine
In the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff was Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. Though not
yet 30, Anna Mae was one of a very few women prominent within the American Indian
Movement, and her dedication to the cause made her a larger-than-life figure. But
ultimately Anna Mae found that life on the Pine Ridge reservation could be
frighteningly cheap. In December 1975, she was killed with a gunshot to the back of
the head. And an enduring mystery was born.
Two years after the 1973 Wounded Knee siege, an Indian activist was shot in a South
Dakota ravine. At last, her murder is going to trial:
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PILL PROFITS (Money & Business)
"With such a combination of pressure and opportunity, sparks are going to fly."
--Barrie James, a pharmaceutical marketing consultant
Sometime shortly after the eggnog washes down the last of the pumpkin pie this holiday
season, Americans can expect an aggressive advertising campaign warning them of the
dangers of high cholesterol. If the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements for Lipitor
and Zocor haven't driven home the ability of statin drugs to lower levels of the
artery-clogging goo yet, expect AstraZeneca's Crestor to add to the noise level.
Drugmakers gird for a multibillion-dollar marketing war over cholesterol-lowering
drugs while consumers try to sort through the hype:
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AN ELECTION...FOR A SHERIFF (Editorial)
"How does an open and disputatious democracy (i.e. us) deal with a ruthless group of
radical Islamists?"
--Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-in-chief
For the first time since the Vietnam era's presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972,
foreign policy will dominate a presidential election as it hasn't done through
successive convulsions from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the first Gulf War.
The slogan that captured American politics in 1992 was "It's the economy, stupid." In
1996, fewer than 5 percent voted on the basis of foreign policy.
Why terrorism, and America's role as global superpower, will affect the way we vote
next year:
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