NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/June 11, 2007 Issue (On Newsstands Monday, June 4)

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/June 11, 2007 Issue (On Newsstands Monday, June 4)

COVER: "After Bush. How to Restore America's Place in the World" (p.22).

Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes an essay about restoring America's place in the world after the Bush administration hands the reins over to a new president. Zakaria also discusses presidential hopefuls and his hopes that they will not make the same mistakes of the past or follow the same route as the Bush administration. As a whole, the United States needs to move past its fear of being attacked by terrorists and focus on how to best respond and bounce back. "To recover its place in the world, America needs to recover its confidence," Zakaria writes.

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INTERNATIONAL: "The Lady and the Veep" (p. 30). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball report that although U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is steering the administration back toward diplomacy regarding Iran, a Newsweek investigation shows that Vice President Dick Cheney's national-security team has been actively challenging Rice's multilateral strategy toward Iran. Rice insisted in an interview that her relationship with Cheney himself is good. "The vice president has never been somebody who tries to [undermine others] on the sidelines, behind the scenes. He really doesn't," she says.

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"The Times Are Different" (p. 32). Rice says she'd be "very happy with institution-building" as her legacy, even though the classic legacy of a secretary of State's tenure is the big breakthrough agreement. "And I think people underestimate the development side [of the administration's policies], and disease prevention. Particularly in Africa ... [like] the AIDS initiative, which I think has changed the international response to treating disease. But I wouldn't rule out still that we would push very hard forward on Middle East issues, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian issue."

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MIDDLE EAST: "Unwanted Attention" (p. 33). Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Dan Ephron reports on the push to protect the rights of Arab bloggers. In recent months, regimes from Tunisia to Iran have jailed bloggers and intimidated others into ditching their keyboards. Syrian blogger Ammar Abdulhamid, and another blogger known as Sandmonkey, have met with government and nongovernment figures in Washington, D.C., to gather support for a committee, tentatively named the Voice Initiative, that will help protect Arab bloggers facing state harassment by mobilizing political pressure in Western capitals and providing legal support.

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POLITICS: "Obama's Voice Problem" (p. 36). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe reports on presidential hopeful Barack Obama's public-speaking challenges. Obama, who is at his best when doing grass-roots work, comes off as out of place in the high-pressure arena of the campaign trail. Rather than take a page from previous presidential contenders who turned to professional consultants, Obama is working to stay true to himself and turning to the people for guidance.

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HOWARD FINEMAN: "The Unsilent Treatment" (p. 37). Senior Washington Correspondent and Columnist Howard Fineman writes that after Newt Gingrich denounced President Bush as a hopeless incompetent, the news wasn't what he said, but the silence that followed. Karl Rove not only didn't call Gingrich on the carpet, he did not call at all. None of the GOP's 2008 candidates defended Bush, whose name they rarely utter in any context, anywhere. Gingrich's bombing run signals a new twist in the GOP's every-man-for-himself '08 survival strategy: it may not be enough to ignore Bush; you may need to attack him to prove your bona fides to the public at large.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS: "A Long, Strange TB Trip" (p. 38). Washington Correspondents Eve Conant and Pat Wingert report on the case of Andrew Speaker, known to the world now as the man who flew to Europe last month despite being told he was infected with an active, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Speaker says the stories about him are wrong. "There's a perception that I haphazardly put people at risk. It's not true," he tells Newsweek.

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FAMILY: "Indecent Exposure?" (p. 49). Chicago Correspondent Karen Springen looks at the debate over breast-feeding in public and how, even with acknowledgement by formula manufacturers that breast milk is best for a child, a U.S. government study found that 48 percent of women said they would feel uncomfortable nursing in public. Out of concern that not enough women are breast-feeding, a growing number of states are passing protective laws and policies.

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JUSTICE: "Bodies Wanted" (p. 50). Assistant Editor Raina Kelley reports on a grim but invaluable place in Knoxville, Tenn., that has been helping forensic scientists unlock the mysteries of human decomposition since 1981: the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility. The Facility is the current resting place for hundreds of corpses that are subjected to conditions like being left in a car trunk or left out in the open. The purpose is to help scientists better understand what happens to the human body after it dies and the findings have helped close previously unsolvable murders.

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HEALTH: "It's Called 'Sexsomnia'" (p. 53). Correspondent Anne Underwood reports on the embarrassing and often problematic sleeping disorder called "sleep sex." The disorder, which was only recognized by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2005, falls under the list of behaviors called parasomnias, which range from sleep driving to sleep eating. Likened to an advanced form of sleepwalking, people with this disorder exhibit the full gamut of sexual activity. The patients, however, apparently have no conscious awareness of what they're doing and no recollection of it afterward.

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CULTURE: "Where Harry Met Tony" (p. 56). Senior Editor Malcolm Jones writes that the differences between boy wizard Harry Potter and the Mafia family head Tony Soprano are not as great as one would think. Aside from the huge following both characters have, there are some pretty striking similarities between the two, including their roles as uneasy protagonists in their respective dramas. Maybe the biggest thing the two have in common is that both of their problems are in lock step with problems everyone has faced growing up and face on a daily basis.

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"It's Not TV-It's HB Uh-Oh" (p. 60). Senior Writer Devin Gordon reports on HBO's plans to fill the void that will be left at the end of The Sopranos, and getting past its CEO troubles. Five original series are scheduled to begin over the next year, including its predicted new hit, "12 Miles of Bad Road" about a wealthy Texas family. The comedy will star Lily Tomlin and will feature what HBO hopes will be the next great family, the Shakespeares, who buy 30-foot naval destroyers to use as fishing boats and thank the Lord during Grace for "our incredible acreage."

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THE TIP SHEET: "Going Green at Work" (p. 73). General Editor Anna Kuchment suggests some options for those wondering about ways to become more environmentally conscious at work. A growing number of organizations and services are providing easily accessible ideas from basic steps such as recycling, to where to buy ecofriendly office supplies. Environmentalism has even led some to whole new careers.

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