NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/October 15, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, October 8)

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/October 15, 2007 Issue (on newsstands Monday, October 8)

COVER: "Women & Power" (p. 46). Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz opens this third installment of Newsweek's "Women & Leadership" series with an essay on powerful women in history, most notably Elizabeth I, who became one of the most powerful and respected leaders in history. This year, as Americans contemplate making Sen. Hillary Clinton our first female president, it is instructive to look back at Elizabeth and other women who wielded power long before the age of speechwriters, personal stylists and YouTube campaigning. From her coronation in 1559 until her death nearly 45 years later, Elizabeth guided England with great skill. In the Newsweek cover package, women in leadership positions, including Arianna Huffington, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and TV host and cookbook author Rachael Ray, tell their stories of how they achieved success, the obstacles they overcame and the lessons they learned.

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"Now This Is Women's Work" (p. 66). San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau looks at the number of women in powerful political positions around the country, and profiles two governors -- Sarah Palin of Alaska and Janet Napolitano of Arizona. While the buzz has been about Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, women leaders like Palin and Napolitano have gained significant power in the lives of millions of Americans at the state level. Seven states elected or re-elected women governors in the last year and next year women will run for the statehouse in North Carolina and Indiana. A decade ago only 16 women in U.S. history had served as governor. Today that number stands at 29.

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"'You Do What You Have to Do'" (p. 72). National Correspondent Allison Samuels talks to Lilly Tartikoff and Holly Robinson Peete about their philanthropic ventures. Tartikoff found visibility during her marriage to NBC programmer Brandon Tartikoff. Robinson Peete appeared on the show "21 Jump Street." The two women endured the death of a loved one and both are raising children with disabilities. Now both have turned their personal pain into public good, raising money and awareness of the problems that transformed their families.

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IRAQ: "'Strong Like Saddam'" (p. 26). Jerusalem Bureau Chief Kevin Peraino, on assignment in Iraq, reports on the system in Iraq of empowering regional strongmen as a way to keep peace. Critics of the system say it's creating a warlord state in Iraq. At best, the breakdown into local fiefdoms is not necessarily consistent with political reconciliation at the center, the strategic goal of U.S. diplomats. At worst, power struggles among local leaders could erupt into all-out civil war.

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TERROR: "Disorder in the Court" (p. 31). Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Dan Ephron reports on the status of Col. Morris Davis, chief Guantanamo Bay prosecutor for the past two years who just submitted his letter of resignation to the Office of Military Commissions. Davis has endured more than his fair share of abuse in the position, suffering a series of setbacks in the quest to bring terrorist suspects to trial in military commissions. Last week he lost a turf battle with a superior officer, the latest sign of disarray in a legal system that critics say is close to dysfunctional.

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CHINA: "China's New Guard" (p. 32). Beijing Bureau Chief Melinda Liu and Special Correspondent Jonathan Ansfield report on a young new generation of Chinese leaders who could transform China's Communist Party. Next week, more than 2,000 select Chinese Communist Party cadres will gather for a pivotal meeting at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. The No. 1 item on this party's agenda is the advancement of China's future leaders, the people that could be China's best hope for political change.

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POLITICS: "Would You Buy a Used Hawk From This Man?" (p. 36). Senior Editor Michael Hirsh reports on the number of neocons who have signed up as foreign-policy advisers to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. What's left of the neocon movement does seem to be converging around the Giuliani campaign, to some degree, because he embraces their common themes: a willingness to use military power, a tendency to group all radical Islamist groups together as a common enemy, strong support for Israel and an aggressive posture toward Iran.

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EDUCATION: "To Catch a Cheat" (p. 41). Senior Writer Peg Tyre reports on the intense pressure on schools to raise test scores and how some teachers and administrators are being snared for gaming-and sometimes outright cheating on-standardized tests. Under the six-year-old No Child Left Behind law, scores on statewide exams have become the single yardstick by which school success is measured. Struggling schools are being penalized-and some are even slated to be taken over if tests scores fail to rise. Teachers are under pressure to show that kids are learning more, and if they do that, even by fudging the results they can help their borderline school survive.

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BUSINESS: "Out of Bounds" (p. 42). Senior Writer Johnnie L. Roberts reports on Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan and his sports empire in the aftermath of the federal trial in which they have been ordered to pay $11.6 million in damages to former employee Anucha Browne Sanders. As depicted in the lawsuit, Dolan's Garden has become for women a sweaty, X-rated men's locker room, resounding with slurs and crass solicitations of sexual favors. A similar case brought by a cheerleader for the New York Rangers is coming soon. What's left to be seen is if James' father Chuck, who built the empire, will lower the boom on his son.

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"We're Not Gonna Take It" (p. 44). National Correspondent Allison Samuels writes that it was a brave thing for Browne Sanders to stand up and demand an end to the kind of abuse African-American women regularly tolerate from some black men. "Our community is reluctant to talk openly about the problem of black men mistreating black women. Our leaders will rise up in unison against Don Imus for his detestable slur against the Rutgers women's basketball team. Yet they remain silent when Isiah Thomas says it's less offensive for a black man to call a black woman 'bitch' than it is for a white man," she writes.

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TELEVISION: "Snide and Prejudice" (p. 84). Assistant Editor Joshua Alston reviews two new sitcoms -- "Cavemen" and "Aliens in America" -- that employ racial and cultural differences as a means of exploring what it means to be an outsider. The shows don't work because the subtlety required to explore racial dynamics doesn't mix well with the broad strokes required of a network sitcom. The result is two shows about intolerance that feel intolerant in their worst moments.

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THE WEST: "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (p. 86). Special Correspondent Tony Dokupil reports on a competition in Texas aimed at saving mustang horses. Extreme Mustang Makeover gives 100 trainers 100 days to break in 100 wild horses, plucked from free-roaming herds in the American West. The competition is part of a more serious problem: keeping range lands from being overgrazed by a horse population that, if left unchecked, doubles every four years. By showing off these animals, the government hopes to increase public interest in owning them, possibly saving them from slaughter.

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