NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS: Highlights and Exclusives, Nov. 14, 2005 Issue

r> COVER: How Women Lead (All overseas editions). It has been about 30 years since women first started entering the workplace in large numbers. There is now a critical mass of women in leadership positions. It's a good time to see how they've changed the workplace as they've climbed the ladder, writes Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz. For this special report on women and leadership, Newsweek talks to eight prominent women-including Oprah Winfrey, Marin Alsop and Laurence Parisot-about their lives and the lessons they've learned. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051106/NYSU005 ) Made In America. Immigrant women are steadily carving out space for themselves in the world's biggest economies, reports Special Correspondent Sarah Childress. In the past decade, the number of immigrant women business owners in the United States exploded by nearly 200 percent, according to a study by the Immigration Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The Company of Women. Women account for more than 30 percent of Xerox's corporate officers and middle managers, and the company is routinely ranked among the best places for women to work. National Correspondent Daniel McGinn looks at Xerox's "kinder culture" that has enabled women to excel. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937715/site/newsweek/ Qaeda Prison Break. Last week, Pentagon officials were forced to admit that one of the four alleged jihadists who escaped from Bagram air base, home to one of the most heavily fortified military prisons in the world, was not who they said he was. One escapee was actually Omar al-Faruq, a well-known al Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia who had been handed over to the Americans by Indonesian authorities in 2002, reports Senior Editor Michael Hirsh. Coming at a time when America's detention policies in the global war on terror are under fire-in Washington and around the world-Faruq's disappearance raises new questions about whether a system with so little transparency can continue. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9939785/site/newsweek/ The Five This Time. The French government has been shaken, and badly, by its inability to contain the metastasizing anger spreading through the country's many Muslim ghettos. The violence is stripping away whatever comfortable assumptions existed about the authorities' ability to cope, reports Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey. Decades of French policies intended to force the integration of immigrants and their children- and children's children-into French society have failed, and in the age of terror, the fear is that rage like this will swell the ranks of radical Islamists in the heart of Europe. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9938406/site/newsweek/ What Sarko Did Wrong. Now that the government has abolished proximity policing in the destitute banlieues of Paris and other French cities, the police are present only in force, either chasing petty thieves and drug dealers or conducting random identity checks, writes Olivier Roy, senior researcher at France's National Center for Scientific Research, in a guest essay. Many youngsters see this as racial harrasment. Abolishing proximity policing has had another negative side effect: a loss of intelligence and knowledge about the neighborhoods, and hence the authorities' ability to fine- tune their response to a crisis by targeting the real trouble-makers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9938405/site/newsweek/ In the Cheney Bunker. In his time of need, Vice President Dick Cheney has elevated David Addington, a loyal acolyte, to be his new chief of staff. Addington is a classic Washington type: The most powerful man you've never heard of, report Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Klaidman and Correspondent Michael Isikoff. As Cheney's counsel, Addington was one of the most forceful voices for tough treatment of terror suspects. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9938956/site/newsweek/ Rethinking Arafat. The United States, backed in the end by Europe, came to view former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat as the main reason for Palestinian dysfunction-corruption, administrative incompetence and chronic conflict with Israel. But a year after his death, Palestinians still face rising unemployment, crippling travel restrictions, bureaucratic ineptitude and street violence that has only grown worse, reports Special Correspondent Dan Ephron. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937713/site/newsweek/ Bad Dates In Baghdad. Dating in Iraq takes all the determination, ingenuity and nerve that a young couple can muster, reports Baghdad Correspondent Babak Dehghanpisheh. The risk of insurgent attacks is only part of the problem. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937612/site/newsweek/ Sri Lanka's Last Chance. The former Ceylon has failed miserably to live up to its glowing postcolonial promise, given a series of economic and political errors over the years and a bitter, budget-busting bloodbath between the ethnic Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. The Nov. 17 presidential elections may be crucial, writes South Asia Correspondent Ron Moreau. Current Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse wants to proceed cautiously on the peace front. Opponent Ranil Wickremesinghe believes in a rapid return to peace talks and advocates a federalist solution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937017/site/newsweek/ Freedom Is Not Enough. Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist Amartya Sen's theory that democracies can manage food crises better than repressive one- party states makes perfect sense. But the theory has one problem, writes Africa Bureau Chief Joshua Hammer. Malawi has had a multiparty system and a free press since 1994, and has had several food crises since then. Yet the country rarely experienced a food crisis under the repressive Banda regime, which lasted 30 years. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9939784/site/newsweek/ Wal-Mart Hits the Wall. Wal-Mart, the world's largest employer, has faced much criticism over the years. Now, a recently leaked internal memo about its health-care policies and scathing documentary by anti-Wal-Mart activists could give the retailer a sort of Nightmare Before Christmas, reports National Correspondent Daniel McGinn. Wal-Mart is also facing dozens of lawsuits, and its stock price has declined sharply in recent years. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9938407/site/newsweek/ The Business of the Flu. Even if avian flu doesn't morph into a pandemic, the global push to improve vaccines is widely expected to bring radical changes to the vaccine business, reports Special Correspondent Alexandra Seno. The long-overdue overhaul of the beleaguered business may translate into better days ahead for manufacturers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937031/site/newsweek/ FAREED ZAKARIA: "Pssst ... Nobody Loves a Torturer." There's a way for President Bush to improve his image abroad and at home, and it has the additional virtue of being the right thing to do. It's simple; clearly and forcefully end the administration's disastrous experimentation with officially sanctioned torture, suggests Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria. What angers friends of America is not that abuses like those at Abu Ghraib happened. What angers them is that no one beyond a few "little people" have been punished, the system has not been overhauled, and even now, after all that has happened, the White House is spending time, effort and precious political capital in a strange, stubborn and surely futile quest to preserve the option to torture. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9939154/site/newsweek/

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