MEDIA LEAD SHEET/JUNE 23, 2008 ISSUE (on newsstands Monday June 16). To book correspondents, contact Brenda Velez at 212-445-4078-Brenda.Velez@Newsweek.com, Grace Huh at 445-5831-Grace.Huh@Newsweek.com-or Jan Angilella at 445-5638-Jan.Angilella@Newsweek.com. Articles are posted on www.Newsweek.com.

COVER: "What Would Winston Do?"   (p. 22). Newsweek examines the appeasement debate that has surfaced in the 2008 presidential campaign by looking back at Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, and what leaders should take away from the decisions made during World War II. The Republicans say that if you vote for Barack Obama, you may get another Munich; the Democrats say that if you vote for John McCain, you may get another Vietnam. "The Munich and Vietnam analogies are, of course, closely linked. Arguably, the fear of appeasement, of not standing up to the communists, was the single most important factor in dragging America into Vietnam. In recent years, American politics has been trapped by both clichés. It is worth examining just how one dangerous trope led to another-and how the overreaction to both has repeatedly led America astray abroad," Newsweek writes.

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CAMPAIGN 2008: "Aiming To Avoid the Dole-drums" (p. 34). White House Correspondent Holly Bailey reports on the lessons John McCain learned in 1996 when he was one of Bob Dole's top surrogates in the campaign against Bill Clinton. McCain watched as the Democrats successfully transformed the image of the former Senate majority leader, once known for his consensus-building and dry wit, into an old, humorless Washington insider who couldn't deliver real change. Now McCain finds himself returning to some old arguments. Two weeks ago in New Orleans, McCain declared that Obama "hasn't been willing to make the tough calls to challenge his party. I have." In response, Obama has called McCain a "creature of Washington" who is too entrenched to offer real change-a line Clinton frequently used against Dole 12 years ago.

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SURROGATES: "She Had Such Nice Things to Say" (p. 36). Senior Writer and Political Correspondent Jonathan Darman reports on how former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has turned into John McCain's most energetic female surrogate. Fiorina recently spoke to Women for Fair Politics, a coalition of Ohio Hillary Clinton supporters formed to protest what they see as an injustice done to Hillary by the Democratic Party.  Wooing women could be McCain's most important task. Fiorina is eager to be his ambassador, using her legendary communications skills to soften McCain's image.

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POLITICS: "Everywhere and Beyond" (p. 37). Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe reports on Paul Tewes, who led Barack Obama's winning campaign in Iowa and is now head of the Democratic Party's massive national field operation to elect Obama. In the coming weeks, he will lead the effort to put the national party under the Obama campaign's control. The idea is to re-create the kind of success he had in Iowa, but on a much larger scale.

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JUSTICE: "Overplaying Its Hand" (p. 38). Contributing Editor Stuart Taylor Jr. writes that when the Bush administration denied basic legal protections to the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in.  Detainees were not allowed to have defense lawyers in initial military hearings to determine their status as enemy combatants, or to see or rebut evidence deemed secret by the government. The Supreme Court ruled that terror detainees must be given full access to federal courts, under the ancient principle of habeas corpus, which roughly means that government cannot hold you without proving to the courts a legal basis for the detention.

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HEALTH FOR LIFE: "Your Lifestyle, Your Genes, And Cancer" (p. 40).  In this installment of the ongoing Health for Life series, Newsweek and Harvard Medical School look at the connection between cancer rates, lifestyle and genetics. The strongest evidence of the importance of lifestyle in cancer is that most common cancers arise at dramatically different rates in different parts of the globe. Several cancers that are extremely common in the U.S.-colon, prostate and breast cancer-are relatively rare in other parts of the world. Equally striking, when people migrate from other parts of the world to the U.S., within a generation their cancer rates approach those of us whose families have lived in this country for a long time. Even if people in other parts of the world stay put, but adopt a U.S. lifestyle, their risk of cancer rises. The main culprits seem to be the Western diet, obesity and physical inactivity.

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      "The Doctor Factor" (p. 44). Senior Writer Claudia Kalb reports that while researchers have made great strides in the science of cancer in recent years, oncologists are making progress in another area: caring. Practicing world-class medicine and humane treatment aren't mutually exclusive, says Dr. Lidia Schapira, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. "They're part of the same definition of a good cancer doctor." Talk to cancer patients who love their doctors-and, yes, the word "love" comes up frequently-and key themes begin to emerge: hope, trust, respect.

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      "'Some Kids Do Die'" (p. 48). General Editor Mary Carmichael reports on the success of the treatment of pediatric cancer in the past few years. Some forms of childhood cancer now have cure rates of 80 percent, an astonishing improvement on the 20 percent that was standard three decades ago. Dr. Holcombe Grier, clinical director of pediatric oncology at Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston, is one of the nation's top researchers on childhood cancer; his work has saved many lives. He has also made a point of encouraging colleagues to share their data and ideas-an openness that underlies almost all the recent success in the field.

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TELEVISION: "TV's Not-So-Great Pyramid" (p. 56). Chief Foreign Correspondent Rod Nordland reports on a documentary called "The Lost Pyramid," debuting on the History Channel, that follows a team of archeologists as they unearth Egypt's fourth Great Pyramid at Giza, which has been lost for years to the desert sands. The only problem is that Egyptologists have known about Djedefre's pyramid for years. It was discovered a century ago-or rediscovered, since tomb raiders and stonemasons had been picking it over for centuries.  The documentary is the latest entry in the competition among documentary makers to find the latest new old thing. 

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TIP SHEET: "Brides Go on a Budget In This Lousy Economy"  (p. 60). Correspondent Ashley R. Harris reports on ways brides are cutting costs but still putting on a big event.  They're cutting the guest list, using iPods instead of hiring DJs, faking their many-tiered cakes and even wearing a  "gently-used" wedding dress.

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