MEDIA LEAD SHEET/AUGUST 18-25 2008 DOUBLE ISSUE (on newsstands Monday, August 11, 2008). To book correspondents, contact Grace Huh at 212-445-5831-Grace.Huh@Newsweek.com- or Jan Angilella at 212-445-5638-Jan.Angilella@Newsweek.com. Read the issue and Web exclusives at www.Newsweek.com.  **This issue will remain on newsstands for two weeks.

COVER: What Bush Got Right (p. 22). Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria examines the Bush administration's successes in American foreign policy, while also noting its failures.

"Bush's basic conception of a 'global War on Terror,' to take but the most obvious example, has been poorly thought-through, badly implemented, and has produced many unintended costs that will linger for years if not decades. But blanket criticism of Bush misses an important reality."  He writes that for "whatever reasons and through whichever path, the foreign policies in place now are more sensible, moderate and mainstream.  In many cases the next president should follow rather than reverse them."  He writes that the foreign policies that aroused the greatest anger and opposition were mostly pursued in Bush's first term. "In the last few years, many of these policies have been modified, abandoned or reversed. This has happened without acknowledgment-which is partly what drives critics crazy-and it's often been done surreptitiously. It doesn't reflect a change of heart so much as an admission of failure; the old way simply wasn't working."

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CHINA: "Rise of the Sea Turtles" (p. 28). Beijing Bureau Chief Melinda Liu and Special Correspondent Daniel Hewitt report on the growing number of Chinese residents who are living overseas and then returning to China, what the Chinese call a hai gui-"sea turtle." In the West there's long been an assumption that this cohort would import Western values along with their iPods. They were envisioned as the bridge to a more open, liberal, Western-friendly China. That daydream got a cold bath during the torch relay this spring, when furious Chinese students in the West showed they could be even more jingoistic than Chinese who had never left home.

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BUSINESS: "The Predators' Ball" (p.  32).  Senior Editor Michael Hirsh reports that Georgia, under former Gov. Roy Barnes, had the toughest antipredatory lending law in the country. The 2002 law made everyone up the line, including investment banks on Wall Street and rating agencies like Standard & Poors, legally liable if the loans they sold, securitized or rated were deemed unfair. Then it was gutted in 2003 after a Republican senator warned that Freddie Mac was about to cut off most of its business with the state. The saga of Roy Barnes's failed effort to protect Georgia from the subprime  disaster is a reminder that states' rights can still be a good idea.

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ENVIRONMENT: "The Pickens Profile You Haven't Read" (p. 34).  San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau talks to T. Boone Pickens, the oilman and onetime corporate raider reborn as green wildcatter and the Web's first senior blog star. His ads urge Americans to log on to his Web site and demand that Washington overhaul the country's energy infrastructure. "The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth."

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SCIENCE: "But I Did Everything Right!" (p. 40). Senior Editor and Columnist Sharon Begley writes about a recent discovery connecting DNA and children's behavior, that is part of what is fast becoming the newest frontier in studies of why children turn out as they do. After years of ignoring children who don't turn out the way the experts promise, a few scientists now realize that they are telling us something that promises to revolutionize our understanding of child development. 

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EXCERPT: "HOW TO GET INTO COLLEGE GUIDE 2009: The Top Twelve Rivalries"  (p. 45).  Contributing Editor Jay Mathews, in this list of 12 intense rivalries between high-quality institutions, writes that intense competition still has importance in the college-admissions process. These rivals are continually trying to differentiate themselves for applicants who wonder which of two or three very similar and high-performing schools might be best for them. We've picked 11 pairs and one trio of colleges whose strengths are so great and resemblances so compelling that careful comparison is necessary to sort out which schools work best for which applicants. Some of the rivals: Michigan vs. Ohio State,  film schools at USC vs. NYU.

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"New Financial-Aid Rules Offer Middle-Class Relief"  (p. 53). Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores reports that Harvard's recent major restructuring of financial aid resonated far beyond its walls. Within months, several other Ivies and well-endowed schools publicized their own aid overhauls aimed at middle- and upper-middle-income families overwhelmed by the spiraling cost of higher education. The reactions were all over the map, some hailing the move as enlightened, others charging the university was acting out of self-interest. Wherever observers have come down on the issue, one effect is clear: the financial-aid landscape has inexorably shifted.

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THE ARTS: "Take the Bananas And Run" (p. 56). Associate Editor Jennie Yabroff talks to Woody Allen about his upcoming movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and about his views on life. At 72, Allen says he stills lies awake at night, terrified of the void. He talks about why he makes movies: they're a great diversion, he says,  "because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

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TIP SHEET: "Fussy Kid, Flustered Mom" (p. 60).  Correspondent Anne Underwood offers some advice for parents of children who are finicky eaters. Be persistent-children need to try a new food 10 to 15 times before they will accept it;  don't force kids to eat; don't bribe kids-promising ice cream as a reward for eating broccoli only fuels the suspicion that there's something wrong with the broccoli; and relax-if the meal becomes a power struggle, you're likely to lose.

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AMERICAN GEEK: "You Don't Have To Be a Nerd" (p. 66). General Editor N'Gai Croal writes that the players of videogames, most notably the Nintendo Wii, have moved from the margins of the industry to the center. "This is happening at the same time that geek tastes have taken center stage in other areas of pop culture: witness the summer movie schedule, which looks like new-release Wednesdays at your local comic-book shop."

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