Rove New Newsweek Columnist

American Voices

November 19, 2007 | ISSUE 43•47

Newsweek magazine hired the president's former deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, as a columnist last week. What do you think?

His insights into the presidential race will be invaluable. I wonder if he thinks McCain should be backstabbed or just trash-talked?

Alan Baker
Systems Analyst
I wonder if it still counts as planting stories when you're doing it in your own column.

Julie Pertwee
Nutritionist
Karl Rove is the last person I want to get sex advice from.

Dave Troughton
Mover

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
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05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

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A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
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05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

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05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.