Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/11/2019 i Newsweek International

1968  “Head shaven, gold teeth glistening and torso shining, onstage James Earl Jones is at least twice as large as life,” Newsweek wrote of Jones’ groundbreaking performance in The Great White Hope. His portrayal of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, was “one of those rare instances of the right man in the right vehicle at the right time” mirroring the “tragedy of the American black man.” Jones once told Newsweek, “I might even become a star… but I’ll never be a rich actor.” Fifty years later, Jones’ rich, seven-decade long career marks him as one of the greatest actors in American history. 1999 “They are a generation stuck on fast forward, in a fearsome hurry to grow up,” Newsweek said of “tweens,” the liminal life-stage between childhood and…

ON THE DAY HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI SAID she would allow an impeachment investigation to commence, Donald Trump at first was “gleefully defiant,” say two of his aides. He would release a transcript of his controversial phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, showing—as he put it in a press conference at the United Nations on September 25—that there was “no pressure” and no quid pro quo. He just wanted dirt from Ukraine about one of his main political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, but didn’t offer anything in return. What could be wrong with that? When it became clear that the Ukraine controversy would become the centerpiece of an impeachment effort, his glee turned to anger, the aides say. And those who know Trump best know what that…

$280 v. $50 A one five-pen carton of Lantus, an insulin made by Sanofi, costs about $280 in the U.S. and only €45 ($50.60) in France. The proportion of adults who report not taking their prescribed medicines at some point due to cost. 1/10th How much less insulin costs in Canada compared to the U.S. Double How much insulin in the U.S. rose over 4 years, increasing from $2,864 per type 1 diabetes patient in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016. $455,900,000,000 U.S. prescription sales in 2017. This number is expected to reach $640 billion by 2020. $ 27  The retail monthly cost of the HIV medication Truvada in Australia. The same drug costs $1,780 in the U.S. 60% → How much brand name drugs have increased in price since 2014.…

It WAS A WARM NOVEMBER MORNING when 14-year-old Jolman Perez Lopez crept out of his family’s home in Corquín, Honduras, and disappeared without a trace. Saying goodbye to his family would have been too painful—besides, he knew that as soon as his father woke up and found him missing, he would know exactly where he had gone. “Around here,” his dad, Julio Perez, tells Newsweek while sitting on the porch of the house he built for his family, “many people have left.” Across the fields of coffee plantations that surround his home, dozens of houses just like his sit empty. “At least 80 families have gone,” Perez says. “They lost everything and they had to leave...and right now, we’re in the same boat.” Like most of the families in Corquín,…

“When you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value.”—ACTOR MICHELLE WILLIAMS “LAST TIME I TRAVELED TO THE UNITED STATES...I STAYED AT THE TRUMP TOWER.”—UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP “This is not the way everybody behaves. The degree of self-dealing... is so egregious, and it comes at a time when you've got...folks across the country looking out at Silicon Valley and wondering if there's the appropriate level of self-awareness.”—FORMER TWITTER CEO DICK COSTOLO ON WEWORK’S CEO, WHO SINCE STEPPED DOWN “That's real smart strategy, Democratic leftists, that's real smart strategy. Mock and make fun of everybody who believes that God is powerful.”—2020 democratic presidential candidate marianne williamson “THERE IS GREAT WORK TO BE DONE; WE HAVE NO…

“WHEN I GOT THE FIRST ROUND OF MATERIALS, I REMEMBER MY BLOOD started boiling, my adrenaline was pumping, my cheeks started flushing and my chest got really red.” Marie Adler’s true story of being charged with lying about being raped had a visceral effect on two-time Emmy award-winning actress Merritt Wever, who plays Detective Karen Duvall in Unbelievable, now streaming on Netflix. She’s joined by Oscar-nominated actress Toni Collette and Kaitlyn Dever in the new series based on “The Unbelievable Story of Rape,” a 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning article. It’s not until two female detectives team up to take down a serial rapist that the truth about the teenager finally comes out. Wever’s compassion is unmistakable from her first scene. “I did so much research about the right way to investigate…