David A. Kaplan

Would the full might of social media have shifted sentiment in 1991?

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings will ignore the power grab that has turned the court into our government's most dangerous branch. But all the senators have to do is ask about one case—and it's not Roe v. Wade.

Twenty years ago to the day, I had my first dip into the turbulent waters that were George Steinbrenner's mind. We at NEWSWEEK were doing a cover story on the infamous and famous owner of the New York Yankees—the "George" who no more needed a last name than a king of England.

No. 2 pencils ready? Today's question: will the College Board's new Score Choice policy for the SAT, which lets students hide bad scores in their College Board records from universities, (a) lower anxiety for high-school students; (b) raise anxiety for some when they discover that a loophole allows admissions offices to override the policy; or (c) infuriate some colleges?

Make the losing league pay for A-Rod's divorce.

In a battle of egos on the high seas, size counts. Three Americans go at it to see who can build the ultimate sailing yacht.

It's been almost two decades since the last 'Indiana Jones' film. But I've been waiting even longer for Karen Allen.

Our guide to the congressional investigation of the leak scandal at a Silicon Valley icon.

As the fallout from the company's boardroom scandal continues, we look at 11 questions you may want answered.

Silicon Valley's Tom Perkins builds the largest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever made.

Hank Aaron's video tribute to Barry Bonds was the final act in an elaborately choreographed production by the San Francisco Giants. And it was a tribute to the adage "It never hurts to ask.""I would like to offer my congratulations to Barry Bonds on becoming baseball's career home-run leader," Aaron said in a surprise taped message played on the big video scoreboard at AT&T Park seconds after Bonds hit No. 756.

How the San Francisco Giants got Hank Aaron to record a video tribute to Barry Bonds.

The sultans would've loved Tom Perkins and he would've felt right at home with them, at least until he decided to kick some sand in their faces when they didn't appreciate his sense of humor.

To research a book about Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins, and the 287-foot modern clipper ship he'd just launched, I headed off for the superyacht's maiden voyage across the Mediterranean.

Walking around major League Baseball's recent winter meetings in Florida, Kim Ng might just as well have been one of the boys. While she may be the most prominent woman in the 30 executive offices of baseball's various teams, her colleagues no longer notice the novelty.

The attorney general of California may file civil charges as early as next week against Hewlett-Packard, NEWSWEEK has learned. Those civil charges would likely demand damages of at least several million dollars, says a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the office's plans; the official requested anonymity because of the ongoing nature of the investigations.

Congress tomorrow becomes the momentary center of the vortex swirling around Hewlett-Packard. Many of the major players in the now three-week-old corporate spying scandal are scheduled to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, says criminal indictments of Hewlett-Packard officials could come any day now in the wake of the spying scandal first disclosed by NEWSWEEK.

In a business saga, how Pattie Dunn's obsession with trying to root out the source of press reports ended with the covert tracking of directors' phone records.

The boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard continues to mesmerize government investigators and the American business community. After NEWSWEEK.com broke the news last week that HP's chairwoman had spied on her own board of directors in an effort to find out who was leaking stories to the press, a platoon of prosecutors and agencies have announced inquiries that could lead to indictments, civil lawsuits, new statutes and updated regulations.

Hewlett-Packard has scheduled an emergency board meeting this weekend, probably on Saturday, according to two sources close to the company.The session will focus on fallout from the news that HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn launched a probe into boardroom leaks to news organizations that included authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the records of phone calls made from directors' personal accounts, including home phone records.

The confrontation at Hewlett-Packard started innocently enough. Last January, the online technology site CNET published an article about the long-term strategy at HP, the company ranked No. 11 in the Fortune 500.

It's not as if he needs the royalties--but doesn't everybody want to be a novelist? Tom Perkins, at 73, is a titan of American business, even if few recognize his name.

Some campus wags say that succeeding in college is a whole lot easier than enduring the process to get in. That's got to be an exaggeration, as anybody knows who's taken organic chemistry or tried to figure out what that economics professor might be saying in the lecture hall.

A new Web site cheekily evaluates who's hot on the federal bench--and it's not talking about constitutional analysis. "The moment in American juris-prurience that you've all been waiting for is finally here," proclaims underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com, which nominates 12 women and nine men as "Superhotties of the Federal Judiciary." At the Supreme Court last Thursday, it was all the buzz among the law clerks during lunch.

I grew up around sailboats. My father didn't like to run the engine unless it meant escaping mosquitoes in a dead calm on Long Island Sound. So my DNA recoiled a bit at the notion of trying out Albin Marine's new, 30-foot Family Cruiser--a vessel that can ignore the whims of the wind and roam the seas with only a tankful of fuel.

Out Of The ParkIt's only May, but many teams in the competition-starved majors are already out of it. Here's a way to compensate: read a baseball book. It's always been the most literary of sports and this season has produced fine volumes for the coffee table:One Hundred Years: New York Yankees ($50) It might pain us to say anything nice about the Microsoft of baseball.

Major League Baseball may be reinstating Pete Rose, but it now faces another clemency conundrum: should "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, of "Black Sox" infamy, also be granted eligibility for the Hall of Fame?

It's a no-brainer: one of the fall's best museum exhibitions opens this Friday, Nov. 15. "Einstein," at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, looks at both the theories and the private life of the iconic scientist.

Sixty years ago, "Memphis Bill" Terry had it right. "Baseball," said the manager and Hall of Fame first baseman of the old New York Giants, "must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.