Newsweek makes an interesting choice this week in selecting a cover for its U.S. and international editions.

At this link, you can see in the lefthand column the cover used for international editions. It’s a pretty good illustration of the idea the cover story is trying to convey: that President Bush is now listening more intently to his father’s advice. (I make no argument about the merits of the story.)

But at this link, you see the American version of the cover, which pits a miniature George W. Bush in the background against a large-scale version of his father in the foreground.

I wonder why the magazine decided to to select the unflattering cover for the domestic market alone. 

10:25 p.m. update:

Who knew reporter Evan Thomas was also a mindreader and amateur psychologist?

At his post-election press conference, the president looked like a base runner trapped in a rundown, unable to go forward or scurry back. The president is probably stuck?he will have to embrace some kind of compromise approach on Iraq. He didn’t look too happy about it. As he japed and mugged and fidgeted, he seemed worried by something more than Iraq or the election returns; his whole character appeared to be wrestling with some more personal, inner demon.

Maybe he just grimaced when he saw Evan Thomas.