Can Colbert get new Newsweek noticed?

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Is Stephen Colbert more like Roseanne Barr or Hilary Duff? That's an important question for Newsweek, which is hoping to publicize its recent makeover by publishing an issue about Iraq guest-edited by the Comedy Central faux-pundit.

New-look Newsweek is sleeker and punchier, with less rehashing of current events and more opinion and argument -- a mix calculated to appeal to a smaller but more elite audience. But none of the changes will matter if people don't bother to sample the new product.

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