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• The Litigation Machine Smoking-gun documents over the Internet. Lawsuit kits. Easy financing. The result: Plaintiffs' lawyers are having a field day. Here's an inside look COVER IMAGE: The Litigation Machine TABLE: The Paint-by-Numbers Lawsuit TABLE: Tort Lawyers' Secret Weapon On the Prowl for Victims • Bush's World (int'l edition) Will his tough-guy take on foreign policy play on the global stage? COVER IMAGE: Bush's World TABLE: The Agenda: Back to Realpolitik TABLE: The Bush Team Why the Bushies Make Europe Nervous (int'l edition) Online Extra: The View from France's Foreign Minister Bush's Crowded Latin Agenda (int'l edition) • The Best Mutual Funds TABLE: The A List TABLE: The Best Performers in Their Categories TABLE: The Largest Funds TABLE: The Fund Categories Caution: Your Fund May Be Top-Heavy TABLE: Diversified Funds Lose on Big Bets Funds That Can Dodge Tax Bullets TABLE: Weighing Funds' Tax Baggage Commentary: No Excuse for High Fund Fees SCOREBOARD: Equity Funds: Mutual Fund Scoreboard (.pdf) Talk Show Dot-Com Gurus Put on a Brave Face The Body Takes a Blow Shining Light on Dark Days TABLE: Hit the Net, Then the Met Build an Albatross, Get a Bonus An Afterlife for Dot-Com Shares The Check Is in the Bank CHART: Adieu to the Yearend Bonus? Footnotes • What About the Armies of Talent behind the Top 25? • Take the ''For Sale'' Sign Off U.S. Politicians • Tax Away Short-Term Stock Plays • To Fix the Power Mess, Make Buildings Smarter • How Challenger, Gray Tallies Its Job-Cut Numbers • Fresh Product in Chrysler Showrooms • "Where the buys are" (Strategies for Stocks, Dec. 25, 2001/Jan. 1, 2001) • "Deathwatch: Sites in Free Fall" (Up Front, Jan. 15, 2001) • E-Book Readers: Easier on the Eyes TABLE: RCA's New E-books PHOTO: RCA E-Book • Behind Microsoft's Comeuppance PHOTO: Cover, ''Pride Before the Fall'' PHOTO: Cover, ''World War 3.0'' • Spies Inc. PHOTO: Cover, ''Spooked'' • Vive La Cuisine PHOTO: Cover, ''A Goose in Toulouse'' • Global Stock Trading Needs Fixing--and Fast • Is the European Grass Greener? CHART: U.S.-European Economic Ties: Investment Dwarfs Trade • When Schools Get Graded • The Young and Arrest-Less CHART: Fewer Youths Out to Kill • U.S.: All Is Not Gloom on the Consumer Front CHART: Where Consumer Demand Has Slowed CHART: Factory Activity Contracts Sharply CHART: As Sales Slow Down, Inventories Build Up • Argentina: A Ray of Sunshine--from the Fed CHART: Vehicle Sales Dry Up at Yearend The Man Who Would Be Reagan TABLE: Reagan's Rules TABLE: Who Will Have Bush's Ear Larry Lindsey on Tax Cuts and Fighting the Slump (extended) Commentary: The Lockbox Has George in a Box Online Extra: Charles Grassley: ''We Ought to Have a Flat-Rate Income Tax'' The New Trade Rep Won't Get Much Sleep TABLE: Zoellick Will Have to Hit the Ground Running Commentary: Wanted: Another Investor-Friendly SEC Chief TABLE: A Tough Act to Follow Commentary: Consumer Debt: A Bear Trap for the Bush Economy? CHART: The Burden Gets Heavier A Tough-Guy Approach to an ''Untidy'' World TABLE: The Agenda: Back to Realpolitik Power to the Oil Patch Commentary: Business and the Greens Share Common Ground Lloyd Ward: Heavier Metal General Malaise at General Motors Taking Aim at Cell-Phone Service A Powerhouse in Pet Food Less-Than-Stellar Globalstar Silicon Valley Takes a Breather Et Cetera... A-OK at AOL CHART: AOL Time Warner Stock Price • A Buying Binge in China TABLE: Behind the M&A Boom • Commentary: What Japan's CEOs Can Learn from Bridgestone • The Saudis Defend Their Slippery Turf CHART: December Price Plunge Hit OPEC Harder Hong Kong: Another Body Blow to the Rule of Law? Keeping Yugoslavia Together • Now Disneyland Won't Seem So Mickey Mouse CHART: Ticket to Ride • A Dot-Calm Falls over the Office TABLE: Phew, It's Over Commentary: And You Thought You Were Watching Football The Power of Two at Pepsi RESUME: Steven S. Reinemund PHOTO: Steven S. Reinemund RESUME: Indra K. Nooyi PHOTO: Indra K. Nooyi Commentary: Mad Cow: The U.S. Is Not Immune TABLE: To Prevent Mad-Cow Disease, the U.S. Should... Cutting Auto Emissions in Those Key First Minutes A Space Race with $10 Million for the Winner Second Thoughts on Man's African Origin PHOTO: Skulls from Java, Australia, and Israel Innovations Playtex: Why No One Is Adopting This Baby CHART: The Playtex Portfolio Running the Tightest Ships on the Net TABLE: Military Management? • Paperless Tax Returns: We're Making Progress TABLE: Save the Pencils • Tax Relief May Come to Those Who Wait CHART: Making Low Tax Rates Pay TABLE: Super Break? • Self-Employed? File Smart TABLE: New Rules for 2001 TABLE: Taxtime Reading • Keeping Your Nest Egg Away from the Taxman • Foreign Bonds Look Good in More Ways Than One TABLE: Paper from Other Places • Be Your Own Fund Manager TABLE: Funds or Folios? • Safety in the Net • Volt Could Get a Jolt CHART: The Parts May Be Worth Far More • Take-Two: The Games People Play CHART: ''Phenomenal Growth Story'' • Figures of the Week (.pdf) The Week Ahead Production Index Components Putting Brakes on the Litigation Machine Fast-Track: Full Speed Ahead From Car Exhaust to Diamonds in the Rough (int'l edition) Pumping Up the Volume of GPS Satellites (int'l edition) Methanol Juice Packs to Keep Gadgets Going (int'l edition) Innovations (int'l edition) • A Hundred Malls May Bloom...But They Don't Scare This Market (int'l edition) MAP: Taiwan • Jan. 22, 2001 Asian Edition Cover (int'l edition) • Offshore Funds Scoreboard (Nov. 6, 2001) (int'l edition) • Shanghai Chic Hits the Runway (int'l edition) • The Trials of a Russian Drug Czar (int'l edition) TABLE: Russia's Rogue Pharmaceuticals Tycoon TABLE: Hot Water for Bryntsalov • Argentina's Provincial Profligates (int'l edition) CHART: Argentina's Spendthrift Provinces • Commentary: The Mercosur Marriage Is in Trouble (int'l edition) • Offshore Funds That Stayed Afloat (int'l edition) TABLE: Top 25 Funds Over Three Months TABLE: The Bottom 25 Funds Over Three Months TABLE: The Top Sectors TABLE: How the Biggest Funds Fared This Water Fund Has Been Riding a Wave (int'l edition) • Commentary: Making Japan's Bank Crisis Worse (int'l edition) CHART: As the Nikkei Falls...And Bankruptcies Rise...Banks Are Hurting • International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition) The Unraveling of Corporate Japan (int'l edition) For Hong Kong, a Defining Moment (int'l edition)
December 25, 2000 Letter From Oman: An Ancient Scent Seeks Modern Markets
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