COVER STORY Sun's Defiant Face-Off Scott McNealy sees himself as the last challenger to Microsoft's bid for Web domination. Is his plan realistic? Or grandiose bluster? COVER IMAGE: Defiant Sun Graphic: How Sun Software Works TABLE: Sun vs. Microsoft TABLE: Fighting Words ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Scott McNealy COMMENTARY: Settlement or Sellout? TABLE: Dissecting the Microsoft Deal TABLE: The Road Ahead Q&A: Charles James Defends the Deal INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY Germany's Challenge Special Report: Can Europe's top economy lead the Continent to reform? BONUS SUPPLEMENT Finding Your Golf Home: A Financial Guide In golf-friendly communities across the country, the good life has never been so good UP FRONT Talk Show Return of the Payroll Scrooge How Cheap Is My Valley? How Bob Lutz Is Redesigning GM Paid to Be in Harm's Way Where All Those Traders Went A Boffo Season for Video Games? READERS REPORT Kicking the Oil Habit Turning Gap Around Is a Team Effort Don't Lose Sight of the Real Qwest The Odds Aren't in This Traveler's Favor A Novel Approach to Terrorism Insurance September 11: The Soul-Searching Continues CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Figures of the Week (Oct. 29, Nov. 5, and Nov. 12, 2001) BOOKS Street Fight for a Skyscraper TECHNOLOGY & YOU A Light Laptop That's Fully Loaded ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Energy Conservation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again ECONOMIC TRENDS A Gossamer-Thin Safety Net The Bad Rap on IPOs Europe's Scant Info-Tech Payoff INDUSTRY INSIDER Q&A: The Repairman in Charge of Fixing Maytag RESUME: Maytag Chairman and CEO Ralph F. Hake BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Bad News on Unemployment Will Only Get Worse Mexico: Congress Faces a Taxing Time NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Guarding America Tom Ridge Talks: A Dispatch from the Home Front When the Office Is the War Zone What Kind of Downtown Does New York Want? A Hit to the Mail Is a Hit to the Economy A Stunning Reversal for HP's Marriage Plans Commentary: Greenspan & Co. Have More Cutting to Do In This Game, Microsoft Is More David Than Goliath The Olympics: Downhill Run? IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Evan Greenberg: It's Better in Bermuda Davos Decamps for Manhattan Philip Morris Execs Hop the Pond A Merger Ahead for Enron? Now Playing at Disney: Twofers Baxter Takes the Blame Et Cetera... Pep Pill WASHINGTON OUTLOOK An Election Lesson: To the Moderates Go the Spoils Top Numbers Armey Retreats Al Who? INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Koizumi: Twilight of a Reformer? Can Two Chinas Live Together in the WTO? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Taiwanese Prime Minister Chang Thinking the Unthinkable in Argentina Commentary: Why Germany's Economy Is Stalling Out SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Can This New Surgery Actually Revive a Dying Heart? DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Snaring Light in a Crystal Trap Speedier Ways to Spot Bio Scares To Catch Water in a Desert, Watch the Beetles Innovations SOCIAL ISSUES Do-It-Yourself Labor Standards MEDIA At GE, New Pride in the Peacock Let the Extreme Sell Begin CORPORATE SCOREBOARD Profits: There's Bad News, and There's...Bad News Can Uncle Sam Move the Bottom Line? Third Quarter 2001 Interactive Corporate Scoreboard MANAGEMENT The CEO Gravy Train Just Got Derailed ENVIRONMENT Pollution: Dumping on the Poor? FINANCE Insurance: The Coverage Crunch Trump Rolls the Dice with His Creditors Commentary: Why Tech's Bounce Will Fall Flat INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT Oshkosh Is Really Truckin' BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR How to Keep Prying Eyes off Your Medical Records Don't Let Crooks Steal Your Identity The Pause That Refreshes THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Let Shareholders Decide This One INSIDE WALL STREET Univision and Viacom? From Cubic: The I.D. Cards of Tomorrow Multimedia Games Has Got Bingo FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Slapping Microsoft's Wrist The Stimulus Package, Pro and Con INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM ROMANIA The New Curse of Dracula? INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Turning Gap Around Is a Team Effort How to Improve U.S.-Saudi Relations Kicking the Oil Habit September 11: The Soul-Searching Continues Don't Open the Door to Remote Hijacking INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Singapore Sting Opportunity Knocks for Knock-Off Drugs Why Jakarta Is Keeping Foreign Buyers at Bay INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Air France Isn't out of the Weather Yet So Much for "Reinventing Italy" INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Thinking the Unthinkable in Argentina Slugfest over Europe's Stock Exchanges Banking: Raising the Bar Can Hurt INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS A Radical Global Realignment
November 12, 2001
Downshifting Ambitions at DaimlerChrysler
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North American and Asian Cover by ALANLEVENSON.COM
European and Latin American Cover by Adam Niklewicz
articles in the November 19, 2001 domestic edition previously published in international editions
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