COVER STORY Confused about Earnings? You're not alone. Here's what companies should do--and what investors need to know COVER IMAGE: Confused about Earnings? CHART: The Big Bath CHART: Earnings Chaos TABLE: High-Gloss Glossary Navigating the Numbers ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: Words of Warning from the SEC INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY Inside Saudi Arabia The Kingdom copes with the fallout from terrorism SPECIAL REPORT The Info Tech 100 EDITOR'S MEMO Nothing Dismal about These Guys UP FRONT Talk Show Hewlett's Hue and Cry Paying the Freight for Safer Skies Is Linux Catching the Big Mo? Online Flag Waving Free and Clear of Enron's Woes G.I. Joe Heroics at Hasbro As the Downturn Turns READERS REPORT Is Privacy, Too, a Victim of Terrorism? Weaning the West off Middle East Oil What Should Strike Terror in Drugmakers' Hearts Seeking an End to Qwest's Stock Slide Not All Agencies Are the Same The Coming Wave of Satellite-Directed Aircraft CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The FTC Refuses a Potent Cocktail" (In Business This Week, Nov. 5, 2001) LETTER FROM WYOMING So Much for Those Wide Open Spaces BOOKS Tracking an Assassin of Memory Sacks' Awakening Timely Wisdom TECHNOLOGY & YOU Microsoft: The Battle Isn't Over ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Airline Bailout Sets a Bad Precedent ECONOMIC TRENDS Are Banks Ready for Deadbeats? College-Town Confidential Inflation Fears May Be Inflated BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: That's Not Deflation Ahead, Just Slower Inflation Canada: Uh-Oh. The Loony Is Looking Limp NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY The Rush of Victory A Hard Slog for Financial "Special Forces" Western Union: Where the Money Is--In Small Bills A Test for the House of Saud Airlines: The Clouds Keep Getting Thicker No Jingle Bells on These Registers Microsoft: Not So Fast, Mr. Gates The Car Guys Take Charge at General Motors Who's behind the Wheel at Audi? IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Ron Zarrella: The Vision Thing at Bausch & Lomb Culture Shock at CSFB AOL, Sony, and the Connected Home A Car Rental Titan Runs Low on Gas VF Cuts a New Pattern The Last Cha-Cha for Chiquita? Et Cetera... Feeling Poorly WASHINGTON OUTLOOK John Ashcroft Speaks Loudly and Carries a Big Stick The New Bipartisanship A Settlement Fit to Print We Want Rudy INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK U.S.-Russia: Just How Far Will the Love-In Go? Self-Rule for Kosovo? MANAGEMENT The Case of the Corporate Spy SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A Venerable Biotech Eyes the New World DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Keeping Cockpit Controls out of Hijackers' Hands One Way to Keep Up with the Bugs: Gene Cocktails A Bicycle You Can Read By Rats, Children, and the Riddle of Ritalin GOVERNMENT Commentary: Why States Will be a Drag on Recovery INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Squabbling among the Rich and Famous SOCIAL ISSUES Commentary: Already, a Crush at the Soup Kitchens FINANCE What'll Bloomberg Do with Bloomberg? Investment Banks: No Deal Too Small Profiteer or Persecuted Entrepreneur? SPORTS BUSINESS A Frantic Search for the Next Tiger THE CORPORATION All Eyes on the Enron Prize The Other Instant Powerhouse in Energy Trading At Honeywell, It's Larry the Knife PEOPLE Tidying Up at Home Depot RESUME: Robert Louis Nardelli THE WORKPLACE Is Boeing Cutting Too Close to the Bone? BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE Topping This Year's Gift List... The Inside Story on the Latest DVDs A Cornucopia for the Coffee Table Raise High the 3D Roof Beam BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Turning a Bad Year into Tax Savings THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Getting the Most When You Give INSIDE WALL STREET CDI Sniffs an Upturn An Enticing Aroma from Panera Bread Genentech Passes Some Tough Tests FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS End the Numbers Game The Case for Economic Optimism INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Is Privacy, Too, a Victim of Terrorism? Economic Diversity Is Only Part of the Story Good Things Come in Small Packages A Novel Approach to Terrorism Insurance INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "You want security? They've got security" ("Privacy in an age of terror," Special Report, Nov. 5, 2001) INTERNATIONAL -- THE CONFLICT Fighting the Good Fight INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS A Greater Hong Kong? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Hong Kong's Donald Tsang Cracking Korea Inc.'s Glass Ceiling INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Is the Corruption Crusade Over? Italy: Making It Easier to Skirt the Law 3G's Latest Snafu: Hellacious Handsets INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA Turning Greenbacks into Greenhouses INTERNATIONAL -- ECONOMICS Commentary: Don't Use the IMF to Push U.S. Foreign Policy Indonesia: Last in the Money Chase INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Can the House of Saud Save Itself?
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