COVER STORY The Economic Strain on the Church Legal liabilities from the sex scandal threaten a U.S. Catholic Church already beset by systemic financial problems COVER IMAGE: The Church CHART: A Financial Squeeze on the U.S. Catholic Church TABLE: The U.S. Catholic Church: How It Works TABLE: The U.S. Catholic Church: How It Works (.pdf) Q&A: A Talk with the Vatican's Moneyman INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY The Americanization of a Japanese Icon Toyota's quandary: Should it concentrate on its U.S. success or shift focus to markets sorely in need of help? SPECIAL REPORT Executive Pay Getting a Better Handle on Total Compensation The Interactive BusinessWeek Executive Compensation Scoreboard The BusinessWeek Executive Compensation Scoreboard (.pdf) UP FRONT Talk Show Smoothing the Way for Segway Suddenly, the Scarlet Leather Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire At Risk from Smoking: Your Job Making Dough for the Girl Scouts The Way to Reach an Italian? Not E-Mail READERS REPORT Putting Accountability Back into Accounting A Sweeter Assessment of Perfumania Let's Be Fair to the Clinton Presidency GM's Health Benefits Are Far from Perfect CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Is Bristol-Myers takeover bait?" (In Business This Week, Apr. 1, 2002) "Can GM save an icon?" (Cover Story, Apr. 8, 2002) BOOKS The Seduction of a Campaign Reporter TECHNOLOGY & YOU GPS and Handhelds...Better Bring a Map ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Market Can't Soar above the Economy Forever ECONOMIC TRENDS Equipment Is Going Cheap Behind the Housing Boom Who Keeps Cool on the Street? BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Forget the Double Dip--This Recovery Has Legs Japan: Touching Bottom--and Staying There NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY What Junior Wants to Drive Wal-Mart Is Eating Everybody's Lunch There Goes the Cheap Money Andersen: Now You See It... Commentary: Bush Trade Policy: Crazy-Quilt Like a Fox A Cable Clan on Thin Ice IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Joseph Nacchio: Another Quagmire at Qwest Oil Prices Feel the Mideast Heat Hyundai Is Alabama-Bound Restating History at Xerox Harvey Golub Nurses a Sick Fund Will the FCC Relax Its Merger Rules? Et Cetera... PeopleSofter WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Dancing with Hardhats: Bush's Strategy Starts to Work Campaign Reform Loophole Chicken Dinner Primary Stealth Health INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Wanted: A Mideast Endgame COMMENTARY: The Lone Ranger Returns INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Can IBM Keep Earnings Hot? THE CORPORATION Pharmacia Is Feeling Woozy SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Human Tissue: Handle with Care Pieces of You: How the Business Works DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH The Vision Thing Gets Closer for Computers Putting the Planet under Much Closer Scrutiny A New Weapon against World Hunger? X-Ray Technology Enters a New Dimension FINANCE Off-the-Rack Portfolios at Custom Prices Commentary: The Hidden Cost of Shelf Space Back to Square One at Conseco Commentary: Audit Committees' New Duck-and-Cover INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT Fuel Cells Are Getting Hotter ECONOMICS Commentary: Hybrid Cars: Less Fuel but More Costs SPORTS BUSINESS Commentary: All Right All You Lawyers, Play Ball! BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Spin-Offs: Gems among the Trash? Reckoning the Cost of Stock Options Reading the Future? Make Divorce a Less Taxing Time THE BARKER PORTFOLIO How to Clean Up the Options Mess INSIDE WALL STREET Sea Containers: A Buy Poised for a Bonus at Acres Gaming NexMed: Unbowed Despite CPA Doubts FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Don't Blame the Stock Options Balancing Privacy and Biotechnology INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Forging Ahead on Steel What Iran's Reformers Really Want Condemn Reagan, Not Clinton Putting Accountability Back in Accounting INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Monti's moment" (European Business, Mar. 25, 2002) INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS A Tale of Two Indias Under Suspicion in Thailand DoCoMo: Are Its Glory Days a Thing of the Past? INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Ford: Europe Has a Better Idea Can Detroit replicate at home its winning European strategy of cost-cutting and revamping factories? This Little Chip Designer Wields Big Clout Processors based on ARM's blueprints are dominating high-end gizmos From Jeans King to Retail Czar? Russia's Vladimir Melnikov wants to parlay his popular Gloria Jeans brand into a store empire INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L OUTLOOK The Two Koreas: What's Behind a Break in the Ice France's Pre-Vote Sell-Offs Tokyo's Latest Flap INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE UBS's Mr. Fix-It Predictions of the banking giant's demise were premature, as President Peter Wuffli has it on track again A Harsh New World for Old Swiss Banks Argentina: Foreign Banks May Head for the Exits INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS The World's Poor Need More Than Aid
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