COVER STORY A New Cable Giant AT&T Comcast will be unprecedented in size and influence--but must win over skeptical investors and sell unproven services COVER IMAGE: The Cable Guy CHART: Bad Reception GRAPHIC: The Cable Industry by the Numbers GRAPHIC: AT&T Comcast: Not Just Broadband GRAPHIC: Trouble Signals GRAPHIC: Your Digital Future: It Won't Be Cheap GRAPHIC: Brian Roberts INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY Mega Europe 25 states, 450 million citizens. The EU expansion will challenge both East and West. Is bigger better? BUSINESSWEEK/GOLF DIGEST BONUS SUPPLEMENT Golf & the Business Life Top places to play for the world business traveler, CEOs who hacked away at their handicaps, Fairway wear in foul weather, And more in this bonus supplement with Golf Digest UP FRONT Talk Show What Does "May" Mean, Anyway? The UAW Answers a Cry for Help Slow Boat to California The NJSE? Fuhgedaboutit Have We Got a Deal for You: Office Space EDITOR'S MEMO Making Your Life Even Richer READERS REPORT So Long, Silicon Valley? Instant Runoff Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "My favorite mutual fund" (BusinessWeek Investor, Nov. 4, 2002) "Why Veridian hasn't bombed" (Inside Wall Street, Nov. 11, 2002) BOOKS Coming on the Net: People Power TECHNOLOGY & YOU The Microsoft Pen Is a Mite Clunky ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT So Much for Cracking Down on the Accountants ECONOMIC TRENDS Less Chance to Rise in Life Money-Market Meltdown? Chipping Away at Paper Checks INDUSTRY INSIDER Q&A: Why Atomic Energy Burns Brighter Than Ever ONLINE EXTRA: Renewed? BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: After a Soft Fourth Quarter, the New Year Should Be Happier Japan: Widespread Weakness Spells More Job Cuts NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Bush's Big Sweep Online Extra: "Less Government and Less Taxes" State Initiatives: Mostly Saying No to Change Commentary: How Bush Outwitted the Dems The Democrats' Deepening Dilemma Online Extra: Republicans Win. "Break Out the Aspirin" Commentary: What the Next SEC Chief Needs: A Passion for Reform What's a Microsoft Rival to Do Now? COMMENTARY: Uncle Sam's Trustbusters: Outgunned--and Outmoded IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Jeffrey Barbakow: The Auditor Is in One Cingular Sensation? The Fog Lifts for United WorldCom: The Rot Keeps Spreading Now, FASB May Get Tough on Options Isn't It Funny, How an Heir Likes Money? Et Cetera... Short Circuit INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Japan's Quick Studies in Survival Commentary: Is the Sun Setting on Hong Kong's Freedom? Mexico's Farmers Are Getting Plowed Under INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Israel: A Newcomer with a Bold Peace Platform ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: "A Palestinian State Is in Israel's Interest" A New Reform Era in Turkey? SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A Direct Hit to Parkinson's? INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Lou Gerstner Takes the Gloves Off A No-Nonsense Book--with a Few Gaps THE CORPORATION Mattel's New Toy Story DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Highway Cameras That Can Direct Traffic Putting a Gloss on the Right Stuff Multiple Sclerosis: A New Line of Attack Innovations CORPORATE SCOREBOARD Can Earnings Stay on the Recovery Track? Why We Regrouped What's Ailing Companies: Medical Bills Third-Quarter 2002 Interactive Corporate Scoreboard Third-Quarter 2002 Corporate Scoreboard (.pdf) GOVERNMENT Labor Chieftans' Secret Stock Deal FINANCE LBOs: Embracing Barbarians at the Gate The Gensler Twins: Identical? Don't You Believe It Commentary: J.P. Morgan: Pierpont Would Not Approve WORKING LIFE Revenge of the Retirees BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR The Suit Is Back in Business Maxing Out for Mini Efficiency Add a House to Your IRA Don't Toss Those Analyst Reports Q&A: Why T-Bonds Are Risky Throw Me in, Coach DIVIDENDS Clever Camera That Wasn't Me! Trains Get Their Day Hedge Heaven THE BARKER PORTFOLIO So You Think Stock Picking Is a Fool's Game INSIDE WALL STREET A New Millennium H&R Block Is Getting Sued--So the Shares Are a Buy Bursting with Energy at Suncor FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS What Victory Means for the GOP INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT China: Cheap Labor and Foreign Investment Aren't Enough The View from the Top of Citigroup's Board The Urge to Merge Isn't Always Misguided Setting the Record Straight on Megawati INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS A Global Shopping Spree for the Chinese Commentary: Could It Happen in Singapore? INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Mediobanca: A Titan Trembles Vivendi: The Stakes Go Up INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Will Mega Europe Move Forward?
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