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			This Week
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			June 4 Table of Contents 
			
			
			COVER STORY
			 Microsoft: How It Became Stronger than Ever**
			The software goliath has an arsenal of new monster products.  Will the courts 
slow it down?
			
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			 BUSINESSWEEK E.BIZ 
			Wireless Web Woes**
			Telecom players have spent billions, but profits are still far off. Plus: 
Much more in our e.biz supplement.
			
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			 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
			How Yahoo! Japan Beat eBay at Its Own Game**
			It was first, and it was free.  Can eBay Japan ever catch up?
			
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			The 50 best companies in the S?500. Plus: In-depth info on all 500, extra 
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			DAILY BRIEFING 
			
			5/24 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 They're Off! Merrill's CEO Horse Race 
			Chief Exec Komansky is signaling that Stanley O'Neal is no longer a shoo-in 
to run the company  
			
			5/23 -- STREET WISE
			 Why Time Warner's CLEC Could Click  
			The local service provider has its own fiber network, deep pockets,  and a 
corporate customer base. What's not to like?  
			
			5/22 -- INSIDE WALL STREET ONLINE 
			 Dial Cleans Up Its Act  
			As a new management team ditches lackluster products and reduces debt, a 
growing body of opinion sees a takeover on the horizon  
			
			5/21 -- SOUND MONEY 
			 Let's Hope the Fed Knows When to Stop  
			Indications are growing that rate cuts have foiled a recession.  Now it's 
time for Greenspan & Co. to back off 
			
			5/18 -- PALM READING 
			 What Can't You Run With a Palm?  
			Not much. Your TV cable box, a slide-show presentation, even a Lego  robot -- 
they're just some of the things that answer to the handheld devices 
			
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			INVESTING 
			
			5/23 -- INDUSTRY IN FOCUS ? From S?
			 Home Sweet Home Centers  
			A spate of interest-rate cuts and a still-strong housing market will benefit  
these building-supply retailers  
			
			5/22  -- INVESTING Q?
			 Reaping the Bush Dividend  
			Peter S. Cohan argues that with an oilman in the White House, energy stocks 
like  Massey and CONSOL are the place to be  
			
			5/20 -- FOCUS STOCK OF THE WEEK ? From S?
			 Hitting Its Stride 
			With the "merger of the century" starting to bear fruit, AOL Time Warner 
represents a compelling value 
			
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			GLOBAL BUSINESS 
			
			5/22  -- EYE ON JAPAN 
			 A Headache Koizumi Doesn't Need 
			Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's blunt style and bizarre blunders could 
jeopardize the new Prime Minister's reformist agenda  
			
			5/22 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 Online Music: The Tempo Quickens  
			Vivendi's purchase of MP3.com is a sign that the big labels are abandoning 
their sue-to-suppress strategy in favor of buy-and-build  
			
			5/21 -- ONLINE ASIA
			 The Rapid Rise and Fast Fall of Richard Li  
			Pacific Century's wunderkind looked like the Steve Case of Asia.  Instead, he 
could turn out to be its Tim Koogle  
			
			
			
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			TECHNOLOGY 
			
			5/23 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 ISPs Play Follow the Leader  
			AOL's price hike is the first sign of a Web-wide trend: premium  content -- 
at a higher price   
			
			5/22 -- COMPANY CLOSEUP
			 Light Fantastic, or Optical Illusion? 
			Broadband provider Terabeam's laser technology is earning raves. Can it win 
customers, too? 
			
			5/21 -- PERSPECTIVE
			 Online Payments: More "When" Than "If" 
			Banks may be reluctant to adopt a better system, but the momentum to provide 
one is irresistible 
			
			5/17 -- NEWS ANALYSIS
			 Broadband's Next Wave: Wireless? 
			DSL and cable have won the early battles, but a new, relatively low-cost 
technology called MMDS could soon come on strong 
			
			Plus, you'll find daily coverage of the rapidly changing world of e-business 
at http://www.ebiz.businessweek.comBW e.biz offers exclusive analysis, 
commentary, and Web-site reviews every day. Visit often!
			
			
			
			
			
			Breakthrough: Corporate Leadership Summit
			Presented by BusinessWeek and Jim Taylor, Ph.D., in partnership with IBM  
Corporation
			Sponsored by Audi of America, Inc.
			June 27-29, 2001, San Diego, California 
			
			
			
			
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			CEO and Founder 
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			The Chopra Center for Well Being 
			Gretchen Hayes 
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			President, AIG Global eBusiness Risk Solutions
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			Acting CEO Avantrust
			Dr. Ronald A. Heifetz
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			Codirector, The Center for Public Leadership
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			John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
			Jeffrey Katz
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			Chairman, President, and CEO
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			Orbitz 
			Sandy Kemper
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			Founder and CEO
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			eScout 
			Susanne D. Lyons
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			Chief Marketing Officer
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			Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
			Michael Mandel
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			Economics Editor
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			BusinessWeek
			Michel Mayer
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			General Manager
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			IBM Pervasive Computing
			Jonathan Nelson
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			Founder and Chairman
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			Organic, Inc. 
			Christopher Palmeri
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			Senior Correspondent, Los Angeles
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			BusinessWeek
			Margaret Popper
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			"Street Wise" Columnist
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			BusinessWeek Online
			Will Rodgers
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			Principal
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			SHR Perceptual Management
			
			Guy S. Tallent
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			Identrus
			Jim Taylor, Ph.D.
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			Coauthor
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			The 500-Year Delta and The Visionary's Handbook
			J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
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			President and Chief Scientific Officer
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			Celera Genomics
			Stephen G. Vetter
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			Eureka Communities
			Lee Walczak
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			Senior Editor and Washington Bureau Manager
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			SMALL BUSINESS ONLINE 
			
			5/23 -- TAX ADVISER
			 There's No Business Like... 
			Which deductions will the IRS applaud? Several Web sites review the tax 
options for a small business in the performing arts 
			
			5/22 -- SMART ANSWERS
			 Of Blood, Money, and Family Values 
			When a potential partner is a sibling, the need to spell out the business 
relationship may be even greater than with an outsider 
			
			5/21 -- VENTURE CAPITAL
			 Kids, Out of the Pool 
			With money tight, it's older and wiser executives who are in demand,  not the 
twentysomethings who led the dot-com charge 
			
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			B-SCHOOLS 
			
			5/23 - B-SCHOOL Q&A: FINANCIAL AID
			 Meet Maryland's Assistant Dean 
			A conversation with Mark Wellman, assistant dean of MBA/MS programs, and 
financial aid coordinator, at the University of Maryland's Smith College of 
Business & Management 
			
			PART-TIME MBA COMPARATOR
			 Dig Into the Data 
			This NEW tool lets you create your own side-by-side comparisons from a 
database of more than 200 programs worldwide 
			
			MBA JOURNALS
			 Internship Recruiting 
			In this new series, first-year students discuss the ins and outs of 
navigating the internship interviewing process 
			
			CAREER MOVES
			 Who's Hiring 
			An MBA is a healthy boost to any career, but if you have your heart set on 
working at a particular company, you want to make sure that it'll be 
recruiting on campus when you graduate. This tool lets you do just that  by 
enabling you to pick a company and find out which schools it hires  MBAs from 
			
			FACTS & FIGS
			Create your own comparison tables using our newly redesigned interactive 
database packed with statistics on MBA programs worldwide 
			
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			CAREERS 
			
			5/22 - PAY & PERKS 
			 Gone But Not Forgotten  
			Companies are paying for "assimilation" counseling to help pink-slipped 
employees adjust to their new jobs 
			
			5/22 - LEADER'S EDGE 
			 Ten Tips for Leaders 
			Whether you're running a department or a multinational corporation,  the same 
rules should determine how you treat employees and customers 
			
			5/18 - DIVERSITY 
			 Gains for Diversity in the Feds' Top Ranks  
			Nowadays the government's elite Senior Executive Service has many more 
minority and female members and fewer white males 
			
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			BW Online
			
			
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