Portfolio.com: December 2007 - In This Issue
December 2007
Cover Story
by Michael Lewis
Blaine Lourd made a fortune as a broker, until he decided picking stocks was a sham. Now he and a few other investors are ignoring the markets—and their odd strategy is beating Warren Buffett.
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Features
by Andy Grove
Note to General Electric: Build a car. That's what Intel's co-founder prescribes in a manifesto calling for companies to break out of their comfort zone. (Look what it did for Apple.)
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by Alexandra Wolfe
Will Sumner Redstone fulfill his dream of living to 130? Hedge fund money is helping legitimize research into extreme longevity, a field that was once relegated to the fringes of science.
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by James Verini
Russia shocked the West by seizing a majority stake in an enormous Shell project on a Siberian island. The spoils will fuel the Kremlin's ambitions, but a drop in energy prices could spell disaster.
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by Luc Sante
The corporate holiday soiree used to be a swirl of booze and conga, spiked with what lawyers would now call harassment. A photo essay looks back at the parties of Christmas past.
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by Kevin Maney
Motorola's Ed Zander speaks about his company's troubles, what's wrong with the iPhone, and experiences with Carl Icahn.
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by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
Once dismissed as a crank, this low-profile engineer would soon deliver the West's atomic secrets to Pakistan. An excerpt from The Nuclear Jihadist reveals A.Q. Khan's early days as father of the "Islamic bomb."
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by John Cassidy
The economics guru of the Clinton administration predicted Bush's tax cuts would cause a disastrous deficit. And he was right—until he wasn't.
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by Matthew Cooper
America's ostracism of the Castro regime has been an embarrassing failure for nearly half a century. It's time to give it up.
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by Andrew Rice
The founder of Domino's Pizza hopes to die broke. And as troubles mount for the Catholic community he's building on Florida's Gulf Coast, he just might achieve his dream.
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by Genevieve Smith
Graphics by John Grimwade
With the last few handheld bandwidths going to auction in January, the future of wireless might be decided by Google, not AT&T or Verizon.
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by Russ Mitchell
With more money than ideas flying around Silicon Valley, getting V.C. funding for a Web startup is child's play. Just ask Jared Kim, who's 19.
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by Joe Mathews
How a zoning dispute between Disneyland and its once welcoming hometown became a public relations debacle for the Magic Kingdom.
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by Matthew Malone
Two $5 million timepieces are wrapped in legal red tape as the world's biggest auction house for watches squares off with its indignant co-founder.
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by Deborah Schoeneman
Here's what six advisers will be whispering to their art-collector clients this month at Art Basel Miami Beach.
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by Amy Wallace
Thirtysomething creators unveiled their new drama online. Can 36 eight-minute episodes fend off MySpace and Facebook to carve out a new community?
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by Jessica Liebman
When he couldn't fill enough seats, the San Francisco Opera's director took a mass-market approach.
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by Richard B. Woodward
What missing works by Vermeer, Van Gogh, Lucian Freud would be worth today.
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by Roger Lowenstein
Tom Perkins looks back at Silicon Valley 1.0.
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Our editors' picks: Greenspan for the serious reader; elephants and hurricanes for the jet-set traveler; Brokaw for boomers; a money guide for slackers.
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A review of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists.
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Giving hedge funds an image makeover.
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Which private space outfit will blast off first?
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Buying beer and S.U.V.'s from Kim Jong Il.
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The costs of staging The Nutcracker.
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A telecom merger, three years later.
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How consumers get their temperatures taken.
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Closing in on a better avian flu vaccine.
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Unions battle Homeland Security over illegal immigration.
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Faced with the public's outsize appetite for champagne, producers may lobby for a loosening of standards.
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What to look for in the latest generation of camcorders.
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