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In This Issue of Condé Nast Portfolio

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December 2007
Cover Story

The Evolution of an Investor

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. Read More
Features
Think Disruptive

Think Disruptive

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.) Read More

Related: Grove's Theory
Never Say Die

Never Say Die

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. Read More

Putin's Power Grab

Putin's Power Grab

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. Read More

Party Like It's 1959

Party Like It's 1959

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. Read More

On the Razr's Edge

On the Razr's Edge

Motorola's Ed Zander speaks about his company's troubles, what's wrong with the iPhone, and experiences with Carl Icahn. Read More

The Nuclear Jihadist

The Nuclear Jihadist

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." Read More

COLUMNS

Trouble Sticks to Teflon Bob

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. Read More

Dump the Cuban Embargo

America's ostracism of the Castro regime has been an embarrassing failure for nearly half a century. It's time to give it up. Read More

 

Tom Monaghan's Unanswered Prayers

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. Read More

Related: Dreamscape

Interactive Features Battle of the Cell Bands

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. View Interactive Feature

 

Would You Give This Kid $500,000?

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. Read More

Related: Game Boy

Not in Mickey's Backyard

How a zoning dispute between Disneyland and its once welcoming hometown became a public relations debacle for the Magic Kingdom. Read More

Related: A Disney Tale
 
CULTURE INC.

Time Bomb

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. Read More

Curators on Commission

Here's what six advisers will be whispering to their art-collector clients this month at Art Basel Miami Beach. Read More

 

Their So-Called Site

Thirtysomething creators unveiled their new drama online. Can 36 eight-minute episodes fend off MySpace and Facebook to carve out a new community? Read More

Arias for the People

When he couldn't fill enough seats, the San Francisco Opera's director took a mass-market approach. Read More

 

The Gallery of Stolen Art

What missing works by Vermeer, Van Gogh, Lucian Freud would be worth today. Read More

Related: Stolen Moments

Adventure Capitalist

Tom Perkins looks back at Silicon Valley 1.0. Read More

 
PLUS ...
 
BRIEF

Gilt Trip

Giving hedge funds an image makeover. Read More

Egos in Orbit

Which private space outfit will blast off first? Read More

 

Trading With the Enemy

Buying beer and S.U.V.'s from Kim Jong Il. Read More

The Ballet's Big Number

The costs of staging The Nutcracker. Read More

 

Pharma's Fees

Doctors and drug dealers. Read More

Sprint Meets Nextel

A telecom merger, three years later. Read More

 
PLUS ...
 
IN PLAY

Bubble Economy

Faced with the public's outsize appetite for champagne, producers may lobby for a loosening of standards. Read More

High-Def Home Movies

What to look for in the latest generation of camcorders. View Slideshow

 
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