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In This Issue of Condé Nast Portfolio

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October 2007

Letters to the Editor

Features
The Banana War

The Banana War

For years, Chiquita paid paramilitary death squads what amounted to protection money. And the scandal may yet engulf other American companies.


Revenge of the Hotel King

Revenge of the Hotel King

Barry Sternlicht is the hard-driving entrepreneur who founded Starwood Hotels. Now he's starting over and aiming directly at his old firm. What's he trying to prove?


Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces

When the global economy erupted this summer, the tremors were felt on trading floors around the globe, from Tokyo to Tehran.


The Great Laptop Forward

The Great Laptop Forward

Can China make Lenovo into its own Sony, a breakout company that puts it on the map? It's about to try, with a massive effort to promote the PC maker through the 2008 Olympics.


Show Trials

Show Trials

A 1919 strike on Broadway helped the early film industry find an audience.


Money, Guns, and God

Money, Guns, and God

One of the fastest-growing gun companies in the country is run by a son of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.


Rita's Hail Mary Pass

Rita's Hail Mary Pass

Rita Benson LeBlanc, the 30-year-old granddaughter of the New Orleans Saints owner, guided the team through the post-Katrina wilderness. Now she faces an even bigger challenge: keeping the struggling franchise in town.


COLUMNS

His Fault

Crash Test Economy

A Dicey Proposition

Drilling for God

Big Green Machines



CULTURE INC.

Game On

The $59 Million Arm

Showing Some Spine

Sex and the Symphony

Backstage Players

Hell-Bent Capitalism

Crash Course



BRIEF

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