Portfolio.com: October 2008 - In This Issue
October 2008
Cover Story
by Andrew Rice
Luxury builder Toll Brothers is anxiously riding out the industry bust. C.E.O. Bob Toll talks about how things got so badand how to fix them.
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Features
by Michael Lewis
After moving his family into the grandest home in New Orleans, the author suffered a few housing crises of his own.
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by Matthew Malone
Three decades after airline deregulation, flying is more miserable than ever. Should the government step back in?
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by Sheelah Kolhatkar
The most recent shareholder assault on the New York Times originated in the Deep South. Meet the Harbert family of Alabama.
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by Constance Loizos
Halsey Minor made a mint in the '90s with CNET, his tech-news company. Now he's raking in millions with his investment firmbut he isn't making any friends.
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by Jessica Liebman
Some assigned pairs do more than just get along. They start companieslike Microsoft. A survey of the dormmates who launched some of the biggest deals in business.
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by Michael Fitzgerald
When Anne Mulcahy took control of limping Xerox in 2000, the criticism was fierce. But the company's turnaround is in full bloom. She just needs to raise that lagging stock price.
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by Kevin Maney
Sales and share prices are sinking at the once-dominant cell-phone giant. The man who was ousted as C.E.O. shines a light on what went wrong at the company his family founded.
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by Howell Raines
Two watchdogs reveal howand whythe media so often botches the campaign issue of health insurance.
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by Jesse Eisinger
We shouldn't blame rapid-fire traders for the downturn. But we should tax them.
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by Matthew Cooper
Has Obama's ban on lobbyist donations really cut off the flow of cash from K Street?
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by Scot J. Paltrow
Under Christopher Cox, the S.E.C. has cut back on enforcement. And that will make it tough to investigate the economic crisis.
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by Duff McDonald
Rating the power-lunch eatery.
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by Paul Sullivan
An exclusive look at the Swiss private-banking scandal.
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by Matthew Malone
The C.E.O. who greenlighted The Da Vinci Code looks back.
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by Scot J. Paltrow
As the young dancer Daniel Ulbricht bounds onto its stage, the New York City Ballet hopes for a similar jump at the box office.
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by Julia Dennis and Miriam Datskovsky
A new season of Grey's Anatomy kicks off this month. Which onscreen doctor earns the most off the set?
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by Michael Kaplan
How two unnumbered Takashi Murakami prints touched off an art-world imbroglio.
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by Roger Lowenstein
Book Review: Intensive data tracking may improve our lives, but the long-term cost is difficult to fathom.
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by Deborah Schoeneman
What's on these executives' October cultural calendars.
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Charles Schwab on why investing is wise in a bear market.
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The $1.65 billion YouTube gambit, two years later.
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When companies give their stars the best seats.
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A publishing rumble for McCain and Obama.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on how to end our oil addiction.
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