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...assume that everything is suddenly fine. After all, the economy was in recession through the first half of 2003, and unemployment rose by 305,000 over the past year, bringing the jobless total to 10.4%. "What kind of upswing is it when you have increasing unemployment?" asks Ullrich Heilemann, vice president of the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI). "The bad days may be gone but we're not in heaven yet." How do economists explain the incipient turnaround? The euro has weakened from its recent highs against the dollar, aiding big exporters like steelmaker ThyssenKrupp and electronics giant...
...JOHN HEILEMANN is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the ups and downs of Silicon Valley for more than a decade. This week he wrote our exclusive and entertaining story revealing what Ginger actually is, after spending time riding on it and talking with its inventor. Chat with him about this groundbreaking invention--and decide whether it will change our lives--on Thursday...
...World War 3.0 is the diligent analysis of the case, John Heilemann's Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era (HarperCollins; 246 pages; $25) is the dramatically arced screenplay. Heilemann's book, which started life as an article in Wired, is a fast-paced account full of big-screen moments. The most impressive: his contention that the richest man in the world exclaimed at a Microsoft board meeting last year that "the whole thing is crashing in on me" and started...
...Heilemann also pounded his share of pavement. The payoff is a compelling account of what he calls the "secret history" of the trial, including the clandestine maneuvering of Sun Microsystems, Netscape and other Microsoft enemies, to persuade the Justice Department to bring a lawsuit it didn't want to pursue. In the end, Heilemann draws on the Bible--as his title suggests--rather than Jesuitism to reach much the same conclusion as Auletta's: Gates' arrogance led him to run Microsoft, and the trial, like an "aspiring...