Welcome to the Weekly Read, our column that features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. Each week we feature a different review. This week assistant managing editor MORE
Sep 30, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The three General Assemblies in action this week, and how Mayor Mike links them all.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
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FORTUNE -- For days, New Yorkers have been complaining about the headaches created by the General Assembly – police barricades, crowded sidewalks and traffic jams. What's unique this September, however, is that the complaints are valid in both midtown and Wall Street, due to two very different assemblies.
The United Nations General Assembly MORE
Sep 27, 2011 3:29 PM ET
FORTUNE -- Even as school districts around the country cut budgets, lay off teachers, and slice sports programs, high school football remains big business, with the market for uniforms and equipment last season at $450 million. That's nearly half of all money spent on football gear nationally. To understand the economics of the sport, we've focused on two Texas powerhouse programs: Southlake Carroll and Allen, which will meet in the MORE
Sep 26, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Editor's note: Every week, Fortune.com publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week we're republishing a 1956 story depicting some of the earliest talks of unifying nations in Western Europe into a common market. The concept, described in April 1956 in the so-called Spaak Report (after then Belgium foreign minister Paul-Henri Spaak), is similar to what we know today as the eurozone, which European officials are scrambling to keep together MORE
Sep 25, 2011 9:30 AM ET
You'll have to wait a little longer for a cup of James Freeman's caffeine from Olympus, but it's so worth it.
By Michael V. Copeland, contributor
A Kyoto dripper from Japan in use at the Blue Bottle branch in Brooklyn. After a 12-hour trip through the grounds, the cold coffee is ready.
FORTUNE -- As it does every day, a line trails out of the door at Blue Bottle Coffee Co. in MORE
Sep 23, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. In this installment, Fortune executive editor Stephanie N. Mehta reviews Madboy, My Journey from Adboy to MORE
Sep 23, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. In this installment, Fortune assistant managing editor Nicholas Varchaver reviews Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and MORE
Sep 21, 2011 10:20 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. In this installment, writer-reporter Scott Cendrowski dives into Bill Vlasic's Once Upon a Car, which traces MORE
Sep 19, 2011 1:35 PM ET
Editor's note: Every week, Fortune.com publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. In honor of the 50th anniversary edition of Jane Jacobs' influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, we're republishing one of Jacobs' earlier articles in which the urban activist laid out the case against modernist planners.
If the downtown of tomorrow looks like most of the redevelopment projects being planned for it today, it will end MORE
Sep 18, 2011 9:30 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. Each Friday we feature a different review. This week, on the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, Fortune.com blogger and MORE
Sep 16, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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