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Table of contents: VOL. 152, NO. 4 - August 22, 2005
COVER STORY
Pioneers
by Cora Daniels
Meet six unsung civil rights heroes-- among the first black men to fight their way into the executive suite.  (more)

Features
THE DIVERSITY LIST
by Kimberly L. Allers
From business and academia to Hollywood and the Beltway, meet the people with the most clout. (more)
Marked Down
by ELLEN FLORIAN KRATZ
How fashionable Saks Fifth Avenue swapped style for scandal--and turned itself into a bargain-priced takeover target. (more)
FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES
by BETSY MORRIS
The folks who brought you Silicon Valley want to ignite a biotech boom, and California's Prop. 71, with $3 billion for stem-cell research, was supposed to be the match. They got a political conflagration instead. (more)
Sex, Lies, and Videogames
by BETHANY MCLEAN
What's most shocking about the controversial--and top-selling--Grand Theft Auto isn't embedded sex scenes. It's the financial chicanery of the game's maker. Why don't investors care? (more)
Bing! While You Were Out
The Indispensable No. 2
by Stanley Bing

Business Life
book review
by John Simons

Terminal velocity
by Oliver Ryan

Let (cordless) freedom ring
by Peter Lewis
A new voice over Internet phone system makes it simple for even tech neophytes to tap into the cutting edge of telephony--and maybe save a bundle on their bills. (more)
First
GRUFF, TOUGH, AND OUTTA THE GOD POD
by Nelson D. Schwartz

Retire? No Way!
by Patricia Sellers

SAB BREWS UP BIG TROUBLE FOR BUD
by Patricia Sellers

DEPENDENCY PARADOX
by Austan Goolsbee
How conservation could actually make us--gulp--even more reliant on foreign oil. (more)
When the Party's Over
by Margaretta Soehendro

THE RAP ON WALL STREET
by Julia Boorstin
Citigroup banker by day, hip-hop performer by night, Terence Bradford says, "Trust me, it's all the same hustle." (more)
BASEBALL'S 'MUD MAN'
by Interview by Matthew Boyle
Jim Bintliff, mud farmer, somewhere in southern New Jersey (more)
Investing
Hang on to the homebuilders
by Jon Birger
Nothing stays hot forever. But even after the big gains of recent years, housing stocks sport reasonable valuations--and they still have room to grow. (more)
Update
by David Stires

Why Smithfield will keep bringing home the bacon
by Matthew Boyle
The pork craze may cool, but the pig powerhouse is branching into beef. (more)
The quick and the dead
by JIA LYNN YANG
A look at some of the best and worst performers from our inaugural list. (more)
Politics
Street Life
Value Driven
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