A year’s worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world. “Amid Global Turmoil, Wild Times in Trading Afghanis” by Daniel Pearl, from The Wall Street Journal “Bidding War” by James B. Stewart, from The New Yorker “This Little Slinky Goes to Market” by Neil Irwin, from The Washington Post “Yes, We Have No Profits” by Nicholas Stein, from Fortune “Corporate Veil” by John R. Emschwiller and Rebecca Smith, from The Wall Street Journal “Portland Subsidiary Mirrors Enron’s Rapid Rise, Fall” by Jeff Manning and Gail Kinsey Hill, from The Oregonian “How Andersen Went Wrong” by David Ward and Loren Steffy, from Bloomberg Markets “My Pro Forma Life” by Rob Walker, from Slate “The Iceberg Wars” by Wayne Curtis, from The Atlantic Monthly “The Trucker and the Professor” by David Diamond, from Wired “Telecom’s Pied Piper: Whose Side Was He On?” by Gretchen Morgenson, from The New York Times “License to Steal” by Roger Lowenstein, from SmartMoney “Turning Red Ink into Gold” by Rob Kaiser, from Chicago Tribune “The Incomplete Résumé?” by Floyd Norris, from The New York Times “Restating the ’90s” by Michael J. Mandel, from BusinessWeek “Smaller” by Malcolm Gladwell, from The New Yorker “Agillion’s Brief, Fast Life” by Lori Hawkins, from Austin American-Statesman “Is the S&P 500 Rigged?” by Jason Zweig, from Money “The Rocket’s Red Ink” by Brian Lawson, from The Huntsville Times “A Race to the Top” by Johnnie L. Roberts, from Newsweek “Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, from Harvard Business Review “The CEO and his Church” by Deborah O’Neil and Jeff Harrington, from St. Petersburg Times “The Economic Strain on the Church” by William C. Symonds from BusinessWeek “Nationalities of Convenience” by Hal Lux, from Institutional Investor “India Calling” by S. Mitra Kalita, from Newsday “Hard Time” by Douglas A. Blackmon, from The Wall Street Journal “The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice” by Roger Parloff, from Fortune “The Empire Builder” by Joseph N. DiStefano, from The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine “Would You Pay $2 Million for This Franchise?” by Carlye Adler, from Fortune Small Business “Double Play” by Kurt Badenhausen, Cecily Fluke, Lesley Kump, and Michael K. Ozanian, from Forbes Leckey and Sloan offer the third in a series of annual compilations of the best business stories of the year that appeared in print media or online publications during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2002. The editors have chosen trust as the central theme for this anthology because financial reporting has gained increased importance with the revelations of corporate fraud and the fact that so many Americans are invested in the stock market. The selected articles cover a diverse range of topics, including Enron and Arthur Anderson, the stock bubble, "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap's career, how high-tech affects truck drivers and computer geeks, family pressures on female executives, and why the Boston Red Sox attracted such a high sale price. This is an excellent presentation of business reporting, with a poignant dedication to Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered in Afghanistan. Pearl's lead article gives a fascinating description of how the war in Afghanistan affected currency trading in Pakistan. Mary Whaley Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Andrew Leckey, nationally syndicated investment columnist for the Chicago Tribune Company, is also visiting professor in Business and Economics Journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication. He was previously a financial anchor on the CNBC cable television network, contributing editor of the Quicken.com financial web site, and director of the Business Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been author or editor of eight financial books. Leckey received the National Association of Investors Corporation’s Distinguished Service Award in Investment Education. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism and a fellow of the Media Studies Center, both at Columbia University. Allan Sloan, guest editor and Newsweek ’s Wall Street editor, has had a distinguished 30-year business-writing career. A five-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor, he also received the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Sloan is a contributor to Public Radio International’s “Marketplace” and frequently appears as a commentator on the PBS television program, “Nightly Business Report.” Previously a columnist at Newsday and a senior editor at Forbes , Sloan has also held positions at Money magazine, the Detroit Free Press , and the Charlotte Observer . He was named an alumnus of the year in 1999 by the Columbia