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◆On the cover
Wounded, tetchy and less effective than it should be, America is still the power that counts



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon


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◆Leaders
American power
Still No.1
Hong Kong
One country, no democracy
British politics
The coronation
The European Union summit
Trick or treaty?
Pharmaceuticals
From bench to bedside
Global trade talks
Potsdam's price


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◆Letters
On the environment, Paris Hilton, Sri Lanka, DP World, animal sacrifices, Apple, the future

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◆Special Report
American power
The hobbled hegemon

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◆United States
The Democrats
Harry's and Nancy's mixed half-year
Mayors
Leading by example
Iowa
Lend me your ears
Judiciary
Judges behaving badly
Weddings
The number of the feast
Lexington
Out and proud parents


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◆The Americas
Brazil
Lazy, hazy days for lucky Lula
Chile and Peru
Neighbours, but not yet friends
Venezuela
It's our oil
Canada's oil sands
Boomtown on a bender


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◆Asia
Chinese politics
Democracy? Hu needs it
Myanmar's Muslims
Unlikely sanctuary
India's presidential election
The chosen one
Thailand's political stand-off
Penalty shoot-out
Australia's aborigines
Hard paternalism
Laos
Dammed if they do


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◆Middle East & Africa
Iran
Muzzling dissent and moving to a war footing
Iran and nuclear diplomacy
A yes or a no?
Israel and Palestine
Awkward pause
The Middle East quartet's new envoy
Can Tony Blair help make peace?
Lesotho
Poor little brother
Iraq's Kurds
Justice, up to a point

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◆Europe
Germany
Merkel's magic
Eastern Germany
We ain't got dames
France's hyperactive president
The Sarko show
Sweden and Finland
New boots for NATO?
Bosnia's future
The Balkan patient
Brcko
The hinge in the bracket
Charlemagne
Treaty blues


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◆Britain
British politics
Now that he's gone
Economic prospects
Debt hangover
Floods bring disaster to Britain
If Canute could see us now

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◆International
The opium economy
A world awash in heroin
Laying down religious law
Islam's authority deficit
Wonders of the world
Reluctant marvels

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◆Business
Pharmaceuticals
Beyond the blockbuster
Internet radio
Tuning out
French newspapers
The rag trade
Tourism in Asia
After the deluge
Doing business in Russia
A settling of accounts
Shareholder activism in Japan
In the locust position
Face value
A new broom


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◆Special Report
East Asian economies
Gold from the storm


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◆Finance & Economics
Credit markets
You only give me your funny paper
Private equity
Polish needed
African foreign-exchange reserves
Saving up for a rainy day
Buttonwood
Identity crisis
Trade talks
Mangling trade
Mobile payments
Dial M for money
Japanese banks
Fishing for a future
Economics focus
An unhealthy burden


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◆Science & Technology
Space psychology
Cosmic mood-swings
Particle physics
Down the rabbit hole
Animal behaviour
Ain't misbehaving
AIDS
The not-so-fair sex

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◆Books & Arts
Religion
An author and his subject
Robert Peel
Father of globalisation
Building the Pentagon
At the double
Intervention and peacekeeping
Paddy's passions
Museums in Sarajevo
Princip's footsteps
New Orleans jazz
When the saints go marchin' out


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◆Obituary
Imre Friedmann

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Food
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign direct investment