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◆On the cover

If the world acts in concert, the violence in Myanmar should be the last spasm of a vicious regime in its death throes


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


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◆Leaders
Revolution in Myanmar
The saffron revolution
World economy
Stronger China
France and the European Central Bank
Faulty Sarkonomics
Gordon Brown
History? What history?
Sputnik
Spacemen are from Mars


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◆Letters
On staying in Iraq, Dutch women, Northern Rock, the Endangered Species Act

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◆Special Report
Myanmar's protests
On the brink
Myanmar and the world
Destructive engagement

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◆United States
Black leadership in America
Race, justice and Jena
America and Iran
The limits of free expression
Online networks
An ad too far
Capital punishment
Cause for a pause
Health-care insurance
For Bush, read Scrooge
Reno
Turning up trumps
Lexington
Can Hillary be stopped?


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◆The Americas
Canada's economy
The loonie takes wing
Mexico's economy
Braced for contagion
Peru
Fugitive returned
Guyana
Dreaming of oil


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◆Asia
The Koreas
Pyongyang or bust
Japan's new prime minister
Land of the rising shadow
Fiji
The utility of peacekeeping
India
Batting for the family
Pollution in China
Something in the air?


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◆Middle East & Africa
Lebanon
Who's for president?
Israel
The land of Zion
Ethiopia
An archive of murders past
Zimbabwe
Breakthrough or sell out?
Nigeria
Reforming the oil industry
African governance
It's better to be out to sea


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◆Europe
Ukraine's election
Preparing for the next drama
France's budget
Unausterity programme
Turkey and Islam
Secularists' lament
Poland's election
Bad habits
Kosovo's future
The waiting game
German security laws
Times of terror
Charlemagne
A cheesy tale


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◆Britain
The Labour Party
After Gordon
Anglicanism
The turbulence of priests
Livestock diseases
Double whammy
Gambling addicts
Playing a strong hand


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◆International
Climate change
As the waters rise
Civil liberties: surveillance and privacy
Learning to live with Big Brother
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◆Business
America's car industry
A turning point for Detroit
Aviation in China
Dog fight
Chinese manufacturing
Plenty of blame to go around
Commercial aviation
Barrelling along
Telecoms in the Caribbean
The Irish are coming
The magazine industry
Out of vogue
Face value
Changing how Japan works


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◆Special Report
China's economy
How fit is the panda?


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◆Finance & Economics
Private equity
A boom in bust-ups
Buttonwood
Action replay
Credit markets
Still gloomy
The dollar
Slip-sliding away
Sovereign-wealth funds
The new Rothschilds
Japan Post
Pushing the envelope
Economics focus
Playing games with the planet
Correction: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac


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◆Science & Technology
Advanced biofuels
Ethanol, schmethanol
Clinical depression
Something in the way he moves
Evolutionary psychology
More news from the savannah

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◆Books & Arts
America's pro-Israel lobby
Powerful, but not that powerful
Country churches
Bruised survivors
New fiction
At ev'ry word a reputation dies
The Marshall Plan
From America with love
Louis MacNeice's centenary
A ticket for the peepshow
J.M.W. Turner
What incandescences! What dazzle!


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◆Obituary
Bip

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Teachers' salaries
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Perceptions of corruption