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◆On the cover
The American presidency is Hillary Clinton's to lose. But that doesn't make her a shoo-in just yet




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

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◆Leaders
American politics
The comeback kids
Myanmar
Life beyond the pale
Russia
Democracy, Soviet-style
Indian business
Untouchable and unthinkable
America's housing giants
Don't free Fannie and Freddie


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◆Letters
On civil liberties and freedom, nuclear power, lighting, computers of the future, Standard & Poor's, Burlington House


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◆Special Report
Hillary Clinton
Ready to run the movie again?


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◆United States
America's property crisis
The hammer drops
Health insurance
Happy-go-lucky young
Urban politics
Not in my front yard
Washington
Capital of culture
Teaching poor children
A hard road to hoe
Lexington
The school of very hard knocks


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◆The Americas
Latin America and the United States
Commerce between friends and foes
Peru
Trade, timber and tribes
Ecuador
Correa's victory
Canada
Playground politics
Mexico
Reflections from the ranch

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◆Asia
Myanmar
Shouting across the barbed wire
Myanmar
Misery piled upon misery
Sri Lanka's war
The northern front
Pakistan's presidential election
Down to the wire
Australia's farmers
Dried up, washed out, fed up
The Koreas
It'll cost you


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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
I want to kill you, but not today
Iran
Parallel purposes
The Palestinian territories
Boost here, squeeze there
The Gaza Strip
Fatah has begun to fight back
Somalia
Breaking into even smaller bits?
South Africa
A Scorpion is stung


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◆Europe
Vladimir Putin
The never-ending presidency
Ukraine's election
Oranges and lemons
Georgian politics
Saakashvili's test
French mayors
Suburban style
Italy's budget
Too much
Turkey and Armenia
Genocidal follies
Charlemagne
The China trade syndrome


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◆Britain
Polls and elections
One man, one decision
Preparing for an election
Dust off those ballot boxes
Conservative Party conference
The shock of the new
Taxing rich foreigners
One tax to bind them


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◆International
Cities and natural disasters
Some hard talk about towns
Civil liberties: detention without trial
The stuff of nightmares

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◆Business
Mobile advertising
The next big thing
Satellite navigation
Location, location, location
Mining royalties
What's mined is yours
Health care
The vault is open
Chinese carmakers
Nyet
Abu Dhabi
Media oasis
Maltese business
Virtual bridges
Face value
The Skype hyper


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◆Special Report
Business and caste in India
With reservations


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◆Finance & Economics
Stockmarkets
Bad-news bulls
China's stockmarkets
Rush hour
Banking
As bad as it gets?
Buttonwood
To infinity and beyond
Remittances to Latin America
Counting the cash
Pandemic planning
Flu fighters
Economics focus
When to bail out


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◆Science & Technology
Evolution
Patience, fairness and the human condition
Organ transplants
Subprime cuts
Conservation
Vulture culture
Speciation
A god of small things

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◆Books & Arts
The Byzantine empire
The lasting glory of its art
The Korean war
Blundering into battle with China
Arthur Conan Doyle
A man divided
Philanthropy
The secretive do-gooder
Royal intrigue
Gambling lady
Olafur Eliasson
Spinning tops and frozen cars


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◆Obituary
Haidar Abdel Shafi


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, October averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Doing business