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◆On the cover

Central banks have worked miracles for the past quarter century. Don't count on that continuing


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

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◆Leaders
The world economy
Lessons from the credit crunch
Turkey and Armenia
A resolution too far
The Republicans and business
Fractured alliance
Sudan
That other war
Japan
Don't furl the flag


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◆Letters
On business and caste in India, the Israel lobby, Hillary Clinton, space, Arthur Conan Doyle


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◆Special Report
Turkey and America
Unearthing the past, endangering the future

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◆United States
The Democrats in Iowa
Battle amid the corn
Health care
The right question
Divestment
Not with my money
The courts
Bush v Texas
Chicago's police
Breaking the blue wall
Native Americans in Washington
An inconvenient hunt
Marijuana
Home-grown
The homeless
Not always what they seem
Lexington
Gore the pure


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◆The Americas
Argentina's presidential election
Cristina, a familiar enigma
Brazil
Highway to somewhere
Canada
Truth or dare?
Canadian political memoirs
The pen as dagger


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◆Asia
Pakistan's political mess
BB's back
China
The mysterious Mr Hu
Japanese politics
Uncharted waters
Australia's election
Things are going so well
The Pacific Islands Forum
Lepers change their spots
Myanmar diplomacy
Sticks and carrots


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◆Middle East & Africa
South Sudan
Will the war start all over again?
Africa and the internet
The digital gap
Nigeria
A nation in waiting
Syria
A mystery unsolved
Iraq
A rare moment of calm in the capital
Iraq and Uganda
The war is good for some
Correction: Nigeria's oil


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◆Europe
Russia's foreign policy
Last tango in Tehran
Italian politics
The candidate of compromise
Missile defence in Europe
Sky high
Spain's past
A rude awakening
French strikes
Sarkozy's bad week
Serbia's future
The Russian option
Kosovo's future
Fretting
Charlemagne
Europe's horse whisperers


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◆Britain
Gordon Brown and Europe
Damned if he does
BAE Systems
Defender of the realm
Abortion
Unsettled issue
Cornish
Back from the dead


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◆International
The Western alliance
Shadows over NATO
Education
How to be top
Abortion and the law
Safe, legal and falling
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◆Business
Internet companies
Social graph-iti
Russian aviation
Sukhoi's phoenix
Computer software
Programmed for a fight
Shipping and tax
Flagging off
Business in Germany
Locusts in lederhosen
Indian retailing
Mall rats
Face value
Smooth operator


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◆Special Report
Northern Rock
Lessons of the fall


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◆Finance & Economics
Exchange rates
Love the one you're with
Buttonwood
Paint it black
Credit markets
Curing SIV
The World Bank
A stitch in time
India's markets
Too hot to handle
Eastern Europe
Baltic blues
Commodities
Material world
Economics focus
Intelligent design


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◆Science & Technology
Malaria
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Evolution
Live fast, love hard, die young
Quantum cryptography
Heisenberg's certainty principle
Evolution
The origin of speakies


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◆Books & Arts
The Soviet Union
Stalin's children
Memoirs
Minus the airbrushing
Ireland
Top of the morning
Ezra Pound
A solitary volcano
Art fairs
Satellites around the sun
The Man Booker prize
Lust in the old country


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◆Obituary
Bob Denard

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators

Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Transnational companies
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Corporate taxes