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◆On the cover
America wants change; it just can't work out what sort of change



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

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◆Leaders
America's election
Up in the air
Colour revolutions in the former Soviet Union
A bit faded but still bright enough
Emerging-market multinationals
Wind of change
America's economy
A long slog
America in the Middle East
George Bush drinks in the last-chance casbah

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◆Letters
On Kenya, beauty, Canadian workers, Muslims, words, shopping malls

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◆United States
The Democrats
The Comeback Kid, part two
The Republicans
The Mac is back
Primary colour
On the campaign trail
Obamamania
Has the magical mystery tour hit the buffers?
Kenya
Saving the world in his spare time
Nevada and California
Into the West
Bipartisanship
Squeezed out?
Lexington
The Republican crack-up

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◆The Americas
Venezuela
Chávez slows to a trot
Chile
The centre cannot hold
Peru
Suffer the children
Canada
Islam and phobias
Brazil
The granny from Ipanema
Correction: Mexico's oil industry

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◆Asia
Islam in Indonesia
Where “soft Islam” is on the march
Executions in China
The bullet or the needle
Marshall Islands
Home on the range
Censorship in China
Caution: lust
Nepal
The tumbrel rolls

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◆Middle East & Africa
Kenya
Kibaki v Odinga: no compromise yet
The Arabs
Between fitna, fawda and the deep blue sea
Israel
Where do we go from here?

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◆Europe
Georgia
Misha bounces back
Rubbish in Naples
See it and die
French politics
L'hyperprésident
German media
The mirror crack'd
Spain and the Catholic church
The bishops' revolt
Turkey and tolerance
Deviating from the path
Charlemagne
Those naive American voters

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◆Britain
The London mayoral race
Political capital
Energy prices
Higher still and higher
Nuclear power
The wind, the sun―and the atom
Bad women
Ma's behind bars

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◆International
Charles Taylor in the dock
Bringing bigwigs to justice
Islam and democracy
The practice―and the theory
Avoidable deaths
Where do all the dollars go?
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◆Business
The music industry
From major to minor
Consumer electronics
Everything's gone Blu
Chinese toys
No fun and games
The Volkswagen trial
What did he know?
Starbucks v McDonald's
Coffee wars
Chrysler
Reality bites
The one-lakh car
No lakh of daring
Face value
Totally different

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◆Special Report
Emerging-market multinationals
The challengers

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◆Finance & Economics
Banks and the credit crunch
Stepping beyond subprime
R-word index
Warning lights
German banks
Slow motion
Buttonwood
Riding the cycle
Health-care economics
Comparison shopping
The Chinese yuan
Revaluation by stealth
Economics focus
Same as it ever was

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◆Science & Technology
Drug addiction
Going by the book
Astronomy
Where the shadows lie
Co-operative breeding
The perils of togetherness
How to find a mate
The scent of a woman (and a man)
Correction: British physics

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◆Books & Arts
New fiction
Searching for truth, whatever that is
American history 1
Durably democratic
American history 2
Towards perfect freedom
The Mafia in Naples
Gangsters go global
American kids
In praise of nerds
Medieval ivories
Pause as you pass

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◆Obituary
George MacDonald Fraser

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