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◆On the cover
The biggest worry about rich Arab and Asian states buying up banks is the potential backlash



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

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◆Leaders
Capital markets
The invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds
Democracy in retreat
Freedom marches backward
Ethical capitalism
How good should your business be?
The militarisation of space
Dangerous driving in the heavens
Global warming
Get the price right

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◆Letters
On Pakistan, Belgians, Italy, cliff jumping, China, tribes, Mormons, Ivar Kreuger

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◆Special Report
The militarisation of space
Disharmony in the spheres

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◆United States
Michigan's Republican primary
All must have prizes
The Democrats in Michigan
Vote early at your peril
Sex, race and Democrats
Outrage all round
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
The economy
Stampede to stimulus
University fees
Affording Ivy
Depopulation
The Great Plains drain
Lexington
Blood and oil

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◆The Americas
Brazil's economy
This time it will all be different
Panama
Party time
Colombia
Liberation politics
Barbados
Sweet success

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◆Asia
Taiwan's legislative election
Bowing out
Japan
The “caretaker”
South Korea
The “bulldozer”
Australia's new prime minister
Rudd, sweat and tears
Sir Edmund Hillary
Plain man, mighty deeds
India's army
Unfit for service
A bombing in Kabul
A bubble bursts

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◆Middle East & Africa
George Bush and the Arabs
Hard to make friends
Iraq
A hint of political compromise at last
Kenya
A cracked nation holds its breath
South Africa
Let's all arrest one another
Zimbabwe
A serious rival, at last?


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◆Europe
Germany's state elections
Pay and punishment
French defence policy
En garde
French broadcasting
No English, please
Serbia
Still surly
Energy in Poland
Walking on hot coals
The race for the EU presidency
Blair for president?
Charlemagne
Roll up, roll up, get your energy here

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◆Britain
Northern Rock
Running out of time
Party-funding scandal
Here we go again
Biofuels
Sugar in the tank
Children's television
School's out

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◆International
Measuring liberty
When freedom stumbles
The World Bank
Lin's long swim
Broadband
Open up those highways

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◆Business
The food industry
Son of Frankenfood?
Corporate law
The battle of StoneRidge
Regulation in Japan
Crime and punishment
Italy's violin cluster
Con brio
Spanish-language publishing
Lost in translation no more
Media in America
Reading the Metro
Virtualisation
The rise of the hypervisor
Face value
Google's guru of giving

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◆Special Report
Sovereign-wealth funds
Asset-backed insecurity

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◆Finance & Economics
Global inflation
A delicate condition
Bank losses
A Citi situation
Buttonwood
Finding default
Indian IPOs
Power play
Portuguese banks
Millennium bug
American house prices
Baby boom and bust
Economics focus
Selling sex

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◆Science & Technology
Pricing and the brain
Hitting the spot
Acoustic shielding
Sound reflections
A messenger from Mercury
Syphilis
Montezuma's revenge
Antarctic science
Snow place like home

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◆Books & Arts
The secret of happiness
It's in Iceland
America and the world
Big think that gets you a headline
British post-war history
At the centre
Crime writing
Death watch
The American Museum of Finance
Curating capitalism

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◆Obituary
John Harvey-Jones

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Latin American growth forecasts