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◆On the cover
What went wrong in the financial system―and the long, hard task of fixing it



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

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◆Leaders
Wall Street
Wall Street's crisis
Tibet
A colonial uprising
Elections in Iran
Conservative or conservative?
Zimbabwe
Time for the rescue
Internet communities
Break down these walls

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◆Letters
On Colombia, asset management, Iraq, India, populism, old age

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◆Special Report
A week in Tibet
Trashing the Beijing Road

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◆United States
The Jeremiah Wright affair
The trouble with uncles
The Democrats
Inside the minds of the superdelegates
Handgun bans
Whose right to bear arms?
Virginia's exurbs
Paint them blue
Rehabilitating prisoners
A new deal
David Paterson
New York, new governor
Hispanic families
Bad news from California
Lexington
The cult of Adams

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◆The Americas
Brazil and Argentina
The tortoise and the hare
Guatemala
A test of will
Consumer electronics in Cuba
Byte by byte
Mexico
The resurrection

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◆Asia
Japan
Kamikaze politics
China
Unanswered questions
Indian politics
Supersonia
Pakistan
After the mullahs
Democracy in Afghanistan
Spoilt for choice
Malaysia
Shuffling deckchairs
Nepal
A Maoist on the hustings
Correction: Kerala's capital

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's election
Coming to a crunch
Iran's election
Back to first principles
Djibouti
St Tropez in the Horn?
The Comoro Islands
Send in the Afro-marines

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◆Europe
France
Sarkozy rebuked
Anglo-French relations
An entente in London
Germany and Israel
Friends in high places
Kosovo's riots
Border clashing
Turkey's secular constitution
See you in court
Free speech and Islam
Flat-earth fears
Charlemagne
The hot air of hypocrisy
Correction: London and Paris

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◆Britain
Inflation resurgent
Unwelcome lift-off
Polls and politics
Up, up and away
Nuclear energy
Hot property
McCartney divorce
Breaking up is hard to do

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◆International
Mathematics
Let's talk about figures
The World Bank
Dirty linen

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◆Business
Online social networks
Everywhere and nowhere
German corporate governance
Raising their voices
Israel's technology cluster
Land of milk and start-ups
Alitalia
Rapid descent
Diamonds in Africa
Keeping the sparkle at home
Business in Japan
Silent spring
Internet jewellers
A boy's best friend
Face value
Service is everything

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◆Special Report
The financial system
What went wrong
Investment banks
The $2 bail-out
The fallout at Bear Stearns
Sore heads
Central banks
A dangerous divergence
Buttonwood
Apocalypse now?
Commodities
A bit tarnished
Derivatives
Caveat counterparty
Foreign exchange
The yen also rises
China's stockmarket
Earnings up, prices down
Economics focus
History lesson

◆Science & Technology
The science of religion
Where angels no longer fear to tread

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◆Books & Arts
Tibet
Mountain forces
Zimbabwe
The making of a monster
The struggle between East and West
A long line of stand-offs
New American fiction
Murder in Candyland
Albania in the second world war
More than a sideshow
18th-century intellectuals
Clever girls

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◆Obituary
Lazare Ponticelli

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index (1)
The Economist commodity-price index (2)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Taxing wages