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◆On the cover
Whether it is Clinton, McCain or Obama, the world will still quarrel with America:



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

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◆Leaders
American foreign policy
All change?
Aviation
How to fix Heathrow
Tibet and the Beijing Olympics
A sporting chance
Banking
The regulators are coming
Argentina's taxes on food exports
Killing the pampas's golden calf

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◆Letters
On NAFTA, local government, crime, Wikipedia, Eliot Spitzer, plastic bags, buffalo meat, London

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◆Special Report
The state of NATO
A ray of light in the dark defile

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◆United States
Redesigning cities
Tackling the hydra
The Democrats
Of snipers and sniping
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Schools and testing
Left behind
The farm bill
Long time in germination
Wolves
Fair game now
Lexington
The joys of parenthood

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◆The Americas
Argentina
The Kirchners v the farmers
Canada
Angry Anglicans
The Caribbean
The Canadian connection
Brazil
Feverish in Rio
Salsa dancing
Selling rhythm to the world

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◆Asia
China and Tibet
Welcome to the Olympics
Taiwan
Ma's horse comes in
India's civil service
A bonus for babus
Pakistan
Zardari's big tent
Criminal justice in Japan
Throw away the key
Bhutan
Voting on the king's orders

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
Wobbling all over the place
Iraq
Boxing is good for reconciliation
The Gaza Strip
Hamas's battle for hearts and minds
Iran
The rites and wrongs of spring
Botswana
The southern star

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◆Europe
Italy's election
Promises, but no delivery
Rubbish in Naples
Garbage in, garbage out
Troubled Armenia
Protests continued
Hungary's economy
A Magyar mess
Slovakia's history
Textbook wars
Charlemagne
Europe makes peace with nationalism

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◆Britain
Britain and America
Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Religion and politics
Playing God
Greyhound racing
Scarcely a cloth cap in sight

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◆International
Famine, farm prices and aid
Food for thought
Rice and politics
Needed: a new revolution
Nuclear weapons
Just how low can you go?
Rainforests
Racing to hug those trees
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◆Business
Bankruptcies in America
Waiting for Armageddon
Tata, Jaguar and Land Rover
Now what?
China's steel industry
Pile up
Business in Russia
Another inspector calls
Baseball in Japan
The old ball game
Business in France
Fraternity
Wine in Australia
From quantity to quality
Wine in New Zealand
At the sweet spot
Face value
This is your captain speaking

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◆Special Report
Heathrow airport
Hemmed in at Heathrow

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◆Finance & Economics
Bear Stearns
No picnic
Buttonwood
Requiem for a prudent man
Financial markets
Still wobbling
Ecotourism and economics
Shellshock
Export restrictions
Cereal offenders
Trade and migration
How to smite Smoot
Economics focus
Divine intervention
Marjorie Deane internship
Correction: Foreign exchange

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◆Science & Technology
Ultra-fast lasers
Zapping with the light fantastic
Ball lightning
Great balls of fire!
Psychology
Sugaring the decision
Suspended animation
Smelly sleep

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◆Books & Arts
Geopolitical trends
The empires strike back
American conservatism
Opportunity missed
The Shias in Iraq
Riding the tiger
New fiction
Still lost in the wilderness
Economic ideas
Sachs appeal
Marie-Antoinette
From the garden to the guillotine

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◆Obituary
Arthur C. Clarke

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Natural disasters
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
European bond spreads