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◆On the cover
Crises are endemic to financial systems. Attempts to regulate them away may do more harm than good:



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

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◆Leaders
Credit crisis
Fixing finance
Zimbabwe
The end of another African tragedy beckons
Italy's election
A Leopard, spots unchanged
Turkey's government
Courtroom drama
North Korea
Kim Jong Il's ashes
Israel at 60
The dysfunctional Jewish state

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◆Letters
On Argentina's monetary policy, screaming children, the rule of law, language, Bear Stearns

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◆Special Report
Germany's Turkish minority
Two unamalgamated worlds

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◆United States
The states' budgets
Time to turn out the lights
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
John McCain
Warrior or warmonger?
Policing in New York
NYPD blues
Smoking and drinking
Unlucky strikes
Public housing
For richer, for poorer
Lexington
Demolition derby

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◆The Americas
Foreign investment in Canada
Lie back and forget the maple leaf
Colombia
Death or freedom
The Caribbean
A storm brews
Brazil
Dilma and the goat

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◆Asia
North and South Korea
Rocket man v Bulldozer
Chinese nationalism
Land of the Yellow Emperor
Japan
Road warriors
Tibetans in Nepal
Good neighbours
Afghanistan
Putting the Hell in Helmand
Pakistan's tribal areas
Ruling the tiger park
Correction: India

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai waits for power to slip from the old tyrant
Nigeria
Another deadline goes up in flames
Ethiopia and the United States
A loveless liaison
Iraq
Maliki's knights fail to shine
Bahrain
Not so sunny for Shias

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◆Europe
Turkey
The secularists fight back
France and defence
Gaullist no more?
Ireland's prime minister
So sorry, goodbye
The Italian economy
Rival plans
Italy's election timing
Putting it off
Nordic labour markets
Where bosses will be your friends
Belarus
Dark dance
Charlemagne
The perils of three-legged races

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◆Britain
Electricity
Green and black
Terminal 5
Still a mess
Credit squeeze
Lessons of history
Children's books
Decline of the picture book

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◆International
The pope and America
Don't all hug him at once
Election outcomes
When voters settle nothing
The NATO summit
With allies like these

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◆Business
Renewable energy
German lessons
The drinks industry
Santé and Skål!
Internet advertising
The case of the missing clicks
India's fashion industry
Stepping out
Tsukiji
Fishy business
Business in the Navajo Nation
Capitalism's last frontier
Trouble at Ho-Chunk
Ho dear
Face value
The higher they climb

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◆Special Report
Financial literacy
Getting it right on the money

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◆Finance & Economics
Financial regulation
Will it fly?
Mortgage bail-outs
Itching to act; unsure what to do
Buttonwood
Hung, drawn and first-quartered
Bank capital
Rights and wrongs
The euro-area economy
Bearing up
Vietnamese shares
The fall of Ho Chi Minh City
House prices
High-rise living
Economics focus
Feet, dollars and inches

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◆Science & Technology
Genetics and lung cancer
Smoking out the smoking gene
Doping in sport
High hopes
The first Americans
Number one and number twos
Irrational economics
Look and feel
Physics and the law
Stranger than truth

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◆Books & Arts
Natural disaster
Fire and brimstone
Fighting terrorism
Fresh thought needed
V.S. Naipaul
Naked ambition
Amazon worldwide bestseller table
Laid bare
New film
Cry, beloved country
New crime fiction
Murky work

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◆Obituary
Neil Aspinall

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