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◆On the cover
Barack Obama deserves the nomination; it is not yet clear whether he deserves the presidency



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

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◆Leaders
The Democrats
Almost there
Cyclone in Myanmar
Myanmar's misery
Gordon Brown
The agony of Gordon Brown
The Palestinians
Still stateless after all these years
America's housing
Home truths
Russia's new president
Enter, pursued by a new bear

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◆Letters
On Colombia, Jewish refugees, currencies, Cuba, John McCain, Macedonia

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◆Special Report
Black America
Nearer to overcoming
The Palestinians
The wandering Palestinian

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◆United States
Presidential politics
The big remaining question
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Education
Red ties and boys' pride
New York schools
Six books a week
The booming West
Grave goods
Lexington
Land of the free?

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◆The Americas
Peru
Poverty amid progress
The Dominican Republic
Two cheers for Fernández
Bolivia
Battle by referendum
Ecuador's constitution
Going nowhere

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◆Asia
Cyclone in Myanmar
No shelter from the storm
North Korea
Let them eat Juche
China and Tibet
A lama in sheep's clothing?
China and Japan
Blossoming
China's latest virus
Better safe than sorry
Smoking in Beijing
Out of puff
Pakistan
Three-way struggle

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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq, Iran and the United States
Whose side are they all on?
Yemen
Anxious times
Zimbabwe
Mixed signals
South Africa
Scorpions stung


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◆Europe
Russia
A strange Kremlin wedding
Italian tax returns
Publish and be taxed
Serbia's election
Balkan ballot
Germany's security strategy
Thinking the unthinkable
Denmark's prime minister
When loose talk may cost a top job
Turkish media
Circulation wars
Charlemagne
Whistling in the dark
Correction: Russia and Lithuania

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◆Britain
The Conservative Party
The big Mo
Scottish politics
Another setback for Gordon
Taxing multinationals
The other tax rebellion
Ethics and the arms trade
Scout's honour

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◆International
Food prices and protest
Taking the strain
Media freedom
Hacks v beaks

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◆Business
Russia's oil industry
Trouble in the pipeline
Microsoft and Yahoo!
No deal
Mobile telecoms
Calling across the Indian Ocean
Electric vehicles
Charge!
Great Wall Motor
Hungry like the wolf
Tourism
Rebranding Australia
America's patent system
Methods and madness
Face value
Dynasty calls

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◆Special Report
Energy efficiency
The elusive negawatt

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◆Finance & Economics
American housing
Map of misery
Buttonwood
Backing greens with greenbacks
Bank lay-offs
First ink, now blood
African finance
Turning towards Mecca
Argentine lending
Who needs credit?
Economics focus
A tale of two worlds

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◆Science & Technology
Myalgic encephalomyelitis
The roots of chronic fatigue
Epigenetics
Silencing of the lambs
Lie detectors
Whose pants on fire?
Animal behaviour
Naughty nesters
Proteomics
Return to the fold

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◆Books & Arts
Richard Nixon
The fuel of power
Health care
No place to be sick
Hunting at sea
Blood and guts
Château Lafite
A mystery uncorked
Rhodes scholarships
Redemption by bequest
Philip Guston
The man who changed his mind

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◆Obituary
Albert Hofmann

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, May averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Broad money supply