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Painful though it is, this oil shock will eventually spur enormous change. Until then, beware the hunt for scapegoats:



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｡he world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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｡eaders
The oil price
Recoil
Gordon Brown's travails
Picking fights
Corporate governance in Japan
Bring it on
Enlarging the European Union
Chicken or Kiev?
Nuclear proliferation
Iran's endless filibuster

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On competition law, Canada, Belgians, privatisation, EDS, tourism, LSD, reading

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America's suburbs
An age of transformation

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The electoral map
Battlefield America
The economy
Stimulus and shopping
The housing market
Dropping a brick
Carbon emissions
And the winner is...
Scott McClellan's memoirs
Unspinning the war
The new gold rush
Miner '09er
Mining and pollution
National treasure
Lexington
Raising the Barr

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South American defence
Speak fraternally but carry a stick
Colombia
After Sureshot
Canada
Much ado about not much
Argentina
Deadlock

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Thailand
Protests and coup rumours return
Nepal
Goodbye to all that
Taiwan's charities
Help with a bow
Australia's skills shortage
Give us your huddled masses, mate
North Korea's new rich
How the other 0.0000001% live
India's Maoists
Sentence first, verdict afterwards
Middle East & Africa

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｡iddle East & Africa
Israel
The prime minister is tottering
The Palestinian economy
It all depends on the politics
Lebanon
The prospect of a wider peace
Iran
Smoke and mirrors
Chad
Relying on outsiders
Japan and Africa
Catching up

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｡urope
Ukraine's government
A political soap-opera, continued
The European Union and Russia
Uneasy partnership
Germany's president
A swansong for the coalition
Kosovo's future
Divided rule
France and its Muslims
The graveyard shift
The Islamic headscarf in Denmark
Covering up
Charlemagne
A woman's place?

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｡ritain
The oil shock
Pistol pointed at the heart
Oil and gas
Drying up
Detention without charge
Taking liberties
Anti-terrorist laws
Guilty, we think

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｡nternational
Corporal punishment
Spare the rod, say some
Peacekeeping and sex abuse
Who will watch the watchmen?
Trade in wildlife
Just let them get on with it

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｡usiness
Corporate governance in Japan
Power struggles
Japan's business lobbies
Jockeying for influence
Mobile telecoms
Halfway there
Telecoms in China
Rewired
Retailing in India
Unshackling the chain stores
Chief executives
How to get to the top
Eco-manufacturing
Get your green pants here
Private equity in Austria
Fending off the locusts
Face value
Ringing off

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Energy
Double, double, oil and trouble
Fuel subsidies
Crude measures

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｡inance & Economics
Stock exchanges
The battle of the bourses
Buttonwood
Not so vigilant
Latin American equity markets
Samba v Ranchero
Sociｨｦtｨｦ Gｨｦnｨｦrale
After JK
Disclosure in China
Stepping backwards
Economics focus
The Doha dilemma

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｡cience & Technology
Exploring Mars
The Phoenix has landed
Education and sex
Vital statistics
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Target acquired
Palaeontology
Storking the ancient skies

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20th-century art
Golden bars of heaven
Russia
Horses and vodka
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Angry old man
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A modern Western
Horses and oil
Later retirement
Making it happen
James Bond
Centennial

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｡bituary
Robert Vesco

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