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◆On the cover
If America can learn from its problems, instead of blaming others, it will come back stronger



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

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◆Leaders
America
Unhappy America
America and the Middle East
More U-turns, please
The Balkans
Karadzic caught
France
Sarkozy's progress
Zimbabwe
Only talk tough
Short-selling
Naked fear


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◆Letters
On trade, international institutions, Singapore, violence, Silvio Berlusconi

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◆Special Report
Religious conversions
The moment of truth
Islam and apostasy
In death's shadow


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◆United States
The economy: the problem
Workingman’s blues
The economy: the solutions
It’s the economy again, stupid
The netroots
Don’t mention FISA
Lexington
A lucky man


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◆The Americas
Argentina
Et tu, Julio?
Canada's military
Hockey sticks and helicopters
Energy reform in Mexico
Crude and oily
Venezuela and Cuba
Parrot diplomacy

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◆Asia
South-East Asia
ASEAN and the temple of doom
Indian politics
A tarnished triumph
The Beijing Olympics
Five-ring circus
The Sino-Russian border
The cockerel’s cropped crest
Pakistan
Red mist
Kashmir
Spoiled by war
Australia and climate change
Greens and the black stuff
Nepal
Guerrilla politics


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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
They agree to talk, but nobody knows where it will lead
Africa and the Anglicans
Going their own way, by God
Uganda
A grumpy kingdom
Iran
Who runs it?
Syria
Red lines that cannot be crossed


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◆Europe
France
The reformist president
Ireland and the Lisbon treaty
Vote early, vote often
Serbia and Radovan Karadzic
Arrest of a bearded man
Bulgaria, Romania and the EU
Balkan blushes
Smoking in Germany
Bans up
Charlemagne
Defensive gestures


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◆Britain
The gas market
Flaring up again
Britain and America (1)
The ties that bind
Britain and America (2)
Points of contention
Gordon Brown in Israel
A revealing visit
Divorce and economic growth
Negatively correlated
Welfare reform
Evolution, not revolution


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◆International
Cyber-nationalism
The brave new world of e-hatred
Smoking
Stub out that weed for ever
Global Islam
Unusual guests, a most unusual host

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◆Business
Pharmaceuticals
All together now
Business in India
A lost connection
Yahoo!
Icahn’t
Renewable energy
Big blue
Media
Not all bad news
Eco-friendly packaging
Losing their bottle
Face value
Buy out and pay up

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◆Special Report
Neuroeconomics
Do economists need brains?

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◆Finance & Economics
Insurance
Black box blues
Buttonwood
A time for pruning
Japan’s pension pot
Capital thinking
Credit cards
Superprime slime
The Big Mac Index
Sandwiched
Bank secrecy
Hear no evil
Australian finance
Down under
Economics focus
Cheap and cheerful
Correction: prediction markets


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◆Science & Technology
NASA at 50
Many happy returns?
Materials science
Rags to riches
Appetite control
A sweet result


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◆Books & Arts
America and the Middle East
How they got in, how to get out
Central Asia
An opportunity missed
Haruki Murakami
Runner's world
Madame de Maintenon
The story of M
American literary friendships
Hers and his
New American fiction
A dog in the night-time


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◆Obituary
Bronislaw Geremek

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The world's biggest companies
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global business barometer