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◆On the cover
Into the storm
How the emerging world copes with the tempest will affect the world economy and politics for a long time




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


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◆Leaders
The financial crisis
Into the storm
Land reform in China
Still not to the tiller
Information technology
Clouds and judgment
Iraq
When to call the soldiers home
The state as owner
Re-bonjour, Monsieur Colbert


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◆Letters
On the European Union, Stephen Harper, religion, health care, fair-value accounting, organ donations, Cuban-Americans, Russia, the state

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◆Special Report
Eastern Europe
Who's next?

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◆United States
The ground campaign
Obama's earnest army
Prediction
Poll, baby, poll!
The deficit
How big is too big?
Women voters
Hard to get
Senate races in the South
Scrambling the red states
The Udalls
Lords of the West
Western economies
The Mormon work ethic
Swing states: Pennsylvania
McCain's last stand
Lexington
The rise of the Obamacons

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◆The Americas
Argentina
Cristina's looking-glass world
Latin America and the United States
The more things change
Brazil
Licensed to scribble
Canada
Hazardous hypocrisy


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◆Asia
China's housing market
What goes up
Chinese press controls
Eating their words
South Korea
Second time around
Thailand
Thaksin come home
India and Sri Lanka
Big brother is watching you
Pakistan
The last resort
Kashmir's environment
How green was my valley?
Water in Australia
The dry last ditch


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◆Middle East & Africa
Saudi Arabia
The struggle against al-Qaeda
Zambia
The outsider versus the cobra
Kenya
Spread the blame
Nigeria's president
Please hurry up


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◆Europe
Nicolas Sarkozy
The president who loved summits
France's finance minister
On Lagarde
Spain and the civil war
Ghost story
East Germany's past
The history boys
Italian immigration
When Brussels trumps Rome
Turkey's economy
In need of an anchor
Charlemagne
Preparing for a new president


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◆Britain
The politics of a shrinking economy
End of the phoney peace
Equality
Pain all round, please
Graduate recruitment
What next?
Literary legacies
An uncommon gift


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◆International
The anti-West
An axis in need of oiling
Endangered languages
When nobody understands
Catholics and Jews
The weight of history

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◆Business
Technology start-ups face the downturn
Fright night in the valley
Kirk Kerkorian
No country for old men
Pharmaceuticals
A chill wind
American retailing
Left on the shelf
Fast food in China
Here comes a whopper
Face value
Climate of fear

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◆Special Report
Hedge funds in trouble
The incredible shrinking funds
Prime brokers
Do the brokey-cokey


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◆Finance & Economics
Emerging markets
A taxonomy of trouble
The IMF
No strings attached
Money markets
Thawing out
Bank regulation
Mewling and puking
Buttonwood
Margin for error
Wall Street on trial
Hunting for scalps
Asian credit markets
Belly ache
Economics focus
A helping hand to homeowners


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◆Science & Technology
Surveillance technology
If looks could kill
Lunar science
Lick that!
The evolution of homosexuality
Gender bending
X-rays and sticky tape
See-through tape


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◆Books & Arts
Israel
Jewish and democratic
“Things Fall Apart”
A golden jubilee
Alex the African Grey
My parrot and I
AIDS in India
Sex and the poor
“Byzantium”
Domes of gold


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◆Obituary
Ted Briggs

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Total tax revenue