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◆On the cover
It's time
America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world




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


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◆Leaders
The presidential election
It's time
The economy
The next front is fiscal
Elections in Israel
Tzipi or Bibi?
Congo
Don't let it happen all over again


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◆Letters
On capitalism, Afghanistan, climate change, Iceland, Joe Biden, Joe the Plumber

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◆Special Report
Age and America's election
Age shall not wither them
The youth vote
Their poster boy

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◆United States
Swing states: our conclusions
To 270…and beyond
Maine and Nebraska
In search of the one
The Congress
A landslide looms
The election campaign
Heard on the stump
Closing arguments
The end is nigh
Ohio
On the eve of battle
Governors in trouble
The other executives
Proposition 8
Showdown
Lexington
Two cheers for American democracy


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◆The Americas
Mexico
Spot the drug trafficker
Chile
The writing on the wall
Colombia
Upping the body count
Central America
Zelaya plays the Chávez card

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◆Asia
The credit crunch
China moves to centre stage
Online activism in China
Murder and theft
Taiwan
Cross straits
Japanese politics
Keep 'em guessing
The Maldives
Another country
Pakistan's economy
Treacherous ground
Central Asia and the financial crisis
After the boom


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◆Middle East & Africa
Israel
Into the electoral maze
Syria
A puzzling raid
Africa's economy
Trying to weather the storm
Slavery in west Africa
A continuing abomination
The Horn of Africa
The tragedy of the decade?
Côte d'Ivoire
Election jitters
Correction: Africa's prospects

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◆Europe
Chief financial officers
In the eye of the storm
America's car industry
And then there were two
Companies and state aid
Helping hand?
Aviation
Freedom's call
Companies and human rights
Test case
Digital books
A new chapter
Australian commodities firms
From gold to lead
Face value
Coco futures



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◆Business
Chief financial officers
In the eye of the storm
America's car industry
And then there were two
Companies and state aid
Helping hand?
Aviation
Freedom's call
Companies and human rights
Test case
Digital books
A new chapter
Australian commodities firms
From gold to lead
Face value
Coco futures


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◆Special Report
Policy in a recession
Putting the air back in


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◆Finance & Economics
Market turmoil
Bad vibrations
Buttonwood
All bets are off
Porsche and VW
Squeezy money
Developed economies
Over the edge
Japan's economy
That sinking feeling
Emerging markets
Unfunded mandate
Insurance
Under the covers
Economics focus
A biased market
Correction: The IMF

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◆Science & Technology
Warfare
Fighting with photons
The placebo effect
Great expectations
Conservation
Managed to death


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◆Books & Arts
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The man who saved his country, and the world
Obsession
The double face of single-mindedness
The nicest house in London
Ambassadorial pile
The joy of pork
The whole hog
Flooded Florence
Angels of mud
Renaissance tapestries
In praise of powerful women

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◆Obituary
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Income inequality
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Cost of remittances