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◆On the cover
All you need is cash
The increasingly desperate search for the stuff is changing modern management?not always for the better




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

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◆Leaders
Modern management
All you need is cash
American fiscal policy
No time to waste
Germany's chancellor
Where's Angela?
Prostitution
An amber light
North Korea
Going, going, going again
Anarchy in Somalia
The lawless Horn
Bank bail-outs
Leaving Las Vegas


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◆Letters
On climate change, justice, Heathrow, Pope Pius XII, John McCain, contracts, Barack Obama, gay marriage

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◆Special Report
Sudan
A gleam among the ruins


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◆United States
Spending and the economy
The end of the affair
Stimulus packages
To spend or not to spend
The Senate
Inching to 60
Barack Obama's BlackBerry
Subject: Guantánamo
Green trends in California
Cooling off
Payday lending
Casting out the money-lenders
Gun sales
Booming
Arkansas's lottery
Taking a punt
Lexington
How new a deal?


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◆The Americas
The Amazon's indigenous people
The other Brazil
Mexico
The scribes' lament
Colombia
Tumbling pyramids
Saving Canada's polar bears
Unbearable pursuits

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◆Asia
Asian economies
Sittin' on the dock of a bay
Tibetans in exile
Splitting splittists
Taiwan's opposition
Hungry for justice
Pakistan's finances
Not so much a bail-out
The war in Sri Lanka's north
In the Tigers' lair
South Korea
Happy travels
North Korean tantrums
A balloon debate


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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq and America
And now Iraq boots the Americans out
Iran
The party's over
Congo
Enter Obasanjo
Somalia
Ahoy there!
Zimbabwe
Misery and stalemate


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◆Europe
Angela Merkel
Miss World goes missing
The Greens in Germany
Cem difference
The euro-area economy
Laboured
Missile defence
A damp squib
Russia's economy
The flight from the rouble
Spain and ETA
Cherokee captured
Charlemagne
The coddle and protect policy


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◆Britain
Environmental politics
A rod for our backs
Job losses
When it gets personal
Organ transplants
Opting out of opting out
Northern Ireland
Jaw-jaw, please


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◆International
Choosing judges
Wanted: better judgment, fewer crowd-pleasers and lickspittles
The environment and people power
Revolutions coloured green

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◆Business
Innovation in America
A gathering storm?
The car industry
Pass the plate
Trouble at easyJet
Uneasy relationship
Business in Asia
You still can't get the staff
Mobile phones
The battle for the smart-phone's soul
NTT DoCoMo
International roaming
Face value
Listen to the music


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◆Special Report
Managing in the downturn
Desperately seeking a cash cure
Audits
Accounting for concern

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◆Finance & Economics
Compensation in finance
Payback
Markets
The TARP trap
Bank bail-outs
Quids pro quo
Citigroup
A supertanker in trouble
Buttonwood
The big mo
Troubled securities in Asia
Thanks, Hank
Global governance
Goodbye G7, hello G20
Economics focus
Health and wealth


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◆Science & Technology
Criminology
Can the can
Psychology
Cleanliness is next to godlessness
Loudspeakers
Nanotunes
Stem cells
Breathe in deeply, please

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◆Books & Arts
Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art
Smart art mart
The politics of inflation
Onward and upward
Chess
Pawnography
American poets
Serious engagement
France in the second world war
Smoke and mirrors
New fiction
Bolaño-mania

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◆Obituary
Obituary
Mieczyslaw Rakowski


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Spain
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Child policies in Africa