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｡n the cover
The hundred years' war
How growing rejectionism, the rise of religion, a new military doctrine and a new cold war keep peace at bay




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

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｡eaders
The Arabs and Israel
The hundred years' war
British manufacturing
Coming in from the cold
America's budget
After the recession, the deluge
Energy in the European Union
Gas wars

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｡etters
On Gaza, India, Tintin, chilies, William Tyndale, Rod Blagojevich

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｡pecial Report
The struggle for Gaza
Where will it end?
Israel's military strategy
Two eyes for an eye


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｡nited States
The budget deficit
Waiting for God-only-knows-what
The new surgeon-general
Health screen
Transitional woes
Reality check
Barack Obama's BlackBerry
Subject: Russia and China
California's budget
Crimson tide
Student loans
College on credit
Consumer finance
The layaway way
Texas politics
Happy together
Lexington
Leading the lawmakers


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｡he Americas
Politics in Brazil
Lula's last lap
Politics in Colombia
Third term temptation
Quebec's demography
The cradle's costly revenge
Housing in Argentina
Misery in their midst


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｡sia
Sri Lanka
The Tigers' last stand
South Korea
Barrack-room brawls
Indonesia's economy and the election
So far so good
Land reform in China
Users and losers
India and Pakistan
Dodging the dossier
India｡ｯs traditional crafts
Looming extinction


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｡iddle East & Africa
Ghana's election
A damned close-run thing｡ｪand a fine example to the rest of Africa
Ethiopia and Somalia
Back into the abyss?
Iraq
Sovereign, sort of
Morocco
The sacred and the profane


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｡urope
Russia, Ukraine and gas
Pipe down
France's minority politicians
Ethnic troubles
Montenegro's economy
Not quite a crash
The left in Italy
Scuola di scandalo
Poland's public television
Tragedy or farce?
Charlemagne
Of antibiotics and globalisation


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｡ritain
Interest rates
Combating the recession
Saving jobs
Holding back the tide
The death of Sir Alan Walters
Mrs Thatcher's monetarist guru


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｡nternational
Libel tourism
Writ large
Nuclear safeguards
Every little helps

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｡usiness
Second-act chief executives
Comeback kings?
Steve Jobs
One of a kind
Corporate governance
India's Enron
Business in Indonesia
Bakrie's bounceback
Adolf Merckle
Empire lost
Corporate jets
Deeply uncool
Face value
The enforcer


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｡pecial Report
Rolls-Royce
Britain's lonely high-flier


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｡inance & Economics
Emerging markets
Stumble or fall?
Banks and private equity
Roll up, roll up
Buttonwood
Yielding to none
Governance in Hong Kong
Indefensible
Risk aversion
The bonds of time
Economics focus
Drastic times


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｡cience & Technology
Science policy
Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth
The environment
Green Bush
Astronomy
The cosmic boogie-box
Solar energy
Seeing red
Neuroscience
Sound and no fury


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｡ooks & Arts
Central bankers
Lords of finance
Scotland and England
Unkilting the myths
Europe's first financiers
The Genoa connection
Political posters in Lebanon
Clenched fists and AK-47s
Skiing
The white stuff
Henry Moore's fabrics
Cloth art
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
Words of warning

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｡bituary
Helen Suzman

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, January averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Stockmarkets