■The world this week
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■Leaders
Big government
Stop!
The Massachusetts election
The man who fell to earth
Sri Lanka's presidential election
Between a rock and a hard man
After the earthquake
A plan for Haiti
Reforming banks
The weakest links
Ukraine's presidential election
An orange and two lemons

■Letters
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■Briefing
The growth of the state
Leviathan stirs again

■United States
The Massachusetts shocker
The unstoppable truck
Health reform
Rip it up and start again
The housing market
Still in the cellar
West Virginia's legal system
Small steps
California's Central Valley
The Appalachia of the West
Antitrust law and football
Out of many, one
Pets in the recession
Howls for help
Lexington
The fat plateau

■The Americas
Post-earthquake chaos in Haiti
A massive relief effort limps into gear
Lessons from the tsunami
Too much of a good thing?
Chile's presidential election
Piñera promises a gallop
Honduras's new president
Lobo alone
Brazil's presidential biopic
Lula, sanitised
A Canadian misunderstanding
Just history

■Asia
The war in Afghanistan
Bombs and baksheesh
Politics and the courts in Pakistan
In disrepute
Sri Lanka's Tamil diaspora
Next year in Jaffna
Political scandals in Japan
Out of the shadows
China's assertiveness at sea
Choppy waters
Protest in Hong Kong
On track for confrontation
Banyan
The books of slaughter and forgetting

■Middle East & Africa
Peace talks between Israel and Palestine
Do get a move on
Israel's prime minister and the media
Why they are getting at his wife
The Muslim Brothers' new leader
Which way now?
Anxious Ethiopia
Jangling nerves
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■Europe
Ukraine's election
Five years on in Kiev
Germany's divided government
Waiting for Angela
Sweden leans left again
Trouble at home
The Irish economy
Green shoots
Greece's public finances
Pull the other one
Charlemagne
Europe and an inscrutable China

■Britain
Manufacturing blues
Another one bites the dust
The return of inflation
An embarrassing bungee-jump
Defence-spending cuts
You can't fight in here, this is the war room
Reforming education
Teach the teacher [Britain only]
Marriage and the state
A ménage à trois [Britain only]
Buckfast tonic wine
Bottling it [Britain only]
Correction: British Airways

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■International
Spending on education
Investing in brains
Education
Reaching the poorest

■Business
America's car industry
Small cars, big question
Renault and meddling politicians
Attempted carjack
The business of dissecting electronics
The lowdown on teardowns
Capitalism in China
The spirit of enterprise fades
Professional-services firms
Laid-off lawyers, cast-off consultants
Schumpeter
The tale of Mr Jackson

■Briefing
Reforming banking
Base camp Basel
Correction: China's economy

■Finance and Economics
The world economy
Pulling apart
China's economy
Central heating
American banks
Through FICC and thin
Buttonwood
Model behaviour
Europe's co-operative banks
Mutual respect
Exchange-traded funds
Trillion-dollar babies
Catastrophe insurance
When calamity strikes
Economics focus
Invested interests

■Science & Technology
The psychology of power
Absolutely
Glaciers and the IPCC
Off-base camp
Railways and slime moulds
A life of slime
Science correspondent's job

■Books & Arts
Georgia and Russia
Ungodly suffering
Mahathir Mohamad
The doctor's orders
Carlo Gesualdo
Lurid rhythms
The European Union
What is it for?
New detective fiction
Chewing the fat
History of science
Like-minded fellows
Indian contemporary art

■Obituary
Jyoti Basu

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