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■Leaders
Tablet computing
The book of Jobs
Development
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Regulating America's banks
Stage prop
Reforming European economies
The cruelty of compassion

■Letters
On labelling countries, senators, Gerald Ford, religion, financial bubbles, anarchy, border officials

■Briefing
Sri Lanka's election
Victory for the Tiger-slayer

■United States
The state-of-the-union message
Still talking, at any rate
Populists and bankers
Strange meeting
Oregon's tax referendums
The pendulum swings back
The Guantánamo file
Getting to closure
Free speech and campaign cash
Unbound
The family in figures
Men and marriage
Lexington
The party of No

■The Americas
Haiti two weeks after the earthquake
Scrabbling for survival
Venezuela's drift to authoritarianism
Wolf sheds fleece
Liberalism in Brazil
The almost-lost cause of freedom

■Asia
Bihar's remarkable recovery
On the move
Fighting corruption in India
A zero contribution
China in Central Asia
Riches in the near abroad
Beijing's representative-office scandals
The delights of home cooking
American forces in the Philippines
Front-line vets
Repression in Vietnam
Dangerous convictions
Banyan
Japan's love-bubbles for China

■Middle East & Africa
Rising Angola
Oil, glorious oil
How to visit Angola
Patience, the essential virtue
Nigeria's Muslim sects
Stagnation stirs everything up
A jazz revival in Ethiopia
Swing along again
Iraq's coming election
Reopening the old sectarian wounds
Reporting Iraq
Still fraught
The Palestinians and the peace process
Will he, won't he, join the dance?
A debate about fashion in Qatar
Cross about cross-dressing
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■Europe
Poland's strong economy
Horse power to horsepower
Auschwitz 65 years on
The power of history
Rebranding Nicolas Sarkozy
Le roi s'amuse
Italy's troubled left
The centre-left cannot hold
Russia and its regions
Beyond the Kremlin's reach
Oskar Lafontaine
Left turn ahead?
Charlemagne
Starting them young

■Britain
End of the recession
The recovery and the election
Northern Ireland
Dark before the dawn?
Reversing inequality
For he that hath
What Britain thinks
Whatever
New banking ventures
Tilting at windmills [Britain only]
Reforming central government
Muddling through no more [Britain only]
Making military helicopters
Trouble in store [Britain only]
Bagehot
Regime changer

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■International
The resurgence of al-Qaeda
The bombs that stopped the happy talk
Scarcity and globalisation
A needier era

■A special report on social networking
A world of connections
Global swap shops
Twitter's transmitters
Profiting from friendship
A peach of an opportunity
Yammering away at the office
Social contracts
Privacy 2.0
Towards a socialised state
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Apple unveils the iPad
Steve Jobs and the tablet of hope
The Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger
A union of pariahs
Samsung's leadership saga
All in the family
Testing India's graduates
The engineering gap
Saving Saab
At last, GM finds a buyer
The sweetener battle
Sweet and lowdown
Tax preparation
Building Block

■Finance and Economics
Regulating banks
Garrottes and sticks
Obama's economics team
New plan, new people?
Buttonwood
Not what they meant
Hedge funds and private equity
Off target
Unpaid in Manhattan
Stuyvesant Town in default
Greek government bonds
My big fat sell-off
Financing solar power
A lighter burden
Tackling deflation in Japan
Can Kan?
World trade
Fading trading
Economics focus
From bail-out to bail-in

■Science & Technology
Aerial bombardment
The calibration of destruction
Breeding better oysters
Shelling out
Freezing amphibian eggs
Frog preserves
Chemical pollution and fertility
Flame wars

■Books & Arts
New fiction 1
The young and the restless
New fiction 2
Off they go
Readers meet writers in India
What you can do for nothing
New fiction 3
Cider and apples
The state of America
An anthropologist on the run
New film
Bringing an icon to life
Correction: “Game Change”

■Obituary
Miep Gies

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
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