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■Leaders
Europe's sovereign-debt crisis
Acropolis now
In praise of television
The great survivor
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The British election
Who should govern Britain?
Defending the NPT
If not now, never

■Letters
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■Briefing
Labour's record
Things could only get better

■United States
Party politics
The mid-terms loom
Deficit reduction
A Washington two-step
California's government
Looking for waste
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Horror from the deep
Venture capital in Ohio
Taking the long view
Houston's budget
A bit of a pinch
Lexington
The budget-slasher

■The Americas
Colombia's presidential election
The maths of a Green revolution
Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua
The show goes on
The Netherlands Antilles
The joy of six

■Asia
The Shanghai World Expo
Living the dream
The earthquake in Qinghai
From whence cometh my help
Debating China in Taiwan
Seconds out, round one
Stand-off in Bangkok
Head to head
Australia and carbon emissions
A change in the climate
Smoking in Indonesia
Where there's smoke
Banyan
Things fall apart in Japan

■Middle East & Africa
The Middle East peace process
Is it really back on track?
Palestinians seeking unity again
Step by step
The Saudis argue about sexual equality
Are women on their way at last?
South Africa and HIV/AIDS
Setting a better example
African moonshine
Kill me quick
Africa correspondent
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■Europe
Ukraine and Russia
A normal day's debate in Kiev
Poland's presidential election
Hot potatoes
Hungary's new government
Orban's triumph
Germany's health-care debate
Dr Rösler's difficult prescription
Charlemagne
Going for markets

■Britain
Wales and Scotland at the polls
Here be dragons
The Cameron campaign
A day with Dave
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On the trail
The budget deficit
The hole in the election
Polls and the election
It's not over yet
The politics of immigration and identity
Who are we? [Britain only]
Battle in Barking
When grown men cry [Britain only]
Bagehot
The last days of Gordon Brown

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■International
The future of non-proliferation
An awkward guest-list
Whaling
A giant compromise?

■A special report on television
Changing the channel
Beyond the box
Ahoy there!
The lazy medium
An emergency screen
The killer app
Who needs it?
Here, there and everywhere
An interactive future
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Controlling health-care costs
Another American way
India's cricket scandals
Modi blues
The rise of content farms
Emperors and beggars
Chinese firms buy Japanese ones
Scaring the salarymen
Struggling shipbuilders
Hard yards
Electricity and development in China
Lights and action
Schumpeter
The corruption eruption

■Briefing
The euro zone's debt crisis
The cracks spread and widen
Germany and Greece
Neither a borrower nor a lender be

■Finance and Economics
Financial regulation in America
A pox on your swaps
CME Group
The brighter side
The Goldman hearings
Sachs and the shitty
Venture capital
Recovery, very early stage
America's labour market
Something's not working
Economics focus
Maddison counting

■Science & Technology
Taxonomy
Fly in the ointment
Navigation and the sexes
Hunters and shoppers
Behaviour of the sexes
The hormone of laddishness
Artificial photosynthesis
A sunnier outlook

■Books & Arts
The secret life of ants
It's a bug's life
The death penalty
Theirs but to do and die
Life in South Africa
Cry, the beloved country
Myanmar's evil junta
The paucity of hope
The cold war
Feel of history
English literature
On beauty
The Vatican Secret Archives
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Alan Sillitoe

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