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■Leaders
Our American endorsement
Which one? (1,859)
Corporate governance in Japan
Olympian depths (2)
Bangladesh
Out of the basket (4)
Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
No place like home (17)

■Letters
Letters
On immigration, Syria, textbooks, Ayn Rand, Spain, voting (1)

■Briefing
Bangladesh and development
The path through the fields (10)

■United States
Hurricane Sandy
Wild is the wind (16)
The swing states: a round-up
The road to 270 (14)
The House of Representatives
The no-wave election (3)
The ground war
Knock, knock (2)
The cyber war
Deus ex machina
Voices from the campaign
Heard on the trail
Ballot measures
Land of the freer?
Lexington
The price of hubris (9)

■The Americas
Reform in Mexico
Labour pains (2)
Intellectual property in Brazil
Owning ideas (1)
Cuba
Winds of change

■Asia
Myanmar’s parliament
Power grab (1)
Damming the Mekong river
River elegy
Australia in Asia
What’s Strine for “Asian century”? (11)
Terrorism in Indonesia
Going underground (1)
Politics in India
Shuffled, not stirred (1)
Forced labour in India
Toil and trouble (5)
Banyan
Unforgiving history (6)

■China
China’s ruling families
Riches exposed (6)
University exams
Fighting for privilege (4)

■Middle East and Africa
The Swahili coast
Contagion of discontent (2)
Elephants
Brought to tusk
Rwandan justice
Fairness on trial (7)
Iraq’s oil
The Kurdish opening
Israeli media
Wapping in the Holy Land (5)
Syria’s civil war
Nowhere to run (4)

■Europe
Russia’s president
Vladimir the victor (15)
Lithuania
Leftward lurch (9)
Turkey’s Syriacs
An outpost of Aramaic speakers (16)
Greek taxation
A national sport no more (5)
Dutch politics
Same old Dutch (5)
French competitiveness
Shock treatment (16)
Charlemagne
Bribesville II (11)

■Britain
The Heseltine report
Tarzanomics in the age of Dave (3)
The James Bond question
Shaken, stirred and confused (3)
Scottish independence
Breaking up is hard to do (28)
High street retail
Tricks and treats
The Co-op
Victorian secret (1)
Coastal towns
Beached and hard to reach
Metropolitan Police
Sale by the Yard
Bagehot
A damn good whipping (4)
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■International
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Death from afar (16)
Digital copyright
Pick a book (2)
Pain and pills
Grim and bear it (1)

■Business
State capitalism
Big Brother is back (3)
Corporate governance in Japan
Back to the drawing board (1)
The movie business
Wishing upon a Death Star (20)
Fonterra
Land of milk and money (5)
Penguin and Random House
Waddling forward (1)
Anglo American’s future
Out of the minefield
Lessons from TED
Corporate TEDucation (1)
Schumpeter
Corporate burlesque (3)

■Finance and economics
Corporate savings
Dead money (7)
Hong Kong property
Taxing times
Investment banking
Game over (5)
Buttonwood
Marshmallows and markets (4)
Zippy economies
Sonic booms (1)
Sovereign debt
Hold-outs upheld
Deforestation in Sarawak
Log tale
Free exchange
Land of the corporate giants (1)

■Science and technology
Tsunamis in Lake Geneva
Lake monsters (1)
3D printing
A third-world dimension (1)
Treating disease with microbes
Bugs in the system (1)
Fish farming
High-tech breeders
Epigenetics and health
Grandma’s curse (5)

■Books and arts
Iran
In with the madding crowd (1)
The joy of diaries
From the heart
Richard Burton’s diaries
A man for all seasons (1)
New American fiction
Miami blood
Ann Richards
A Democrat original
Economic history
A dance to the music of debt
New theatre
Casting for glory

■Obituary
Sylvia Kristel (1)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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