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Venezuela
In limbo (74)
Measurement
Is Paris worth a mass? (8)

■Letters
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■Briefing
Innovation pessimism
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■United States
The next treasury secretary
Jack be nimble (12)
The president’s new security team
Obama picks his soldiers (23)
Nixon at 100
The crooked statesman (53)
Marriage in America
The fraying knot (11)
America’s cash-strapped orchestras
Lamentoso (2)
Lexington
Joe Biden is not the answer (110)

■The Americas
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Brotherly love in the Bolivarian Republic (8)
Latin American local government
A load of rubbish (35)
Infrastructure in Brazil
Daylight piracy (21)

■Asia
Afghanistan’s fearful future
So long, buddy (47)
India’s winter
Numbed bones, choked lungs (1)
The Australian heatwave
Up to eleven (20)
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Banyan
Grandfathers’ footsteps (9)

■China
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The politics of traffic lights
Slamming on the brakes (5)

■Middle East and Africa
Syria’s conflict
No end in sight (12)
Israel’s Arab voters
What’s the point? (13)
Libya’s Muslim Brothers
The knack of organisation (3)
Al Jazeera
Must do better (10)
Aid to Rwanda
The pain of suspension (3)
Urban renewal in South Africa
Making downtown less dodgy (1)

■Europe
Germany’s Free Democrats
The endangered queenmaker (3)
Race in the Netherlands
The aftermath of a football tragedy (11)
Hungarian politics
A blow for Viktor Orban (24)
Italian politics
Allies again (35)
Turkey and the PKK
Peace at last? (7)
French political language
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Charlemagne
Celtic metamorphosis (26)

■Britain
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Lord Strathclyde
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Rehabilitating offenders
The last piece of the puzzle
Smithfield
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Bagehot
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■International
Modern families
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Holy architecture
Not a curve out of place

■Business Books Quarterly
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Ghastly gurus(20)
An executive memoir
The world is 3D(1)
The digital age
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From guard shack to global giant
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Gelato University
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Tax in Brazil
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Gas in the eastern Mediterranean
Drill, or quarrel? (2)
AMR and US Airways
The last great American airline merger (10)
Schumpeter
A world of trouble (3)

■Finance and economics
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Home truths (8)
Buttonwood
The best, the worst and the ugly (2)
The platinum-coin option
Toss a coin (22)
Bank liquidity
Go with the flow (4)
Japan’s economy
Keynes, trains and automobiles (5)
Microfinance in India
Road to redemption
India’s lust for gold
Treasure chest (4)
Free exchange
Room with a view (5)

■Science and technology
Lifespan and the sexes
Catching up (7)
The uses of stem cells
Potent medicine (1)
Measurement
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The Richard Casement internship

■Books and arts
20th-century music
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South African history
The good guys were often bad (2)
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Aesthete and Ubermensch
Short fiction
In search of happiness

■Obituary
Beate Gordon (4)

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