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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Economist - 21 June 2008

Leaders
  • Energy - The future is closer than you think
  • The European Union - Just bury Lisbon
  • Zimbabwe - Africans, please help
  • North America - The US's Mexico-bashing
  • The curse of untidiness - DNA all over the place

Letters

  • On the Democrats, Norman Stone, South Africa, Afghanistan, the Federal Reserve, oil, corporal punishment, Hong Kong, suburbs

Briefing

  • Europe's Roma - Bottom of the heap

Europe

  • The European Union - Ireland's voters speak
  • The Irish prime minister - A taoiseach in trouble
  • France's defence review - Let's get real
  • Italy's prime minister and the law - The fruits of office
  • The western Balkans - A June tide
  • Jonathan Carr - In appreciation
  • Poland's politics - Looking nice but doing nothing
  • Poland, Russia and Katyn - Dead leaves in the wind
  • Charlemagne - Democracy in Europe

Britain

  • Civil liberties - Are Britons losing them?
  • Countering inflation - Mervyn's sombre message
  • The Anglican Communion - Two weddings and a divorce
  • Royal Ascot and chavs - Barbarians at the gate
  • Bagehot - The beauty of Eric Pickles

Middle East and Africa

  • Zimbabwe - No sign of an end to the horror
  • Equatorial Guinea - A mercenary trial
  • Saudi Arabia - The oil-production puzzle
  • Israel and the Palestinians - Can a ceasefire hold?
  • Iraqi Kurdistan - Music and mountains

Special report

  • The future of energy: the power and the glory

United States

  • American tribalism - The Big Sort
  • Unions and the election - The voice of labour
  • The Supreme Court - Stuck with Guantanamo
  • McCain and his base - Twist and shout
  • Flooding in Iowa - High as an elephant's eye
  • Visas - Beauty and the Geek
  • Lexington - Jim Webb, class warrior

The Americas

  • Mexico and the United States - A wary friendship
  • Venezuela's economy - A funny way to beat inflation
  • Drugs in the Andes - The unstoppable crop
  • Argentina's farm dispute - Cristina's climbdown
  • Canada - Sex and lobbying scandal

Asia

  • The Taliban - Still in the Afghan fight
  • Opium in Afghanistan - No quick fixes
  • Beijing Olympics - The crackdown begins
  • China, Japan and Taiwan - Rows at sea
  • Nepal's armies - Two into one wont go
  • Myanmar after the cyclone - Crony charity

International

  • The network of AQ Khan - Nukes to go
  • Refugees - Still knowcking, as doors close
  • Short-wave radio - Snap and crackle goes pop

Business

  • Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon - The three survivors
  • EBay's legal woes - Handbagged
  • Biotechnology - Getting personal
  • Beer - InBev's bid for Bud
  • Technology and climate change - Computing emissions
  • Bollywood and Hollywood - Close encounters
  • Airbus - Gathering clouds
  • Face value - Bob Willumstad, AIG's quiet giant

Finance and economics

  • Short-selling - Nasty, brutish and short
  • Buttonwood - Share buy-backs
  • Investment banks - Sachs appeal
  • Activist investors - Hohney trap
  • Vietnam - Flu symptoms
  • Investment in Brazil - Money magnet
  • The dollar - FEER of falling
  • Economics focus - Carbon pricing and protectionism

Briefing

  • Robots - Nothing to lose but their chains
  • Robot surgery - Tiny, careful cuts

Science and technology

  • Clutter - It's mine, I tell you
  • Curing cancer - Healthy living
  • Circumcision - Cutting the competition

Books and arts

  • The Duke of Marlborough - Aristocracy at work
  • American foreign policy - Imperial instincts
  • The Pakistani army - Pointed guns
  • Russia -Hot love in the cold war
  • New fiction - Stephen Carter's 'Palace Council'
  • Boxing - A cultural history

Obituary

  • Jonathan Routh - Prankster

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