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20 Nov 2009 06:52
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Name a famous Belgian
Two minor but competent figures will be president and high representative of the EU
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Sod it
The latest plastic pitches are a goal-scorer’s delight
- Turkey and the Kurds: Peace in sight?
- Food and agriculture: How to feed the world
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Did the president save the auto industry?
An unlikely explanation for high auto prices
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Don't make my day
Britain surely isn't quite this bad
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Obama in China
The earlier the world knows of torture and abuse, the earlier the torture and abuse ends
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The best states for 2010
Who will have a big year?
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Online debate
Current round: Winner announcement Share your thoughts on the outcome
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19 Nov 2009 11:11
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Settling for less
The latest row over Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory
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Taming the mafia state
Anti-graft pressure mounts in Afghanistan, as Hamid Karzai is again sworn in as president
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Caught early
Despite more suspected jihadist terrorist plots on western soil, there are still few attacks
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Food and agriculture: How to feed the world
Business as usual will not do it
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America's fiscal deficit: Stemming the tide
Massive levels of government debt may need radical solutions
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Fund managers' pay: A defective directive
The European Union serves up a dog’s breakfast
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Barack Obama in Asia: Scaling the Asian wall
The president pays Asia the compliment of courtesy; rewards are not immediate
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Vehicle telemetry: Calling all cars
Tapping remotely into a car's data systems provides many services
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Corporate bribery: Ungreasing the wheels
Governments around the world are cracking down on corrupt firms
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Gordon Brown: The great calculating machine
A political Queen's Speech marks the start of the election campaign
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Yemen's war: Pity those caught in the middle
A bitter local conflict threatens to spread across the region
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Barcelona, day four
Why Canada is the real villain
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Looking eastwards, even further
Could China fill a power vacuum in eastern Europe?
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Land of Eastern promise
India's membership of Asia remains primarily cartographic
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I know my rights
Public-service satisfaction guaranteed, or—what, exactly?
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Something's gotta give
Either central banks are wrong to keep rates low, or markets are wrong to expect recovery
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A new balance in Europe
America is listening to Russia's call for new security arrangements in Europe
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Sarah Palin reloads
She's back, and this time she's selling books
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Remembering Drucker
Four years after his death, Peter Drucker remains the king of the management gurus
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Quote of the day
The Afghan president shows his modesty
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Outstanding graphics of the day
Of young health reform supporters and old empires
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How to get universal health care for free
Budget conjuring tricks
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A thought for Gordon
The present and future of the Brown/Blair feud
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18 Nov 2009 16:27
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A yuan-sided argument
Why China resists foreign demands to revalue its currency
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Not-so-wonderful Copenhagen
A forthcoming climate-change summit will not produce a binding deal on emissions
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Hitting the jackpot
Global revenues from gambling are rising
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The planning takeover: The nuclear option
A shake-up in planning could centralise power and weaken the say of local people
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The 2012 presidential race: T-Paw stakes his claim
The long, winding road to the Republican nomination
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Improving touch-screen accuracy: The personal touch
Identifying the direction in which people intend to point
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From the archive: Peter Drucker's centenary
A selection of past articles (some by the man himself) to mark the centenary of the management guru to whom other gurus kowtow
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Bauhaus: The coast of Utopia
What Germany's idealistic designers can teach the modern world
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Barcelona, day three
Who would have thought that saving the world would be so banal?
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A trying debate
How the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed threatens the "war on terror"
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The EU top jobs race turns nasty
The Swedish search process comes in for stick
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Extra Palin facts
I've read her book so you don't have to
Current round: Closing
Last chance to have your say now
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17 Nov 2009 23:52
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Hope for Zanzibar: Taking the spice out of politics
A pact between the island’s rival parties could prevent more violence and unrest
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Gloomy Jamaica: Unfixable?
The burden of debt and crime
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Lagrangian coherent structures: The skeleton of water
A hidden structure within liquids and gases guides the movement of everything from pollution to aeroplanes
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The World In 2010 blog: The world's best country
If Somalia is the world's worst country, then which is the best?
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Barcelona, day two
Waitingand waitingto get into climate-change talks
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Islamic finance in France: Sharia calling
A political row about Muslim law
- America and China: Pleased to meet you
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Europe's global credibility in the balance
Just how pathetic are we?
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A small inefficiency and a small suggestion
Making life easier for military spouses
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Link exchange
The best of the rest of the economics web
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Tea with Tony Fernandes
The boss of AirAsia delivers his credo
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17 Nov 2009 08:01
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She'll be back
Sarah Palin and the state of the Republican Party
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Well connected
Which countries have most WiFi hotspots?
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Music industry: How to sink pirates
The decline of music piracy holds lessons for other industries
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Derivatives: Options have a future
Economies need derivatives, but reform is justified
Our debate considers whether or not the cloud can be trusted. So far, more than a third of our readers reckon it can't
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The economics of nuclear power: Splitting the cost
Nuclear energy is unlikely to work without a carbon tax
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Singapore and immigration: A PR problem
Immigration becomes the hot political issue in a model city-state
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Start-up nations
A drive to turn the whole world into entrepreneurs
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The rise of slime
Warmer water is exacerbating problems in the oceans
- South Africa's controversial athlete: A sorry saga that keeps on running
- America and China: Pleased to meet you
- The coming days: The week ahead
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Medicare and nihilism
Maybe Congress won't really cut Medicare. Maybe America will go bankrupt
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Free to offend
Why you have a right to mock my beliefs
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The absent Fed
The central bank is failing at its primary task
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Gold - the next bubble?
The preconditions are in place
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The World in 2010 Festival
Washington, DC - December 6-7
Join David Gregory, John Oliver, Dean Kamen, Joe Lockhart, John Micklethwait, and many others
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16 Nov 2009 16:34
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Pleased to meet you
Barack Obama’s trip to China may encourage a warming of relations
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Videographic: A bloody stalemate
A brief history of the Kashmir conflict
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South Korea's recovery: Leaning experience
Ways to stop boom turning to bust
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Public opinion on Afghanistan: Hearts and minds
Voters are losing faith but their politicians are not, yet
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Correspondent's diary: Barcelona, day one
Does failure in Barcelona augur poorly for Copenhagen?
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Canada's prime minister: Home thoughts from abroad
Stephen Harper does foreign policy
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Management idea: Talent
Talent is not patient, and it is not faithful
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Debate: Cloud computing
Our debate considers whether or not the cloud can be trusted. So far, 37% of you reckon it can't
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Quiz: Well red
Our weekly quiz on the current edition of The Economist
- Top migration destinations: More huddled masses?
- South Africa's president: Still on a roll
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The Texas two-step
Kay Bailey Hutchison will stay in Washington
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Drunk and drowning, but getting better
Some views of the BA-Iberia merger
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Lowering expectations for Afghanistan
Forget about nation-building
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16 Nov 2009 01:17
- Space exploration: Any drop to drink?
- Italy's justice system: Imposing limits
- BA and Iberia: Uniting in the sky
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No one pays for in-flight Wi-Fi
Surprised?
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15 Nov 2009 09:56
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The week ahead
Finding a president and a foreign-policy chief for Europe, at last
- America and Afghanistan: General disarray
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14 Nov 2009 16:51
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Imposing limits
A bizarre attempt by Silvio Berlusconi's government to constrain Italy's courts
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Dollars, cents and sensibility
Warhol and Doig do it again
- Brazil: Brazil takes off
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Small victories
TSA screening gets a bit better
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More on Chinese and saving
Someone has to pay
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14 Nov 2009 00:16
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Any drop to drink?
There is water—or, at least ice—on the moon
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KAL's cartoon
Our weekly editorial cartoon
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Balkan demography: A birth dearth
The tricky politics of population in the former Yugoslavia
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Face value: Salesman of the irrational
Jean-Claude Biver, the saviour of several Swiss watchmakers, has a knack for selling luxury
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Bagehot: The conjuror's bluff
Why Scotland's other politicians should go ahead and make Alex Salmond's day
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White-collar trials: Subcrime
Pinning the blame for the financial crisis is not easy
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Culling deer: The war on Bambi
Taking back the gardens of American suburbia
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From the archive: Japan as number one
Looking back at our review of a confident book that got it wrong
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Fiji: Coconut dictator
A coup leader who is tough on the outside, softer underneath
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Hummus in the Middle East: War and peas
A good-humoured dispute over food
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Link exchange
The best of the rest of the economics web
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Sarah Palin party
A new book, but still not much substance
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A free market and open borders: Europe's USP
Liberalism makes Europeans count in the world
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The future of security theatre
What to do about it
Current round: Rebuttals
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