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Hammering home reform
Barack Obama’s health reforms cross the most important threshold
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Not quite a wipeout
But Nicolas Sarkozy faces some tough decisions after his party's crashing electoral defeat
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The week ahead
Italian regional polls will show if Silvio Berlusconi's popularity is waning
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Wishing well
More people are getting improved access to drinking water
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Failed Balkans summitry: Shan't!
Serbia ruins an attempt at western Balkan unity
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Well red: A quiz on this week's issue of The Economist
Where would Italy like to hold the 2020 Olympics? How many gay Chinese men marry? What is America's favourite website?
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Israel and the United States: Stop the bungling
Israel’s prime minister has enraged his main ally and hurt the peace process: it is not too late to change course
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Climate-change politics: Cap-and-trade's last hurrah
The decline of a once wildly popular idea
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Canadian cities: The charms of Calgary
And the gloom in Toronto
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Child pornography in Japan: Outraged innocence
A belated attempt to curb a pernicious form of child pornography
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The Lehman report: Beancounters in a bind
Banks’ professional advisers come under scrutiny
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Saving Venice: Brunetta's offensive
A new candidate for the task of saving la Serenissima
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Europe.view: Incompetent visionaries
Twenty years after declaring independence, Lithuania is discovering the value of pragmatism
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Buttonwood: Less debt, more charm
Private-equity managers face a difficult outlook
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Art.view: Going Dutch
Buyers aplenty at the Maastricht art fair
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Green.view: While stocks last
Some ivory sales are a good idea. This one isn’t
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Business.view: Corporate candidates
What role should corporate citizens play in politics?
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Tech.view: Cutting the clutter
A wireless replacement for all those pesky power cables
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Bagehot: The messenger not the message
Tories who think their policies are their main problem are mistaken
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Banyan: The rights approach
India's rights-based activism is bound to yield less than it promises
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Charlemagne: There's no one like Gordon Brown
Has the British prime minister handed his possible successor an almighty headache?
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Lexington: Nancy Pelosi's challenge
The House speaker is not popular with voters. But she can count noses
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Schumpeter: Look forward in anger
Personal animosity is a mighty force in business, for good as well as ill
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Climate science: Spin, science and climate change
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American-Israeli relations: Where did all the love go?
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Chinese foreign policy: Not pointing or wagging but beckoning
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Germany: Europe's engine
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Israel and America: Building tensions
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And now, reform the reform
The Republicans would be fools to campaign on "repeal". "Real reform" is another matter
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Revisiting the interventions
Should Tim Geithner be so sure of himself?
From Free exchange
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Figures that surprise
Only the corporate sector has recovered
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The expense-cutting myth
The financial crisis has had little effect on corporate expense accounts
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