The Economist (14 May 2005)

Table of contents :
The Economist – May 14th, 2005
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Contents
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Business this week……Page 7
Politics this week……Page 9
Letters……Page 12
Iran and North Korea: Return of the axis of evil
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India: Not much to write home about
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Latin America and the United States:Venezuela’s oil-rich troublemaker
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Ford and General Motors: Deal or bust?
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Deutsche Borse: A very unGerman coup
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British politics: What the Tories are for
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Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela: Oil, missions and a chat show
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Biofuels: Stirrings in the corn fields
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The election: The big divide widens
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Democracy: Weighing the votes
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Northern Ireland’s election: Exit: pursued by a bear
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Immigration and politics: Race to the bottom
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Doctors’ salaries: Practice makes perfect
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Economic outlook: Clouding over
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Retailing: Shopping stopping
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City-centre living: What goes up
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Bagehot: Fingers on the button
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Turkey and the European Union: Mountains still to climb
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Divided Cyprus: Leaps of doubt
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Kaliningrad: Of Kant and cant
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Victory in Europe, 60 years on: Marching through Georgia
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Illegal immigration in Spain: Let them stay
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France and Britain: Tony le Magnifique
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Charlemagne: Euro visions……Page 70
The Los Angeles mayoral race: Bossing the BIg Tortilla
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Politics in Washington state: The outing of Jim West
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The Volcker committee: Baying for blood
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The labour movement: Brothers at arms
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Savings and the poor: Sugar-coating the piggy bank
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Crime and punishment: Testing times
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The mid-west and China: An odd alliance?……Page 83
Lexington: Come back, Barry
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Central American integration: Together again, after all these years?
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Canada and war: Don’t even memorialise it
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Mexico: Accursed Chronicles
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Haiti: Another martyr?
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Iran’s nuclear ambitions: Now it gets sticky
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Egypt: Democracy, Egyptian style
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Palestinian elections: New Hamas, new Palestine?
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Training Iraq’s police: What they need is gender sensitivity
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Nigeria: Guns, boats and oil
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Africa’s most wanted man: Global law v local warlord
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India: One less year
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Australia: Days of open hand
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Mining in China: Going under
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Vietnam: Three’s a crowd
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Cambodia: The earning fields
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Bhutan: The good king, bad kingroutine
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Chipmaking: Intel’s right-hand turn
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Business and climate change: Feeling the heat
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Extraditing executives: The long arm of American law
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Mobile e-mail: Nascent
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French corporate governance: Split and stay
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Plastics and petrochemicals: Sell when the going is good
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Eastman Kodak: Another Kodak moment
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Face value: China’s patient crusader.pdf……Page 132
Deutsche Borse: Seifert gets the blues
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Corporate bond markets: A whiff of fear
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Hedge funds: Too clever by half
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Online brokers: Net gains
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America’s trade deficit: Surprise shrinkage
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Company pensions in America: Promises, ahem
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Economics focus: Poverty and the ballot box
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Neurology: A mirror to the world
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Human pheromones: The perfumed garden
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Awards: Winning tactics
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Exploring Mars: Lost and maybe found
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Unconvertional wisdom: Curiouser and curiouser
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Governing Britain: Crisis? What crisis?
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Augustine of Hippo: Warrior of the word
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Shipwrecks and wreckers: Whisky galore
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New Asian cinema: True colours
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Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold: The snapper and the showgirl
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Obituary: Bob Hunter……Page 168
Overview
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Output, demand and jobs……Page 171
Prices and wages……Page 172
Economic forecasts……Page 173
Money and interest rates……Page 175
The Economist commodity price index
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Stockmarkets……Page 177
Trade, exchange rates and budgets……Page 178
Bling bling
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Overview
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Inflation rates……Page 181
Economy……Page 183
Financial markets……Page 185