The Economist (06 August 2005)

Table of contents :
The Economist – August 6th, 2005……Page 1
Contents
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Politics this week
……Page 4
Business this week
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Letters
……Page 9
Defending video games: Bree
ding evil?……Page 12
Medicine: Catching the flu
……Page 14
Saudi Arabia: More of the same won’t do……Page 16
Sudan: Death and division
……Page 18
Race in America: The black hole……Page 20
British politics: The parable of the supermarkets
……Page 22
Special Report: Blacks in America: Free to succeed or fail
……Page 24
Tesco: This sceptered aisle
……Page 29
Islamist terrorism: All over bar the shouting?……Page 31
A Muslim festival: Green gumboots, green flags……Page 32
Northern Ireland: RIR RIP
……Page 33
Ireland: Border? What border?
……Page 34
Interest rates: Down they come
……Page 35
Green energy:
Greenery begins at home……Page 37
Scotland: Welcome Mac
……Page 38
Hotels: Less Fawlty
……Page 39
Vacancy
……Page 40
Plish politics: Too content by half
……Page 41
Turkish historians: When history hurts
……Page 44
THe Vatican and Israel: An unholy war of words
……Page 46
Russia’s travellers: No place like home
……Page 48
Travel to Russia: Tear down that wall
……Page 50
Arnold Schwarzenegger: A hard slog
……Page 51
America’s new UN envoy: Lethal injection, or healthy tonic?
……Page 54
Prison rape: The silent horror
……Page 56
City transport: A joy to hail
……Page 58
State fairs: From Vikings to mobile phones
……Page 59
Lexington: The lucky duck
……Page 61
Brazil and China: Falling out of love
……Page 63
Central America: Nothing’s free in this world
……Page 65
Saudi Arabia: New king, some dreadful job
……Page 67
The Gulf and its oil: Slurping around
……Page 69
Israel and Palestine: Trying to leave Gaza nicely
……Page 71
Iran: Ever closer to the nuclear brink
……Page 73
Sudan: The death of John Garang
……Page 74
Nigeria: A troubled but lingering president
……Page 76
India: The struggle for the Hindu soul
……Page 78
India’s floods: After the deluge
……Page 80
Japan’s economy: Reading the tea leaves
……Page 82
The Philippines: In for a long haul
……Page 84
Uzbekistan and America: Evicted
……Page 86
Australia: Goodby, for now
……Page 88
China bashing: Giving China a bloody nose
……Page 89
Trainers, sneakers and sports shoes: Just doing it
……Page 91
American business: Confident bosses……Page 93
Family businesses: The sadness of Rupert Murdoch
……Page 95
Pearson: Mystery man
……Page 97
Television in Italy: Struggling for air-time
……Page 99
Managing German firms: Germany’s American revolutionaries
……Page 100
Face value: The compassionate capitalist
……Page 102
Special Report: Video gaming: Chasing the dream
……Page 104
Italian finance: Another year, another scandal
……Page 109
Bank of Italy: Fazio’s future
……Page 111
Private
equity: Glory days……Page 113
Trading hedge funds: Online matchmaking
……Page 115
Asian currencies: Follow the leader?
……Page 116
Stock-exchange mergers: Three-dimensional chess
……Page 117
German economy: The darkest hour before dawn
……Page 119
Economics focus: is there any point to the WTO?
……Page 122
Medicine: Contaning a pandemic
……Page 124
Theories of humour: Poking fun
……Page 126
Astronomy: To be, or not to be
……Page 128
Books & Arts
……Page 129
Opera recordings: Vocal perfections
……Page 131
The Israeli-Palestinian deadlock: Where to now?……Page 133
Second-world-war spies: Veiled courage……Page 135
New fiction: Scrapings
……Page 137
The Salem witch trials: Judge not
……Page 138
Amazon worldwide bestselling travel books: The big book index
……Page 140
Obituary: King Fahd
……Page 142
Overview
……Page 144
Output, demand and jobs
……Page 145
Prices and wages
……Page 146
Economic forecasts
……Page 147
Money and interest rates
……Page 148
The Economist commodity price index
……Page 149
Stockmarkets
……Page 150
Trade, exchange rates and budgets
……Page 151
The Economist commodity price index
……Page 152
Overview
……Page 153
Stockmarket listings……Page 154
Economy
……Page 155
Financial markets
……Page 156