The Economist (02 April, 2005)

Table of contents :
Contents
……Page 1
Politics this week
……Page 3
Business this week
……Page 6
Letters
……Page 10
Consumer power | Power at last
……Page 13
Kirgizstan | One down, four to go
……Page 16
The oil-for-food scandal | Torturing the United Nations
……Page 18
The European Union | Outlook: gloomy
……Page 20
Congress and the judiciary | Don’t go nuclear
……Page 22
Britain’s Liberal Democrats | Not yet liberal enough
……Page 24
Living with Islam | The new Dutch model?
……Page 26
Ayaan Hirsi Ali | A firebrand under cover
……Page 30
Liberal Democrats | Charles Kennedy’s smart act
……Page 32
Opinion polls | All to play for?
……Page 35
Politics and national identity | British or what?
……Page 37
Farm animals | Down on the farm
……Page 39
Redistribution | Rowing against the tide
……Page 41
Tory troubles | Kamikaze Flight
……Page 43
Lorry drivers | Tyred out
……Page 45
Correction: Malta
……Page 46
Italy’s regional elections | In the voting season
……Page 47
The Baltic three | Wartime blues
……Page 50
The Turkish press | Censored
……Page 52
Swiss newspapers | The old aunt of Zurich
……Page 53
The French language | Google à la francaise
……Page 54
Kosovo’s future | After Haradinaj
……Page 56
Charlemagne | Europe’s battling twosome
……Page 59
Social conservatives after Terri Schiavo | Following their own path
……Page 61
Assessing Terri Schiavo | She opened Pandora’s suitcase
……Page 64
Megan’s Law | The net widens
……Page 66
The oil-for-food scandal | Kofi, Kojo and lot of shredde documents
……Page 68
South Carolina’s schools | Shades of the past
……Page 70
Wal-Mart and the Big Apple | Not in my aisle, buddy
……Page 72
The delights of supermay prisons | Hell on earth
……Page 74
Chile | Writing the next chapter in a Latin American success story
……Page 76
Church and state in Argentina | War over a bishop
……Page 80
Venzuela’s education reforms | Repeat class
……Page 82
Iraq | Time to stop the squabbling
……Page 84
Lebanon and Syria | Who will blink first
……Page 87
Sudan | Mild rebukes for Darfur’s killers
……Page 90
Nigeria | Stiff penalties for footballers
……Page 93
Kirgizstan | Another autocrat falls
……Page 95
Indonesia | Aftershocked
……Page 99
South Asia’s arms race | Delayed take-off
……Page 101
Taiwan | Own goal
……Page 103
Australia | New best friends
……Page 105
Crowned at last
……Page 106
Warfare in the aisles
……Page 112
Man’s best friend
……Page 116
Motoring online
……Page 121
Target pratice
……Page 125
Buying the future
……Page 130
Sources
……Page 133
Offer to readers
……Page 134
Indian business | Today India, tomorrow the world
……Page 135
General Motors | China surprise
……Page 138
Hewlett-Packard | Hurd’s instinct
……Page 140
Peer-to-peer | Face the music
……Page 142
Mobile telephony in Africa | Mo’s show
……Page 144
Japanese takeovers | White knight in Soft armour
……Page 145
Enel | Wind in its sails
……Page 147
Face value | The devil’s advocate
……Page 149
Special Report: Urban regeneration: Blooms on brownfields……Page 150
Wall Street | Knocked off their pedestals
……Page 159
Private equity | Clubby capitalism
……Page 162
Venture capital | Aftershock
……Page 164
Economics and sport | Tricky pickings
……Page 166
China’s yuan | Softly, softly
……Page 168
Japan’s economy | Getting Japan’s measure
……Page 170
The London Stock Exchange | What’s the hurry?
……Page 172
The World Bank | Bush’s man to take the helm
……Page 175
Economics focus | The regulator’s best friend?
……Page 177
Mathematics | Proof and beauty
……Page 179
Longevity | All you can’t eat
……Page 184
Ecosystems | Habitats for humanity
……Page 186
Science | Open up their eyes
……Page 189
Globalisation | Confusing Columbus
……Page 191
Indonesia | Madness descending
……Page 193
Shakespeare | French hissing
……Page 195
Travel writing | Hither thither
……Page 197
Amazon worldwide bestsellers | The big book index
……Page 199
Correction | “Anything Else”
……Page 202
Overview
……Page 205
Output, demand and jobs
……Page 208
Prices and wages
……Page 209
Cost of Labour
……Page 210
Money and interest rates
……Page 211
The Economist commodity price index
……Page 212
Stockmarkets
……Page 213
Trade, exchange rates and budgets
……Page 214
Ten-year government-bond yields
……Page 215
Overview
……Page 216
Graduate emigration
……Page 217
Economy
……Page 218
Financial markets
……Page 220