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Articles in January, 1998 issue of Economist (US), The

• Is it life or is it Mamet? ('Wag the Dog' writer David Mamet)(Moreover)
• Is this marriage a mistake?(pending merger of Swiss Bank Corp. and Union Bank of Switzerland)(includes related article on derivative losses)
• Microsoft's contradiction.(Microsoft Corp.'s competitive strategy)
• Arkan, perhaps sighted, surely wanted. (Serb war criminal who played a major role in the Bosnian war may now be operating in the Serb province of Kosovo)(Brief Article)
• Ruined for a game of golf: Japan. (arrest of Finance Ministry officials on charges of taking bribes in the form of golfing junkets and other entertainments)(Brief Article)
• Cajuns' belated counter-attack: an old British crime. (lawyer Warren A. Perrin's lawsuit against Britain for the 1755 expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia)(Brief Article)
• Discord in Switzerland: derivatives traders at UBS have lost the Swiss bank a small fortune. The culprit is not derivatives, but the bank's management of risk.(Union Bank of Switzerland)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• The two culprits: what makes Croatia and Serbia tick, separately. (respective presidents of Croatia and Serbia, Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic)(Balkan Survey)
• How old does a history have to be? Asian nation-building. (effort to teach young Singaporeans about country's struggle for independence is part of an effort to create a sense of national history)(Brief Article)
• Golden opportunities. (Thais and South Koreans are selling personal gold possessions to help their countries pay off foreign creditors)(Brief Article)
• Movers and shakers. (management theory)
• The tide turns? (ethnicity in the Serb Republic)(Brief Article)
• America's old alliance subsides into the sand: the order that the United States had hoped to impose on the factious Middle East is crumbling in the face of Israeli intransigence and Arab suspicion.(Brief Article)
• Buying a gulp of the Colorado.(Dept. of the Interior approves water banking plan for Colorado River basin)(Brief Article)
• Clinton's temptations.(effect of sexual allegations on Clinton presidency)(Editorial)(Cover Story)(Brief Article)
• Carry on camping. (Italian filmmaker and comedian Roberto Benigni)(Brief Article)
• Extended franchise: after privatising. (demands by private railroads in Great Britain may thwart the goals of privatization as railroads want to make sure their investments remain, while the government wants competition to flourish)(Brief Article)
• Kolwezi tailings: mining in Congo. (Gecamines cancels two large mining contracts with American Mineral Fields and Tenke Mining for reasons that seem political)(Brief Article)
• The end of the beginning. (progress is being made in Britain towards a peace agreement to end the dispute in Northern Ireland)
• Eyeball to eyeball: Iraq and the United Nations.(weapons inspection conflict)(Brief Article)
• And now the political fall-out. (impact of the economic crisis in Southeast Asia)
• Riordan's hidden government.(Los Angeles, California, Mayor Richard Riordan uses shadow government to run city)(Brief Article)
• In touch.(items include the CBS network outbidding NBC for television broadcasting rights to American Football Conference games; this and other events are discussed)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• Fabulous fakes: some of the best tourist destinations are man-made. (popularity of Disney theme parks around the world)(Survey of Travel and Tourism)
• Drink and drown: firewater in Eastern Europe. (exotic new alcoholic drinks offer improvements in quality and taste over Soviet-era drinks)(Brief Article)
• The trouble with Singapore's clone. (Suzhou New District economic zone may be developed to the detriment of the Suzhou Industrial Park)(Brief Article)
• Britian's place in Europe. (rethinking of European Union objectives)(Editorial)
• Which way to safety? East Asia.(economic difficulties in Asia continue, with no one as yet presenting a solution to the problem)(Brief Article)
• The golden age of the Commons. (Britain's House of Commons is not the bastion of great political debate it once was)(Bagehot)(Column)
• Frontier wars: immigration. (European Union plan for uniform immigration policies across its member nations is threatened by a surge of emigration by Iraqi and Turkish Kurds)
• Ducking responsibility: Hong Kong's bird flu. (Hong Kong decides to slaughter 1.4 million hens in order to stop the spread of avian flu, which has killed four)(Brief Article)
• Busting out all over. (reasons why number of bankruptcies filed for in 1997 may have risen so dramatically)(Brief Article)
• Enough of Pinochet: if Chile's ex-dictator really wants to serve his country, he should now retire - from everything. (Gen. Augusto Pinochet)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Emerging-market indicators.(Illustration)(Brief Article)
• Inconceivable: demutualisation in Germany. (mutual finance industry resists change to share ownership despite small steps taken and greater acceptance of practice in Europe and the US)(Brief Article)
• Hopping on the juggernaut.(United Kingdom relations with European Union)
• Rough justice: Zambia. (former Zambia autocrat Kenneth Kaunda jailed for alleged participation in coup attempt against President Frederick Chiluba)(International)(Brief Article)
• Sacrificed.(news items include the resignation of Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, Japan's finance minister)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
• Hot earth: geophysics. (counting neutrinos produced by radioactive decay in the Earth)(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
• Winter wonderlands.(changes in ski resort industry)(Brief Article)
• Holding the baby.(United Kingdom family policy)(Brief Article)
• At last, a court that war criminals must take seriously. (the United Nations Security Council war crimes tribunal is finally succeeding in bringing Serb war criminals to justice)
• Kim the peacemaker. (soon-to-be South Korean Pres Kim Dae Jung and his efforts to quell domestic problems and relations with North Korea)(Brief Article)
• Quayle's trail: Republican hopefuls. (Dan Quayle's plans to run for president and his prospects for success)(Brief Article)
• Rapped.(business items include a fine by the European Commission against Volkswagen for allegedly preventing lower car prices in Italy)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• A precarious peace: making the Dayton agreement work is a high-wire balancing act. (Dayton Peace Accords)(Balkan Survey)
• Back-side inspection: computing. (Watson Research Center of IBM is developing a technique for inspecting how well logic gates of microprocessors are working)(Brief Article)
• Big beef: trade disputes. (dispute between Europe and US over the safety of beef reveals flaws in the international trading system)(Brief Article)
• Cable's hold on America. (1996 telecommunications reform)
• Replenish your Rhenish. (politics in Germany)(Brief Article)
• Suharto plays his joker?(possible nomination of Bucharuddin Jusuf Habibie as vice president of Indonesia)(Brief Article)
• Good-bye DiFi. (Dianne Feinstein decides not to run for governorship of California)(Brief Article)
• Ecstatic.(planned merger of SmithKline Beecham and American Home Products Corp.)(includes other business news briefs)(Brief Article)
• At last, a people's art. (polling consumers on art tastes)(Brief Article)
• Details, details: Japan's battered banks. (efforts to save banking industry may cost as much as $230 billion, but the actual plans are not confirmed, causing uncertainty for investors)(Brief Article)
• Financial misstatements. (accounting practices that motivate executives to excessively concern themselves with their company's short-term interests)
• Milosevic plays the full Montenegro.(Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic not accepting Milo Djukanovic's election as Montenegro head)(Brief Article)
• Unpcomising: Kenya.(Danial arap Moi's reelection dashes hopes of economic and social reforms)(Brief Article)
• Oil blow: Venezuela. (country's exonomic expansion may be slowed by drop in oil prices)(Brief Article)
• The last communists.(political effects of Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba)(Cover Story)
• Twitchy.(items include Peregrine Investments' filing for liquidation, and the Hong Kong stock market falling sharply; this and other events are discussed)(Business This Week)(Brief Article)
• Vanishing breed? (why travel agents face a shrinking market and increasing competition)(Survey of Travel and Tourism)
• When shall we three meet again? (how freelance acting has degraded the quality of repertory theater in Britain)
• Someone did it. (anti-semitic violence and vandalism in Argentina)(Brief Article)
• Serial entrepreneur.(Sharam Sasson of Scopus Technology has developed a computerized expense account system, using Java, and called the 'Extensity Expense Reporter')(Face Value)(Brief Article)(Column)
• Drug-driving: road safety. (Britain plans to takes steps to lower the number of people driving while impaired by drugs)(Brief Article)
• Noah's ark in the Gulf. (United Arab Emirates is home to new Breeding Centre for Endangered Wildlife to help rejuvenate species)(Brief Article)
• Sharif country: Pakistan. (the election of Pakistan Pres. Rafiq Tarar will increase the power of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif)(Brief Article)
• When a fetus is a person: abortion. (South Carolina law allows pregnant women who abuse drugs to be arrested and imprisoned under claims of child endangerment)(Brief Article)
• Kill or cure? (the International Monetary Fund's loans to Asia)(Editorial)
• Economic indicators.(international indicators)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
• The value of good housekeeping: small banks in America. (small banks can be more profitable than large banks due to better management and service)(Brief Article)
• Mr George's conundrum: the economy. (Bank of England governor Eddie George expressed fears about inflation in a radio interview on Dec 30, 1997)(Brief Article)
• After Arafat, one day. (possible successors for Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat)(International)(Brief Article)
• Watching where you eat: art in London restaurants.(Moreover)(Brief Article)
• Take my advice.(mutual fund companies offer financial planning advice)(Brief Article)
• Flying in formation.(alliance between Continental Airlines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Inc.)(Brief Article)
• Not our business: France. (French political leaders seem impervious to corruption charges, including recent accusations they played a role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide)
• Foul and unfair? Cambodia. (Hun Sen fights to keep exclusive authority as sole prime minister of Cambodia)(Brief Article)
• Vernon Jordan, gliding through. (close Clinton aide implicated in the cover-up of the president's alleged sexual affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky)(Lexington)(Brief Article)(Column)(Cover Story)

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