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Articles in May, 2001 issue of Economist (US), The

• Reinvented; Japanese trading houses.(Business)(companies, such as Mitsubishi, are becoming more involved in outsourching, and are making increasing use of the Internet)(Brief Article)
• Miami nice; The Colombian diaspora; The Colombians arrive.(United States)
• Regulators' arbitrage.(Survey)(securities regulation: US and Europe)
• Back office to the world.(Business Special)(Evalueserve, one of the firms providing international business services in India)
• Banana politics in the Philippines.(Leaders)(more political demonstrations in the Philippines)(Brief Article)
• ECONOMIC FORECASTS.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• In and out; Sweden; Sweden's mixed attitude to asylum.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Not the council's business; Housing; Selling council houses.(Britain)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Prairie passions; New fiction (2); Louise Erdrich's Dakotan novel.(Books and Arts)(Review)(Brief Article)
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• More mayhem in Manila; Rebellion in the Philippines.(Asia)(pro-Joseph Estrada demonstrations turn violent)(Brief Article)
• A family affair; Fidelity; Fidelity Investments.(Finance and Economics)(Abigail Johnson will head the fund-management sector of Fidelity)(Brief Article)
• Maternal mortality.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Lunatic; Asylum; The asylum debate.(proposed political asylum policy changes)(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Threadbare; New fiction.(Books and Arts)(Review)
• Limits to reform; Politics in Colombia; Setbacks for reform in Colombia.(The Americas)(Brief Article)
• The things they leave behind; Alaska and the cruise ships; Cruise ships unwanted in Alaska.(United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Joining the west.(Survey)(Eastern European countries planning to join European Union)
• Offers and future surveys.(Survey)
• Beware the Bakassi Boys; Nigerian crime; Vigilantes v Nigerian crime.(International)(violent vigilante group called the Bakassi Boys)(Brief Article)
• Ilir Meta.(Europe)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• World music sales.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Yellow in peril; The West Country; West Country marginals.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Hope and glory for Congress; India's elections; India's state-election results.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• A cure for high prices; Brazil and AIDS drugs; Brazil's battle over drug patents.(The Americas)(Brief Article)
• Journal wars; Reed Elsevier and science journals.(scientists dissatisfied with publisher's management of science publications)(Business)(Brief Article)
• What's left? Don't write the new economy's obituary just yet.(Business Special)(the failures, and continued promise, of the high tech industry)
• Diamonds are a war's best friend; West Africa's three-country war; The Sierra Leone-Liberia-Guinea mess.(United Nations Security Council puts sanctions on diamond exports)(International)(Brief Article)
• What money can't buy; Human and social capital.(Finance and Economics)(Brief Article)
• Overview.(Emerging-Market Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Down again; Interest rates; Lower interest rates.(Britain)(Bank of England lowers base interest rate to 5.25%)(Brief Article)
• White on black; New fiction.(Books and Arts)(Review)(Brief Article)
• What's in a nation? British election briefing: The constitution.(Labour and Tories campaigning on reform)(Schools Brief)
• Defining visions; British election briefing: The leaders; The leaders.(Schools Brief)
• British Columbia's Liberal landslide; Canadian politics; British Columbia's election.(The Americas)(Brief Article)
• On merger stand-by; Mergers among European airlines are overdue.(Business)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
• Rumsfeld's defence; Don Rumsfeld's military ambitions.(military policy and the Secretary of Defense)(United States)(Brief Article)
• Letters; On global inequality, flags, execution, Britain's election, Colombia, the Basle Accord, purple.(Letters)
• Yes to a ceasefire, no to a halt on settlements; Israel and the Palestinians; Ceasefires and settlers in the Middle East.(International)(Brief Article)
• A phoney war; Boeing and Airbus; Boeing and Airbus find niches.(Business)
• In memoriam; Civic trophies; The peril of naming a stadium.(United States)(some companies sponsoring stadiums have gone bankrupt)(Brief Article)
• When capital markets rule.(Survey)(role of capital markets in corporate governance)
• PRICES AND WAGES.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Artful dodgers; Israel; The Sharon-Peres bond.(International)(Israel: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres)(Brief Article)
• Dreams of a cashless society; Virtual money v the real thing.(Finance and Economics)(the increasing use of online payments, such as through PayPal)
• Calculated killing in Macedonia; Albanians v Slavs in Macedonia.(Europe)(Brief Article)
• Labour's coup; The economy; The Bank's lucky strike.(Britain)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• A lot on her plate; New fiction (1); Helen Humphreys's lyrical world.(Books and Arts)(Review)(Brief Article)
• Stalin's sickles; India; Elections in five Indian states.(Asia)(Communist parties, and a candidate named Stalin, all play key roles in India's coming election)(Brief Article)
• A penny in whose pocket? Wall Street under scrutiny.(Finance and Economics)(investment banking indusry working on a code of ethics)
• Ireland.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)
• Dragon's teeth; Nationalism; How Welsh and Scottish nationalists will fare in the election.(Britain)(Brief Article)
• Quick march to power; Pakistan; Pakistan's army digs in.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Politics this week.(News Summaries)(Brief Article)
• God and man in Washington; Lexington; God, man and George Bush.(United States)(Brief Article)
• The limits of Europe.(Survey)(expansion of European Union)(Statistical Data Included)
• The war that spread; West Africa; The need for peace in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.(Leaders)(Brief Article)
• Peace-building or appeasement? Sierra Leone's civil war; A pause in Sierra Leone's war.(International)(Brief Article)
• Berlusconi wins. And now? Italy's election; Berlusconi's triumph, and after.(Europe)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Small is vulnerable; Drug prices; Drug price-fixing ends.(Britain)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Strong but themeless; British politics; British politics: Tony Blair.(Books and Arts)(Review)
• Let a hundred papers boom; China's press; China's competitive newspapers.(Asia)(Brief Article)
• Politics this week.(News Summaries)(Brief Article)
• Kalamazoo, forsooth! Talking about history; Medievalists hit Kalamazoo.(historians gather at 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies)(United States)(Brief Article)
• Stop building, please; Stop building Israeli settlements.(freeze on settlement construction necessary for peace process)(Leaders)(Brief Article)
• To play or not to play; Playing Wagner in Israel.(controversey over performance of Richard Wagner piece)(International)(Brief Article)
• Once more for the nationalists? Spain's Basques go to the polls; Spain's Basque election.(Europe)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Overview.(Economic Indicators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• On the trail; Campaign diary; Election diary.(Britain)(United Kingdom's 2001 election campaign)(Brief Article)
• Rural rage; British election briefing: The countryside.(Tory and Labour plans for agriculture)(Schools Brief)(Brief Article)
• What will happen? British election briefing: Outlook.(Schools Brief)(Brief Article)
• The charm after the storm; The Philippines' election; The scramble for votes in the Philippine election.(Asia)(President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines)(Brief Article)
• Antics in the attic; Reality TV: created in Europe; sold in America.(Business)(Brief Article)
• Something fishy.(chinook salmon in Northwest more likely to be raised in hatcheries than by nature)(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
• The monster; Afghanistan; The Taliban turn on Hindus.(Leaders)(Brief Article)
• A toe in the water; America and the Middle East.(International)(Brief Article)
• The world this week.(News Summaries)(President George W. Bush hopes to build an anti-missile system)(this and other items are discussed)(Brief Article)
• The Kerrey affair; Lexington; Bob Kerrey.(United States)(Brief Article)
• Sources.(Survey)(Brief Article)
• George Bush's revolution; George Bush's arms-control revolution.(Special)(attempt to formulate an arms-control policy in a world in which more and more countries have nuclear capabilities)
• Bush's nuclear umbrella; Bush's nuclear plan.(Leaders)(President George W. Bush)

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