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Articles in November, 2002 issue of Economist (US), The

• The Colosseum is not (yet) for sale; Italy's cultural patrimony.(Private management for Italy's cultural patrimony)
• Going with the flow? Conservation.(How should Florida Bay's ecological problems be solved?)
• The gadfly stands aside; Hong Kong.(Hong Kong's Martin Lee)
• The revival of the mainstream right; Austria's general election.(The revival of Austria's mainstream right)(little change in the country's immigration policy )
• Throw the rascals out; Turkey's general election.
• Is it time to go? Tories.(Threats to Iain Duncan Smith's leadership)
• When you're 64; Australia.(Australian politics)
• Blunkett's blunder; Sex offences.(Dodgy laws on sex offences)(Great Britain home secretary David Blunkett)
• Independent eye; Thomas Gainsborough.(paintings; Tate Britain Gallery; London, England)
• A Mountie roars in; Vancouver's new mayor.(Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Ticking bomb; Company pensions and benefits.(Scarily large promises to retired workers)
• The tough state gets it; The sniping trial.(Virginia to prosecute John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo)
• A divided self.(identity of French)
• The gloom over Britain's universities - On the road to ruin; Britain's universities.(The mess of British higher education)
• A tiny leap forward; China's stockmarket.(slow evolution of China's stock market planned)
• The mantle passes from Vaclav to Alexander; Central Europe's presidents.(Poland's president is gaining weight)(Alexander Kwasniewski replaces Vaclav Havel as region's influential president)
• Yob off; Crime.(New laws against crime)(United Kingdom)
• Silencing the lambs; Authoritarian Kazakhstan.(Repression in Kazakhstan)(government critic, Sergei Duvanov, jailed)
• Star turn; Japanese firms.(What marks out the companies that have bucked the corporate downturn?)
• How dynasties happen, maybe; Florida's governorship.(Jeb Bush holds Florida)
• Queen Geraldine of Albania; Geraldine Apponyi, a queen for 354 days, died on October 22nd, aged 87.(Biography)
• The Economist surveys a group of forecasters and calculates the average of their predictions for economic growth, inflation and current-account balances for 15 countries and for the euro area.(Brief Article)
• Nailing him down; The trial of Slobodan Milosevic.(former Serb leader accused of war crimes)
• All right for some; Public-sector pensions.(Expensive public-sector pensions)
• Bicycling Tigers; Sri Lanka.(Sri Lanka's peace process)
• Consumer spending, which has propped up America's economy for the past year, could be on the wane.(includes other internatinal business news)
• Three against one; Louisiana's Senate race.
• Feeling at home.(social integration of immigrants)
• The lost cause of the Caucasus - Russia and Chechnya; To come.(What can Russia do about Chechnya?)
• Will the owners please stand up? Shareholder activism.
• How to run a fire service; Firemen.(Are Britain's firemen value for money?)
• Tough on Muslims; Australia.(Australian security)(precautions, following the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks in the US)
• Gerhard Schroder's government announced a new tax on sales of equities, property and investment-fund holdings in Germany.(and other world economic news)
• Washington's mega-merger; The new Department of Homeland Security.(The biggest new department in Washington)
• A game of consequences; The Prestige oil spill.
• Most emerging economies continue to recover from last year's downturn. Mexico's GDP rose by 1.8% in the year to the third quarter, pulled up on America's coat-tails.(Brief Article)
• Cross-breeding; Mediobanca.(Mediobanca still pulls strings)(investigation)(Brief Article)
• Role-playing; Fantasy games.(Merging Japan's fantasy-game companies)(Square and Enix)
• The charges so far; Corporate crookery.(Brief Article)
• Patrimony and privatisation; The state and the arts.(the need for European cultural institutions to begin the transition to privatization)
• A country divided; A Swiss referendum on immigration.(The Swiss divided over asylum-seekers)
• The summits of desire; Charlemagne.(Charlemagne: Eurosummitry goes into static mode)
• A good hater; H. L. Mencken.(The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken)(Book Review)
• Just saying no; North Korea.(North Korea's nuclear ambitions)
• Retake; Films.(Why subsidise British films?)(Brief Article)
• A long winter's nap; Japan.(Japan's economy)
• Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile-phone operator, reported strong first-half results.(includes other international business news)
• A scarlet letter; Megan's Law.(Changing the law for sex offenders)
• Tarnished glory.(political corruption in France)
• Publish and perish; Theoretical physics.
• Redesign flaws; Investment banking.(Redesigning investment banking)
• Convertible bombs; Corporate finance.(Convertible bonds that bite back)(quasi-commercial paper)
• His country's mirror; Der Spiegel and Germany's press.(Germany's most influential journalist dies)(Rudolf Augstein)
• Three times table; Keyboard jazz.
• Troubles ahead for the new leaders; China's future.(China under a new leadership)(social and economic difficulties anticipated)
• Diller thriller? Vivendi Universal.(What might Barry Diller be cooking up for Vivendi's American entertainment assets?)
• The rain fell; Georgia goes Republican.
• By George! - By George! To come.(George Bush's victory)
• Painting the town; Financing urban renewal.(A face-lift for Athens)(Brief Article)
• Hard on ladies of the night; France.(French prostitution under government attack)
• Tories over a cliff? Bagehot.(The end of the Tories?)(Conservative Party)
• Behind closed doors; China.(China's succession)
• Consultant, heal thyself; Management consulting.(Management consultants brought low)
• Come on, do what you say; Getting people to vote.(It's turnout that matters)
• Irresistible attraction.(reasons for immigration)
• Norbert Schultze.(composer)(Obituary)
• The Pitt and Webster show; Policing accountants.(Accounting regulation)(Harvey Pitt and William Webster; Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)
• Je t'aime a la folie; New architecture.(A rash of follies)
• In search of the missing links; Taiwan and China.(Taiwan's links to China)(possible creation of transport and business communication links)
• The branding of Saint Rudy; Face value.(Rudolph Giuliani is exploiting America's hottest new market - for virtue)
• The third branch; Lexington.(The new conservative judges)
• The fight for digital dominance - Nokia v Microsoft; The convergence of mobile phones and computers is bringing Nokia and Microsoft, the giants of the two industries, into direct conflict.
• America's industrial production fell in October for the third successive month, by 0.8%. More cuts may lie ahead: in September business inventories rose at their fastest pace in almost two years, as sales slumped.
• Generali steps out; European insurance.(Italian insurer Generali turns over a new leaf)(new management, new openness)
• A special thanksgiving; United Airlines.(United Airlines on the brink of bankruptcy)
• The West Bank and the Charles; War on the campus.(The university war about Israel)(efforts to have universities divest from companies that support Israel)
• Preparing for terror - Preparing for it; Terrorism.(Preparing for terror)
• Can they be outmanoeuvred? France's trade unions.(Can France's trade-unions be outmanoeuvred?)
• The new king; Bank of England.(The new head of the Bank of England)(Mervyn King)(Brief Article)
• Brownian motion; BP.(Embarrassment at missed targets)

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