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Articles in January, 2003 issue of Economist (US), The

• All about oil? Iraq's oil.(Rebutting suggestions that America has oily war aims)
• The colour of conservatism; Lexington.(Can Republicans improve their appeal to minorities?)
• Only disconnect.(lack of privacy and the Internet)
• A psychological war, on many fronts; Threatening Iraq.(Psychological war and Iraq)
• The taxman cometh; Offshore savings.(EU ministers reach a deal on taxing savings)
• Better value, lower tax? French restaurants.(A plan to cut VAT in cafes)
• Scared silly; Volunteering.(A shortage of volunteers)
• Didn't they do well... India.(India's diaspora)
• The IMF climbs aboard; Argentina's economy.(International Monetary Fund)
• Roadroller; Sport-utility vehicles.(SUVs are under attack)(safety of vehicles questioned)
• The trials of everyday life.(social conditions in Iran)
• The war that never ends - Abortion in America; To come.(Why abortion is so divisive in America)
• Banking on growth; China's capital markets.(Hints at reform in China's financial markets)
• Labour returns from the dead; The Netherlands election.
• Low marks for PFI; Financing public investment.(Privately-financed school-building gets low marks)
• The other armies; Militant Islam in Pakistan.(Extremism in Pakistan)
• The dividend puzzle; Corporate finance.(Tax reform pays dividends)
• Our kinda ciudad; Immigration.(Mexicans in the Mid-West)(Midwestern states)
• The sight of the rack; Torture in history.(Torture and the Gunpowder Plot)(torture of Guy Fawkes in England in 1605)
• Every month 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)
• A grudge match; Charlemagne.(Angry diplomacy over Israel)
• Why they all love London; Rich foreigners.(Tax treatment of rich foreigners)
• Rink rage; Sport in Canada.(Neuroses and Canadian ice hockey)
• In the balance; Corporate debt.(American firms trim their debt)
• What's in a name? Taxonomy.(Categorising new species)
• American consumers rang out 2002 amid many worries.
• Nothing normal; Russia and Chechnya.(The huge bomb in Chechnya mocks Russia's claims)
• Puzzles of patriotism; Scottish nationalism.(Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland)(Book Review)
• The Americans have come; Cuba and the United States.(An embargo leaks)
• Whose side are they on? Corporate lawyers.(Controversial new rules for corporate lawyers)
• Chopped out; Medicaid.(Cutting Medicaid to balance state budgets)
• Dig this; Palaeontology.(The ownership of dinosaur fossils)
• A radical rethink; Copyrights.(Protecting copyright in a digital age)
• Slovak solution; Secured lending.(Slovakia leads the world on secured lending)
• Get bac; Secondary education.
• The killing fields; New fiction.('His Mother's Son')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
• All the spine of a jellyfish; Indonesia.(Indonesian subsidies)
• President George Bush said that he was "sick and tired of games and deceptions" and Saddam Hussein should get rid of his weapons of mass destruction.(brief analysis of political news)
• Going with the flow; The Everglades.(New theories about the Everglades)(need for proper restoration)
• The surreal world of Iranian politics; Iran's surreal politics.
• Lights! Camera! No profits! - Lights! Camera! No profits! The entertainment industry.(Lights! Camera! No profits!)
• The central bank intervenes; The oil market.(OPEC intervenes)
• Persuading the bosses to smile; France's economy.(France's government tries to please business)
• What the world is reading; Bestsellers.(Brief Article)
• All that glisters... Treasure hunting in Asia.(the Phillipine's national debt)
• Screen test; Television in Indonesia.(Indonesia's television shake up)
• Democratic hopefuls; Lexington.(Challenging George Bush)
• Roy Jenkins; Roy Jenkins, political reformist, died on January 5th, aged 82.(Biography)
• Living in never-never land; Economics focus.(economic conditions buoyed by spending and rising house prices in the United States, Australia and Great Britain)
• Reading and running between the lines; Press freedom in Russia.(How the Kremlin has got hold of Russia's press)
• Hard cop, soft cop; Criminal justice.(Confusion in sentencing policy)
• Evolutionary struggles; Politics in Mexico.(Mexico's PRI tries to reinvent itself)
• Jolly boating weather; Face value.(Challenging times for Larry Ellison's Oracle)(Company Profile)
• A new year; a new agenda - Jeffrey Garten; By invitation.(By invitation: Jeffrey Garten. The dean of the Yale School of Management suggests a new agenda for business leaders to restore their tarnished reputations)
• The Foresight saga, continued; Investing.(Where to invest in 2003)
• No thanks, we prefer shopping; E-government.(E-government and apathy in Britain)
• Beating the street; Contrarian investing.(The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market)(Book Review)
• Going it alone; Chile's economy.(Chile's trade agreements)
• The case for going private; Corporate ownership.(Why more firms should go private)
• Take it block by block; Measuring segregation.(Where black-white segregation is worst)
• No hiding place.(privacy and the Internet)
• Too many chiefs; Corporate governance.(How to structure the top corporate job)
• But which way is up? Investment banking.(Hopes and fears of Wall Street)
• Spectacle or substance? Franco-German relations.
• Walking the walk; Preparing for war.
• Canberra burns; Australia.(Australian fires)(Brief Article)
• Coca and socialism; Drugs in Bolivia.(A new round in Bolivia's drug fight)
• The Alexander technique; Management metaphors.(Management writers draw on past heroes)
• The curse of Westoxification.(social and environmental conditions in Iran)
• The life in an ocean wave; Microbiology.
• Tokyo and Osaka are the world's most expensive cities.(cities in Japan)(Brief Article)
• The magic of membership; Charlemagne.
• Raids and wrongs; Terror.(A botched arrest leaves a policeman dead)
• The Naga saga's next chapter; India's restive north-east.(India's Naga saga)
• Command without control; Ecuador's new president.(Lucio Gutierrez)
• Climb on, honey: this could be wild; Tax cuts: the sequel.(The Bush tax cuts continue)
• The way we govern now - Corporate boards.
• The proportion of central and eastern Europeans with mobile phones is rising fast, according to Global Mobile, an industry newsletter published by Baskerville.(Brief Article)
• Spoilt market; Private banking in South Korea.(South Korea's banks scramble to serve the rich)
• Labour's London problem; Bagehot.(Public services in London are falling apart, but the government doesn't seem to care)

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