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Cold shoulders
An annual spat between Russia and Ukraine over gas supplies turns nasty
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Dodging the dossier
Exasperated with Pakistan, India tries international-diplomacy for now
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A new broom for the CIA
Leon Panetta and the state of American intelligence
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Rich man, poorer man
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Bank strategy: Return to wealth
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An editor at the Daily Star in Beirut sees a 40-year cycle: the use of force elicits the will to resist
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Technology Monitor: Bone in a bottle
Attempts to create artificial bone marrow have failed, until now
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Kid in a candy store
The Metropolitan’s new director gives his first interview
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Correspondent's diary: Kenya-Somalia, day three
The wretchedness of the hunter-gatherer Boni tribe
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Charleston: A turn in the South
A blue-collar military town transforms itself into a white-collar security cluster
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Asia.view: Unguided democracy
Hardy political perennials in Thailand and Bangladesh
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Business.view: A giving recession?
The downturn poses new challenges for philanthropy
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Lexington: Huntington's clash
One of America’s great public intellectuals died on Christmas Eve
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Art.view: The incredible shrinking saleroom
Bad days behind us, worse days ahead
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Bagehot: Black-sky thinking
In 2009 David Cameron needs to start smiling again
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China in 2009: Year of the ox
Economic woes and key anniversaries portend trouble
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Buttonwood: Ready for a rally?
Markets could decouple from the economy in 2009—in a pleasant way for equity investors
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Charlemagne: The magnificence of Nicolas Sarkozy
France tries a novel approach: anticipating the Lisbon treaty
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Europe.view: What Santa can bring Eastern Europe
Radek Sikorski for NATO chief
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Green.view: O Tannenbaum
How green are your branches?
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Market.view: Company woe
To look ahead, look back to 2002
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George Bush's road to popularity
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Free exchange
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Gulliver
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