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Wedding of the wallflowers
Sep 4th 2001

Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are both in bad shape. Their solution? Merge and share their misery in a $25 billion deal that creates the world's biggest maker of PCs. But, in an industry already gripped by slumping demand, that may not be such a good idea ... more

China’s economic worries Sep 3rd 2001
China and North Korea: Missile trouble Sep 4th 2001
Telecoms: Japan rolls out 3G Sep 3rd 2001
Fox and Bush: Talking immigration Sep 3rd 2001
The UN Racism Conference: Close to chaos Sep 4th 2001
Power shortages: Continue in the Americas Sep 3rd 2001
Israel: Unilateral separation? Sep 3rd 2001


		Officials Attempt to Save Racism Talks (New York Times) Tue 19:18 GMT Top Republican senator to quit (BBC) Tue 19:15 GMT Push Is On for Larger Jury in Military Capital Cases (New York Times) Tue 18:18 GMT Cutting begins on Kursk torpedo bay (BBC) Tue 16:17 GMT Reno eyes race with Bush brother (BBC) Tue 14:15 GMT U.S., Israel Quit Forum on Racism (Los Angeles Times) Tue 13:27 GMT US accused over summit walkout (BBC) Tue 13:15 GMT more... Provided by moreover.com
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Handling a changed world
Missile-defence talks and NATO enlargement will test Russia’s new pragmatism
Aug 30th 2001

As easy as ZYX
It is time to stand up for the alphabetically disadvantaged
Aug 30th 2001

More Opinion

America’s new Utopias
Private housing associations increasingly lay down the laws that middle-class Americans live by. What are they doing to the country?
Aug 30th 2001

More from North America

Culling the politicians in Argentina
The government brandishes its axe
Aug 30th 2001

More from Latin America

Off to the city in China
The government plans to allow freedom of movement
Aug 30th 2001

More from Asia

The Baltic states
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are close to joining the European Union and, perhaps, NATO too. How ready are they?
Aug 30th 2001

Is Gerhard Schröder so unstoppable?
Germany’s ebullient chancellor is still hoping that his country will avoid a recession—and help him stay in power
Aug 30th 2001

Medicine sans frontières
British health care is opening up to international competition. Those who have been waiting too long for operations will benefit
Aug 30th 2001

Drooping lads’ mags
The British men’s magazine market is in trouble. Does that mean men are too? Or is it simply that the lads’ culture is fading?
Aug 30th 2001

More from Europe
(including Britain)

Race in South Africa
How much progress against racism has been made in South Africa itself?
Aug 30th 2001

More from Africa & the Middle East

Boris Trajkovski, Macedonia’s beleaguered president
Like his country, Macedonia’s president has to manoeuvre to stay in place
Aug 30th 2001

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, India's fermentation queen
If Indian biotechnology has a cover girl, it is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, a voluble 48-year-old who owns the country's biggest biotech company
Aug 30th 2001

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Video art and the glasshouse effect
In California's Napa Valley, two world-famous architects are designing a new kind of house for a new kind of art
Aug 30th 2001

Canine evolution
Was the dog a self-domesticating species?
Aug 23rd 2001

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Trade-weighted exchange rates
Aug 30th 2001

External-debt-to-export ratios
Aug 30th 2001

More Markets & Data

Japan’s ailing electronics giants
Headline-hitting job cuts will not be enough to turn them around
Aug 30th 2001

Cisco is a kid no more
Can the company ever again recapture the dazzle of its brilliant youth?
Aug 30th 2001

More Business

The craze for hedge funds
Even if it proves not to be a bubble, the craze is destined to leave many investors disappointed
Aug 30th 2001

More Finance & Economics

Time and tide wait for one in 10,000
Want to live to 100? Inheriting the right genes helps
Aug 30th 2001

More Science & Technology

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A native of Colombia was shot in June 2001 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, by supporters of Abdala Bucaram, the former Ecuadorian president known as "el loco". Who was the victim?
	Hernan Dario Gomez, the coach of the Ecuadorian national football team, who had refused to include Mr Bucaram's youngest son on his roster
	A manager for the Colombian singer Shakira, who had recently broken her engagement to Mr Bucaram's eldest son
	Carlos Casta�o, who had just resigned as leader of United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, a right-wing paramilitary group known for attacking civilians
	Mr Bucaram�s ex-wife, who had fled to her native country in 1997 when her husband was removed from the presidency on charges of "mental incapacity"

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