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Haiti: The island and the outside world
www.economist.com - Being in Haiti without being in HaitiTRAFFIC creeps down a dusty avenue. Gonaives looks like a poor city, with a steady flow of pedestrians walking along the edges of the road, but it does not immediately view details...
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Commuting: Home again, home again
www.economist.com - Getting from one place to another in four citiesI MOVED out of London for the same reason as thousands of others: I became a parent. I was no longer getting any benefit from the good stuff (theatres, view details...
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Budapest: Iron Curtain memories
www.economist.com - Celebrating twenty years since communism's fallNOW that Russia has turned the heating back on, central Europe can start planning its celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of view details...
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Inauguration: It begins
www.economist.com - Washington's festive, hectic, crowded weekON A wet, chilly morning in Washington, DC last week, an African-American raised his hand on the steps of the capitol and recited the oath of office. He then view details...
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German pilgrimage sites: Pilgrims in Rhineland
www.economist.com - To distant shrines renowned in sundry landsIN KEVELAER, a small German town near the Dutch border, the city centre is all but deserted. Only the occasional pensioner cycles along the cobblestones. A view details...
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Barack Obama doesn't care about black people! | Democracy in ...
www.economist.com - Then Mr Blagojevich appointed Roland Burris—the most desperate-for-work man we've seen since Jack Lemmon's character in Glengarry Glen Ross—to Barack Obama's Senate seat. Voila! In a week, Mr Rush has view details...
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The Kenya-Somalia border: Eastern crossing
www.economist.com - Where paradise and purgatory meetTHIS is a diary of a week in paradise. Not heavenly paradise, or Eden, but a third usage of the term: tropical paradise. Today, I am in Lamu on the north coast of Kenya. view details...
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Flamanville : Belly of the beast
www.economist.com - Who's afraid of nuclear power—and why?MY FIRST planned trip to France’s new nuclear-power plant, under construction at Flamanville in Normandy, was cancelled at the last moment. The organisers gave two view details...
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What the AFL-CIO wants, Barack Obama delivers | Democracy in ...
www.economist.com - HILDA SOLIS, Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor, may lead the biggest reversal of a department's goals of anyone in Mr Obama's cabinet. Under Elaine Chao, appointed by President Bush in 2001, view details...
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Yuletide: Christmas around the world
www.economist.com - Our correspondents celebrate on five continentsTHE Metropolitan tube leaves Baker Street every quarter-hour for the Chilterns. Converted flats in old brick terraces lie mashed together along the track view details...
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Breaking news: Barack Obama defeats John McCain | Democracy in ...
www.economist.com - This year, the electors did have to ignore a campaign by conspiracy-minded foes of Barack Obama who argued that the Democrat was actually ineligible for the job. Some sent letters to the electors' view details...
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