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From the campaign trail: Kentucky: Hog wild
www.economist.com - When pig jokes go badlyI AM in rural Virginia, watching Barack Obama give a speech larded with references to pigs. “You don’t fatten a hog by weighing it,” he says, explaining why he opposes excessive view details...
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The Clinton Global Initiative: Billanthropy
www.economist.com - Parasitic worms and Bono jokes in midtown ManhattanI HAVE been struggling to explain to my family what I’m doing here. Before I left I tried the phrases “Bill Clinton Saves the World” and “the Bill view details...
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From the campaign trail: Florida: Coming into the country
www.economist.com - The campaigns make their plays for new AmericansI’M STANDING at the back of a hall where 1,200 people are taking the oath of American citizenship. They come from 75 different countries, most of them view details...
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The Caucasus: At history's centre
www.economist.com - Oil, war and stirring imperial ghostsINTREPID travellers have long had a penchant for visiting the Caucasus. This is a land of mountains and seas, squeezed into the borders of three old empires—Persian, view details...
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From the campaign trail: The candidates' planes: Air apparent
www.economist.com - The differences between Air Obama and McCain AirwaysWHEN people discover that I am a political reporter, they often ask me for the inside scoop. "You've travelled with Obama and McCain. You've sat at view details...
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Reporting in Tokyo: Whisper parade
www.economist.com - What we talk about when we talk about JapanJAPAN is an odd nut for a journalist. News does not “break”; it creeps, slinks and whispers. Political changes large and small are telegraphed to the media view details...
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Mugabe has become an embarrasement to Africa
www.economist.com - AS ZIMBABWEANS prepare to vote in a second round to elect a president on June 27th, the chances of an early end to the country’s misery look remote. Since the first round on March 29th, which even view details...
Posted by: Niki Mari 6/21/2008- Grind It 3
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Modernisation no Longer Means Westernisation
www.economist.com - HAS Fareed Zakaria finally succeeded where others have failed, and named the era in which the world finds itself today? For most of the past century it has been conflict that has defined the age—the view details...
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The Bachelor Paradox
www.economist.com - If there are more single men on the West Coast, then why do more eligible single women live on the East Coast? view details...
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Legally Barred | Will India open up to foreign lawyers?
www.economist.com - IF YOU want to find the legal chiefs of big defence companies such as Boeing or BAE Systems, a good place to start looking is the foyer of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Delhi. The in-house legal bosses are view details...
Posted by: Niki Mari 4/25/2008- Grind It 2
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Super Powers
www.economist.com - Just how much can superdelegates impact the election? Well, if Hillary Clinton has her way, a whole lot. view details...
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