Recently added articles from The Economist (US):
The people and the land; Chile's Mapuches.(Chile's restless Mapuches)
Nov 07, 2009; ... A fight over history and poverty HOW far can the clock be turned back? That is the question facing Chile's government in the Araucania region, the homeland of the Mapuche Indians in the country's forested south. Under a law approved in 1993, soon after democracy was restored, ...
A step backward; Rebuilding Haiti.
Nov 07, 2009; ... A return to dog eats dog in Haitian politics The dumping of the prime minister raises fears of drift FIVE years after the United Nations set out to build a nation in the poorest territory in the Americas, and after three years of relative political stability under ...
Zelaya's scrap of paper; Honduras's political conflict.(Manuel Zelaya)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Unless outsiders continue to press, a deal to end a stubborn political conflict risks coming unstuck even before it is implemented EVEN before it was signed on October 30th, the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough. For four months after Manuel ...
Losing power; Venezuela's energy shortage.
Nov 07, 2009; ... Communism is a cold shower THE economy is in recession but sales of at least two items are booming in Venezuela: water-storage tanks and portable generators. A country that has claimed the world's biggest oil reserves and is home to its fourth-mightiest river, the Orinoco, has ...
Karzai's tattered victory; Afghanistan's "re-elected" president.(Hamid Karzai's tattered victory in Afghanistan)
Nov 07, 2009; ... The world agrees to pretend he won; not all Afghans suspend disbelief BRINGING Afghanistan's disastrous presidential election to a close, ten weeks after the voting, the chairman of the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC) said he would only accept three questions ....
Having it both ways; Banyan.(What China wants in Afghanistan)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Despite protestations to the contrary, China needs NATO to fight in Afghanistan ONE day early this summer, when it was still possible to claim progress in Afghanistan, Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, was at an Asian security gathering, reeling off the names of ...
Fenced in; Bangladesh and Myanmar.(Myanmar's persecuted Rohingyas)
Nov 07, 2009; ... More grief for the Rohingyas "WE HAVE an excellent relationship with the soldiers on the other side," says Khalilar Rahman, a Bangladesh Rifles commander at a remote outpost on a hillock in Ghumdhum, on the border with Myanmar. A Burmese outpost is a stone's-throw away, across ...
The gecko bites back; Indonesia's anti-corruption commission.
Nov 07, 2009; ... Yudhoyono: second term, first crisis THIS was to have been Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second honeymoon. Inaugurated for a second presidential term last month after a landslide election victory in July, he should have been basking in his recent international popularity and ...
Not free to starve; India's wretched state of Manipur.
Nov 07, 2009; ... A reluctant Indian protests and survives A poet from Manipur celebrates nine years of trying to kill herself IROM CHANU SHARMILA, 37, a poet and aspirant suicide, was this week unable to attend a cultural festival held in her honour in Imphal, capital of India's ...
To which victor the spoils? Politics and the war in Sri Lanka.(President v army chief in Sri Lanka)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Fonseka keeps his testimony under his hat The mysterious ambitions of Sri Lanka's victorious army commander NOT even six months has elapsed since the protracted war with Tamil Tiger rebels ended in a bloody climax, leading to the Sri Lankan government's triumph. But ...
Getting their man; Financial scandals in Thailand.(Rakesh Saxena's Bangkok Bank of Commerce fraud case)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Market panics, old and new IT TOOK 13 years for Thai justice to catch up with Rakesh Saxena, an Indian-born banker who fled to Canada in 1996. Once there, Mr Saxena (pictured above) dug in his heels during what became Canada's longest-ever extradition case. Eventually, on ...
Wall stories; The fall of Communism.(Books that mark the anniversary of 1989)(Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment)(Book review)
Nov 07, 2009; ... No worthy successor, yet, to Solzhenitsyn No worthy successor, yet, to Solzhenitsyn How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account WHY all the fuss about 1989? Twenty years on, the idea of millions ...
Hope eternal; Arlington cemetery.(The heart of America's journey through death and war)(On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery)(Book review)
Nov 07, 2009; ... THIS engaging history of Arlington National Cemetery, America's most hallowed military burial ground and home to over 300,000 soldiers, officers and statesmen, is also the story of America's maturation through death and war. Originally the estate of General Robert E. Lee, the ...
Invincible green lawns; Suburbs.(Whatever intellectuals and architects says, people love suburbs)(The Freedoms of Suburbia)(Book review)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Temptation from London Transport SUBURBIA, at least in its British form, seems to be in good odour at the moment. The London Transport Museum has a show of the posters that did so much to promote suburban living in the early 20th century. Now Paul Barker, a respected writer on ...
Terrible man, celebrated writer; Knut Hamsun.(Re-evaluating Norway's Nobel laureate)(Book review)
Nov 07, 2009; ... KNUT HAMSUN, known as Norway's greatest novelist, was a difficult and destructive person. He wreaked havoc with his family and his two wives and no day went by without some outburst or perceived slight. He hated and envied Ibsen and he loved Hitler. As an old man (born in 1859, he died ...
Livid lines.(Bridget Riley's exhibition at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London )(Brief article)
Nov 07, 2009; ... Bridget Riley's exhibition at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London shows the 77-year-old painter in a new experimental phase. She has replaced the familiar black-and-white stripes ...
The tale of two families; France and England in the 16th century.(Two famous families in a turbulent time)(Book review)
Nov 07, 2009; ... MURDER, dynastic intrigues, espionage and war: 16th-century France and England were not for the fainthearted. Underlying the mayhem was the question of faith, more particularly the challenge to Roman Catholicism from the new Protestantism. To modern minds the idea that men would go to war ...
Chipped, not broken; New banking measures.
Nov 07, 2009; ... The latest chapter in the banking rescue is less novel than it seems JUST over a year ago, as Britain's banking system suffered a near-death experience, the government resuscitated it with an emergency infusion of capital. This week Alistair Darling pumped in yet more money, ...
Clarification.
Nov 07, 2009; ... In "An inspector calls" (October 24th) we said the number of home-schooled children known to social services included disabled children. The author of the ...
Well met by clublight; Dating in the downturn.
Nov 07, 2009; ... Was it the jokes or the teeth? What online-dating sites are learning from pick-up artists IN A dark underground room in central London, a group of men scribble intently in notebooks. They are in a class on "how to be funny" and they want to get it right. It has been a ...
