News from 06/11/2010
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Enrique Santos CalderÓn President, Warwick Ruse, Timothy Fearon, Laura Wharton Councillor, Barbara Haws, Tom Page, Joshua Bloch Chief Java architect, Joseph Benning,
ResumoThe Economist Chevron Renewable Energy Bahrain Contents Rolex Philips The world this week Politics Business Mandarin Oriental Goldman Sachs Asset Management Shell The Republicans ride in A comedy that has gone on too long Silvio Berlusconi under pressure Finally, a talking-shop worth having Running the world economy Living in a see-through world Smart systems The junta takes one small step back Myanmar's elections Aviva Chronicle of deaths foretold An oath in Israel Book smart Google view A wrong word Promises, promises Economist Cathay Pacific BASF Digital highlights Economist Intelligence Unit Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus MetLife Slowly, the army eases its grip Deutsche Bank Excluded Myanmar's tribal conflicts Xerox The Royal Bank of Scotland The unmourned The treatment of veterans Cutting out the middle men Homelessness Schneider Electric IG Markets Divided we fall The Anglo-French defence pact Patience, Rupert The Murdochs and Sky Up, up and away Pop-ups The cap fits Paying for higher education Struck out Strikes and trade unions Terror and dissent British Gas MAN A step too far Italy's beleaguered prime minister Pasok and its discontents Greece's economic troubles Labour pains France's rigid labour laws Life under Yanukovich Ukraine's government Love in a cold climate Nordic politics And for my next trick Latvia's new government Continental Airlines A grim tale of judges and politicians Business Birmingham Sky The latest thumping The mid-terms Passing the gavel The speaker That tin ear Barack Obama's response Countdown Economic policy In the red The governors' races Turkish Airlines Change we can do without Ballot initiatives Huawei And now on to the White House Stepping into outsize shoes Brazil's next president The dark side Spying and corruption in Colombia Not so fast Foreign investment in Canada Can Israel now say boo to America? The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Judging by turnout Elections in Jordan Another spasm Iraq's insurgency Enough's enough—but what next? Zimbabwe Morocco v Algeria Diplomacy over Western Sahara Bare anger Rocky relations between China and Japan Unsettling territory A Russo-Japanese tiff Scam-flat millionaires Indian corruption You can cage the singer Freedom of speech in Singapore Cop killers Indonesia's police The world's biggest headcount China's ten-yearly census Hyundai Banyan Street life, street death No quick fixes Yemen's local and global terrorism Going postal A history of parcel bombs Turbulence Air freight and counter-terrorism Bangers Bomb-making for beginners Bank of America Merrill Lynch Snipping off the shackles Business and bureaucracy Paper tiger Bihar's pro-business reforms From Walkman to hollow men Japanese bosses War on new fronts The defence industry Maintaining fees Oracle v SAP King of the Mad Men Face value: Martin Sorrell Schumpeter The other elephant Standard Bank Chartis Beyond Bretton Woods 2 Barclays Capital Down the slipway The Fed's big announcement Mutiny over the bounty Pay at investment banks Nominally cheap or really dear? The yuan-dollar exchange rate Continental shift Europe's new regulators Buttonwood Accentuate the negative Zurich Economist Conferences And then there was one Ambac's fall Discredited Microfinance in India Economics focus Fail safe KIA Being good to the earth is being good to ourselves The Economist York St John University Lift-off Geoengineering FTWEEKEND A durable yarn The Ambani brothers Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World's Richest Brothers and Their Feud. By Hamish McDonald. UNSW Press; 432 pages; A$34.95 Ages of imagination Bringing history to life A History of the World in 100 Objects. By Neil MacGregor. Allen Lane; 707 pages; £30 At America's expense The rise of Asia Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide From America. By Simon Tay. Wiley; 206 pages; $24.95 and £16.99 With hope, farewell fear Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. Scribner; 541 pages; $30. To be published in Britain by Fourth Estate in January; £25 Emporium of wonders Giuseppe Eskenazi Viktor Chernomyrdin Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Fellowships Business & Personal Tenders Overview The Economist poll of forecasters, November averages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Human Development Index Markets Intelligent life Louis Vuitton The Economist Hewlett-Packard Also in this section Economist It's a smart world Intel A sea of sensors Everything will become a sensor—and humans may be the best of all Samsung Making every drop count Utilities are getting wise to smart meters and grids Samsung Samsung Living on a platform For cities to become truly smart, everything must be connected Augmented business Smart systems will disrupt lots of industries, and perhaps the entire economy Fujitsu The IT paydirt Who will clean up? Google Your own private matrix Tracking your life on the web International Business Machines Sensors and sensibilities A smarter world faces many hurdles Verizon Horror worlds Concerns about smart systems are justified and must be dealt with Economist
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