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Forced marriages
Britain has, at least going by ministerial statements, apparently grasped the difference between arranged marriages, which are part of the Indian cultural tradition, and forced marriages, unjustifiable from any standpoint. Yet it is a ...

Austria turns rightwards
With the resurgence of the far-right parties and the marginalisation of the moderate parties in the recent elections in Austria, there are concerns about the country’s future political course. At the least, Austria is in danger of ...

Leader Page Articles
Petrostates and presidential power
By Jorge Heine

In North America and Western Europe, heads of state often serve for many years, providing policy continuity. Yet, in South America, any effort at generating government stability through the ballot box is denounced as undemocratic.

News Analysis
An agenda for long-term stability
By Subramanian Swamy

Why an occasional financial crisis can purge the system of economic toxins.

Paulson putting banks first
By Joseph Stiglitz

Unlike the U.K. plan, the revamped American bail-out puts banks first and taxpayers second.

Did software cause the crisis?
By Sean Dodson

Amid all the fallout from the financial turmoil, one group has yet to feel the accusing finger of blame: the analysts who built the computer software that drove the derivatives markets that, in turn, drove the financial collapse. Since the Big ...

Corrections and clarifications
* * The second Editorial (October 16, 2008) “Triumph of the Tiger” stated “The Clothes on Their Backs” to be the work of Philip Hensher. It should have been Linda Grant . Hensher’s work is ...

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