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Private equity: Money can't buy love
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Special report: The price of freedom
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The Dutch election: Preparing to be squeezed
Dutch voters have set aside cultural concerns for economic ones
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The future of the tablet computer: Not written in stone
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Sudan after the elections: Back to the bad old ways
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Bagehot: We are all Danny Alexander now
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Business.view: Green-energy blues
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Charlemagne: The pain in Spain
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Buttonwood: Time for a rent cut
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Lexington: The open society and its discontents
In his last column, our current Lexington urges Barack Obama to defend the free flow of goods, people and ideas
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Banyan : Fighting on Afghans' behalf
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Schumpeter: In two minds
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