People
Green revolutionary
Bob Lane's management philosophy has helped an American firm to reap a record harvestApr 4th 2007
Time for a fight
The more damaged Gordon Brown becomes, the more he needs a proper contest to restore his leadership credentialsApr 4th 2007
Looking for Mr Right
The Republicans are still pining for a champion Apr 4th 2007
An early harvest for Calderón
Contrary to many predictions, the president is not just governing but even achieving some reformsApr 4th 2007
Lula opts for a quiet life
A slow-motion reshuffle sets the pace for an unambitious second termApr 4th 2007
Has he got away with it?
President Bashar Assad seems to have won a new lease on political lifeApr 4th 2007
Still bizarre, in a bad way
Libya's ruler is a muddle of contradictionsApr 4th 2007
The fire in their veins
The family backgrounds that made Nicolas Sarkozy, François Bayrou and Ségolène Royal each want to be France's president Apr 4th 2007
A slice of death 
A murdered Russian journalist seemed to care only for her subjects' livesApr 4th 2007
Articles from previous editions
Fit for purpose
“Healthy” television for children sounds crazy. But Magnus Scheving, alias Sportacus, has done very well from it Mar 29th 2007
David Cameron scents a change in the wind
Why the terms of political trade are improving for the ToriesMar 29th 2007
The man behind the fist
Zimbabwe's despotic leader, a man of puzzlingly different identities, is a past master at holding onMar 29th 2007
The frowning clown
Other satirists skewer politicians. Stephen Colbert goads them to skewer themselvesMar 29th 2007
Ladies with punch
How Scandinavia may beat France to elect a Socialist female political leaderMar 29th 2007
Erdogan's dilemma
Elections for a new Turkish president in May are already causing ructionsMar 29th 2007
Can Gordon do glasnost?
“Stalinist ruthlessness” is the last thing Gordon Brown wants to be known for. It's up to him whether he is Mar 22nd 2007
Unfinished homework
Germany's chancellor shines more brightly abroad than at homeMar 22nd 2007
Point man
Renowned for his confrontational artistic style, Israeli-born Itzik Galili is rapidly becoming one of Europe's most interesting and unusual choreographersMar 22nd 2007
The perils of “parapolitics”
After four years in which he transformed his country, Álvaro Uribe is running into problems. Some of them are symptoms of success Mar 22nd 2007
You ain't seen nothing yet
Eliot Spitzer takes on AlbanyMar 22nd 2007
Obituaries
Paul Lauterbur
A wild and serendipitous life in nuclear medicineApr 4th 2007
Robert Taylor
We may never know what the UFO's pilots made of himMar 29th 2007
Preah Maha Ghosananda
The birdlike man who walked for peace through the mine-strewn jungleMar 22nd 2007
Jean Baudrillard
Behind the panache of his ideas—often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life—the man was hiddenMar 15th 2007
Arthur Schlesinger
House-philosopher to the Kennedys and forever in love with his workMar 8th 2007
Mario Chanes de Armas
A former revolutionary who spent 30 years in a penal colonyMar 1st 2007
Maurice Papon
Vichy France's most infamously efficient bureaucratFeb 22nd 2007
Anna Nicole Smith
In her short and imitative life, she embodied a peculiarly modern celebrityFeb 15th 2007
David Rattray
The master-storyteller who preserved an oral traditionFeb 8th 2007
Abbé Pierre
France's saint of unceasing angerFeb 1st 2007
Alice Lakwena
The father-mother of the Lord's Resistance Army passes onJan 25th 2007
Momofuku Ando
He spread peace and wisdom through plastic soup cupsJan 18th 2007
Teddy Kollek
He remade an ancient cityJan 11th 2007
Gerald Ford
The average congressman made a fairly good fist of his extraordinary lotJan 4th 2007
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Ronald Reagan adored Mrs Kirkpatrick, telling her she had removed from America's back the sign that said “Kick Me”Dec 19th 2006
Augusto Pinochet
He insisted that he had acted for the benefit of all Chileans. By the end, few believed himDec 13th 2006
Allen Carr
Smokers should ponder his example, and read his book, and repentDec 7th 2006
Peter Roberts
He believed in changing laws, not breaking themNov 30th 2006
Igor Sergeyev
He helped the world get through a period of huge turbulence without incidentNov 23rd 2006
Markus Wolf
There was a whiff of glamour in the way that Mr Wolf's spies outwitted their bumbling West German rivalsNov 16th 2006
Bulent Ecevit
Verses and politics went together, he insistedNov 9th 2006
Ralph Harris
To him, economics—or at least his variety, the economics of freedom—was a religious belief, the “moral science” that Adam Smith had taughtNov 2nd 2006
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