People
Mr Detail
Ron Dennis of McLaren, which launches itself as a carmaker this week, is driven by the pursuit of perfectionMar 18th 2010
Stop the bungling
Israel’s prime minister has enraged his main ally and hurt the peace process: it is not too late to change courseMar 18th 2010
Brunetta's offensive
A new candidate for the task of saving la SerenissimaMar 18th 2010
A chastened president fights back
Jacob Zuma is facing a barrage of criticism. But he won’t give up without a battleMar 18th 2010
It wasn't us
Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke still do not believe monetary policy bears any blame for the crisisMar 18th 2010
Articles from previous editions
Kingmaker in waiting?
The Liberal Democrats prepare for battle—in their own wayMar 11th 2010
Juggling Europe's stars
The new president of the European Council will be worth watchingMar 11th 2010
Ballet Rahmbert
The gossip surrounding the president’s chief of staff is getting out of handMar 11th 2010
Boomerang
What a bizarre leadership row says about Japanese businessMar 11th 2010
Outsider
A new biography highlights the life and work of a British artist and the women he lovedMar 11th 2010
The fall of the Harlem Clubhouse
The scandals surrounding New York’s governor and its leading representative in Washington mark the demise of a powerful political machineMar 4th 2010
Friends like these
The real issue raised by Lord Ashcroft’s tax status is David Cameron’s judgmentMar 4th 2010
Impunity time
Italy’s prime minister becomes an unlikely crusader against corruptionMar 4th 2010
The other Brown
A late, and philosophical, return to political campaigningMar 4th 2010
Romping home
Rick Perry and Bill White move from the primary to the real electionMar 4th 2010
A tantalising return
The return of Mohamed ElBaradei from abroad is rattling Egypt’s rulersMar 4th 2010
Golden notebook
Trying to tell it how it isMar 4th 2010
A tribe in trouble
The short sad life of whites in AfricaMar 4th 2010
Obituaries
John Thorbjarnarson
He tried to end men's fear of crocodiliansMar 18th 2010
Emile Fradin
The peasant-proprietor of the Glozel hoard, and the centre of an archaeological stormMar 11th 2010
Alexander Haig
A soldier and public servant, with scar tissue from battles both actual and politicalFeb 25th 2010
Charlie Wilson
Congressman, party animal and saviour of AfghanistanFeb 18th 2010
Percy Cradock
Low-key but razor-sharp, Britain's man in China was always a cool realistFeb 11th 2010
J.D. Salinger
He defended to the end the sanctity of his wordsFeb 4th 2010
Miep Gies
She looked after Anne Frank and her family while they were in hidingJan 28th 2010
Jyoti Basu
Chief minister of West Bengal and almost India's first Communist prime ministerJan 21st 2010
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Survivor of two nuclear bombs, he believed fate had spared him to speak outJan 14th 2010
Gus Dur
An intellectual and president of Indonesia, whose eccentricity hid a serious purposeJan 7th 2010
Oral Roberts
Millions of hurting people sought his spiritual counsellingDec 30th 2009
From memory to history 
With the deaths of Harry Patch, at 111, and Henry Allingham, at 113, the last memories of fighting on the front in the first world war have goneDec 17th 2009
Yegor Gaidar
He engineered Russia's transformation to a market economyDec 17th 2009
Paul Samuelson
The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94Dec 17th 2009
Charis Wilson
Model, writer and muse to one of America's great photographersDec 10th 2009
Samak Sundaravej
A sharp-tongued Thai coalition leader and celebrity chefDec 3rd 2009
Earl Cooley
He parachuted from planes to fight forest firesNov 26th 2009
Robert Rines
He could have refused to believe his eyes, but he knew he had seen a monsterNov 19th 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Revolutionary French anthropologist who sought the universal truths of manNov 12th 2009
Alan Peters
For many years he was Britain's finest furniture-makerNov 5th 2009
Richard Sonnenfeldt
He startled, harried and translated at the Nuremberg trialsOct 29th 2009
Ludovic Kennedy
Writer, broadcaster and campaigner on miscarriages of justiceOct 22nd 2009
Reinhard Mohn
He transformed Bertelsmann into an international media companyOct 15th 2009
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