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How firms should fight rumours Denial is useless. Spread happy truths instead Business and psychology Feb 10th 2011 | from PRINT EDITION IF YOU Google the phrase “Middle East rumours”, the first link that pops up is not, as you might expect, a website propagating conspiracy theories. It is Coca-Cola’s website. For several years now the company has struggled to rebut ridiculous rumours abo..

Mubarak toppled Feb 11th 2011, 16:08 by The Economist online | CAIRO THE statement was short for a change, and in another change for the people of Egypt, its message was sweet. After nearly three decades of rule and 18 days of nerve-wracking tumult, Hosni Mubarak had resigned as their president, formally handing power to the army’s supreme command. In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where hundreds o..

김경석 고승일 김영묵 김지훈 특파원 = 호스니 무바라크 이집트 대통령이 마침내 국민의 민주화 열망에 무릎을 꿇고 11일 전격 퇴진하자 국제사회는 "역사적인 날"로 평가하면서 향후 모든 정파를 아우르는 정부 구성 등 질서정연한 권력 이양을 촉구했다. 조 바이든 미국 부통령은 이날 켄터키 주(州) ..

Strange ongoings Feb 10th 2011, 23:42 by I.A. | CAIRO AT FIRST, most thought the moment the protesters occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square had waited 17 days for had come. In the early evening, Egypt's Supreme Military Council met and issued a very coup-like "Communiqué No. 1" stating that "all the people's demands will be met." State television, which had hitherto showed only a sliver of the pac..

The chaos continues Feb 7th 2011, 20:44 by I.A. | CAIRO CURFEW hours are getting shorter in Cairo. As of Monday they were only between 8pm and 6am. But the night still belongs to the men who proudly defend their neighbourhood as part of neighbourhood-watch type committees, even though the looting and violence of last week has largely subsided. Banks are re-opening, but with restrictions on how ..

The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, has sparked a fiery debate about the dangers of heated political rhetoric THE motive for the bloodthirsty attack on Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat embarking on her third term in Congress, remains opaque. The suspected gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, appears to be something of a paranoid, right-wing, anti-government con..

The moderator's rebuttal remarks Jan 5th 2011 | Roger McShane Judging by some of your comments, we have chosen the wrong motion for this debate. Leaving aside the arguments for and against gay marriage, many of you have questioned why the government is in the marriage business at all. A popular suggestion would have all interested couples joined under state-sanctioned civil unions, with marriag..

English as she was spoke The days of English as the world’s second language may (slowly) be ending The future of English Dec 16th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. By Nicholas Ostler. Walker & Company; 368 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ENGLISH is the most successful language in the history of the world. It is..

Fluid movement How men and women are less different than you think The making of the sexes Dec 29th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION Man & Woman: An Inside Story. By Donald Pfaff. Oxford University Press USA; 232 pages; $27.95 and £15.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THE trouble with books about the differences between men and women is that the authors are all too often partisan, or perceived to..

CHINESE leaders probably failed to anticipate the battering that China’s image abroad would suffer as a result of the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo. They would have expected that their boycott of the award ceremony in Oslo on December 10th would invite comparisons in the West between China and the Soviet Union, which responded with similar fu..