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Cowen's task in troubling times
THESE ARE troubling times on the economic front. Across the advanced industrial world, economic growth is slowing as the global credit crunch bites deeper. At home, the pace of economic expansion is weakening. Employment growth is stalling, unemployment is climbing and inflation remains stubbornly high. p
Another fine mess
BRITISH PRIME minister Gordon Brown is once more in a political mess of his own making. This time it is about compensating pensioners, low paid workers and young people affected by his decision in last year's budget (when he was still chancellor) to cut the basic taxation rate and abolish the 10p starter tax rate. p
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Mugabe's fate is a question of economics
Thabo Mbeki is right to insist that involving Mugabe in negotiations is the right policy, writes Bryan Mukandi pBill strikes balance in dealing with national alcohol epidemic
ANALYSIS: While the proposals in the Bill are innovative and far-reaching, they put a heavy financial burden on off-licence proprietors pWhat would Russian snobs make of school field trip to a brothel?
A GROUP of US students from a private college in Lynchburg, Virginia, went on a field trip to a Nevada brothel as part of their American culture class. pRadicalism at the heart of this brilliant pope's reign
Benedict's whispering of ancient truths through the megaphone of his enemies is invaluable to the modern age, writes John Waters pLisbon is an opportunity we must seize
OPINION: The Lisbon Treaty places fundamental human and civil rights at the heart of the European Union, writes Tony Brown pCommitment needed if North is to build sustainable economy
ANALYSIS: Radical thinking is needed in Northern Ireland if its economy is to outgrow dependency on subsidies and cosy protectionism of a bloated civil service, writes John Bradley p
An Irishman's Diary
WHENEVER you ring a customer service line these days, the last thing you expect to hear is a live person at the other end of the phone., writes Frank McNally p
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