He was given four sheets, four towels, a blanket, a bedroll, a toothbrush, toilet paper, a tall clear plastic cup, a bar of soap, seven white T-shirts, seven pairs of boxer shorts, seven pairs of socks, plastic slippers, a pad of paper, and a ballpoint pen.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole

He stops to clear his throat, then unfolds a sheet of paper amid the deafening silence.

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But there is a mountain of worthless paper to clear up, and progress is still grindingly slow.

ECONOMIST: Japanese banks

Now banks are forcing their counterparties to pay a much higher price to roll the paper over, and it is not clear how quickly central-bank injections of liquidity will ease the squeeze.

ECONOMIST: The crisis in the debt markets

The police force that handled the Milly Dowler case said in a report this year that News of the World staff made it clear to police in 2002 that the paper had access to Milly's voice mails.

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Add up all the coded messages and it is pretty clear that Mr Blair is even more hostile than he was last January, when the government published a white paper on the Lords, towards direct election to the reformed upper house.

ECONOMIST: And here are your chosen (by us) representatives

In the past month, as the European Central Bank (ECB) has been buying European government bonds in a belated quantitative easing program, Greece has received clear support as the two- year spread on its paper over Germany has widened by just 61 basis points or 0.61%.

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Thanks to the lack of clear vision on a proposed sale price, timeline and how proceeds will used, investors turned a little cooler towards its paper following the announcement.

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