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WITNESS 42A Muslim journey

EHSAN MASOOD British Islam is dominated by culturally and theologically conservative south Asians. But the bombs may help to make it more open to modernisation.

JOURNAL 48Last dance for Cuba

RUARIDH NICOLL As the Ballet Nacional de Cuba comes to London, audiences have perhaps a final chance to behold one of the country’s great cultural institutions.

SPECIAL REPORT 52Hard-wired for corruption

JOE ROEBER Corruption is not a sleazy add-on to the global arms trade. It makes the industry far bigger than it needs to be. Ifit could be tackled, the trade would dwindle to its strategic necessity.

COLUMNS 41France profonde

TIM KING The CAP fits—the French, that is.

57Brussels diary

MANNEKEN PIS Can Blair be a Cohn-Bendit fan?

80Notes from underground

DAN KUPER We were expecting it.

REGULARS 6Letters 8News & curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 15Am I missing something? 17Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 75Classifieds 78The generalist DIDYMUS 79The list

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72Dead to the world

SUZANNE FRANKS Television coverage of world affairs has been reduced to a diet of disasters and human interest fluff. What went wrong?

FICTION 58Men ofIreland

WILLIAM TREVOR A lifetime after leaving, a man returns to his home village to settle an account with the old priest.

REVIEWS 68The captured state

RICHARD DOWDEN In the Asian tiger countries, elites run the state in the public interest. In Africa, elites run the state in their own interests.

69Just give us the facts

DEAN GODSON The Times Guide to the Commons used to be Britain’s bible of psephology. Sadly, no longer.

70East end ephemera

MATTHEW REISZ London’s east end has produced some great storytellers over the years. Is the tradition now dead?

COLUMNS 65Widescreen

MARK COUSINS Trauma is natural to cinema.

66Private view

BEN LEWIS Rirkrit Tiravanija at the Serpentine.

74Musical notes

STEPHEN EVERSON Cheers and jeers at the ENO.

FORTHCOMING

GeoffMulgan on Charles Tilly

Michael Cross on why big computer projects usually fail

Elaine Showalter on air conditioning

Fran Abrams on violence in schools

Marek Kohn on Richard Wilkinson

Bhikhu Parekh on citizenship

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