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WITNESS

50 Educating Akello
RICHARD DOWDEN

A small girl I encounter outside a Ugandan refugee camp somehow persuades me to pay her school fees. I soon find myself caught up in an ambiguous African story of doubt, mistrust and guilt.

arts&books
69 States, citizens and trust
ALAN RYAN

The authors of two new books on politics should learn to speak to our ideals as well as our needs.

COLUMNS

8 Common law
ALEX MCBRIDE

COLUMNS

My client is obviously guilty, but won’t answer questions. What do I do?

62 Widescreen
MARK COUSINS

Watch out for China.

16 Letter from Beirut
TAMARA CHALABI

71 Private view
BEN LEWIS

Most Lebanese still want Hizbullah to disarm, despite Israel’s attacks.

Kandinsky the figurative abstractionist.

18 Washington watch
TUMBLER

72 Smallscreen
DAVID HERMAN

Hillary Clinton’s mensis horribilis. FICTION

And it’s goodbye from me.

47 France profonde
TIM KING

56 Toothache
CARLO GÉBLER

77 Musical notes
STEPHEN EVERSON

The grandes écoles gradutes who turn against the system.

Sol can either go to the dentist, or play poker with an old friend from his past.

A very dreary Tosca. WEB EXCLUSIVES Philippe Legrain replies to Robert Wade
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48 Inefficient markets
PHILIPPE LEGRAIN

Misguided EU populism.

REVIEWS

64 Illusions of identity 55 Brussels diary
MANNEKEN PIS KENAN MALIK

Good news for British Europhiles.

80 Notes from underground
DAN KUPER

An interview with Amartya Sen, whose new book claims that the British approach to multiculturalism undermines individual freedom.

FORTHCOMING Paul Skidmore on politics and participation Robert Colls on Shearer’s paradox Ray Pahl replies to David Goodhart on nationalism Adair Turner considers Bjørn Lomborg’s plan to save the world
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The ticket office is shut. Oh joy.

66 The madcap laughs no more
JOE BOYD

REGULARS

4 Letters 6 News & Curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 11 Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 73 Classifieds 78 The generalist DIDYMUS 79 The list

Syd Barrett appealed to a romantic idea of doomed genius—but also went on to live an ordinary life.

67 Stringing us along
JOHN HORGAN

The tide seems to be turning against string theory and its attempts to produce a theory of everything.

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