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INTERVIEW 46Orhan Pamuk

ÁNGEL GURRÍA-QUINTANA The novelist began 2006 facing prison and ends it a Nobel laureate. Here he discusses the benefits of having both a western and an eastern soul.

MY STORY 52River kings

JAMES FERGUSSON In a secret gorge, I discover what I feared no longer existed—a pool full of leaping salmon.

SPECIAL REPORT 54The biggest bets in the world

HENRY TRICKS Since the glory days of the early 1990s, hedge funds have lost much of their lustre. Yet they remain the most dynamic part of the financial world.

COLUMNS 10Out ofmind

ROBERT DRUMMOND &

ALEXANDER LINKLATER Victor’s Brixton psychosis.

22Washington watch

TUMBLER The new right-wing Democrats.

51France profonde

TIM KING Le Pen in endorsement crisis.

59Brussels diary

MANNEKEN PIS Discontent in eastern Europe.

REGULARS 6Letters 8News & curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 13Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 78The generalist DIDYMUS 79The list

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70The Shah ofPakistan

PERVEZ HOODBHOY While enjoying American support and largesse, Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf has crushed domestic opposition and done little to combat religious extremism.

FICTION 60Testicular cancer vs the behemoth

ADAM MAREK Austin Weaver’s mission is to forget his balls and save his girlfriend from a monster.

REVIEWS 66Laughter and forgiveness

ANDREW BILLEN In Peter Morgan’s domestic-sized dramas, our leaders emerge as fallible, even loveable figures. But his work is not as reactionary as it seems.

68The DNA computer

PHILIP BALL Scientists are attempting to create an entirely new kind of computer, one based on the building blocks of life.

69Ways ofseeing

RACHEL COOKE Robert Hughes embraced 1960s excess, but it was his Jesuit upbringing that made him the critic he is.

COLUMNS 72Widescreen

MARK COUSINS Film festivals and the lure of glamour.

77Private view

BEN LEWIS Scotland’s answer to Damien Hirst.

80Between the lines

JASON COWLEY Books and the blogosphere.

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Arthur Aughey reviews The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg

John Ware on the fall of the Muslim Council of Britain

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FORTHCOMING

Joshua Kurlantzick on the US Democrats’ foreign policy

Charles Leadbeaterconsiders the legacy of Ivan Illich

Trevor Dolby charts the phenomenon of celebrity memoirs

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