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WEIRDNESS & HISTORY | FOREIGN PARTS POLITICS & OPINION | THE ARTS |
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| WEIRDNESS & HISTORY |
GENERAL TEMPLER'S CAPITOL IDEA Michael McConville recalls a little-known experiment into the use of geese in guerrilla warfare |
CLOSE TO THE BONE Martin Village, on the trail of Rasputin's penis, discovers an answer to The Big Question |
YOUNG SOLDIER: IRISH VINTAGE OF '99 Michael McConville discovers in his father James's memoirs a unique record of everyday late Victorian army life [Top] |
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| FOREIGN PARTS |
HOXHA'S CONCRETE LEGACY Sara Wheeler notes Albania's astonishing beauty... and its bunkers |
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS Terry Howard slogs up the Himalayas to test the efficacy of vitamins [Top] |
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| POLITICS & OPINION |
MR SAM AND THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY Michael Griffin asks why US intelligence did not do more to eliminate Osama bin Ladin, the apparent mastermind of the Manhattan cataclysm |
TONE'S TONE Martin Village on why he thinks Tony Blair is a lousy Prime Minister |
BUSH'S ORWELLIAN ADDRESS: HAPPY NEW YEAR -- IT'S 1984 Jacob Levich detects Oceanian doublespeak in George W's recent pronouncements |
THE BIGGER PICTURE Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's contribution to Psych-Broadcast, an online psychoanalytic discussion group, on the political ramifications of September 11th |
SATELLITES AND STARS Michael Griffin on theTaliban's relationship with Osama bin Laden |
HOT TO TROT Stagedoor Johnny looks back at an agitating time in his past |
THE LONG ROLL CALL Victor Headley offers some thoughts on oil, sex and AIDS in the Congo |
CUBA SI! Crispin Aubrey ponders Cuba's post-Castro future |
MISSION TO CLEANSE? Michael Griffin examines Afghanistan's officer class and their war on women |
WILL THE SMOKE EVER CLEAR? CYCLING THROUGH HELL David Wallis and Hannele Rubin write on New York on 11 September |
THE WIND OF CHANGE Crispin Aubrey on a much vilified technology [Top] |
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| THE ARTS |
TOOTH ACHE
Keith Blount investigates a few cavities in Zadie Smith's much lauded 'White Teeth' |
ABSOLUTE PANDAEMONIUM John Shearlaw talks to Julien Temple about his film Pandaemonium and the first 'pop star poets', Coleridge and Wordsworth |
PRIVATE FRASER GOES TO MOSCOW Stagedoor Johnny remembers a formative urinal experience and an unforgettable Russian Hamlet |
WHO KILLED THE SPACE RACE Adam Roberts points the finger at the guilty parties |
AFTER CUPITT David Brooks lambasts the high priests of deconstruction in general, and Don Cupitt's 'After God: The Future of Religion' in particular |
THE GAFFER'S FEAR OF THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: ON GOD AND FOOTBALL
David Brooks on a matter of life and death |
MADISON AVENUE PUTS SWAMIS IN A SPIN David Wallis is shocked to discover that advertisers don't know their ashtanga from their elbow, apparently |
HIDING IN THE LIMELIGHT John Shearlaw meets Nitin Sawhney -- stand-up, musician and producer |
MARATHON MAN Mario Horio interviews James Squires and discovers why some ladies prefer no pitstop. |
THE SEX PISTOLS ON FILM John Shearlaw documents the making of the first genuine film about punk, 'The Filth and the Fury' [Top] |
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