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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
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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
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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
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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'
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Alpaca potato
Hemingway days
Church of the Bunny
Dale Dapkins
Farewell my prince
Madeleine Morey
Somewhat like a Camera Lucida
Adam Roberts
SEX 'N' SLUGS
Death and the land mollusc
Fertilising the inner garden
Squirrels ripped my flesh
Horseshit and the delicate flower
Adam Caplin
FROM THE CORE OF THE BIG APPLE
Coffee house blues
The zen of jay-walking
Changing places
Darkness at noon
Union Square
Making it real
Wake up chillun
Flying the flag
Pleasantville
An ill wind
The absolute place to be
Small change
David Finkle
VIEW FROM WOOTTON BASSETT
Millicent Lydiard chronicles an Indian summer in Middle England
LONDON CALLING...
Werewolves of london (Fox Dept.)
This highly desirable intellectual property...
The discreet charm of the dumpster
The bottom line
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COOKERY NOOK
Romantic supper
Moroccan brownies
Fondue
Rosalind Buttered-Crumpet
VIEW FROM THE U.N.
Vera Dove reports an eerie quiet among her international colleagues
THE VIEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Brandon Nordin
THE VIEW FROM CAPE COD
Polly Adams Papsadore
SHEER POETRY
An interpretation of love
Stephen Roe
WORD UP
Defining moments
Martin Village
THE ELEVATOR PITCHLife on Mars
Alan Smithee
MADVERTISEMENT
Bugg Z Spider
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