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20 November 1998

From the Editor…

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Cover story

A prejudice as American as apple pie

A new film that depicts Arabs as blood-thirsty terrorists is creating a storm in the States. Charles Glass, in New York, sees a sinister reason for its success

Features

Please spare us this golf club bore

Alistair Cooke has been our man in America since 1938.Quentin Lettsbegs him to stop

Today's women and yesterday's men

Female pornography is supposed to mark a new chapter in gender relations. So why does Mr Darcy keep rearing his coiffeured head, asks Matt Barnard

Hard times for the lucky and the lazy

Where is British politics heading? David Halpern found some answers at a Harvard seminar

How to cut energy use without pain

John Prescott insists that we can remain prosperous and still beat global warming

What's humanitarian about this aid?

The US has imposed on Russia an aid package that will leave the country poorer but American farmers richer. Anne Applebaum reports from Moscow

Arts & Culture

The shock of the Brew

Breakthrough or blind alley? Exotic or extraneous? Miles Davis's Bitches Brew sessions still divide the jazz house. Richard Cook hears a lavish new boxed set

Good enough

Opera

Towering imbroglio

Film

Quiet, please

Modern Times

Big helpings

Television

Competing flavours

Food

China tease

Drink

Books

A gilded brand

The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1,309pp, £30

The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty
Frederic Morton Kodansha International, 332pp, $16

Spanking good copper

Manners
Robert Newman Hamish Hamilton, 320pp, £9.99

Monopolies of loss

Isaiah Berlin: A Life
Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 356pp, £20

Novel of the week

A man in Full
Tom Wolfe Jonathan Cape, 742pp, £20

Commentary - Step forward, Mr Motion

Michael Glover wonders who is best placed to toady to order as the next poet laureate

Observations

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