5 February 1999
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Features
Play the game and make the money
Scandals in the Olympic movement; all English football's top men out of jobs. Mihir Boseasks why so many sports are so badly run
Trimble prepares for his final stand
John Lloydreveals that the Unionist leader has decided he cannot serve in a cabinet with the leaders of Sinn Fein
Work for us and get a free massage
Wouldn't you prefer an on-site beauty therapist, a Rover or free fruit to a trip on Concorde? Giles Corenasks if Jack Cunningham is getting the best perks
Why Einstein should rule the waves
George Waldensees, in plans for a new radio station, left-right unity against a soggy middle
Don't make the same mistakes
Ron Daviesargues that, if devolution is to succeed, both old and new Labour must do better
Police prefer to shoot the messenger
The Met's officers are trying to discredit the Lawrence inquiry, reports Brian Cathcart
Statistics to gladden the heart
More smokers, trees and cars: the latest social trends fill Paul Barkerwith optimism
A header and tailer comes to the end of the line
John Kirkaldytook on some casual work to make ends meet. He stepped into a labourer's hell
A codpiece and LSD experience
Michael McMahonfears that films are giving children the wrong idea about Shakespeare
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Ill-defined notions
Diseases are not what they were, and nor are their symptoms. Ziauddin Sardar examines the bitter controversies surrounding ME and Gulf war syndrome
The Russians are coming
Theatre byDavid Jays
Northern lights
Jazz byRichard Cook
Road to Morocco
Film byJonathan Romney
Books
From the margins to the centre. The English mistrust of ideas has allowed the influence of French thinkers to dominate academe and cultural journalism. Two new books reopen the old ideological wounds
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
Tony Judt Chicago University Press, 196pp, £13.95
From the margins to the centre
The Word from Paris
John Sturrock Verso, 256pp, £18
Girls just wanna have fun
Having None of It
Suzanne Franks Granta, 196pp, £12.99
Africa dreaming
Country of My Skull
Antjie Krog Jonathan Cape, 304pp, £16.99
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Wole Soyinka Oxford University Press, 144pp, £16.99
Novel of the week
Sheer Blue Bliss
Lesley Glaister Bloomsbury, 283pp, £15.99
Commentary - The end of the make-believe
Jason Cowley on V S Naipaul's death knell for the novel
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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