26 March 1999

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Cover story

Eating people is wrong

"The taboo against cannibalism is the strongest we have - but even that needs to be looked at". Richard Dawkins interviewed

Features

Give every school an Oxbridge place

Peter Wilbyargues that, instead of fiddling around with Saturday classes for bright children, we should change the whole basis of university entry

Why I've no truck with truckers

The lorry drivers' siege of London reminded Wendy Holden of really bad seventies singles

The price of sitting on our hands

Nato air strikes in Kosovo are long overdue, writesMelanie McDonagh

Our Dad was no commie

Elia Kazan, who won an Oscar this week, bought his success by ruining the lives of others. They included the father of Amanda and Jonathan Foreman

Patten meets flint on the Falls Road

The former Hong Kong governor has to decide the future of Ulster's police force. But John Lloyd sees little hope of a non-sectarian outcome

Just who do they think they are?

The British think that they alone in the EU suffer identity problems. But on this at least, reports David Lawday, the French and Germans can compete

How Mecca became a death-trap

This is the week of the hadj, the most sacred ritual in the Muslim calendar. Ziauddin Sardar implores the Saudis to avoid further disasters by making people walk

Europe: what we really, really want

The Commission may be in trouble, but the EU dream can survive

Don't they know the war is over?

The left in El Salvador has just lost the presidential election. Jon Beasley-Murrayblames its failure to reinvent itself

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - All things to all accusers

Paul Barker tries to define "institutional racism" and discovers much confusion

Culture

A design for living

Most designers would rather stretch your body or cut off your legs than alter their creations. Hugh Aldersey-Williams asks them to consider the human factor

A muse denied

Art byJohn Henshall

American retro

Rock byRichard Cook

Poor devil

Classical by Dermot Clinch

Two tales of a city

Photography byCharles Darwent

Troubles at home

Theatre byDavid Jays

L'essence du rire

Television

Books

Hungarian elegy

They Were Counted Miklos Banffy, translated by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Banffy-Jelen Arcadia Books, 602pp, £12.99

The sun also sets

A History of Japan: from stone age to superpower Kenneth G Henshall Macmillan, 264pp, £47.50 hardback, £16.99 paperback

Novel of the week

Ink John Preston Doubleday, 429pp, £12.99

Vitreous verse

Midnight Salvage: poems 1995-1998 Adrienne Rich W W Norton, 75pp, £14.95

Commentary - Martin Amis ate my novel

Gareth Creer smells a conspiracy to keep first novelists out of the review pages

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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