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9 April 1999

From the Editor…

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Cover story

Judge the US by deeds, not words

Can "humanitarian intervention" be justified, and how? Noam Chomskybelieves it depends on who's intervening and to what effect

Features

A party still in search of an ideology

Westminster

A Balkan version of the IRA?

Our politicians are treating the Kosovo Liberation Army as freedom fighters whose cause is just. That's only half the story, reports Eske Wright

Why teachers don't want to be careerists

Michael McMahonargues that professional competition has no place in schools

Will they dance to Trimble's tune?

Sinn Fein-IRA have been outflanked by the unionists they loathe. Now they must decide if they will take the peace process to its endgame. ByJohn Lloyd

Cold turkey is no worse than flu

To kick an addiction, you just need will-power, argues Anthony Daniels. But the middle-class caring professions, who need victims, pretend otherwise

Arts & Culture

Elders and betters

We see far too little Caribbean painting in Britain. John Henshalldiscovers just what we've been missing

In the Can

Rock byRichard Cook

Tricks of memory

Music byDermot Clinch

La condition americaine

Film byJonathan Romney

Journey from the Balkan inferno

Travelling with a convoy of refugees in northern Albania, Melanie McDonaghfinds them unanimous in their support for Nato air strikes

Tales of a traveller

Television

Defining tastes

Food

Mixing it

Drink

Books

Thin-spun secrets

All Too Human: A Political Education
George Stephanopoulos Hutchinson, 456pp, £17.99

Small Presses Special - Attic offices, skeleton staff

Over the next two weeks, NS critics will shine a spotlight on the output of small publishers, beginning with D J Taylor's celebration of a new generation of innovative independents

Small Presses Special - Rage of the Serbs

Rage of the Serbs
Marjorie Radulovic The Book Guild, 530pp, £16.95

Small Presses Special - Go Gator and Muddy the Water

Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings from the Federal Writers Project
Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with a biographical essay by Pamela Bordelon W W Norton, 199pp, £16.95 hardback/£9.95 paperback

Small Presses Special - British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion

British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion
Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett UCL Press, 228pp, £38 hardback/232pp, £12.95 paperback

Novel of the week

Blue Light
Walter Mosley Serpent's Tail, 304pp, £9.99

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