14 June 1999

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Cover story

Kosovo: a rich and comfortable war

The west has been fighting for universal values; other countries see those values as a new threat

Features

My night in a Serb police station

In Belgrade an information blackout makes for confusion, reportsLindsey Hilsum

Is this really a grand Nato victory?

The US has assisted ethnic cleansing in Turkey and has provoked it in Kosovo. So what, asks Noam Chomsky, are we supposed to celebrate?

PC language wastes our PCs' breath

John-Paul Flintoffthinks the Met can do better than refer to "visibly minority ethnic groups"

Give £50,000 to every boy and girl

Bill Gates's fortune exceeds the combined wealth of nearly half the households in America. Robert Reich offers big and bold ideas on how to bridge the gap

Fair's fair, unless you're French

Lionel Jospin wants his country's justice system to be more like ours. That would involve getting rid of the legacy of the inquisition

New Media Awards

NS columnist Laurie Taylor reviews the "Stand" website and Rachel Munro attempts to "Discover Hertford"

Why doctors should admit their ignorance

Experts say too little milk, too much milk and a smart wife all make you ill. Don't listen, advises James Le Fanu

A Marxist paradise for women?

Kerala, the Indian state famed for sex equality, is not everything it seems.Brenda Maddox reports

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - In search of the sound of silence

Only when Ziauddin Sardar endured the maddening racket of the natural world did he grasp the sense in which modern city-dwellers have gone deaf

Culture

Design for loving

Noel Coward's centenary finds him overpraised and undervalued. David Jays suggests we forget the man and rediscover the passions of his plays

Monkish habits

Jazz byRichard Cook

Mind over Mozart

Classical byDermot Clinch

Criminal past

Film byJonathan Romney

Back to the future

Design byHugh Aldersey-Williams

Art critique

Television

Books

Moral panic

The Great Disruption Francis Fukuyama Profile Books, 354pp, £20

How vulgar

The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches J Mordaunt Crook John Murray, 354pp, £25

Cold storage

Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Julia Scully Souvenir Press, 240pp, £16.99

Can't read, won't read

Failing School, Failing City: The Reality of Inner City Education Martin Johnson Jon Carpenter, 185pp, £10

Novel of the week

When They Lay Bare Andrew Greig Faber, 322pp, £9.99

Commentary - Nothing to Bragg about

John Tusa defends himself against charges of rent-a-Jeremiah pessimism

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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