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
Books
The metaphysical absence. The demise of God leaves behind a spiritual vacuum initiated by the great 19th-century thinkers and now being filled with junk culture and trivia
God's Funeral A N Wilson John Murray, 402pp, £20
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
