21 June 1999
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Better to shop than to vote
No wonder politics is out of fashion. It's the consumer that has the power
Features
Right product, wrong marketing
They have tried to sell us Europe with lofty rhetoric about federalism, but it's the wrong pitch and it's confusing us - and them
Where tragedy repeats itself
Serbs, now fleeing Kosovo for their lives, see themselves as victims
We must stop being loan sharks
Cancelling third world debt will help everyone, us and the poor alike, argues Ziauddin Sardar
100 dollars? That will do nicely
John Lloydexplains how, when stopped by the Moscow traffic police on suspicion of drink-driving, he took a less principled stand than he intended
New Media Awards
Reviews of the "Controversy" and "Biotech Knowledge Centre" websites by Lynton Charles and Thom Cooper
Memory can turn men into heroes
Palestine's past has inspired ordinary citizens to play extraordinary roles. Will that be true for the Kosovars, asks Omar Al-Qattan
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Scandal sheets
For centuries, they sowed sedition and embraced the normal. Charles Darwent wonders if popular prints weren't the tabloids of their time
A damnable shame
Theatre byDavid Jays
Purple phase
Rock byRichard Cook
The fame game
Film byJonathan Romney
Death became him
Classical byDermot Clinch
Great Danes
Design byHugh Aldersey-Williams
Books
A contemporary Dracula. The mythical embodiment of the modern serial killer mesmerised, invaded and fatally poisoned those he came into contact with. Now he is just another bloodthirsty avenger
Hannibal
Thomas Harris Heinemann, 496pp, £16.99
A taste for conspiracy
A Bastard's Tale
George Gardiner Aurum Press, 280pp, £18.99
Lost boy
The Case of Stephen Lawrence
Brian Cathcart Viking, 444pp, £16.99
Female muse
George's Ghosts: A New Life of W B Yeats
Brenda Maddox Picador, 444pp, £20
Forgotten war
Nomonhan
John Colvin Quartet, 252pp, £18
Novel of the week
Timbuktu
Paul Auster Faber, 186pp, £12.99
Unfortunate travellers
Robinson in Space
Patrick Keiller Reaktion Books, 240pp, £16.95
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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