02 August 1999
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Cover story
America says: never again!
After Kosovo, the US is wary of a humanitarian foreign policy. A Kissinger-style realpolitik may be on its way back
Features
Why I had Mandelson's life pulped
John Booth reveals the inside story of how a biography ended up in the shredder
Why the City likes Internet nonsense
Philip Collinsreveals how a firm that never makes a penny can be worth more than Sainsbury's
Chimps don't talk, but they do cry
Ignore the reports about chattering bonobos; language remains unique to humans. But animals can think and feel
No blacks, please, we're MPs
If you want a perfect example of institutional racism, try the House of Commons itself. Anthony Bevins reports
When Mary Poppins has a hairy chest
When Michael Durhamemployed a male au pair he found another side to sex discrimination
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Stop building these grand palaces
The world is littered with useless new parliamentary buildings. Now the British are putting up even more. Paul Barkerrecommends the more modest approaches of the French and the Irish
Culture
Here be pirates
Is it real or is it digital? Ziauddin Sardar shows how Malaysia's shadow economy helps its citizens jump on to the postmodern consumerist merry-go-round
Fathers and sons
Jazz
Out of Africa
Blues
Ship shape
Design
Tall tale
Art
Books
Boys' own hero. C B Fry had everything: sporting brilliance, good looks, contacts and literary flair. So why is he remembered as a glorious failure?
C B Fry: An English Hero Iain Wilton Richard Cohen Books, 512pp, £25
Inner exile
Child of My Time: An Englishman's Journey in a Divided World Mark Frankland Chatto & Windus, 214pp, £17.99 ISBN 1860560229
Buried treasure
Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik Susan Heuck Allen, University of California Press, 409pp, £27.50 ISBN 0520208684
Losing the plot
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 592pp, £20 ISBN 0684852624
Star wars
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet Margaret Wertheim Virago, 320pp, £14.99 ISBN 1860495273
