23 August 1999
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
No Jews on their golf courses
Anti-Semitism in America is not only the preserve of extremists. It is alive and well among the seemingly civilised middle class
Features
Time for a new axis at the centre
Westminster - Anne Perkins
Merger mania and short memories
City advisers earn fortunes from company acquisitions, but do they learn from past mistakes? Patrick Hosking on an industry that never has to say it's sorry
Was Plato the only Greek gay?
The appeal of classical Greece lies in the ease with which we idealise it
When the law attacks the lawyers
The police have been told to clean up their act on racism. Rachel Halliburtonalso finds them guilty of intimidating and bullying solicitors
How to save a marriage (and holiday)
A vacation can place a couple under stress. Lucy Ellmansuggests a pre-hols contract
Wine, women and prose
The popular view of the author as glamorous could not be further from the truth. The writer Alain de Botton reveals the humdrum reality behind the myth
On the fringe, a festival
In a small fishing village in Fife artists and locals gather to celebrate a way of life now long gone. John Lloyd, who grew up there, pays a visit
Regulars
Arts & Culture
The War of words
Britain has become a battleground for the book superstores. Paul Barker relishes the fight
Seeing was believing
Film 1 - Bryan Appleyardon the screenplays of the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky
Class of one
Film 2 - Jonathan Romney welcomes a school movie with a difference
Fatal attraction
Photography - John Henshall on the disturbing life, work and death of Francesca Woodman
Soul survivor
Pop - Richard Cook prefers Lulu to Dusty
Television
Seek and ye may not find
Television - Andrew Billen on the Nazis' pursuit of the grail and our own pursuit of pleasure
Books
Machines maketh man. Public faith in science has never been stronger - yet the products of the scientific imagination elude attempts at public control
Visions of Technology
Richard Rhodes (editor) Simon & Schuster, 400pp, £20
ISBN 0684839032
Myths and microbes
The Life of Celine: A Critical Biography
Nicholas Hewitt Blackwell, 360pp, £45
ISBN 0631176152
East End camp
The Long Firm
Jake Arnott Sceptre, 343pp, £10
ISBN 034074877X
Saigon stories
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-75, Volumes I And II
Library of America, 857pp (each), £21.85 (each)
Children's Tapes - On the road
Want to keep the kids happy in the car? Amanda Craig test-drives a variety of audio books
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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