08 July 2002
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Cover story
The unlimited dream company
Hollywood makes adolescents of us all and provides the role models for the world's top leaders
Features
America, with relish, spits on Britain
As far as the US right is concerned, new Labour is now on a par with other whingeing Europeans. Time has run out on the Blair-Bush alliance
Don't let Tories and Trots crow
Peter Hain argues that both sides need to mind their language if the Labour-union link is to be saved
When business cannibals take up forks
Corporate social responsibility was once thought to be an idea bordering on communism. Now most firms pay lip-service. But have they really changed?
The extinction of species and why it matters more than you think
It's a small world: take anybody else on earth, and you are probably linked through six acquaintances. What's scary is that a similar rule applies to natural life
Healthier behind bars
Many young criminals are malnourished. Freedom, for them, is like a concentration camp
Interview
NS Interview - Tom Stoppard
The government, says our most revered playwright, has money for any crisis, but not for the arts. It's down to lack of culture. Tom Stoppard interviewed
Regulars
Darcus Howe believes Calvert-Smith was right
Calvert-Smith was right - and in terms of racist attitudes, the legal world is worst
Politically incorrect - John Kampfner asks if Labour will ditch the unions
Relations between the unions and Labour are at an all-time low - as the party's empty coffers testify. Is the traditional link between them finally to be broken?
Mark Thomas on death in the workplace
The government is determined to fight crime by introducing ID cards. Yet it shrugs off deaths at work and industrial accidents. Why? Because the rich would be found guilty
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
The mother of all battles
Until women emerge from the shadows, the conflicts of the Islamic world will not be resolved, argues the film-maker Parminder Vir
We wish to inform you that . . .
Broadcasting - Jon Silverman on why the BBC's attempt to overhaul the media in Rwanda failed
Crime watch
Philip Kerr finds some philosophical inconsistencies at the heart of Minority Report
Television
Smells like teen spirit
Television - Andrew Billen enters the scary world of huge spots, stress and raging hormones
Books
Top gear
Fast Women: the drivers who changed the face of motor racing John Bullock Robson Books, 187pp, £16.95 ISBN 1861054882
Night waves
Counting Sheep: the science and pleasures of sleep and dreams Paul Martin HarperCollins, 406pp, £14.99 ISBN 0002570661
In funds we trust
Banking on Death, or Investing in Life: the history and future of pensions Robin Blackburn Verso, 560pp, £20 ISBN 1859847951
The wild bunch
To Catch a Tartar: notes from the Caucasus Chris Bird John Murray, 315pp, £17.99 ISBN 0719560276
Mum's the word
I Don't Know How She Does It Allison Pearson Chatto & Windus, 372pp, £12.99 ISBN 0701173025
Signs of imbalance
A New Democracy: alternatives to a bankrupt world order Harry Shutt Zed Books, 176pp, £9.99 ISBN 185649974X
Novel of the week
Clara Janice Galloway Jonathan Cape, 256pp, £10.99 ISBN 0224050494
