26 January 2004
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Features
NS Special Report - The killing fields
Changes in the character of war partially account for the mass murders of the past century. But the rise of democracy also plays a role
NS Special Report - The journalist as God
A seasoned foreign correspondent, John Kampfner thought himself inured to conflict. Then he went to Rwanda and had to decide whether babies should live
NS Special Report - The conflict the west always ignores
Russian policy in Chechnya is breeding terrorists
NS Special Report - The hunt for a murderer
At Christmas, Bosnian Serbs were thrilled to get a text message greeting from Radovan Karadzic. But why is he still free? By Russ Baker
NS Special Report - A law that fails to catch Mugabe is pointless
It's OK to assassinate dictators, but not to prosecute them, finds Peter Tatchell
What price a piece of paper?
Just as the government raises fees to finance greater access to higher education, research suggests it's not worth it. By Alice O'Keeffe
A modest proposal that we can all agree on
How to raise money for universities and keep the left happy
Regulars
The Politics Column
Politics - John Kampfner asks if we'll ever go to war again
By undermining public confidence in intelligence, Tony Blair has made it very hard for any future British PM to convince the people of the case for war
Darcus Howe insists he is not ethnically ambiguous
Is black passe and is ethnic ambiguity the future? Don't believe such nonsense
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Culture
Picture post
As he celebrates his 75th birthday, Tintin's international celebrity shows no sign of waning. His escapades as the world's most famous foreign correspondent have elevated the comic book to high art, and provided a chronicle of the 20th century
The big squeeze
Music - Richard Cook turns the tables on the latest gismo to transform the hi-fi industry
Sound effects
Art - Richard Cork finds the BBC's latest commission is in tune with the times
Theatre
Bitter suite
Theatre - Michael Portillo is not entirely satisfied by a play about love, sex and growing old
Film
An honourable failure
Film - Mark Kermode on a bold attempt to bring Roth's flawed novel to the screen
Television
Trouble in parasite paradise
Television - Andrew Billen surrenders to the tragic comedy of Paul Abbott's shameless family
Books
The knock on the door. What was the difference between the Nazis and the Soviets? None, say some. But for all its atrocities - worse than the Third Reich in terms of murder - socialism fought to improve the welfare, employment and education of the common people
Hope and Memory: reflections on the twentieth century Tzvetan Todorov Atlantic Books, 337pp, £22 ISBN 1903809479
The sleep of reason
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: a short history of modern delusions Francis Wheen Fourth Estate, 338pp, £16.99 ISBN 0007140975
Objects of desire
The Secret Power of Beauty: why happiness is in the eye of the beholder John Armstrong Allen Lane, 172pp, £12.99 ISBN 0713994746
Moving images
Hide in Plain Sight: the Hollywood blacklistees in film and television 1950-2002 Paul Buhle and Dave WagnerPalgrave, 288pp, £13.50 ISBN 140396145X
Not enough spice
Scandal: the sexual politics of the British Constitution Anna Clark Princeton University Press 311pp, £19.95 ISBN 069111501X
Fiction - What a saga
Everything Will Be All Right Tessa Hadley Jonathan Cape, 422pp, £15.99 ISBN 0224071742
