Issue 73
April 2002
Contents
Masoumeh Ebtekar
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From the Shah to the Spice Girls: Interview with Masoumeh Ebtekar
Comparing health systems
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Prospect/SMF provide the most comprehensive overview of international health systems to date. There is ammunition for both NHS reformers and traditionalists
The future of life
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EO Wilson the great scientist and Wilson the environmentalist are speaking the same language. We need technology more than we need spiritual awakening
Not so solid
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The arrest of rapper Ashley Walters should force the black community to speak out loud about its problems
The Israel lobby
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America's unconditional support for Israel runs counter to the interests of the US and its allies. We need an open, unprejudiced debate about it
Quixotic distraction
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Scrapping the monarchy gets in the way of real political reform
Working class hero
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Lakshmi Mittal was portrayed in the press as a carpetbagger. But in Kazakhstan, he is a working class hero
The Sun also rises
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It has become socially respectable but remains politically pivotal
Levi's inferno
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As German Jews held to the culture of Goethe, so Primo Levi summoned Dante in Auschwitz. His struggle was with literature as well as testimony
Slavery and immigration
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The same number of slaves were taken from sub-Saharan Africa to the Islamic world as crossed the Atlantic. But they were a luxury, not a means of production
Cabbages and kings
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The popularity of history programmes on television contrasts pitifully with their quality
A bourgeois story
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Out of the fading political past, a friend returns to haunt my comfortable world