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Issue 90

Issue 90

September 2003

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James Woolsey


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America rampant or a world made safe? Galina J Michkovitch talks to Clinton's CIA director

Cosmic holes and superstrings


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Physicists have struggled for decades to find a grand unified theory. Could superstrings provide an answer?

Bollocks to that, sir


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Disruptive pupils are making it impossible to improve Britain's secondary schools.

Two years of gibberish


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The garbled utterances of the left after 9/11 merely flattered the arguments of warmongers.

Customised humans


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Matt Ridley's attempts to surmount futile nature/nurture arguments do not go far enough.

Are the Saudis sunk?


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The Wahhabi-Saud pact has held the desert kingdom together since the 1920s; now it is pulling apart

Her problem with evil


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Elizabeth Costello has felt the evil in herself by reading a book; now she must meet its author

The spam solution


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You want to get inside my e-mail inbox? Then pay me

A quarterly curse?


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Menstruation is a hassle, but is it wise to do away with it?

Workers betrayed


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British unions are incapable of adapting themselves to today's workplaces

Inspiring moderation


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What Blair should say in Bournemouth

Europe is strong


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Europe's economies are growing faster than "dynamic" America

Private view


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Retinal vs conceptual

Widescreen


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Happy birthday CinemaScope

Prix Goncourt gone mad


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The bizarre ritual of the Prix Goncourt

How I won the cold war


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I studied interrogation arts with Alan Bennett and Dennis Potter

Anglo-Irish rapprochement


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Why do Blair and Ahern get on so well?

The baseball revolution


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Billy Beane is transforming baseball

The Ballard tradition


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The present has caught up with JG Ballard

France profonde


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The battle for France's soul has begun

Out of mind


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We see much less than we imagine, and imagine much more than we see

Invent!


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Desalination - great idea, shame about the costs

Washington watch


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Has Arnie terminated Condy's California dream?

Confessions


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The Lion King makes me cry. It reminds me of my dad

Brussels diary


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What should we do about Berlusconi?