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February 1997 issue of Prospect Magazine (#16)

Features

Paying the parties
Martin Rosenbaum / February 20, 1997
Party funding is a burning issue in the US, even after the election. Labour, if elected,...
Fidel Ramos
Edward Luce / February 20, 1997
The president of the Philippines has made one of the most unusual journeys in the...
Among the Serbs
William Tribe / February 20, 1997
The Milosevic regime in Belgrade is faltering but the spirit of Serbian nationalism burns...
A stake of one's own
John Plender / February 20, 1997
Has the robust health of the freewheeling British economy weakened the case for...
The nowhere man
Pico Iyer / February 20, 1997
The transcontinental tribe of wanderers is growing, global souls for whom home is...
Journey to the end of the night
Jason Cowley / February 20, 1997
Francis Stuart, one of Ireland's finest living writers, spent the last war in Berlin...
Science against philosophy
Lewis Wolpert / February 20, 1997
Science against philosophy Dear Anthony, I will not spare your convictions-this century...
The west and the rest
Samuel Huntington / February 20, 1997
The west won the cold war, but cannot and should not impose its distinct values on other...

Opinions

The enemy within
Fay Weldon / February 20, 1997
Nightmares are not invasions of evil, they come from within. Fay Weldon recounts how she...
One step back in Pakistan
Anonymous / February 20, 1997
In the 50 years since its birth Pakistan has shuttled chaotically between dictatorship...
Do you take sugar?
James Walvin / February 20, 1997
Many British habits have been shaped from the fruits of slave labour. James Walvin...
The Whig illusion
Douglas Hurd / February 20, 1997
The fashionable Whig view that the executive is secretive and tyrannical and the House of...
Hopping mad
Richard Barry / February 20, 1997
Foreign fishermen gaining access to British fishing quotas seems unjust to the fishing...

Regulars

Science and the X-files
prospect / February 20, 1997
Richard Dawkins complains that a healthy enthusiasm for the unknown is being abused by...
Business
Susan Greenberg / February 20, 1997
We're all global managers now
In fact
prospect / February 20, 1997
 

Science and Technology

The net position
John Carr / February 20, 1997
I'll be glad when it's over. The general election that is. We seem to be living through...

Arts & Books

The books
AC Grayling / February 20, 1997
Hong Kong
Crash, ban, wallop
Christopher Tookey / February 20, 1997
When Christopher Tookey suggested in the Daily Mail that the film "Crash" should be...
Anarchy postponed
Alex De Waal / February 20, 1997
Robert Kaplan's 1994 predictions of coming anarchy were based on spurious statistics and...
Playing victim
Herb Greer / February 20, 1997
The modern cult of the victim was foreshadowed by American playwrights in the 1940s....
Classes for grasses
Deborah Kellaway / February 20, 1997
Deborah Kellaway enjoys a book about how class difference has found new expression in the...
The altruistic ape
Samuel Brittan / February 20, 1997
Matt Ridley has written a fine book on the nature of altruism, not a Blairite manifesto....
Life in the footnotes
Paul Barker / February 20, 1997
The 27th edition of Social Trends is published at the end of January. Paul Barker, a...

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