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War in the Balkans: Strategy

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ONE DARK and stormy night, I was probably the only person in England to wake and read Out of Step, an elegantly emphatic volume of essays by Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post's weekly reviewer, who, last Sunday, wrote on Fleet Street's exports: "These watered-down Evelyn Waughs rarely know one-quarter as much about the United States as they fancy they do."

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How troops can win armed peace

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The editor who escaped from the lifestyle ghetto

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UK `ignored' over Unscom spying theory

BRITAIN'S INTELLIGENCE chiefs became suspicious almost two years ago that the United States was covertly using Unscom, the United Nations special commission on disarming Iraq, to spy on Saddam Hussein, but were turned away when they sought confirmation from their counterparts Washington, it was reported yesterday.

Monitor: Warren Beatty's `Bulworth' divided America. Here is what the papers said

VIEWERS OF every political stripe - from froth-mouthed fiscal conservatives to pork-barrel pinkos - may all squirm equally at the uncomfortable humour and hard-edge wit of Bulworth, the splendid and splenetic political satire from director, producer, co-writer and star Warren Beatty. The film, while radical in its own way, drives so far beyond "leftist" - which some have dubbed it - that political labels are no longer discernible in the rearview mirror. It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs, but Beatty manages to pull it off by sheer force of will, clarity of vision and an effervescent performance that rivals his best work. Beneath its astringent and cynical exterior beats a pure and idealistic heart that is almost biblical in its corniness. Love one another. The love of money is the root of all evil. The gods help them that help themselves. These are some of the root revolutionary notions that Bulworth espouses. Beatty's character even comes across as a quasi-Christ figure, shepherding the societal lepers and outcasts to salvation.

Belgrade's link to massacre

TWO WEEKS to the day since 45 Kosovo Albanians were mowed down in the southern village of Racak, evidence is emerging piece by piece about who killed them - evidence that may finally persuade Nato to unleash its bombers on Serbia.

`I'd like to thank my Grandpa, my agent, and 84 hungry, star-struck, freelance, free-loading journalists'

What an emotional evening it was. Gwyneth Paltrow, quivering like a flower in the breeze as she accepted her Golden Globe award for best comedy actress in Shakespeare in Love, could not hold back the tears as she paid tribute to her sick grandfather. Jenna Elfman, honoured for her performance in the TV series Dharma and Greg, thanked her mother and father "for giving birth to me". Ed Harris's list of thank-yous for his best supporting actor award (for The Truman Show) included God Himself - "for giving me the gift of life".

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