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(;S I) J>hnnc : (03) 9~29 6700 1·. -mail: abr u' it·nct.net.au Phone: (03) 9653 4221 \lsn a' ailablc at sclct·t bnnkstnrcs and nc\\sagcnts or email: [email protected] EUREKA STREE I COMMENT 4 Marcelle Mogg Paper dolls 5 Andrew Hamilton War costs SNAPS HOT Publisher Andrew Hamilton SJ 6 MILK, the Bros, gongs for science, mitre COVER STORI ES Editor Marce lle Mogg stuff Assistant editor Susa nnah Buckl ey 12 Winners or Losers? Graphic des igners janneke Stort eboom Andrew Vincent on the future of Iraq's and David Ramm General manager Mark Dowell THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC Kurds. Marketing & advertising manager Kirsty Grant 8 Anthony Ham Any excuse 16 Learn ing love from Jane Austen Subscriptions jess ica Batt ersby Editorial, production and administration 8 Kath O'Connor Privatise or perish Eleanor Collins on the lure of the love assistants Gera ldine Battersby, Eleanor 10 Bruce Duncan Clear and present danger story. 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Printed by Doran Printing 46 Industrial Drive, Braes ide VIC 3195. 13 A cin ematic feast 41 Bei ng about thinking © jesuit Publications 2003 Catriona Ja ckson samples foodie films. Paul Tankard reviews 101 Experiments Unsol icited manu sc ripts will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, 22 Remembering well in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by se lf-addressed envelope. Reques ts for Michele M. Gierck interviews Michael Roger-Pol Droit. permission to reprint materi al from the maga zine should be addressed in writing to Lapsley. th e editor. 24 Th e Brush and the Pen ON DISC This month: Peter Steele on poetry and painting. 43 Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Cover illustration is a detail from 'The 42 The way of Rome Trio's Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Creation of th e World and th e Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paol o, Joshua Puls on the Sant'Egidio Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews active by 141 7, died 1482, community. Australia's Religious Communities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cover desi gn by David Ramm Photographs p4 by Mathias Heng, FICTION FLASH IN THE PAN pp14- 15 Anthony Ham, p2 3 George Gittoes 29 Mary Manning On the Train 44 Reviews of the films All or Nothing; Graphicspp11 , 17, 21 , 34,38 by David Ramm Punch Drunk Love; Johnny English; and Graphics pp13, 29-31,33, 43 The Man Without A Pa st. by Janneke Storteboom ON STAGE Graphics p6 and 32 20 New beaut theatre by Janneke Storteboom and David Ramm, PUZZLED except ca rtoon of Fr Brosnan, used courtesy Peter Craven on recent star-studded of jesuit Social Servi ces Australian works. 47 Joan Nowotny Cryptic Crossword comment: 1 Marcelle Mogg Paper dol ls N OTWNS m coon md evil have become a tradeable commodity in the rhetoric that has envel oped the conflict in Iraq. And the extent of human suf fering-the 'collateral damage'-in this war becom es more apparent each day. The war has exacerbated the problems of what was already an intolerable life for a population almost wholly reliant on food aid and enduring what can only be described euphemistically as a health care system. The images of pre-war Iraq by Mathias Heng (left) are reminders of what life has been like after more than ten years of UN sanctions and a regim e that believed that violence was the only language Iraqis understood. Mathias is presently negotiating with a bureaucracy in absentia for permission to return to Iraq and document the effects of war. The urgent need for access to clean water and medical assistance is currently competing with commerce. British Minister for Trade Brian Wilson says he hopes that those who joined the US to form the 'coalition of the willing'- Britain, Australia and Poland-will be entitled to 'their fa ir share' of trade contracts in the new Iraq. The unseemly squabbling for the spoils of war was well under way even in the early days of the conflict. And the failure of the US to comply with existing international trade agreements suggests that it is not fond of sharing. In spite of the apparent jubilation of some Iraqis at the removal of Saddam's government, the thin veil of justification thrown over the conflict cannot mask the West's desire to revel in the potential wealth of a fully operational Iraqi economy. One wonders how long ago such designs were drawn. Meditations on the human condition feature throughout this issue of Eureka Street. The cover illustration, a detail from di Paolo's 'The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise' (page 28) reflects our fascination with questions of origin and existence, and leads quickly-in the Judea-Christian view at least- to a contemplation of the relationship between good and evil, and meaning and suffering.