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The World at 2000
The World at 2000
Failed Crusade

Former bomber navigator Patrick Moore discusses the effectiveness and the inhumanity of the Allies' bombing raids during the second world war. The second world war ended more than half a century ago...
The Universal Computer
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who is interested in wind, sand and stars: "Once, when I was six years old I saw a...
Rebel Code
A New Generation Draws the Line
Power
Justice and Punishment
The Catholics of Ulster

Mark Wallinger struck a chord with his Ecce Homo in London's Trafalgar Square. Now he hopes to make his mark at the Venice Biennale, the most prestigious visual arts festival in the world. Helen...

The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, which opens today, will host a global resource for American studies and be a welcoming home for visiting scholars, writes Alan Ryan. When former US...

Seeking total security, President Bush wants the US to build a national missile shield dubbed Son of Star Wars. The result, says Christoph Bluth, will be more insecurity for all. For the past four...
As many students struggle against poverty, Cherry Canovan gauges their attitudes towards political activism. The National Union of Students does not want students to vote for any particular party in...
Halls of residence to the corridors of power: John Davies reports on the interns who are cutting their teeth in Westminster. There was a time when American interns easily outnumbered their British...