Private acts in a public theatre
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Two cheers for Latin democracy
The Heart of the War in Colombia - Pinochet - Cuba's Repressive Machinery
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Politics: the isms and isn'ts
Political Thought - Political Theory
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Verbal tiptoe on the margin
On Racial Frontiers - Autobiography and Black Identity Politics
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Egypt's force to be reckoned with
Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and their Impact on the State, 1962-1992
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The war baby grows up
Modern Strategy - The Politics of British Defence 1979-98
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The Edward Said of the ancient world
Heresy in the University - Afrocentrism
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Higher channels
John Davies beats a path through the schedules jungle (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Should western students and tourists keep out of the Amazon basin? This week's offering in C4's To the...
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When heritage becomes history
Can academics help save the historical monuments being targeted in ethnic conflicts? Steve Farrar reports The fall of the delicate limestone structure that arched over the river Neretva in Mostar was...
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The China syndrome
Western university links with China are growing. But the imprisonment of US academic Song Yongyi has set alarm bells ringing. Tim Cornwell reports Kill a rooster to scare a monkey" was the Chinese...
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Keeping good relations
In 1998-99 more than 4,000 Chinese students were in the United Kingdom, and the numbers are growing. It is hard to find anyone with a bad word to say about the new mood of cooperation. Colin Bates,...
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The lives and loves of the ubiquitous Gore Vidal
As biographer to Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan not only found himself conversing with giants of film and literature, but also in a legal spat with Vidal himself. Jennifer Wallace reports Fred Kaplan seems...
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Bricks and mortar of the 21st century
Materials science promises future health and wealth. But in the fourth part of a series on the state of degree subjects, Colin Humphreys warns that without more cash and courses, Britain will be...
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Lecturer accused of spying protests
Robin Pearson, the Hull University lecturer accused of spying for the East German secret police, has described the university's decision to suspend him from teaching until July 2001 as "unjustifiable...
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Oxford painting challenged
A Florentine art collector claims that The Continence of Scipio at Christ Church, Oxford, attributed to Van Dyck, is instead a painting by Rubens. Angiolo Magnelli offered evidence in Rome last week...