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The Irony of American Democracy
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Heaven, hell and pagan bashing
Augustine
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A higher mind grounded in reality
Political Writings. First Edition
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The execution of justice
William McFeely's study of death penalty cases reveals an American still steeped in racism, writes Tim Cornwall. For two and a half years, US historian William McFeely had been researching a series...
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A few points for your attention, Mr Mayor
Away from the farce of London's mayoral race, academics have been looking at the policies. Anne Sebba reports. You might be forgiven for thinking the election of London's new mayor in May 2000...
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Capital questions:The priority areas that need to be addressed urgently
HEALTH. Although the mayor will not have direct responsibility for the new NHS London region, the King's Fund, the influential health-policy charity, has been lobbying to ensure the responsibility of...
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Bona fide or Bonaparte?
Are Tony Blair's efforts to remodel the PM's role politically sound, or is he, as some have suggested, falling victim to Bonapartism? Dennis Kavanagh reports. Left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn tabled a...
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Little to show for 20 years' work
The success rate of genetic testing is poor, according to James Le Fanu. The promise was huge. All sorts of genetic disorders would be eliminated once we could pinpoint the genes involved, test a...
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We'll never get into these genes
Many believe that genetic research offers a health utopia, but after the death of a patient on a gene therapy trial and the discovery of thousands more human genes, doubts have started to emerge....
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL www.nerc.ac.uk Earth...
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Thought bubbles
Manufacturers of washing-up liquid are helping to fund a Centre for Computational Science at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.Among other things, the centre will use advanced...
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THES on the web
Hundreds of job vacancies plus full summaries of The THES are available at our website at www.thesis.co.uk. In addition THESIS offers subscribers a host of other services, including our new research...
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Stockholm
Boel Flodgren, rector of the University of Lund, is heading Sweden's inquiry into the social and ethnic balance of students and staff in higher education. She is also looking at how universities can...
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Kinshasa
A special plane bearing United Nations colours ferried question papers for would-be students at the University of Kinshasa from a rebel-held enclave in the eastern Congo for marking in the city under...