Writing to the real Mr Biswas
Letters Between a Father and Son
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was the fourth son of a coalminer: " It was the Sunday after Easter, and the...
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Hot spots in the post-cold war era
Contemporary Conflict Resolution - New and Old Wars - Future Positive
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The role of the WI in modern society
Civil Society
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Play the lottery, win a million pounds or a legal ruling
Random Justice
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Soeharto's part in his own downfall
The Fall of Soeharto
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Liberals: left, right or just left out?
Realignment of the Left?
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Democracy's dark side
In the Name of Liberalism
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How to forgive the unrepentant?
The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
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Washington's dirty linen
An Affair of State
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Counting the cost of feeling free
The Cost of Rights
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Do you speak classical Qaahili? In the absorbing final programme of the Royal College of Art series (Tuesday, 9.50,...
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From campus to Kosovo
Officer cadet Katy O'Brien, 20, in her final year at Exeter University reading geography, joined the OTC at the freshers' fair. "Skydiving and climbing out of icy crevasses certainly tested my nerve...
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I say tomato, you say ... child slayer
Jennifer Wallace talks to ethics professor Peter Singer, whose views on disabled babies have brought him death threats in the land of the free Come to my office at about three and I will give you an...
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Self promotion
Oxford frowns on it; Bill Gates made a million at it; Strathclyde positively encourages it. Anne Sebba reports on the UK undergraduates setting up their own companies Matthew Ross (left), 21, read...