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Realism, detachment and a lot of diagrams
Plato Etc:
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The mother of all media events
Taken by Storm - The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: - Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War
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The ties that bind
The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
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To have a few or none at all?
Regret:
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Trapped inside the tale
Sophie's World:
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Promotions
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The title of reader in social research methods has been conferred on Ray Lee (former lecturer in the department of social policy and social science). UNIVERSITY...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DLitt: Michael Jackson, controller BBC2; Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter. DSc: Ivo Babuska, mathematics research professor at the University of Maryland, US; Brian...
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Events
KATHE KOLLWITZ This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of Germany's most talented draughtswomen and printmakers. A small exhibition of Kathe Kollwitz's etchings and woodcuts will...
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Correction
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE C. M. Reed was listed on January 20 as having been promoted to a chair. He was in fact promoted to a readership in information technology law.
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KENT The following appointments take effect on April 1, 1995: P. A. Clarkson (reader in differential equations at the University of Exeter) has been appointed to the chair of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an African novelist who likes to quote Yeats: "The Commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled to...
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Speaking Volumes: The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II
Peter Scott on Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II . It would be neat to claim that I had actually been most deeply influenced by a book in my own...
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Liberte, egalite, venalite
According to political scientist Yves Meny, the recent corruption scandals in France have very deep roots. Anne Corbett reports. As the wave of French corruption allegations known as "Les Affaires"...