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Bites of cultured, full-fat democracy
A Passion for Democracy - The Terms of Democracy
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Caribbean radicals and American welfare
Shifting the Color Line - Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia
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Hell no, they did not go
A Few Small Candles
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Sex, lies and recent US history
Developments in American Politics 3 - Practising American Politics - Government and Politics of the United States
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Leading the hunt for red America
McCarthy's Americans
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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 work that chronicled the trial of a notorious 20th-cntury criminal: " 'Beth Hamishpath' - the House...
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Stellar parents that burn too brightly
Theoretical astronomer Cathie Clarke tells Alison Goddard how recent finds challenge long-held notions of star and planet formation NO PHYSICAL FILEThe formation of the stars and planets is...
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Latest statistics fuel call for race targets for academic jobs
How many v-cs are black? When the Macpherson report on the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence was published earlier this year, it warned that people are held back in British society not...
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How many v-cs are black?
The answer is none, and as a black academic you are half as likely as a white colleague to become a professor. Helen Hague reports Are British universities institutionally racist? There is a lot of...
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Which way does your monkey swing?
For animals, being gay is as natural as the birds and the bees, says biologist Bruce Bagemihl. He tells Tim Cornwell how scientists have both suppressed and oppressed homosexual animals If only they...
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Higher channels
John Davies lists programmes worth catching this week (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week After his How to be Home Secretary earlier this year, ace political interviewer Michael Cockerell now...
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Life after Ashdown
In the Lib Dem leadership race, education spokesman and MP for Bath Don Foster has become a hot tip. He tells Alan Thomson about Labour, language and lifelong learning Don Foster, the Liberal...
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Outlook: clear
Having proclaimed liberal democracy triumphant and history over, Francis Fukuyama now finds that family breakdown is down to the pill and women going out to work. Harriet Swain talks to a...