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Finding no solace in the fortress
Feminist Review , which first appeared in 1979, describes itself as a socialist and feminist publication that acts as a "vehicle to unite research and theory with political practice and to contribute...
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Does UK model set trend?
The Journal of Corporate Law Studies
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Rawls along on uneven ground
European Journal of Political Theory
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Big History Qs: A perversion of the human will for survival
Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
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Could microchips replace our men and machine guns on the next front line?
A recent conference considered the idea that nations will wage war with IT rather than conventional arms but, Doron Arazi says, few were won over The war in Iraq has highlighted the potential that...
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'2.5 rodents is a fair price to pay for medical progress' 1
Scientists Colin Blakemore and Gill Langley square up for tonight's Controversial Thesis debate at the National Portrait Gallery. They will be confronting questions such as is there a good enough...
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'2.5 rodents is a fair price to pay for medical progress' 2
The moral status of animals is at the centre of the debate about whether they should be used in research and testing. Few people disagree that animals count in our moral framework, but the question...
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The darkest days of a caring profession
In the Third Reich, nurses went from caring for patients to killing them. Claire Sanders finds out why The history of the Holocaust has become sanitised," says Linda Shields, holder of the foundation...
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Chilly climate freezes talent
US research bans and immigration controls may be reversing the brain drain. Stephen Phillips reports Since the Royal Society coined the phrase in the 1950s, "brain drain" has customarily referred to...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Universities are deeply embedded in... managerialism and are just about the last place where you might encounter dissenting opinions" - Geoff Andrews, THES , April 16. Ah, Mr Odgers. Welcome to the...
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Beware totalitarians among us 1
Thank you very much for bringing Anthony Glees' wicked arguments to the scrutiny of a wider public ("Scholars thwart spies", April 9). I am horrified by the thought of how the paranoia of George W....
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Beware totalitarians among us 2
Emmanuel Todd accuses Noam Chomsky of being a "structural anti-American" and of saying that "everything about America is bad" ("Ear for the death rattle of an empire", April 16). Chomsky has...
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Beware totalitarians among us 3
"I can't stand (...) structural anti-Americans (...who) say that America was once good and beneficial to everyone, but nowadays is becoming a disorderly factor." Thus Emmanuel Todd. Where does one...
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Winners and losers
Manfredi La Manna is right to query the general rationale for the concentration of research resources in a few institutions (Letters, April 16). While there may be particular disciplines where there...