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...Bruce Crawford, the SNP's local candidate, brandishes no broadsword, greeting shoppers with more mundane vows to revoke an unpopular local services tax. This election is "not actually about independence," says Peter Lynch, professor of politics at Stirling University. "People want more from their Parliament, but they don't necessarily want that yet, if they ever...
...Professor of Philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith said he thought the legislation’s treatment of sciences represented a productive engagement with the discipline...
...Peter T. Ellison, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Pilbeam’s colleague in anthropology, said yesterday that Pilbeam has quietly contributed to the University for decades...
...Peter Ellison, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Pilbeam's colleague in anthropology, said this afternoon that Pilbeam has quitely contributed to the University for decades...
...Yeltsin oversaw the diminution of the Russian empire created by the czars and the Communists to the point that he ruled over less than half the territory governed by Peter the Great. And that imperial contraction was achieved largely without bloodshed. Yeltsin's era, then, marked the end of the Cold War and the very idea of Moscow as a strategic threat to the West. But the Russia he created proved vulnerable to a reversion to authoritarian nationalism and a cooler relationship with the West. In the end, Yeltsin will be better remembered for that dramatic moment when he jumped...