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  • Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake

    Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake0

    Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and

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  • Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot

    Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot0

    In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,

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  • The Real Reason Women Avoid Careers in Math and Science

    The Real Reason Women Avoid Careers in Math and Science1

    Remember James Damore, the young Google engineer who was sacked last August for resisting the company’s gender equality programme? Damore wasn’t against having more women in tech, he just did not believe the present male-female imbalance is owing to sexism and can be rectified by changing men’s attitudes. The sexes tend to have different work

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  • Isn’t Father Loss Part of Nikolas Cruz’s Story?

    Isn’t Father Loss Part of Nikolas Cruz’s Story?0

    In the wake of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school America is once again embroiled in a debate about how this could have happened again and how to prevent such horrific behaviour and loss of life. Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who went to his former high school on Valentine’s day armed with

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