Andrew Ferguson: ‘The tiny corner of the New York Times empire where David Barstow works is called the investigative unit. The name has an impressive urgency to it, like the title of a TV spin-off—CSI: Times Investigative Unit.
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THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY 2011-2012 London Lectures: Philosophy & Sport.
Steven Connor: the nature of chance and luck in sports. 5.45pm at 14 Gordon Square. 10 Feb 2012. For details: The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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Original Sin and Our Choice.
Anthony O’Hear: There is no voice offering an alternative to the soft totalitarianism we have become so used to, or proposing any dismantling of the great leviathan bearing down on individual souls. That leviathan gained ground because people believed that it could remedy weaknesses inherent in the human condition, which in another age might have been seen as the inevitable outcome of original sin.