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It feels like I am not allowed to dream anymore. - Lina, 27.  Athanasia Chalari speaks to young Greeks about their experience of the economic crisis. Governments are right to curb the use of very skinny fashion models to help prevent anorexia. - Dr Joan Costa-Font carries out the first economic analysis of anorexia.To claim all schools can suddenly be the best is like saying all teams can play as well as Manchester United. -  Ruth Lupton on research which shows there's more to being a good school than inspirational leadership.The most successful City traders are acutely in touch with their emotions -  Paul Willman and Emma Soane reveal the link between pay and emotional intelligence at City of London investment banks.'The Kony 12 campaign is wrong in content, tactics, strategy, ethics and politics' - This social media sensation is misguided and damaging says Charlie Beckett.

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India is far from being a superpower|Despite India’s rising power and wealth it is beset by weaknesses which include corruption and poor leadership, social divisions, internal security threats and religious extremism argues a new LSE report. Professor Peter Loizos 1937-2012| The School is sad to announce that Emeritus Professor Peter Loizos, who taught in the Department of Anthropology for over 30 years, died on Friday 2 March.Anorexia study backs government ban on underweight models| Governments are justified in using the law to prevent the use of very underweight models, according to the first ever economic analysis of anorexia.

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Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare in the Global Glass House|

Joel Brenner, former head of US counterintelligence will, in this lecture on 12 March, illuminate the strategic vulnerabilities created by the technologies that run our public and private lives – with thoughts on how to deal with it.

 

Enemies: A History of the FBI|  

Following his award-winning history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times has now written the first full history of the FBI as a secret intelligence service, Enemies: A History of the FBI which he will talk about in this lecture on 13 March.

Has the Future a Left?|  

Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, will deliver this Ralph Miliband public lecture on 14 March.

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Is it possible to kill out of care - LSE Burning Issues public lecture video

In a humane society, should it be legal to help those who are suffering terribly to end their lives? Emily Jackson, professor of law at LSE, tackles this provocative issue in a public lecture.

Released: 16 February 2012; approx 69 minutes

 

Speaker: RNDr Petr Necas
Recorded: Wednesday 29 February; approx 57 minutes

Speaker: Viviane Reding
Recorded: Thursday 1 March 2012; approx 55 minutes

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