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Sharapova, drugs and the nature bias

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imageMaria Sharapova's fundamental skill is the same whether she takes the banned substance meldonium or an allowed natural enhancer such as beetroot extract.AAP/Filip Singer

Tennis star Maria Sharapova has admitted taking the banned drug meldonium.

Sharapova is an experienced professional. Strict liability applies. She doped. The more interesting...

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Should academics be policy-relevant realists or cosmopolitan idealists?

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One of Oscar Wilde’s more memorable and inspiring aphorisms claimed that a map of the world without utopia on it is not worth looking at. While many might agree with the sentiment, the theory – let alone the practice – looks increasingly difficult and unlikely in the current international environment.

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