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THE AUTHOR FINDS PARALLELS BETWEEN THE CRAFTING OF THE NORTHERN IRISH GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT AND THE EXPERIENCES OF SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE, WHICH MOVED FROM UNSTABLE MINORITY RULE TO MAJORITY REINCORPORATION. IF THE GOOD FRIDAY POWER-SHARING ARRANGEMENTS ARE TRANSITIONAL, ONE LOGICAL BUT POLITICALLY SENSITIVE, ULTIMATE DESTINATION FOR THE PEACE PROCESS IS THE REUNIFICATION OF IRELAND.

THE EVIDENCE FORM MALAWI AND ZIMBABWE SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT, IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS (SMD) PLURALITY CAN PROVIDE "THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS"--A PROPORTIONALLY CONSTITUTED PARLIAMENT ALONG WITH THE REPRESENTATIONAL ADVANTAGES OF A DISTRICT-BASED PARLIAMENT. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES SOME ATYPICAL CASES, AND REMEDYING THE PROBLEMS OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (PR). IT ARGUES THAT WITH A LITTLE IMAGINATION AND INNOVATION, PR SYSTEMS IN AFRICA CAN BE MADE TO PROVIDE A SOLD LINK BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES AND CONSTITUENTS, THUS STRENGTHENING THE PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION.

'Waste Paper in Early Modern England' argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

Situating Karl Mannheim in a tradition of critical social philosophy, Iaan Reynolds argues that Mannheim's early explorations in the sociology of knowledge offer a novel approach to this tradition since they emphasize the need for social research to cultivate the critical self-awareness of social researchers.

"Analysing the role that Hollywood plays in depicting fathers and their relationships with their children and American society, the American Father Onscreen concludes that Hollywood presents the American paternal as crucial to the construction of US society and consequently, American cultural myths, such as the American Dream"--