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Giles Fraser: US suburbs: the home of segregation If you travel about Los Angeles on the bus and in a smart suit, you get strange looks. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: Sometimes the mighty are fallen Suppose Conrad Black had vanished five years ago in a canoe, and then walked into a police station to confess. Subscriber only	Putting away childish things URGENT DESIRES, a lack of restraint, self-absorption, and an ignorance of the relationship between actions and consequences are universal characteristics... Subscriber only

Simon Parke: Can we place our trust in others? APPARENTLY, Mick on the M4 has just rung the traffic hotline. Subscriber only	A very offensive Christmas to you FORGET the outside chance of a white one: the sure bet this Christmas is the December diet of scaremongering fed to us by those who believe that the festival... Subscriber only	Have the Lib Dems abandoned faith? Two causes identify Liberal Democrats in the British public mind. Subscriber only

Leader: At the top of the present list THERE ARE several contenders for the phrase of the moment, one that sums up the mood of the times. Subscriber only	100 Years Ago Daily Mail Year-Book Subscriber only	Join up your thinking on urban ministry ‘Each diocese believes itself to be unique, and is reluctant to believe that others have invented the wheel before it’ Subscriber only

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