Holy Roman umpire
John Paul II's papacy appears to be drawing to a close. Will he be succeeded by another conservative or a liberal or a non-European now that his church is increasingly that of the poor and the Third...
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Peace offerings
The Challenge in Kashmir - The Crisis in Kashmir
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Let there be Newton
While some pundits doubt whether the 17th-century revolution in science took place, advances in knowledge were undeniably made. Robert Fox surveys an epoch of change, from Galileo's vision of a...
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High hopes dashed at Summit
Summit II - Earth Climate
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A wine for each occasion
UK higher education has several brands. Making them uniform would be bland and boring, argues Mike Thorne IT IS hardly surprising that the Quality Assurance Agency is floundering with the post-...
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From rice fields to killing fields
The Pol Pot Regime - Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80
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Into the darkness
Slavery was established in parts of the world aeons before the US was even a twinkle in Washington's eye and it was rarely restricted to one race or group. So how, asks David Brion Davis, did chattel...
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New life in e-books
Academics cannot get their books published. Is electronic publishing the answer? asks Robert Darnton Are scholarly monographs -learned treatises on specific subjects - in danger of extinction,...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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A vision of poetry in motion
In the sesquicentennial of The Communist Manifesto, I have a confession to make: I regularly try to disabuse myself of thinking like a Marxist, identifying with the labour movement, and believing in...
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Tales from the little folk provide hangover cure
Children's literature is a goldmine for academic research. But first disguise it as folklore, advises James Riordan Oxford don C. S. Lewis expressed concern about the "silly convention" that caused...
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The way we were radical
AT THE END of this semester I planned to throw myself into 19th-century American history, but two new books - 1968: Magnum Throughout the World, a collection of photographs introduced by Eric...
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Humans: interesting but deadly
Becoming Human
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...