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Student group shows support for Oxford lab builders They have been intimated and threatened by animal rights protestors, forcing one construction firm to abandon the project. But today, the workers...
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We have guns, but have we the right to fight?
The Ethics of War
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Baby, explain why we are in this shape
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought
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The difficult mother of a thousand suns
Obsessive Genius - Before the Fall-Out
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A la recherche des memoires perdues
La Vie en Bleu - Vichy, Resistance, Liberation - Vichy et la Chasse aux Espions Nazis 1940-42
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an expert on the working class: "For some time, for many decades, the materialist conception...
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The evolution of revolution's Great Leader
Mao's Road to Power
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The charge against the Fuhrer, like the one against Irving, is proved
The Unwritten Order
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Laurie Taylor Column
" More than half of all staff in university education departments are now 'elderly' " - The Times Higher, March 24 Good morning, seminar group 6b. Good morning. Once again. Good morning, seminar...
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Leader: Will no-go areas diminish us all?
Which takes precedence: academic freedom, as enshrined in the Education Reform Act, or the Race Relations (Amendment) Act? There is no doubt in the minds of administrators at Leeds University, or...
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Leader: Assessing the future
Now that the shock of the Budget statement on the research assessment exercise has subsided, its implications are beginning to be examined. John Sutherland casts a sceptical eye on some of them, on...
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To silence racism or let it speak 1
Frank Ellis's opinions clearly contravene the terms of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act since they do not promote good race relations or equality of opportunity ("Ellis case first test of race Act...
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To silence racism or let it speak 2
To satisfy those who attack academic freedom, could I suggest that every university establish a directorate of academic freedom, with an overpaid director who, only after deep thought and wide...
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To silence racism or let it speak 3
Your editorial on the Frank Ellis saga ("Leeds must endure Ellis", March 10) suggests that self-confessed racist lecturer should not be admonished because doing so would canonise him and his beliefs...