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  1. Bad review

    Why do you publish "reviews" such as the one by Jacques Guy of the Cambridge Companion to Saussure (Books, October 7), which was nothing more than a parade of the prejudices of the reviewer? Guy...

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  2. Still not seduced

    Having made good use of Angela McRobbie's analyses of magazines in gender terms, I was surprised by her condescension towards female undergraduates ("Cutting girls down to Victoria Beckham's size",...

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  3. Use a little more logic

    I have never been "anally probed", but I must take Susan Tracey to task ("Take me to your leading scholars", October 14). She describes people as "logically challenged" for saying "the universe is...

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  4. New publishing tactic

    In a research environment that is, thanks to the research assessment exercise, increasingly oriented to tactics and stratagems, the guidance on getting journal editors to take the bait is highly...

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  5. Immigration debate

    So higher education is now discovering that the administration of UK immigration control is arbitrary and irrational ("Valid students denied UK entry", October 7). This has been the case since at...

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  6. It's a steal

    Gary Day (Columnist, October 14) professes to find plagiarism an innocent and indeed commendable activity. "Instead of penalising students for the crime, we should congratulate them for laying bare...

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  8. Truths that slip out over a banana

    Temperamentally, bonobos and chimps are poles apart. Humankind, however, has something from both of its kinsmen, says Frans de Waal There is no greater contrast between humankind's two closest...

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  9. 'I swore on my grandparents' grave I'd work for the Roma'

    Faisal al Yafai meets Romania's only female Gypsy academic, who wants her people to overcome age-old prejudice As the lecturer walked through the gates of her university in colourful, flowing skirts...

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  10. The institute of bad ideas

    You're a think-tank and you know you are, a think-tank and you know you are. You're not fit to think a thought, you're not fit to think a thought. Shall we think a thought for you? Ooooooh, you're a...

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  11. Freedom of thought, it's your God-given right

    Whatever happened to the great Muslim tradition of debate, asks Irshad Manji, who urges the reform-minded faithful to pipe up Three years ago, during a trip to Gaza, I landed an on-camera interview...

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  12. Student gigs make me gag

    Naive adolescents, Oxbridge toffs and rugger buggers braying for knob jokes often makes campus comedy no laughing matter. Michael North learns how to tease a smile from an undergrad Student gigs are...

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  14. Venus Express ready for lift-off

    Paris, 19 Oct 2005 ESA's Venus Express spacecraft is to be launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday 26 October at 06:43 CEST (04:43 GMT, 10:43 local...