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  1. Israeli actions 2

    In his article "Why I ... urge academics to support Israeli academics' right to free expression" (April 30), David Newman writes: "Academics have been accused of being anti-Israeli...". Accused? One...

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  2. Bloated York

    Are universities really about job creation? ("York's plan to expand will create 2,000 jobs", May 21). Your paper clearly received a copy of the press release aimed at our city councillors who needed...

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  3. Marked difficulty

    Lin Norton (Letters, May 21) exhorts us to be more professional in our marking. I would be pleased to be so, but one problem is that the marking scale used in most universities is absurdly non-linear...

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  4. Seeing shades of red

    "Lord" Triesman (May 14) boasts of loathing Trotskyists (the people not the doctrine). Perhaps that is why he quit Labour in 1970 to spend seven years in the Communist Party. At that time, the...

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  5. Are you (a) depressed or (b) depressed?

    Increased choice appears to allow us to shop for the perfect life, yet it doesn't make us happy. Barry Schwartz explains why students, in particular, are glummer than ever. Citizens in industrial...

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  6. Wake up, activists are pounding on doors of ivory towers

    Academics espouse the ideology of multiculturalism but it is often only to satisfy their own goals, says Rahila Gupta. When activists decide to tell their own story and analyse their own practice,...

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  7. Who really planted the kiss of death?

    Rats are off the hook when it comes to the Great Plague, say Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott. Ask anyone about the Black Death or the Great Plague of London and they will say, while perhaps being...

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  8. An ancient high ideal that makes brutes of us all

    What do Bush, Blair and Alexander the Great have in common? They have all been seduced by an Aristotlean vision of the 'civilising' empire. Margaret Doody explains. Alexander the Great is the first...

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  9. Search for phoenix in pottery ash

    With a little help from Staffordshire University, Mike Wolfe hopes to put Stoke back on the map. Matt Baker reports. Under the watchful gaze of the statue of Josiah Wedgwood, Mike Wolfe is the first...

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  14. Yet more players in game

    Game Theory and Economics. First edition - Economics and the Theory of Games. First edition

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