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  1. Sensible failures

    G. H. Hardy once remarked that the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan "had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable is". No doubt Ramanujan would have failed...

    #Letters

  2. Fat chance

    My colleagues are right to say that the strategy Oxford University has sent round for consultation does not divide colleges and the university (Letters, May 14). But like the identical proposals for...

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  3. Supportive response

    It is distressing to read of the unsupportive responses received by academics after "physical attacks, stalking and heckling by students" ("Female staff face abuse", May 7). I am happy to report that...

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  4. US loves a home truths kinda guy

    British historian Niall Ferguson followed 'the money' to New York, and told the US where it has gone wrong. Walter Ellis spoke to him for our series of controversial academic opinions on America....

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  5. A few first principles for a booming third sector

    Social enterprise is all the rage in government circles - James Austin, one of its gurus, explains the vital role higher education has to play. Throughout the world, charitable enterprises are the...

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  6. Catching a whiff of days gone by

    Two performance artists set out to harness smell. Harriet Swain tracks down a very fragrant pair. A mysteriously exotic smell pervades the office occupied by Helen Paris, a performance art lecturer...

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  7. Bodies versed in every language

    South Asian techniques have been neglected in UK dance schools, but that is about to change. Chris Wood speaks to two women who are enriching the culture of choreography. The more optimistic...

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  8. My fee? A role in the film please

    Ross Davies talks to this year's star turns - academic consultants. "This is the difficulty - this is where we sometimes have to compromise with historical reality," declares Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. "...

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  9. Hardwired to succeed

    Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar knows that size matters - it's why we're humans and not apes. Geoff Watts explains. Robin Dunbar's latest book underwent a transformation at the writing stage....

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  10. Staff at risk in RAE run-up

    Universities are moving to transfer weak researchers into teaching-only posts or make them redundant to improve their scores in the next research assessment exercise, it emerged this week. A growing...

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  12. Préparation du Conseil Agriculture/Pêche de mai 2004

    Bruxelles, le 19 mars 2004 Le Conseil Agriculture/Pêche se réunira à Bruxelles le lundi 24 mai (à partir de 11h00) et éventuellement le mardi 25, sous la présidence de M. Dermot Ahern, Ministre des...