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Why we hate Bush's America
Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
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Laurie Taylor column
From: The vice-chancellor Subject: Working from home At a recent meeting of the Staff Efficiency Committee (myself and the bursar) it was agreed that the following clarifications should be made to...
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Leader: War on Mickey Mouse degrees will kill autonomy
We have reached the stage of the Parliament when opposition parties need to display some fresh thinking - preferably in fields where the electorate shows signs of discontent with current policies....
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Leader: Lambert right to toast a successful marriage
Leafing through the submissions to Richard Lambert's review of links between business and higher education, it would be easy to be pessimistic about the prospects for a closer relationship. Each side...
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Would you like that kitchen in red?
The ultimate weapons in the cold war armoury were refrigerators and washing machines, says Susan Reid. The US and the USSR fought for superiority between the pots and pans in a battle between '...
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A former England star's using his head to hit managerial goal
With the first half of his career over, footballer Tony Adams is developing an arsenal of intellectual skills to succeed in the second. Matthew Baker reports It has been a difficult transitional year...
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'Our job is to explain
What is history? It's not simply gathering facts about the past, it's about searching for truth in them, says Richard Evans in the first of our series on Big Questions in History The answer to the...
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Get medieval with al-Qaida
Learning the secret of 'scale-free' networks allowed the Inquisition to stamp out heresy. Its strategy could help us fight disease, computer viruses and terrorists, argue Andrew Roach and Paul...
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Strategist's gambit proves right move
How do you transform a backwater college into an academic powerhouse? Freeman Hrabowski began by forsaking football and recruiting chess champions. Stephen Phillips reports You'll probably recognise...
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In vitro veritas?
A lecturer's dramatisation of the pain, confusion and ignorance that surrounds infertility fails to deliver, says Anna Fazackerley If people were meant to reproduce they'd be able to reproduce...
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Videos clipped 1
Adrian Mourby ("Why I want to see films in Oxford University's Bodleian Library", THES , May 30) has put his finger on one of the many deficiencies in the legislation governing the deposit of UK...
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Videos clipped 2
Adrian Mourby is too modest when he claims his books are not available in the Bodleian Library. I found three online this morning. Maybe he is just bamboozled by the search facilities and would...
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Union dancing to racists' tune 1
Your editorial on higher education unions and the British National Party is welcome ("Unions should know not to tangle with BNP", THES , June 6): a clear and measured reminder of the way that...
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Union dancing to racists' tune 2
Lecturers' union Natfhe's views on supporting colleagues who refuse to teach BNP members are reminiscent of the fascistic approach of the National Union of Students in the 1980s, Germany in the 1930s...