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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 novel about erotomania by an author with a reputation for the macabre: "The beginning is simple to...
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Gross national products?
The Spirit of Capitalism
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Laurie Taylor column
"The soundbite mentality... renders any intellectualisation around an issue an impossibility" - Brenda Gourley, vice-chancellor of The Open University , THES, October 11 . Professor Lapping, sorry to...
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Leader: Ministers could find full-cost fees too hot to handle
Taken on the evidence of one surprising week, the Brave New World of higher education is like a London bus. You wait for ages for one big initiative to appear and then two come along at once....
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Finding funds to care for the kids and the worms
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Patricia Murray's PhD, awarded last year, was at the cutting edge of...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Ego, rivalry, venality... academia finds fame
Psychotic determination and guilt have lifted two dons to literary success. Olga Wojtas met them. Richard Morgan has been variously reported as winning $1 million or £1 million from Hollywood for the...
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Degree that offers the lot
It's fashionable, accessible, flexible, challenging, rigorous, diverse and vocationalI No wonder so many people are signing up for art history. Shearer West reports. When Prince William enrolled at...
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What lurks in the shadows?
If the US topples Saddam Hussein, will it then foster a democratic society in Iraq or just replace an intractable tyrant with one more amenable to its interests? asks Charles Tripp What will happen...
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New kind of science, old kind of sceptics?
Stephen Wolfram had such confidence in his 'new intellectual structure' that he decided to sidestep peer review and publish A New Kind of Science himself. But while the book has proved a hit with the...
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'Support the people in freeing themselves'
Although they consider Saddam Hussein a tyrant, many Iraqi exiles view a US invasion of their homeland with ambivalence. Three academics share their reservations with Chris Bunting Mohammed Hassan...
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Did Monty's strategic flair win El Alamein or was it a sick Rommel and five times more tanks
On the 60th anniversary of El Alamein, Adrian Mourby finds historical opinion divided on General Montgomery's part in the crucial Allied victory I'm worried that he is after my job," Churchill...
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Trapped by terror, hostage to history
In the wake of the Bali bombs, C. W. Watson urges the international community to pause and consider Indonesia's past before jumping to conclusions. The murder of more than 180 innocent people dancing...
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Career fallout from a legal blast 3
Richard Barker's claim that he lost his libel case because of a clash between two different systems that use different languages is self-serving humbug. The trial was about a clash not of systems and...