Life in the land of nods, winks and little shrugs
Italy and its Discontents
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An austere intellectual digger
Grahame Clark
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In space, is there no place like our home?
Our Cosmic Habitat
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Future forged by moonlight
The Lunar Men
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Radical quest for excellence
Making Harvard Modern
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Fearing gods with itchy feet
Mesopotamia
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Gun-free gameplay to outwit the tyrants
Peacemonger
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Daring deeds of the diplomat
Across the Moscow River
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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 travel diary by a 20th-century American literary and social critic: "The English way of getting...
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Washington's 'safe' option explodes
Neighbours, not Friends - Iraq since 1958
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From rebel hero to brutal autocrat
Mugabe - Coming to Terms
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Rumbling Troubles outside Ireland's political ghetto
The Longest War
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Laurie Taylor column
"The QAA will audit external examiners' reports" - THES, September 20 . Cultural studies speaking. Ah, Charles. Gordon here. Gordon, old chap! Lovely to hear from you. Got rid of that hangover yet?...
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Leader: Sort out A-level mess then look towards reform
The unfortunate students caught up in the A-level fiasco might have known that there would be one last twist in their protracted ordeal by examination. The so-called guinea-pig generation has been...
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Leader: Rewards for the few, but little for the many
The THES 's finding that British universities contain thousands of well-paid people is welcome. But the wide disparities that our table reveals are less acceptable. Some 1960s universities with world...