Principal promotion
Bill McKelvey, director of operations at the Scottish Agricultural College since 1999, has been appointed its chief executive and principal. Professor McKelvey, pictured above, is an expert on...
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Geneticists must win public trust to succeed
Britain's research biologists want to find out how life works and they want to defeat deadly diseases. But as the House of Lords heard this week in a debate and select committee hearing, these aims...
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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 book about the working class: "'The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row'." The winner receives a £25...
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End of a polar pantomime
Max Jones reconsiders the roles of the Antarctic/Arctic adventurers. The extension of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition on the race to the South Pole testifies to a contemporary fascination...
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Two hours to change lives
Cassavetes on Cassavetes - John Cassavetes
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Lost somewhere between Mel's mullet and Heaven's Gate
The Rough Guide to Cult Movies
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Angry old man searching for the astonishing
Bertrand Tavernier
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The darling of foreign film studies
A Spanish Labyrinth
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Myths not maps make a nation's borders
Masters of All They Surveyed
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Britannia is forever in 007's film world
The Politics of James Bond
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Odyssey of an Asian auteur
Lester James Peries
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One part king of comedy, one part establishment stooge
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
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Pill that sapped the pope's power
Sexual Chemistry
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Genius failed to find human touch
The Man who Found the Missing Link