Claims on armies of the dead
The Tarim Mummies
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New hybrids grown from very old roots
Postcolonial Plays
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Tahiti tales came romping home
Discoveries - The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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Commission publishes action plan for achieving three per cent objective
Brussels, 30 Apr 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented on 29 April a new action plan containing a number of measures aimed at helping the EU to meet the three per cent target by...
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From many tongues, a single voice
The Stories of English
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You say 'terrorist', I say God-fearing Muslim
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Whatever America's intentions in the Middle East, most of the Arab world views the superpower as...
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Utopia: where pure politicians hand out free money
The Age of Consent
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Melbourne
The first Unesco chair in cultural heritage studies in the Asia Pacific region has been created at Deakin University in Melbourne. A new centre will cooperate with universities in three Indochinese...
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It came from the East: the greatest gift of the wise men
Paper before Print
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Big History Qs: A perversion of the human will for survival
Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
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New York
Human Rights Watch this month accused the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of trying to silence political opposition by harassing the student-based Otpor (Resistance) movement....
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'I've gone places others haven't'
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...