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Islam and its Discontents
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Oxymoronic efforts to put up imperial borders
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture
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Porridge that leaves a sour taste
Prisongate
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US loves a home truths kinda guy
British historian Niall Ferguson followed 'the money' to New York, and told the US where it has gone wrong. Walter Ellis spoke to him for our series of controversial academic opinions on America....
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A few first principles for a booming third sector
Social enterprise is all the rage in government circles - James Austin, one of its gurus, explains the vital role higher education has to play. Throughout the world, charitable enterprises are the...
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Catching a whiff of days gone by
Two performance artists set out to harness smell. Harriet Swain tracks down a very fragrant pair. A mysteriously exotic smell pervades the office occupied by Helen Paris, a performance art lecturer...
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Bodies versed in every language
South Asian techniques have been neglected in UK dance schools, but that is about to change. Chris Wood speaks to two women who are enriching the culture of choreography. The more optimistic...
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My fee? A role in the film please
Ross Davies talks to this year's star turns - academic consultants. "This is the difficulty - this is where we sometimes have to compromise with historical reality," declares Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. "...
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Hardwired to succeed
Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar knows that size matters - it's why we're humans and not apes. Geoff Watts explains. Robin Dunbar's latest book underwent a transformation at the writing stage....
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Laurie Taylor Column
Vice-chancellor, are you free to take a call from Professor Jenks? Jenks, Mrs Dilworth? Since when did we have a professor called Jenks? Since last Thursday. He was one of the successful external...
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Why authors won't be Wellcome
Publishers' scepticism about the claims of the open-access campaigners ("Everyone's a winner", May 7) is easily caricatured as self-interest. But it goes deeper. The Wellcome Trust's estimate of...
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Class equality
As the principal author of the new government social class schema, I take exception to the cavalier criticisms of it by Richard Austen-Baker and Christopher Knight (Letters, May 7 and May 14). The...
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Past impressions
I was surprised to read Lord Triesman's claim that his main aim as a student activist in 1968 was to get Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, elected president of the National Union of Students ("My...
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Marked disparities
Your article about the university marking scheme ("Structure is archaic, confused. See me!!", May 14) is symptomatic of a more serious problem - the unprofessional approach that characterises our...
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Fellow non-traveller
I would like to correct an error in last week's Times Higher front-page article ("Dollars lure scientists Down Under", May 14), which is causing me some inconvenience - and not just because of the...