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A loving look at
The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
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Bloody road to glasnost
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
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Power that lags behind genius
Leonardo's Laptop
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From apostle to muted prophet
The Long Recessional
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An attack mismanaged
Against Management
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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 the decline of the American South: "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces...
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Laurie Taylor Column
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir, I am writing to protest about the treatment accorded to Poppleton in last week's analysis of university wealth. Let me begin by correcting two serious errors of...
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Vying for the common good?
Open competition for research funds is the only fair way to go, says Steven Schwartz The country, we are told, would be much better if research funds were further concentrated in a handful of...
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Leader: Who will pay to restore health of staff pensions?
The precarious finances of Britain's universities remain uncontestable - deficits loom and it will be a long time before the first fruits of top-up fees filter through to depleted coffers. But this...
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Leader: Many shades of grey in public picture of GM
Despite the speed with which the subject develops, this week's report on the safety of genetically modified food, from a group chaired by Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser,...
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Will harsh weed-out allow Iraqi academia to flower?
After sanctions, bombing and looting, Iraq's universities now face political purges. Turi Munthe looks at how US rule is affecting efforts to rebuild academe. Outside Baghdad University's faculty of...
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A clean break with oil or just a smokescreen?
George Bush and big business are backing fuel cells as the pollution-free way to provide power. But, Geoff Watts finds, not everyone is reassured by their enthusiasm. Wind power may be all the rage...
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'If not for this, I would be on the dole and depressed'
Roisin Woolnough reports on a project that gives people with hearing difficulties a real chance at university. When it was suggested that Tom Speirs go to university, his immediate reaction was: "I...
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Class warriors in the hills
A picture that arrives with every issue of his THES took Norman Bonney back to 1967, when he joined the War on Poverty in rural West Virginia. Every week subscribers who receive their THES by mail...