Genesis and high gossip
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Roy Harris applies a Dionysiac breathalyser to the puzzle of creativity. "In the illusory babels of language," wrote the American sculptor Robert Smithson...
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Globalisation's poison pill
The Silent Takeover
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Body politic wasted by corporate virus
Captive State
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A little humdrum something to stagnate your creative juices
Creative Industries
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Pioneering spirit turns into greed
The Silicon Valley Edge
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Family china may be chipped but it is still very much in use
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations
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The people v. the nerds
World War 3.0
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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 comic novel by an Englishman best known as a playwright: "The sky grew darker and darker as the...
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Painters of society
Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough - The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Memsahib brings the exotic into her parlour
Furniture from British India and Ceylon
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The 2.6 billion dollar man
'If we were disaccredited, it would be the accrediting agency that looked foolish.' Harvard's departing president Neil Rudenstine tells Auriol Stevens about the challenges of running a world-class...
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You're smart, but are you 'box' clever?
From social history to quantum physics, television is hungry for experts, so if you want to give your academic career a kickstart, get some media exposure, advises Adrian Mourby. Once upon a time,...
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Older, keener, but not always wiser
Single mums and TV stars are going back to college, reports Julie McCord. When television presenter Matthew Kelly decided to combine his successful showbusiness career with the commitments of a part-...
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Going straight... to university
A pioneering project is helping offenders, drug addicts and other marginalised groups to change their lives through education. Mandy Garner reports. Joe Baden is, unfortunately, not your average...
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Latest international news
Stanford nets record $400m gift Stanford University is to receive $400 million (£280 million) from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the largest donation ever made to a United States...