Death on the Nile, French style
Napoleon's Lost Fleet
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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 with a view: " 'Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow,' said Mrs Ramsay ." The winner receives...
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Lost Lives
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A mental illness called Russia
Russia under Western Eyes
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Dissecting the magic of music
Music, Science and Natural Magic in 17th Century England
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Secrets and lies
The Culture of Secrecy
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English funding allocation 2000-01
A table titled English funding allocations 2000-01 appeared in the ÌÇÐÄVlog Supplement on 3 March 2000. It is not available on this database. Please refer to the hard copy. KEY. MaSN,...
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the broadcasting output a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. John Harvey Jones, whose Troubleshooter series in the late 1980s helped focus popular...
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Academia go f**k yourself
In his latest novel, David Mamet sets his sights on literature teachers and universities, which, he tells Jennifer Wallace, 'exist independent of any possible utility'. I lovingly think of higher...
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A nanny no, a Medusa...maybe
Next month, the University of Buckingham is holding a conference on thelife and influenceof Margaret Thatcher, its first chancellor. Left, David Marsland discusses Thatcherism's intellectual legacy,...
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'Play "Let It Be" or I'll scream all night'
Want the definitive answer to the nature vs nurture question? Just tune into TV show Child of Our TimeI for the next 18 years. Anne Sebba reports. Ten years ago, Steve Evans was a British Telecom...
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Face-saving measures
One in 700 US babies has a facial defect. Genetic therapy is offering them hope, reports Steve Farrar from the Amerucan Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting. The British sea...
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Ancient interests
Recent discussion about the Scottish MA illustrates the chaotic state of academic terminology. When, four decades ago, I graduated from the University of Edinburgh as a master of arts, after a four-...
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Toy stories and toxic monsters
Two researchers, one from the Greenpeace research laboratories at the University of Exeter, were given the opportunity to report on their research on PVC toys leading to policy changes in the...
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In brief
I was greatly cheered to see David Blunkett's plans for setting up an e-university ("Britain flies e-university flag", THES, February 18) but he ought perhaps to check on the use of names first....