Axe over jobs with no link to research
Up to 60 academics may face the axe at a London college in an attempt to boost ratings in the research assessment exercise. Queen Mary and Westfield College is discussing offering voluntary...
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Bill's Starr signs
High Hopes - The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
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Purge to succeed
The Political Economy of Dictatorship
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Laws of the deep South
The Bondsman's Burden
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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 work that focuses on a case of mistaken identity during America's struggle for independence. "It was...
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From Bar to bar-room floor
The Warden
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LBJ revealed and self-exposed
Flawed Giant
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Of prophets and angels
The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914
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Luddites beware
Mathematics of Derivative Securities
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What ants tell us
Butterfly Economics
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Fanning Japan's discontent
The Ministry
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A 'soft' future of chipped lettuces
New Rules for the New Economy - 10 Ways the Network Economy is Changing Everything
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The original spin-doctor
Press chief turned academic Sir Bernard Ingham alerts Phil Baty to the spectre of Stalin in the government's publicity machine One day, the government will thank the soon-to-be-ex Treasury spin-...
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Higher Channels
John Davies casts an academically inclined eye over the week's broadcasting. (All times pm unless stated.). Pick of the week Revisiting recent history through the eye-witness accounts of key...
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Assailed by an old enemy
The first UK research into so-called Gulf war syndrome shows that symptoms have blighted many lives. But GWS does not exist as a unique condition. Simon Wessely reports The Gulf war of 1991 seemed to...