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Speaking Volumes: J. M. MacCormick's The Flag in the Wind
The referendum in Scotland in September 1997 was decisive. On a large turnout 74 per cent voted "Yes" to a Scottish Parliament, and 64 per cent "Yes" to giving it tax-varying powers. Referendum day...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist of unseasonal greetings: "Though Bateman was prepared from...
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Don's Diary
Friday Evening arrival at Katowice for a teaching visit. Met by genial Polish colleague and a slap in the face from biting cold. Pleasant evening helped by choice of Silesian bar-restaurant in...
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On the blue-skies fast track
The THES speaks with three academics under the age of 40 as part of an occasional series of profiles of young researchers making an early mark Stuart Lane When the people of West Bengal decided to...
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Your're all right Jack
Despite the rigours of Thatcherism and the demands of globalisation, Simon Burgess finds that jobs last just as long as they did 20 years ago The question of job insecurity is much in the news....
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The celebrity Christmas quiz
Questions set by David Cannadine, Clive Ponting, Marina Warner, Brian Brivati, Ian Stewart, Susan Greenfield, Ben Pimlott, Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Christie, John Gray, John Polkinghorne and Terence...
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The 1997 anatomy lesson
January It wasn't a happy new year for those academics in departments rated one and two in the research assessment exercise. They said goodbye to their research hopes as those in departments rated 5...
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Victory over bad blood
Luc Montagnier overcame bureaucracy and scientific rivalries to discover the HIV retrovirus. He tells Stella Hughes of the battles fought The retrovirus HIV, the cause of the Aids disease in humans,...
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On the blue-skies fast track
The THES speaks with three academics under the age of 40 as part of an occasional series of profiles of young researchers making an early mark Noreena Hertz "I did everything early," Noreena Hertz...
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On the blue-skies fast track
The THES speaks with three academics under the age of 40 as part of an occasional series of profiles of young researchers making an early mark Spike Bucklow "If you paint your skirting boards, you...
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Joint appeal
Dutch economist Rick van der Ploeg tells Huw Richards that his country's drugs policy is successful because it is pragmatic enough for maiden aunts You have to tolerate a little, in order to avoid...
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The luvvie director
The formidable Shakespeare Institute has an enthusiastic, new director who is unconcerned at being labelled a luvvie. Peter Holland talks to Jennifer Wallace Peter Holland is a luvvie. At least, that...
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Fantasy, food and popcorn
Cinema's relationship with food runs the gamut from custard-pie fights to the Last Supper, Ian Christie explains One of the earliest British fantasy films is entitled A Big Swallow. Made around 1901...
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DPhil spectre
(Photograph) - DPhil spectre: a ghost of Christmas past is haunting the halls of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the college has been advised that, if it wishes to be rid of it, all the fellows must...