Boxer book row turns bitter
Research into the fate of one of China's historic libraries has become a political cause celebre. The library of the Hanlin Academy, the main centre for scholarly studies in imperial China, was...
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Too dangerous for words
Arthur Jensen is the grand old man of all the controversial theories expounding a link between intelligence and race. Now, more than 25 years on, he is still rocking the boat and his latest book has...
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A subject in the prime of life
The end of maths is greatly exaggerated and there are still many hypotheses to prove, argues Ian Stewart. One measure of the health of today's mathematics is the rate at which the great unsolved...
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On the same road as Rome
I was most interested to read Domenico Pacitti's article (THES, August 23) "Rome set for 'foreigners' deal", according to which the Italian government is taking action to improve the terms and...
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Swing it sisters
The difference between men's and women's voting patterns is preoccupying American pundits in the last few weeks of the presidential election. American politics has a strong propensity for putting...
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Troubled tax for graduates
The Mature Students Union (UK) fully supports Ghassan Karian's call for greater investment in the education infrastructure to improve the quality of our education (Leader, THES, September 6). However...
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Iran's harass-an-academic TV show
Michael Prest reports on an alarming threat to intellectuals. Imagine turning on the television and finding your work under attack. Academics in Iran do not have to imagine. Between early spring and...
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Troubled tax for graduates
We are sorry to hear that Ghassan Karian, former national coordinator of New Solutions, now supports "... a graduate tax for maintenance and tuition fees". We do not believe that this is the way...
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A Sheffield lad's steely resolve
David Blunkett tells Simon Midgley of his 'long, hard haul' towards a place at Sheffield University in the 1960s, in the second of our series on the university life of politicians who pronounce on...
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Troubled tax for graduates
My "Dear Ron" leader received some unfortunate editing. The article implies that I advocate the use of the research assessment exercise as a selective measure for funding of postgraduate research....
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Secrets in minutes
Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, is quoted by Tony Tysome as defending the secrecy surrounding the deliberations of the Joint Planning Group for...
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a French author concerned about the industrial revolution's power to derail human beings: "What did it matter what victims it crushed in its path! Was it not, after...
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Speaking Volumes: Philology and Literary History
Dovid Katz on Ber Borokhov's Philology and Literary History . When I was three, we moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Safad, Galilee, where my father, Yiddish poet Menke Katz, hoped the 16th-century...
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A man who can digest Finnegans Wake
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
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Achievement without fuss
Cambridge Women