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Singeing Spaniards
Francis Drake
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Sour dressing for the salad bowl society
From the Outside In - The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy - The American Dream - Guns or Butter - Barry Goldwater
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Correction
An unfortunate error crept into Gary L. McDowell's review of Seymour Martin Lipset's book, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. "Lipset is a true socialist..." should have read "Lipset is a...
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Dead Clever
CHAPTER 1. Henry sat on the low wall surrounding the car park of the engineering faculty, staring at a row of quaint Victorian terraced houses with bay windows. He drummed his fingers on the attache...
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Aim achieved
Major Alwyn McLean, of the Royal Irish Regiment, yesterday won the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot of the British Army at Bisley after ten previous appearances in the final.
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Awards
MENERVA TRUST/THE THES ESSAY COMPETITION 1st prize: Barbara Spender, Southampton University An Autobiographical Perspective on Women Writers. 2nd prize: Elizabeth Eger, King's College, Cambridge...
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Wasps sign two
Wasps have signed Damian Cronin, the Scotland lock, from Bourges, in France, and Simon Mitchell, the Harlequins hooker.
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No surprises in Labour policies
Labour has reaffirmed its current further and higher education policies in its pre-manifesto document New Labour: New Life for Britain. It calls for a graduate contribution scheme to fund an expanded...
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Media moolah
The Department of Trade and Industry is to offer awards worth Pounds 750,000 for developers of multimedia content, including one for students or recent graduates. The scheme will be announced on July...
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Looking for anything legal
Delia Venables trawls the Internet to uncover the most useful resources for Web-phobic lawyers. Lawyers in the United Kingdom have been rather slow to get involved with the Internet. This may be...
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English engine for sense and meaning
SAMUEL JOHNSON, A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ON CD-ROM, Anne McDermott (editor), Cambridge University Press, (+44 1223 312393), Pounds 195 +VAT Macintosh/Windows CD, ISBN 0 521 55765 8 The...
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Stroll for Solly
Jon Solly is used to finishing in front of large fields. Two months ago, he was second in the Turin marathon, but the numbers there did not compare to the 10,000 who were behind him last night in...
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Been Pitangoed?
New players are entering the multimedia authoring software market with products they claim are cheaper, easier or simply cooler than the market leaders. Pitango, an offshoot of Israeli prepress...
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When the personal becomes public
In his fifth article on Net law, Andrew Charlesworth examines whether the Data Protection Act can be applied effectively to the World Wide Web. The collection of data about individuals has...