Sound arguments
Linguistic Reconstruction: - Principles of Linguistic Change
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The isolated imagist
Zanzotto
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The tragedy of a yellow mist and cloudedjudgement
Learning from Disaster:
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Thetford's neglected republican
Tom Paine:
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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Zwei for the price of ein
The German Language Today:
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A Spanish mosaic
Tesserae
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING Research grants Dr M. Drew, Pounds 154,412 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (experimental and computer modelling study of the water-structuring...
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The Royal Society
The following have been elected: Fellows Martin Bennett, professorial fellow at the Research School of chemistry, Australian National University. Iain Campbell, professor of structural studies,...
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Chairs
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Afzal Ahmed (reader), chair in mathematics education; Paul Foster (principal lecturer and head of studies) chair in English studies; Tudor Hale (head of...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Graham Upton's appointment as pro vice chancellor has been extended to July 31, 1998; Frances Young, Edward Cadbury professor and head of department of theology becomes dean...
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Events
WORKHOUSE THEATRE. Graduating students at The Poor School and Workhouse Theatre will perform a play by Robert Holman at the Workhouse Theatre, Pentonville Road. Today is about English people in the...
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Highly coloured remarks
The racism I faced wasn't a very violent form. . . it was much more the patronising tone with which people dealt with me. It was as if to say, 'we don't let many of you in so you should be grateful...
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Figure it out
The position of non-Caucasians in higher education remains uneasy, discovers Pat Younge, despite the seemingly encouraging application statistics that have recently become available. In 1986 the...