Not so elite after all
Amanda Root is a little too cavalier with the facts ("The choice is there - but not for everyone", Features, August 3). Laura Spence was interviewed for a place at Oxford University; she lost out to...
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Throughout all the ages
A Natural History of Time
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Basic data-mining tips for PhD computer-phobes
Organizing and Managing Your Research
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Leading light's past life still in the shadows
Ho Chi Minh
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Monkey about with a hunt-and-peck history
The Iron Whim
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Zoom in on the red giants and Red Peril
The Telescope
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Tomb with a view concealing uncanny secrets of the gods
The Great Pyramid
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Why the criminals came for the corpse of the Great Emancipator
Stealing Lincoln's Body
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A better life, or just hubris?
The Case against Perfection
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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 by a recipient of the Gold Medal in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: "...
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Brotherly love ends at home
On Fraternity
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Decadence in the East or deviance from the West?
Desiring Arabs
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The man in full, but less of his place and time
The Fears of Henry IV
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Inside the world of the silent witnesses
Postmortem