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  1. Power point

    In her discussion of what Mary Beard calls the "erotic charge" that sometimes occurred between students and their tutors in the 1960s and 1970s ("Scholar fires sex harassment row", August 18), Susan...

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  2. Same old ignorance

    Your news item on the university employee sacked for e-mailing "the Illegal Immigrants Poem" to colleagues ("Poet is fired over 'offensive' racist rhyme", September 29) made gloomy reading. The...

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  3. Legitimacy issue

    David Runciman argues that low electoral turnout creates a legitimacy problem (Opinion, September 29). But does it? Democratic legitimacy derives from franchise, not turnout. There are many reasons...

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  4. Cat-like compassion

    The biomedical researcher missed the point entirely in his ill-informed opinion piece (September 22). Home Office licences do not apply to the humane killing of mice. Any wild or laboratory rodent...

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  5. Titanic concerns

    It is an amusing coincidence that the articles by Bill Durodie and Jonathan Rutherford should be printed back to back (Features, September 22). Durodié speaks of nihilism and self-loathing, but the...

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  6. Day's new dawn

    My thanks once again to Gary Day for his insightful, disarming piece (Columnist, September 29) surely spelling the dawn of a new era. It is so heartening to know that in future we may not have to...

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  7. SOS: giant parasol needed

    From mirrors1,000km across to supersize kitchen utensils that fling salt spray into the air, Fred Pearce provides an overview of engineering solutions to cooling off the planet as global warming...

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  8. The thought police are among us 1

    Does academic freedom include the right to offend? Stephen Balch argues that liberalism blocks free expression on campus, while Frank Furedi insists that if we don't challenge ideas that offend us,...

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  9. They're not your average readers

    In the Booker Prize's early days, it was suggested that 'the odd film star' join the panel. Today's judges are far more highbrow, Sharon Norris discovers The Man Booker Prize ceremony takes place...

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  10. Who says the 1950s were peaceful and rather dull?

    Peter Hennessy's latest volume in his history of Britain was a little late, but, he tells Huw Richards, he wished to capture not only the politics but also the smell of coal smoke. Historians were...

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  11. Research notes

    Marian Holness, 42, reader in petrogenesis, Cambridge University Educational background: Comprehensive school and sixth-form college. BA and PhD, Cambridge University. Research area: I am interested...

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  12. Want to be a high-flyer? It'll cost you

    Business $43,380 Medicine $31,779 Law $31,765 US universities increasingly apply variable fees to those subjects that lead to mega-bucks earning potential, says Stephen Phillips, and the same may...

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  13. The thought police are among us 2

    These days, academic freedom is rarely the target of an overt direct assault. Occasionally, politicians remind universities to "watch it", but most of the time there is little external pressure to...

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