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  1. Clocked for speeding

    I read Chris McManus's review of Douwe Draaisma's book Why Life Speeds up as You Grow Older: How Memory Shapes our Past with great interest (Books, September 16). McManus states: "This book does not...

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  2. No comment

    My colleagues and I would like to request a higher degree of quality control in your front-page articles. While you invariably cover the issues of the day, the odd piece sneaks through without a...

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  3. Beacons of truth or crucibles of terror?

    Fears grow, post 9/11 and 7/7, that universities may be an explosive cocktail of the clever and the gullible, the shadowy recruiters and the would-be warriors Universities must monitor subversives to...

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  4. Cause to pause before starting the witch trials

    Gordon Johnson argues that concerns about campus subversion are best tackled in a wider social context Britain has had long experience in dealing with terrorism. A century or more of the Troubles in...

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  5. Three radicals: Jihadists with UK degrees

    Omar Sheikh, who is awaiting execution in Pakistan for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, studied at the London School of Economics in the 1990s. He grew up in London and was known as a...

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  6. Campus clubs 'useful cover'

    Extremist groups can find a ready source of idealistic recruits within universities, according to Anthony Glees. "Mass higher education in Britain offers easy pickings," he says. Much of the...

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  7. The institute of bad ideas

    There was once an academic whose remarkable imagination was rivalled only by her ability to grasp the possible. She was fearless, she could think the unthinkable, she was set to change our world....

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  8. The day our Yankee boys kicked butt at Waterloo

    Inspired by the fact-free revisionism of the Hollywood historical blockbuster, leading academics outline their worst celluloid nightmares The Death Of Old Europe Richard Evans, professor of modern...

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  9. A big up to nang slang

    Student argot is rich in creative tricks and rhetorical devices, and is spoken by thousands of young people. So why do academics refuse to engage with it? asks Tony Thorne "The test was a stroller; I...

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  13. What the Seventh Framework Programme means for Europe

    Brussels, 21 September 2005 70 million euros for the next 7 years of European Research. The amount proposed by the European Commission is a worthwhile investment in Europe’s future. Figures...