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Lecturers vote to boycott Israeli universities A leading union voted to boycott two Israeli universities which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories....
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Heroic views of imperial ferocity
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination
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Success and scandal in a sibling saga
Bombay to Bloomsbury
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Devilish details confess to a not wholly holy rise
The Cardinal's Hat
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Eager enthusiast scuffs originals
The First Poets
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Where many a debate is sparked
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
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The rise and fall of humanity's civil tongues
Empires of the Word
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The depths of the mind are quite close to the surface
The Wayward Mind
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Pie in the sky tops this G8's wish list
Global Crises, Global Solutions
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In Brussels, they can't see the shoal for the fish
The End of the Line
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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 poet and diplomat: "In these memoirs or recollections there are gaps here and there, and...
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Nature lessons for computers
Imitation of Life
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Did the chicks fly the nest or were they pushed?
More than Kin and Less than Kind