A visionary at the crossroads
Walter Benjamin
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Sigmund fells trendy straw men
How Customers Think
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How liberty can be just a game of chance
The First Freedom
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Old-timers get a new lease of life
Don't Get above Your Raisin' - Bluegrass Odyssey - Will You Miss Me when I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
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Social harmony, sexual discord
J. W. Waterhouse
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Albums recorded in Mughal times
Perspectives on Persian Painting - Painting for the Mughal Emperor
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Heights of giddiness and despair
Mountains of the Mind
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A myth that rises to the challenge
The Sacred Footprint
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City lost in an effort to square the hexagon
Imperial Delhi
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Let me take you by the mind
Cities of the Imagination Series
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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 novel narrated by a Cambridge scholar: "In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Degree convocations It has been brought to my attention that several of last year's 48 degree ceremonies finished after the scheduled time and thereby...
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Leader: Whitehall gets a pat on back and a slap in the face
Ministers have long seen this week's select committee report as the first big hurdle in the implementation of their higher education plans. Academe was never going to like the separation of teaching...
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Leader: History shows schools cast a long shadow
The first of our new series of subject focuses, on history, tells a story that is likely to be repeated in many other areas. As high-prestige universities expand provision, former polytechnics...
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Yo! Get ur bard on!
Henry Biggs was a 'nerdy' classics lecturer until a discussion of Homer inspired him to start rapping. Stephen Phillips does a sound check Chuck Berry is the normal bill of fare at Blueberry Hill....