Swiss Family Robinson meets a man with a mission
The Magistrate's Tale
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Finding a place in peace and war
The New Nuclear Danger - Tritium on Ice
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On the sweet pain of a hot poker
Sweet Violence
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Saving the world and parsing an ism
A Singular Modernity
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Best of British
Whisky Galore! and The Maggie - A Night to Remember - The Dam Busters - The 39 Steps
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Confucius but no Fu Man Chu
New Chinese Cinema
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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 diary by someone who liked to refer to herself by her surname: "We left England on the 13 September...
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From laundry to Frankenstein's lab
Panorama
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Teen angst, trivia and driving tests
Kurt Cobain
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Zeitgeist maestro
Selling Britten
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Puritans' zeal fertilises the mind
Articles of Faith
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
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Laurie Taylor Column
Italian students tend to drop out of university because ofthe sadism of their professors - Report by dean of psychiatry, University of Sassari, Sardinia, THES, March 14 You know what this is all...
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Why I fear debt will make women rethink plans to study at university
Debt levels are already bad enough for women. Despite equal opportunities legislation, women still earn on average less than men, and there is no sign that this is changing, hence it takes longer for...
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Leaders: England's plans test the strength of devolution
Nowhere has the impact of devolution been more obvious than in education - and higher education in particular. Upfront tuition fees have been abolished, school league tables abandoned and initiatives...