Serial plagiarist forced to quit
By the time Monash University vice-chancellor David Robinson stepped off the plane at Heathrow on July 10 on his way to the official opening of a Monash centre at King's College London, the...
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In the news: Sir Brian Follett
Sir Brian Follett chaired the Royal Society committee that this week recommended the vaccination of animals at risk of developing foot-and-mouth disease. If the animals are then found to be disease-...
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Don's diary: older and wiser?
February 1981 Dundee: a notice in the Students' Association asks volunteers to audition for University Challenge . A series of questions from previous games whittles hopefuls down to the team, plus...
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Derring-do of the DNA diva
Rosalind Franklin
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Freedoms threatened - let's go shopping
British Cultural Studies - A Companion to Cultural Studies
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Two shirts, one arm, three wings
Greenwich
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An illuminating space for those wayward pleasures
John Ashbery and American Poetry
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Piecing together the archaeologist
Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete 1894-1899
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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 book that ends with the escape of a pterodactyl: "Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most...
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A tragedy tainted by the morose and trivial
Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide - The Holocaust Encyclopaedia
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Laurie Taylor column
Lapping speaking. Professor Lapping. It's Jane Seligman. Professor Lapping, I'm not there. You're not where, Jane? On the list. I came in yesterday after my holiday and went to the board to look at...
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Scotland's principal prima donna
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's new head envisages it becoming a cultural powerhouse for Scotland. Olga Wojtas reports. "I've never had a job before," says John Wallace, the new...
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A theme park for the Brits behaving badly
In the second in our summer series on tourism, Hazel Andrews looks at how much of the lewd, boozy, seemingly fancy-free behaviour of many tourists in the area of Majorca known as 'Shagaluf' is...
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A right to be Mr and Mrs
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...
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Challenge to age-old conviction
ߣߣÊÓƵ was settled as a penal colony, right? Ex-policeman Dan Foley disagrees, arguing that deportees were in fact the victims of a far more ambitious scheme. Caroline Davis reports. Paddington...