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The World at 2000
The World at 2000
Failed Crusade

Former bomber navigator Patrick Moore discusses the effectiveness and the inhumanity of the Allies' bombing raids during the second world war. The second world war ended more than half a century ago...
The Universal Computer
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who is interested in wind, sand and stars: "Once, when I was six years old I saw a...
Rebel Code
A New Generation Draws the Line
Power
Justice and Punishment
The Catholics of Ulster
" Burgeoning student numbers are putting pressure on time-tables and forcing universities to extend their teaching hours " - THES May 18. FROM: The departmental secretary (Maureen) TO: All full-time...
You correctly highlight the vulnerability of students who have decided to make "easy" money as prostitutes ("Red light finds its way on to campus", THES , May 11). Doubtless the vision of ever-...
So the Conservatives have put forward proposals to free universities from state funds by means of endowment ("Party pieces: promises and prescriptions", THES , May 18). Whatever their merits, one...
The most interesting datum contained in your poll of academic voting intentions was the fact that 126 out of 501 academics polled declined to "express a voting intention" ("Academics abandon Tories...
In your leader ("New Hefce boss is on a mergers mission", THES , May 18), you describe the result as universities with "massive student numbers, front-rank research, deep and wide links into the...