Don's Diary
Thursday: Called by Reuters. "Had I a view on George Soros's letter in the Financial Times calling for a currency board and devaluation?'' The Russians have spent the past three years more or less...
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Flights of mysticism
The Speech of the Birds
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The scholar of the scrolls
Providential Accidents
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Let there be light, said the council
Nights in the Big City
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Civilisation's classical design
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece
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Heavenly bodies, nebulous concepts
A History of Modern Planetary Physics
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The other notes of Mrs B's boy
Letters From a Life
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Hoping distant cousins will kiss
Belief in God in an Age of Science
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Captivated by a distorted mirror
Pilgrimage in Tibet - Prisoners of Shangri-La - Inner Revolution
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The Russian evolution
Russia
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Russian novelist whose book had nothing to do with deceased fish: "Into the gates of the inn in...
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Di-ology: Year one
Stage one:Shock September 1997 Nottingham Trent University produced figures estimating that 30 per cent of Britons were as shocked by Diana's death as they would have been by the outbreak of war....
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Temple of Diana
Elaine Showalter joined the pilgrimage to Diana's grave at Althorp, where the Spencer family has reclaimed the princess as one of its own. I was in the United States when Princess Diana was killed...
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You are what you eat
Food can define a national identity. Shannon Peckham offers a taste of some of the historical ingredients that shaped our character The destiny of nations," wrote the philosopher of gastronomy...
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Roaming in the graves of academe
In life she was chased by the paparazzi and hounded by the media. In death academia is picking over her bones. Kate Worsley reports on the growth of Di-ology. Whatever happened to that cocktail of...