Driving in all directions
HIDDEN AGENDAS. By John Pilger. 687pp. Vintage. Paperback, Pounds 8.99. - 0 099 74151 2. We live, according to John Pilger, not in an "information age", but rather in a "media age", in which "the...
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The legacy of war
PHILOSOPHIES OF INTEGRATION. Immigration and the idea of citizenship in France and Britain. By Adrian Favell. 288pp. Macmillan. Pounds 45. - 0 333 688 5. COLONIAL MIGRANTS AND RACISM. Algerians in...
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On a Devon Road by Glyn Maxwell
Whatever thoughts there were for me on a Devon road, nothing knotted them suddenly to one spot like what lay up ahead, flopped and brownish, too much of it for a bird, too much for a fox; one wound...
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"Warrior in Armour, 1860"
(Photograph) - "Warrior in Armour, 1860" by Felice Beato; from Early Japanese Images by Terry Bennett (168pp. Rutland, VT: Tuttle; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 30. 0 8048 2029 5)
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Five Postcards by Les Murray
Having run herself up out of plush, the white-cheeked wallaby sits between her haunches like an old-country tailor behind her outstretched last yard, her tail, and hems it with black fingers. *...
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"In Schwabing, 1912"
"In Schwabing, 1912"; from Gabriele Muenter: The years of expressionism 1903-1920 by Reinhold Heller (184pp. Munich: Prestel; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 39.95. 3 7913 1866 7)
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Literal truth
The examiners' hoary dilemma about whether to mark down students who litter their papers with literals could prove especially difficult in one new degree course. De Montfort University, Lincoln is...
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Sold too cheap
Hard sell of the week came from the economist who despatched his latest publication to The THES accompanied by a letter opening: "I hope you will be interested in this working pap". Too modest by...
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Queen's Birthday honours
KCMG/DCMG Joseph Rotblat, professor, for services to international understanding. Knights Bachelor Philip Cohen, director, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Royal Society research professor at the...
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Medics consider a flying fraud squad
Crackdown on clinical cheats GEORGE Alberti (pictured right) is the man entrusted by the General Medical Council to devise a scheme for sorting out clinical research fraud and misconduct. He said he...
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A rush for upward mobility
Colleges and institutes are lining up to become university colleges. Tony Tysome reports Higher education's most wannabe sector breathed a sigh of relief last week as the government gave its members...
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Fact file
Findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1996-97 reveal that: The average age of full-time academic staff is 41 Twenty-two per cent of staff are 35 or younger. Two professors are 30...
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Big revenue rise for BTG
New revenue generated by technology-transfer firm BTG since its flotation rose during the year to March 31 by 75 per cent to Pounds 10.5 million. The firm signed 36 new licences and expanded...
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Catholic university meets its saviour
A PRIVATE university in Spain may be saved from the threat of closure by a last-minute agreement with new financial backers. The Catholic University of Avila, whose foundation provoked protests from...
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Congress chaos riles historians
THE WORLD of economic historians is racked with uncertainty over the fate of the 12th International Economic History Association congress, due to be held in Seville at the end of August. The...