East slams west on eco-probes
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are complaining of a glut of reports on them by western environmental experts. They argue that these reports could have been produced just as well, and more...
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Doctors in degree of doubt
So much for the theory that MPs with small majorities get cautious as elections approach. Michael Stern, Conservative MP for Bristol North-West, edged out his Labour challenger by 45 votes in 1992,...
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Bricks and mortar
(Photograph) - William Buckingham, a final-year history student at Nottingham University, has won the annual Longman/History Today essay prize. A former bricklayer, Mr Buckingham's essay was on...
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Budget assault hits pay claim
The funding crisis provoked by the November Budget is so severe that lecturers' annual pay claim may take a back seat, Joanna de Groot, president of the Association of University Teachers warned its...
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Fees are off - official
The Government has spelled out its strong opposition to the introduction of top-up fees in a clear steer to vice chancellors. One week ahead of the vice chancellors' meeting in London the Department...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who owes something to Edward Gibbon: "So Peter went out, and Paul settled down again in his chair. So the ascetic Ebionites used to turn towards Jerusalem...
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Speaking Volumes: Kafka's Collected Stories
James Hawes on Franz Kafka's Collected Stories . As finals loomed in 1982, we fourth-years would assemble in the Magdalen middle common room, sporting white leather Stan Smith trainers (the ancestors...
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Clouded judgement?
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
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Cold comfort farm
Hitler's Uranium Club
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Menacing monster with 70,000 heads
Dark Sun
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Scotland's thoughtful burgher
The Life of Adam Smith
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Practical calculus for the money men
The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives
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Knowing one's deficits
The Regulation of International Trade - Economic Policy, Exchange Rates and the International System
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Drums beat time for fiscal fiddles
The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries
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The man caught out by net prices
A Soaring Eagle