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Heathcliff and The Great Hunger
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Kultur v. politique
German Ideology
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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The speech of pariahs
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
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Rangoon rap
Burmese
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a 20th-century writer interested in a degree of sexual latitude: "Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they...
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ACTIN up to tap the cleverness of plants
Planting fields of plastic, and coppicing willows for the village power station are just some of the ways in which British agriculture might have to diversify to keep up with international...
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Looking through the eyes of Islam:Hizb ut-Tahrir
(Photograph) - Looking through the eyes of Islam: a rally by the Islamic extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, attracted protests from the National Union of Students this week - but passed off peacefully.
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Taking the pistachio
Harold Ellis, emeritus professor of surgery at London University, has been reminiscing in the British Medical Journal about a ferocious nursing sister, "tall, majestic and Scottish", who ensured that...
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Academic bias slammed
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
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UK falls behind the competition
The United Kingdom has much lower levels of participation in full-time education at 16 to 18 than most of our competitor nations, according to new research from the Institute of Education. When 16-...
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Freudian content
How wide-ranging are new higher education minister Eric Forth's ambitions for his new brief? The departmental brief detailing his responsibilities included "content and quality" of higher education....
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Professor young
Liverpool University is harbouring a prodigy. A recent copy of their Precinct newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from "An eight-year-old professor's daughter, tall, blonde and beautiful . . ....
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Grammar rules
Alumni to be proud of numbers two and three: Corpus Christi College, Oxford boasted as undergraduates, at one and the same time, Roger Waterhouse, now vice chancellor of Derby University and Richard...