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  2. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist who made literature out of bureaucratic procedures: "It was late in the evening...

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  9. Chaucer meets NYPD

    Joyce Malcolms says that "between 1890 and 1892, there were only three handgun homicides in a population of 30 million" (Why I..., THES , June 21). Wasn't the late-Victorian weapon of choice a...

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  10. Hull of a surprise?

    In your article on the British Academy (Features, THES , June 28), Sir Keith Thomas follows Blackadder in citing Hull as the obvious antithesis to Oxbridge in matters of intellectual distinction. He...

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  11. Marx in disguise

    In his review of Meghnad Desai's Marx's Revenge (Books, THES , June 28), John Driffill writes: "Desai reminds us that contrary to the belief that became firmly established in the 1880s and 1890s...

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  12. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (1)

    Margaret Hodge lambasts university "elitism" because she wants "an intellectual elite not a social elite" ("You are all too elitist, says Hodge", THES , June 28). So she wants elitism then. But does...

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  13. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (2)

    Margaret Hodge's desire that we concentrate on intellectual achievement, not social stratification, is to be applauded. But she should recognise the crucial role of new universities, university...

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  14. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (3)

    Universities were dismayed to be branded "institutionally elitist", catering for the middle classes and not for people from low-income backgrounds. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many have...

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  15. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (4)

    It is a bit rich for Margaret Hodge to blame universities for the fact that students from low-income families find campus life difficult: it was Tony Blair's first government that abolished...

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