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  4. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from an 18th-century journey that inspired a love of the classics: "I slipped out of Carlsbad at...

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  10. In demand in Vietnam

    Contrary to your report ("Vietnamese students snubbed on return home", THES , May 31), graduates with a UK qualification, whether self-funded or on scholarships, have been in high demand in the...

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  11. Liberties taken

    I have always assumed that Sydney Smith's labour-saving principle - "I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so" - is never adopted, but Peter Watson, in reviewing Isaiah Berlin'...

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  12. Christianity, aisle 3

    The Muslim students who discuss personal religious issues with me argue in the essentialist terms that C. W. Watson derides ("Open up to a very creative culture", THES , June 14). These students say...

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  13. End this ageist era

    I hope John Black (Letters, THES , June 21) is wrong when he thinks of himself as past his sell-by date at 55. By 2006, age discrimination will be unlawful. But education will be excluded. The...

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  14. Our price is right

    Lancaster University has no intention of abandoning its collegiate system or of offering accommodation only at high rents, as was implied in a caption on page 3 last week. The university was founded...

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  15. Classification treatise

    Brothers and sisters, pernicious arguments have been circulating of late proposing the abolition of degree classification. The malevolent sects responsible for these perverse opinions must be refuted...

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