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When you should count your spoons
Easy Money
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by a Nobel prize-winning mathematician: "In all history, nothing is so surprising or so...
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Tales to get bankers blushing
Reform and Recovery in East Asia - The Japanese Economy - An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990
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Capital idea for shared ownership
The Ownership Solution
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Fear of losing the US's marbles
The End of Globalization
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Flawed theories can cost billions
Marshall's Tendencies
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Laurie Taylor
Anything interesting in this week's THES ? Not really. There is another Don's Diary written by some lucky sod who's wangled enough conference expenses to get him to the South of France. And then...
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Letter: Undo unilateral changes
The changes management made to the staff contract at the University of Westminster were not disclosed, let alone discussed or agreed, with Natfhe before implementation ("Local row threatens national...
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Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (1)
Frank Furedi's encomium of public intellectuals in the US is misleading ("An intellectual vacuum", THES , October 5). Furedi writes: "Individuals such as Susan Sontag, Henry Louis Gates, Edward Said...
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Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (2)
Few of Britain's Nobel prizewinners are or were "public" intellectuals. Most of them hid. Even today, the names of winners are usually unknown to the public. Funding bodies want academics in the...
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Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (3)
Frank Furedi misses two key factors. First, there are relatively few media outlets in Britain compared with the US, and those that exist already have a base of intellectual resources: journalists....
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Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (4)
A few days before reading Frank Furedi's article, I heard a senior academic explain this year's increased focus on research methodology training to a group of new PhDs. Most of your time in your...
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Letter: Pure religious hatred
This letter is intended to be an incitement to religious hatred. I believe it is not yet a crime to encourage people to despise religion and almost all it stands for, but as time is running out for...
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Letter: Technical hitches
So the new Engineering and Technology Board will persuade universities to train more incorporated engineers and technicians (For the record, THES , September 28). Although there is much overlap in...