Soapbox: Human rights have to remain sacrosanct
Academics consider Afghanistan's crisis and responses to the war on terrorism: asylum laws. It is perfectly natural that, after the tragic events of September 11, politicians call for changes in the...
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Soapbox: Our critical capacities are truly essential
Academics consider Afghanistan's crisis and responses to the war on terrorism: academic freedom. I share Frank Furedi's concerns ("The intellectual vacuum", THES , October 5) about the demise of the...
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A desire to lie to the people we lie with?
The Bedtrick
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Vanishing vowels and nasal enigmas
The Phonology of Portuguese
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Botanical guide to the production of speech
Explaining Language Change
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Sign eloquence beyond words
The Syntax of American Sign Language
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Wonderland to wasteland
Arthur C. Clarke laments the degradation of a submarine paradise. " Full fathom five, thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade...
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Experts who save our self-respect
The Warden of English - Dictionaries
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Deaf to the publicity buzz BC - before cyberspace
The Anatomy of Buzz
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When you didn't trust anyone over thirty
Camelot to Kent State
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Versed in oafish subtlety
The Phonology of Hungarian
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Flawed God, wash away all your sins
Jack Miles tells Anthony Freeman how his take on the Bible casts God as a sinner who overcame a late-life crisis only by repenting in the form of Jesus. The Bible should carry a warning: it can...
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Old lessons for modern warriors
How do you organise 603 groups - each with its own agenda, political orientation and organising style - into a coherent force that can blockade the centre of a major city, halt an international...
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Free thinkers working to create a free society
Anarchistic ideas date back to the ancient world: dissident writers from ancient Greece, Rome, China and India condemned authority and demanded a form of anarchy - a society without a ruler. Their...
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Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels
The fall of the house of Marx and the end of the cold war have led to a decline in labour history that has affected social history in general because, as Patrick Joyce writes: "The basic repertoire...