Despite the president's views on the environment, demand is high for business courses that focus on corporate responsibility. Sarah Murray reports. If students at US business schools have their way,...
A clash between science and religion has placed US universities on the political agenda. But, reports Stephen Phillips, higher education has more fundamental issues to which it would like President...
US universities are learning that lobbying is the key to their long-term financial health. The hotly contested stem-cell debate shows the growing willingness of US universities to step down from the...
"We are at an important juncture for press freedom - the global corporate 'monoculture' has never been more powerful, but its success is generating massive opposition," says David Edwards, associate...
Market forces and obedience to authority are shaking the once mighty champions of democracy, argues David Cromwell What is being reported blandly on the front pages," wrote American linguist and...
John Adams finds that the rise in crime may be linked to the fall in picnics. David Garland begins by asserting: "We quickly grow used to the way things are." His description of our contemporary...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a pope written by a baron: "In mind he was tired, worn out, by years of hope deferred,...
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