London college fights big deficit
Queen Mary College could accumulate a deficit of nearly £17 million over the next four years unless it takes steps to cut costs. A summary of projected income and expenditure over the next five years...
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Restoring grants is affordable says NUS
Student leaders turned up the pressure on the government to restore maintenance grants this week with new figures to back their case and a fresh campaign in Wales. The latest calculations from the...
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Why all they want is to be left alone with the box
Apathy about politics and the community in the US is being echoed in the UK. Michael Young explores disengagement. Robert Putnam is a Harvard professor of public policy who has made Bowling Alone a...
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West weighs up theworth of its values
East Meets West
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel by an American Don: "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that...
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Tailpieces of a flirtatious fox
The Power of Ideas
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How war was waged on a whim
Covent Garden, The Untold Story
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Sex 'n' drugs 'n' pounds 'n' pence
The Mammoth Book of Sex Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll - Sonic Boom - Black Vinyl White Powder
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Swot up on the big issue at dinner parties
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Art
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Life of the conscience of a nation
Reflections on the Russian Soul
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Fuelling the fire of the sati debate
Ashes of Immortality
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Fighting fatal stereotypes
The Moderns
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Loudmouthed Milton man
Has two and a half years as a dean at UIC turned the scourge of western civilisation into a softy? Larissa MacFarquhar talks to a 'reformed' Stanley Fish. Stanley Fish is a loudmouth, a show-off, a...
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Capturing a two-headed creature
When painter Daphne Todd agreed to a commission for a portrait of Girton mistress Marilyn Strathern she did not realise that she would also be the subject of study. The painter and the sitter both...
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Making a soup out of Sodom
Is much of the Old Testament little more than fairy tale? Possibly so, but recent research has shown that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah vanishing from the face of the earth might just be true. "...