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  2. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a wartime novel about history, hysteria and hearts: " It was a summer's night and they were talking,...

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  11. Laurie Taylor column

    "The Treasury is concentrating its extra money on noisy, organised groups with the power to swing large swaths of votes... in these circumstances, higher education unions and pressure groups are...

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  12. Letter: Basque violence

    Manuel Montero's statement that "the pressure of Eta is not stopping freedom of speech in the Basque Country" is over-optimistic ("Violence forces Basque academic to flee", THES , November 3). For...

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  13. Letter: Weber's wilder side

    Frank Webster writes that Max Weber had "little life outside writing, reading and worrying about the state of the world" (Books, THES , November 10). Sounds like the sad contemporary Brit academic....

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  14. Letter: roles for research (1)

    Greg Philo and David Miller raise important concerns about the politics and direction of research ("While talk might be cheap, silence is deadly", THES , November 3). Critical research is controlled...

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  15. Letter: roles for research (2)

    The divorce of teaching from research ( THES , Letters November 10) is often stark. My suggestion is to make published research rather than popular texts the starting point for teaching a topic. This...

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