First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a first novel by an American journalist: " And then say what? Say, 'Forget you're hungry, forget you...
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Activating the art of sucking up
Grovelling and Other Vices
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Inside a tangled Webb
The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905
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A time to give peace a chance
Non-Violent Social Movements
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Work out a new way to live
The Brave New World of Work - Liquid Modernity
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Beach towels or chocolate boxes?
Uneasy Allies - Stereotypes in Contemporary Anglo-German Relations
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Soundtracks set the stage on which we live our lives
Music in Everyday Life
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Laurie Taylor
From: The head of facilities management Subject: Car parking Dear Colleague, One of my first actions upon assuming the post of head of facilities management (formerly estates and gardens) was to...
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Letter: Healthy capital gains declared
We would not dispute many of the points Martin Ince makes in his article about the development of medical research in London ("Health fails to bring in cheque", THES , October ). The capital is...
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Letter: Refuge research
One minor correction to Adam James's piece on our homicide in Britain research ("It really was murder at the office today, darling", THES , November 3). We did not "help set up Scotland's first women...
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Letter: Bitter divorce
Those of us concerned at the impending, if not already total, divorce between teaching and research (Letters, THES , November 3) will be further depressed by the recommendations of the Higher...
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Letter: Cambridge rings in
Gill Evans (Soapbox, THES , October 20), Phil Baty: "Cambridge tackles ethics code after Vodafone row'' ( THES , October 20) and Andrew M. Colman (Readers' Reactions, THES , October ) all attack Sir...
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Letter: Accountability doubts
The "Cameron report" clears Imperial College of victimisation of Peter Dawson for raising concerns in the public interest about protections of patient safety (Whistleblowers, THES , November 3). The...
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Letter: Speaking volumes
Your front-page headline "Poor leaders are crippling UK colleges" ( THES , November 3) does not reflect what we heard the Further Education Funding Council chief inspector, Jim Donaldson, say at the...
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Letter: Saying is believing?
Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice-chancellors and Principals, is quoted as saying that undergraduate students "who pay fees, according to the criteria, should be able to pay,...