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  1. Statutes, no limitations

    Ryszard Piotrowicz argues that international law must once again become a core component of UK legal curricula

    #Opinion

  3. Sleeping beauties awake

    Linguists and revivalists worldwide have much to learn from Hebrew's remarkable, hybridic modern-day rebirth, says Ghil'ad Zuckermann

    #Opinion

  4. Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam

    As a new exhibition illuminates the creative expressions of a Muslim ritual, James Piscatori explores its spiritual dimension

    #Culture

  5. Diary

    Bury St Edmunds and touringBlock Party: inspired by the art of the tailorPattern cutting - whereby tailors transform flat blocks into three- dimensional forms - has long been a source of artistic...

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  6. The Pick - David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

    Credit: Royal Academy of ArtsDavid Hockney: A Bigger PictureRoyal Academy of Arts, London 21 January to 9 April"Do you remember Walt Disney's Fantasia?" asks the artist in Martin Gayford's marvellous...

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  7. 'Death' jumper slams Poppleton

    "I blame alumni relations." That was the shock statement made by former Poppleton student Derek Winkworth after he was found this Tuesday morning at the foot of the university cooling tower following...

    #Laurie

  8. TV review: Unfinished

    Incomplete works hold eternal appeal, from Dickens' Edwin Drood to Austen's Sanditon, says Gary Day

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  9. Film review: J. Edgar

    Clint Eastwood's biopic of the first head of the FBI belongs to its leading man, argues Will Brooker

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  10. John Rex, 1925-2011

    John Rex left his native South Africa after being branded an "undesirable" as a result of his opposition to apartheid, and went on to produce influential work on race relations throughout his career....

    #Obituary
    #People

  11. Slay the Oxbridge myths (2 of 2)

    George Fieldman says that it would be unfair to penalise privately educated schoolchildren by imposing a quota system on Oxbridge in proportion to the number of such children in the education sector...

    #Letters

  12. Unite to fight the predators

    The Harvard University report on the appalling record of for-profit companies in the US is timely ("US for-profits leave students worse off", 12 January).This welcome contribution adds to the growing...

    #Letters

  13. Hard road for soft skills

    Athene Donald's article on the damage that can be done to women's academic careers by job references that include adjectives such as "affectionate, tactful, sensitive, helpful" and the like -...

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  14. Poverty of vision pays well (1 of 2)

    Call me a desiccated husk if you like, but vice-chancellors all have the same vision - and it invariably comes to nothing ("V-cs, it might be time for us to have a talk about a pay review", 12...

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  15. Poverty of vision pays well (2 of 2)

    While it is clearly true that vice-chancellors' salaries are excessive and there is no serious case for further increases, one does wonder how they managed to miss a trick and not develop a bonus...

    #Letters