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Under the Gaydar
For decades, gay men lived in a 'virtual' world outside the mainstream, so links between the subculture and the web are both logical and ripe for scrutiny. Matthew Reisz cruises the 'queer digital...
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Human resources
Duncan Wu applauds the sensitive approach to a tale set in an inhumane world with twisted morals
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Diary
LondonMove: Choreographing YouVisitors breathe in and squeeze through a tight corridor illuminated in green, then fight their way through a wall of white balloons. They enter a room with two-way...
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The Pick - Taking the grand out of opera
The Barber of Seville (or Salisbury)King's Head Theatre, LondonUntil 14 November (Wednesdays to Sundays)In December last year, a company called OperaUpClose mounted a new production of Puccini's La...
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Daytime TV: Cheese or branes?
Gary Day learns that nothing is not necessarily what we think it is, and is inspired by a tale of aspiration
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No panic at Poppleton
Rumours that the publication of Lord Browne's review of higher education might have prompted a number of unfortunate developments at our university have been dismissed as "hysterical scaremongering"...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Freedom - but only over fees
Lord Browne's rhetoric is all about freeing universities, but his plans could result in 'a state-controlled and regulated industry'
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From where I sit - Trips and falls of the tongue
Germans, and indeed other non-native speakers, desperately need and want to publish in English. The result is that many foreign scholars write papers in English, and with mixed linguistic results....
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Maurice Line, 1928-2010
A leading figure in the world of librarianship has died.Maurice Line was born in Bedford on 21 June 1928 and educated at Bedford School before studying classics at Exeter College, Oxford.He embarked...
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Brain surgery is dangerous
Kevin Fong argues that cutting science funding will be bad for Britain
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Research intelligence - Charges of the open brigade
Publishers' profits in an open-access world the subject of much debate. Paul Jump reports
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Sorry, non comprendo, I'm British
Modern languages should be a passport to life, so why are so few students queuing up to learn them? In a special report on Britain's linguistic skills gap, Matthew Reisz discovers that, globally...
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We need to put the case for languages, and universities should lead the way
Michael Worton, who has chronicled the beleaguered state of modern languages, argues that in an age of global citizenship it must be revitalised