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  1. Leave IDas cult fiction

    Although reluctant to give more oxygen to religious fundamentalists, I have been surprised by the rather muted response in your letters page to Steve Fuller's piece on the intelligent design movement...

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  2. Science is needed 1

    Mike Hulme's characterisation of the politics and policy spinning around the international climate change summit in Montreal rings true, sadly (Opinion, January 6). Almost equally sad though,...

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  3. Science is needed 2

    Mike Hulme argues persuasively that all sections of society must come together to address the challenges posed by climate change and that the challenges themselves go far beyond issues of science and...

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  4. Villains and victims

    Seasonal festivity congestion prevented until now my reading the feature "Uncle Joe's less obvious legacy to the oppressed" (December 2), in which Andrew Puddephatt considers how Comrade Stalin might...

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  5. Critical engagement

    "Few things matter more... than how we approach China," Timothy Garton Ash wrote in The Guardian recently. Unfortunately, readers of Wei Jingsheng's "Opinion" ("Smoke, mirrors and Chinese pipe dreams...

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  6. New, new and Rah, Rah

    Opinion is divided as to whether "new, new" universities will be good for the sector (Opinion, December 23/30). Why? These are not "new, new" institutions with extra "new, new" students. They have...

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  7. Question of viability

    Derek Law accuses me of the "wilful conflation" of open-access journals with online repositories (Letters, January 6). It seems improbable in the long term that universities and individual...

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  8. Handbooks from hell

    Aargh - handbooks. They're everywhere! Handbooks for tutors, for exams, for students, for quality, for training, for new staff, old staff, no staff. Who invented them? Where did they come from? And...

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  9. One-way ticket just isn't an option

    A core of African scholars are ditching the convenience of the West to return home. Karen MacGregor reports In 1996 after violent clashes with students and staff at the University of Ahmadu Bello -...

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  11. Campus curiosities 18

    In the foyer of Luton University's Postgraduate School stands the statue of a killer. The effigy in Putteridge Bury, a mansion house on the outskirts of the town, is of an Egyptian stag that laid low...

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  12. The red king is dead, long live the king

    John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies As a political project, Marxism has ceased to matter. The mass...

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  13. Earthly ideal is a most niggling dream

    John Gray says neocons should take note of philosopher and historian Leszek Kolakowski, who warns against Marxist utopian fantasies The master died 122 years ago. He lived in the age of steam; never...

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  14. Outdoor life with a growing legacy

    Forestry training has branched out into new ways of seeing the woods and the trees. Jessie Anderson reports From the windows of his cottage in the Cumbrian village of Calthwaite, 63-year-old Jim...

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