Baring all makes for quite a striking portrait
Lord Cromer
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Stale words on the way we speak
Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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Sibling rivalries and other tales of sisterhood
Freedom's Cause - Sylvia Pankhurst
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Martyr who despised elevation to an 'ism'
Gandhi in his Time and Ours
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Gifted raconteur who got the story before historians
Living to Tell the Tale
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Delusions of the masses
The Wisdom of Crowds
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Stroking parents' skulls to salve their own scars
Carrying a Secret in My Heart... Children of the Victims of the Reprisals after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956
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Musings on how the father of history saw life and death
Herodotus and His World
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All Islam in site of sultan's last sigh
The Alhambra
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Laurie Taylor column
In a shock announcement yesterday, Mr G. Middlewhite, the managing director of Poppleton Pork Products plc, declared that Poppleton would soon be home to a new university. From September 2005,...
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Leader: Armed response to a violent threat
Violent animal-rights activists pose Britain's biggest home-grown terrorist threat. Unlike those protesters who press their objections peacefully, they are not interested in compromise or negotiation...
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Leader: Open to high standards
This week's House of Commons report on scientific publishing comes close to free advertising for open access, a new way of getting research papers into the hands of scientists and the public...
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Overgeneralised and over here 1
Ayako Yoshino's entertaining attack on British ignorance of foreign students (Features, July 16) presents a one-way perspective on cross-cultural issues. All of her amusing anecdotes illustrate...
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US grass no greener
Colin Bundy sees wistful glances being cast by the Government across the Atlantic to US universities with their large endowments, major research capacity and higher salaries (Soapbox, July 9). He is...
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Fascism still kicking
How easy it is for Michael Mann in Los Angeles to pronounce that fascism is dead and has been so since the end of the Second World War (Features, July 9). The logic of his message is that we should...