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  9. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a French story that inspired an opera: "I had always suspected that geographers don't know what they'...

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  10. Why must cloning be criminal?

    The reasons that Ian Wilmut gives for justifying the criminalisation of human cloning are unconvincing and slightly disturbing (Books, May 21). Present techniques are, he says, inefficient, and...

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  11. Grade A nerve 1

    I am a former professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury (though not in the English department), so I may be regarded as biased against the student plagiarist who is threatening to sue it (...

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  12. Grade A nerve 2

    I am sure that, in his case against his university for failing to give proper guidance on acceptable research techniques in the use of web-based sources, student Michael Gunn would be able to rely on...

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  13. Benefactors are us

    So, universities should look to alumni to address underfunding ("Task force sees merit in drive to tap alumni", May 14). Most of my colleagues support their institutions by working 15 hours a week...

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  14. System failure

    The current weaknesses in examining practice are systemic and not primarily the result of individual failings (Letters, May 21). Externals should scrutinise a sample of scripts drawn from each...

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  15. Lofty meanness

    Mass higher education needs its popularisers as never before. So Jean Aitchison's review of Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English (Books, May 14) was particularly mean-spirited. Acknowledging that...

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