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  5. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a biographer of the Victorians: "On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the...

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  9. Why authors won't be Wellcome

    Publishers' scepticism about the claims of the open-access campaigners ("Everyone's a winner", May 7) is easily caricatured as self-interest. But it goes deeper. The Wellcome Trust's estimate of...

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  10. Class equality

    As the principal author of the new government social class schema, I take exception to the cavalier criticisms of it by Richard Austen-Baker and Christopher Knight (Letters, May 7 and May 14). The...

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  11. Past impressions

    I was surprised to read Lord Triesman's claim that his main aim as a student activist in 1968 was to get Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, elected president of the National Union of Students ("My...

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  12. Marked disparities

    Your article about the university marking scheme ("Structure is archaic, confused. See me!!", May 14) is symptomatic of a more serious problem - the unprofessional approach that characterises our...

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  13. Fellow non-traveller

    I would like to correct an error in last week's Times Higher front-page article ("Dollars lure scientists Down Under", May 14), which is causing me some inconvenience - and not just because of the...

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  14. Let's be rational

    Your article (May 14 ) stated that I "misleadingly" claimed to be a student of Colin Blakemore's. He additionally accuses me of having "fuelled the campaign" against him and, in his letter (May 14),...

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  15. Sensible failures

    G. H. Hardy once remarked that the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan "had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable is". No doubt Ramanujan would have failed...

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