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Nations must connect reality to morality before they arm themselves to the teeth
War and Self-Defense
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Looking for Leo. Must have strong sense of fun
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought
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Who should Tony be cosying up to?
Before and After - Between Europe and America - The New Imperialism
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When aggression became the ruling power in a cosmopolitan culture
Wages of Violence
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Helping the able to join the elite 1
Robert Stevens (Soapbox, THES , January 16) names Imperial College and Thames Valley University as exemplars of a feared two-tier system and elitism. An unfortunate choice, perhaps, in the light of...
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Helping the able to join the elite 2
Chemical engineers must be pleased that a professor of strategic management compares their profession to plumbing (Letters, THES , January 23). With this level of understanding of engineering, was...
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Helping the able to join the elite 3
Why not a plumbing degree? Because it would confuse plumbers with heating engineers. A domestic plumber's main skill is to make waterproof joints, avoid airlocks and get a pipe across a building...
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Helping the able to join the elite 4
It is the smug, well-established universities that deserve the epithet "Mickey Mouse" ("Do they deserve to be degrees?", THES , January 23). In response to government pressure for change they failed...
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Cavity in staff supply 1
Dental schools, like medical schools at UK universities, are struggling to recruit and retain teachers ("Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation", THES , January 16). This is against a...
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Cavity in staff supply 2
Student health services risk serious underfunding as the new general practitioner contract stands. Our work, caring for young adults, often away from home for the first time, is not fully recognised...
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Global harming
In his review of Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Books, THES , January 23) Paul Ormerod trots out facile shibboleths that have been intoned by corporate apparatchiks for the past 30...
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Mind own business
Why is it that while we at business schools teach management, credit control, budgeting and how to run successful commercial enterprises, most universities are like the proverbial cobbler's children...
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Don't do an Enron
Enthusiasts of merit pay in UK universities (Letters, THES , January 9 and 16) should take note: Enron Corporation managers in the US were dedicated supporters of merit pay. According to Bethany...
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Joint attack on chaos
Liverpool is not the UK's leading university in complexity research ("World will not bow to our control", THES , January 16) and is, in some respects, the new kid on the block. In 2001, the Open...