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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in Venice: "Each afternoon, when the whole city beyond the dark green shutters of their...
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Awe, up close, is plain awful
Embedded
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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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Laurie Taylor column
From : The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Mickey Mouse degrees To : All academic staff As you will be aware, there has recently been a great deal of interest in Mickey Mouse degrees. My...
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Laurie Taylor column
From : The office of the vice-chancellor Subject: Mickey Mouse degrees To : All academic staff As you will be aware, there has recently been a great deal of interest in Mickey Mouse degrees. My...
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Leader: We can move ahead now, but we cannot relax
Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
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Leader: We can move ahead now, but we cannot relax
Tuesday's nerve-jangling vote was too close for ministers to be sure of getting their bill through Parliament, even now. Undoubtedly, there will be further ambushes to come in committee and in the...
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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...