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On the trail of a poet's repressed emotions
William Wordsworth - Wordsworth
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Carry on spoiling
The Death of Comedy
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More tone in nation's voice
Contemporary American Fiction
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Secrets that are just a click away
The Art of Deception - World without Secrets
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Have time for your mistress and wife
Beating the 24/7
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Picture imperfect
I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by...
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Not our business
Alan Shipman's claim that the MBA might not be worth the paper it is printed on ("Is the masterplan coming unstuck?", THES , November 8) is true only for a minority of graduates. There are more than...
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Is Evans worthy?
Gillian Evans has fought doughtily to make Cambridge University central administration stick to the rules, so eyebrows may be raised over reports of her promotion to professor before Regent House...
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Petition has clout
Queen's University Belfast's decision to axe classics ("Poet Heaney joins protest over axeing of classic", THES , November 1) means that potential students "will have to leave the province to do a...
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Help with the kids
I read with interest the argument that top-up fees will mean that most academics will be unable to afford to send their children to university (Letters, THES , November 8). Up until 1950, some...
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Credit where it's due
Tony Hewish's minimising of the part played by his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the discovery of pulsars should not be the final word (Diary, THES , October 25, November 8). The discovery of...
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An eye on plagiarism
The article "Troubled Wales is hit by plagiarism claim" (News, THES , November 8) conflates and confuses two cases. The first, Jo Kimber's, was a complaint to the University of Wales Swansea that was...
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Eugenics is a reality
Ian Wilmut's review of Genetic Politics (Books, November 8) ignores how the disability discourse has been hijacked by anti-abortionists. The obligatory denunciation of "eugenics" is one way of...
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Confusing victims with bullies 1
It is extraordinary that Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson should criticise the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's investigation into Mona Baker's behaviour on behalf of...