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  4. Chaucer meets NYPD

    Joyce Malcolms says that "between 1890 and 1892, there were only three handgun homicides in a population of 30 million" (Why I..., THES , June 21). Wasn't the late-Victorian weapon of choice a...

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  5. Hull of a surprise?

    In your article on the British Academy (Features, THES , June 28), Sir Keith Thomas follows Blackadder in citing Hull as the obvious antithesis to Oxbridge in matters of intellectual distinction. He...

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  6. Marx in disguise

    In his review of Meghnad Desai's Marx's Revenge (Books, THES , June 28), John Driffill writes: "Desai reminds us that contrary to the belief that became firmly established in the 1880s and 1890s...

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  7. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (1)

    Margaret Hodge lambasts university "elitism" because she wants "an intellectual elite not a social elite" ("You are all too elitist, says Hodge", THES , June 28). So she wants elitism then. But does...

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  8. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (2)

    Margaret Hodge's desire that we concentrate on intellectual achievement, not social stratification, is to be applauded. But she should recognise the crucial role of new universities, university...

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  9. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (3)

    Universities were dismayed to be branded "institutionally elitist", catering for the middle classes and not for people from low-income backgrounds. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many have...

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  10. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (4)

    It is a bit rich for Margaret Hodge to blame universities for the fact that students from low-income families find campus life difficult: it was Tony Blair's first government that abolished...

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  11. Hodge's elitism dig is a bit rich (5)

    Intelligence is normally distributed among the population regardless of social group. Education - the cultivation of that intelligence - has a skewed distribution because richer people buy it....

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  12. Cuts rest on cash (1)

    You misleadingly engineered a story suggesting that I favour cutting the volume of research ("Research to be cut, Newby says", THES , June 28.) Your reporter did this by incorrectly attributing to me...

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  13. Cuts rest on cash (2)

    While Hefce's intended review of the research assessment process is welcome, there must be concern about the decision "separately" to examine the funding method. This is a missed opportunity to...

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  14. ILT loan status

    The article "Future in doubt for hard-up ILT" ( THES , June 28) artificially entwined two developments that have almost no bearing on one another. The first is the financial position of the Institute...

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  15. Get your stats straight

    The case of Sally Clark ("Acquittal was just a chance in 73 million", THES , June 28) has interested me since the publicity given during the trial to the "1 in 73 million" odds that two children from...

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