First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work about the King, as was, and Lord Copper: "This is not a story of love and sacrifice, although...
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Black cloud in American dream
American Crucible - Cold War Civil Rights
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Feeling cold in a capitalist climate
After Progress
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Devolution dominoes
The State of the Nations 2001
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Devious political shape-shifting
Bushamanders and Bullwinkles
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A look at what makes the swingometer swing
Political Research
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Bridge into the heart of China
Governance and Politics of China
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War is hell but profit is possible
War and Underdevelopment - War and Underdevelopment
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The past predicts a fragile future
Lineages of the Present - The Geopolitics of South Asia - Reinventing India
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Laurie Taylor column
Letters: Rankled by rankings . My attention has been drawn to a letter published in your columns in which the vice-chancellors of Lancaster, Umist and York have questioned the reliability of research...
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Leader: Spend on research, not its Byzantine grading
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to cut all but 5* research in this year's funding allocations has understandably provoked uproar. Was it for this that so many people...
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Leader: Up fees for rich and help the poor - and do it now
MORI's latest opinion poll for Unite has two particularly striking findings - apart, that is, from the astronomical amount a minority of students spends on drink. First, most of today's students...
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Letter: Defending 'mad women in attics' 1
How we might best understand the suffragette movement and the role of the Pankhurst family in it is a matter of heated dispute ("The Pankhursts - politics and passion", THES , January 25). But while...