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  1. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is a genial tale of a German tour by an idle fellow:  "'What we want,' said Harris, 'is a change.'"...

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  2. Daily TV & radio guide - Friday

    The Poet and the Astronaut (11.00 am R4). Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and her cousin Joe Tanner, who inspired her poem Zero Gravity (featured in a BBC2 programme in July 1999). Belief (7.00 R3). Last in...

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  3. Higher Channels

    Pick of the week Jonathan Meades brings BBC2's Victorian season to a close with the enjoyably pugnacious Victoria Died in 1901 but is Still Alive Today (Sunday 9.45). The programme is mainly about...

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  4. Laurie Taylor column

    SENIOR DON RIGGED RESULTS - SHOCK CHARGE Media studies academics across the country are reeling from the news that one of their senior colleagues, Dr Piercemuller of Poppleton University, has been...

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  5. Leader: Bit more than nothing offered for something

    The funding council insists that the new money it plans to put into pay must be on a "something for something" basis, and that this means performance related pay - with the establishment of...

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  6. Leader: Still no room on the election manifestoes

    Education, though not higher education, looks set to top the political agenda in Britain in 2001. The year will almost certainly bring a general election in which schools rather than colleges will be...

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  7. Letter: Chewing over Gum(1)

    Fay Weldon's tilt at political philosophy does not amount to a hill of beans ("Towards a grand universal morality", Millennium Magazine , THES, December 22/29). Our godless age has, she argues, so...

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  8. Letter: Chewing over Gum(2)

    Congratulations on that spoof first-year essay by Fay Weldon. J. C. O'Neill Edinburgh

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  9. Letter: Our very own RAE of sunshine

    It never ceases to amaze me that academics continue to attack the research assessment exercise ("Poisonous exercises", THES, December 22/29). For those who enter the profession because research is...

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  10. Letter: BAT funding at Notts(1)

    Reactions to the decision of the university to accept British American Tobacco funding for its business school have ranged from moral condemnation to an acceptance of economic pragmatism in relation...

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  11. Letter: BAT funding at Notts(2)

    You really know how to spoil a guy's Christmas. I bet Sir Colin Campbell has already been on to his lawyers about the "correction" (Letters, THES, December 22/29) affirming that the word "clever" is...

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  12. Letter: Tests and terrorists(1)

    Your article on legislation to limit terrorist activities by extreme animal rights groups ("Law fails to assure animal researchers", THES, December 15) will be welcomed by scientists who live in fear...

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  13. Letter: Tests and terrorists(2)

    It is because of their failure to persuade the public of their cause that the animal rights extremists have resorted to campaigns of violence and intimidation. It is unacceptable that medical...

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  14. Letter: Herts course cutting

    At the University of Hertfordshire, in social sciences, one of four areas closing ("Hertfordshire faces legal action over course closures", THES,December 15), three staff left last summer and six are...

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  15. Letter: Not in Kansas

    John Radford's responses to the criticism of his earlier letter (Letters, THES, December 15) simply reiterate that males happen to do better on the most commonly used tests of mathematics than...

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