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  1. Letter: Flak for all hacks (1)

    David Palfreyman's points to a problem with "well-meaning amateur dons as part-time committee hacks" (Letters, THES, December 8). That problem is far worse in Cambridge, and it concerns me that...

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  2. Letter: Flak for all hacks (2)

    Congratulations to David Palfreyman on sending me to the dictionary twice and causing me mentally to draw breath three times while reading one of his sentences. Oxford lives... Beverley Thompson...

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  3. Letter: God help us (1)

    As a member of a small theology department that has the misfortune of having to prepare for both the research assessment exercise and a subject review visit, my thoughts have been turning to the long...

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  4. Letter: God help us (2)

    Although I read Peter Atkins's review of Ian Barbour's When Science Meets Religion (Books, THES, December 8) with salacious pleasure, I could not help feeling that someone who was really so sure of...

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  5. Letter: Pollsters or dolesters?

    Pollsters and journalists despair because they failed to predict the outcome of the United States presidential elections ("Red faces over White House forecast fiasco", THES, November 17). Perhaps...

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  6. Letter: Ethics and Burma

    Beverley Drumm (Letters, THES, December 8) made some excellent points. But I disagree on one issue. To imply that to enter a dictatorship on a research visa endorsed by a host government ministry is...

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  7. Modern Languages Association conference 2000

    The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste. Criminals, perverts and...

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  8. MLA: speaking out and spreading the word

    "If", The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , The Ballad of Reading Gaol , a Shakespeare sonnet - could you name your favourite poem? In the United States, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" tops the poll...

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  9. MLA: Brave new words

    Tim Cornwell finds out how Lynne Cheney and her 'political potboiler' fit into MLA history The rightwing's favourite cultural hawk is back. Under president Ronald Reagan, Lynne Cheney carried the...

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  10. MLA: Behind bars, then out in the cold

    Malawian poet Jack Mapanje is writing his account of the three and a half years in prison that blighted a promising career. Chris Bunting met him in York When Jack Mapanje was arrested by the...

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  11. MLA: apartheid's blind spot - the albino terrorist

    Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,...

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  12. MLA: voices of the incarcerated demanding to be heard

    The world has been watching (and perhaps smirking) at the election problems of the nation sometimes considered the "leader of the free world". Much less media attention has focused on the roughly 4...

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  13. MLA: being true to the Russian master

    Richard Pevear explains why the first new translation into English in 40 years of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was necessary Why is there a need for a new translation of Anna Karenina ? The version by...

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  14. MLA: putting the stud back into gender studies

    Portraying themselves as victims, men are reasserting their cultural dominance, says Sally Robinson There's a scene in David Fincher's film Fight Club where the narrator faces a Gucci underwear ad...

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  15. MLA: reading more than words

    The issues involved in translation require and foster critical and associative thinking, heightened reading skills, and an increased interest in and understanding of other cultures. All too often,...

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