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Echoes of Memphis and Thebes
The Tale of Sinuhe
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an American novelist named after his second cousin three times removed, the author of "The Star-...
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Ms leading the audience
Ms-Directing Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare By Elizabeth Schafer The Women's Press 7pp. £14.99 ISBN 0 7043 4544 7. Keat's sonnet On sitting down to read King Lear again reminds us that such is...
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Damns and blasts
Word Crimes: Blasphemy and Literature in 19th-Century England. By Joss Marsh University of Chicago Press 431pp. £43.95 and £17.95 ISBN 0226 50690 8 and 50691 6. Joss Marsh's Word Crimes stakes out a...
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Dante's descendents
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile Cambridge University Press 701pp. £70.00 ISBN 0 521 43492 0. In recent years there have been various large-scale...
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Echoes of Memphis and Thebes
The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC Translated by R. B. Parkinson Oxford University Press 317pp. £45.00 ISBN 0 19 814963 8. Ancient Egypt is famous for its monuments...
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Genetics' Mr Fix-it
Worldly wise: 20. French Anderson's controversial plans to inject engineered genes into foetuses in the womb have met with condemnation - and a death threat. Tim Cornwell reports The Federal Bureau...
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UK mislays passport at the final frontier
It's late and way over budget, but the International Space Station should finally blast off today. Is it worth it? asks Julia Hinde Plane-spotters and stargazers may soon have a new target in their...
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From extracts to sex tracts
Arthur Koestler raped Michael Foot's wife and David Cesarani wrote about it. Now he feels that The Telegraph's serialisation violated his book. To avoid the same fate, Brian Brivati (box) asks if he...
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Higher channels
John Davies suggests some television and radio programmes worth noting this week. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Cuba Libre (Saturday 4.0 onwards, History Channel). The cable/...
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First brushes with the real world
Charles Saatchi plans to sell some of his modern art collection to fund bursaries for London's struggling art students.Kate Worsley asked four recent graduates how they would spend the money Weather'...
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Discovery has no upper limits
Most mathematicians are young and male, but John Ashworth finds much to celebrate in Kathleen Ollerenshaw's first book on the subject If the first nine numbers, 1-9, are written in the shape of a 3 x...
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Star Turn
Olga Wojtas watches Strathclyde's quizmasterin action with a group of mechanical engineers. There is something of the quiz show about Jim Boyle's lectures. Each student holds a gadget resembling a...
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The THES Diary
Union dues Financial difficulties at the Association of University Teachers have brought out the good Samaritan in fellow lecturers' union Natfhe, itself no stranger to cash-flow problems. A Pounds...