Colour coding in America
The Invention of the White Race
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a former US soldier who grasped - but not at straws: "If you really want to...
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Passionate artists in the laboratory
Passionate Minds
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Howlers
Entry to The THES annual howlers' competition is still welcome. Please send to Antithesis, THES, (address right) by the end of June. Prize a bottle of Chateau-Antithesis.
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Victim mentalities
How many sufferers of abuse go on to abuse? Julia Hinde investigates. Gitta Sereny's book on child killer Mary Bell suggests that the 11-year-old strangled two small boys partly because, from an...
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Quality street for the masses
How will welfare work? Universities, Bahram Bekhradnia points out, already have difficulties taking more students from poor families Ministers have made clear that one of their major concerns is to...
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The colour of ivory towers
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
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A new fabric of reality?
Are today's scientists no better than the priests of the Inquisition, who forced Galileo to declare that his scientific theory was not a description of reality but merely an observation of...
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Lonely as a spy
Evidence that the poet Wordsworth spied on the French has been around for years but no one has, until now, pieced the facts together. Kenneth Johnston explains. Was the English Romantic poet William...
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'New wars'
Conflict is dead, long live the capitalist. Mary Kaldor tells Kate Worsley a new type of war is emerging Mary Kaldor, Jean Monnet reader in contemporary European studies at Sussex University, was...
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Conflict is dead, long live the capitalist
Historians' fears of a major European conflict are mistaken, argues Mark Mazower. But as Mary Kaldor (right) tells Kate Worsley a new type of war is emerging Historians shy away from optimism. We...
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How will welfare work?
Will Gordon Brown's tight grip on public spending end academics' love-in with Labour, asks David Walker in the first of a series on social exclusion. Universities, Bahram Bekhradnia (right) points...
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Honorary degrees
University of Manchester DMus: John Tomlinson, operatic bass. DSc: Leslie Turnberg, emeritus professor of medicine, former president of the Royal College of Physicians. LLD: Anna Ford, news...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research grants Dr A. Coulson, Pounds 93,534 from the Economic and Social Research Council (OB approach to client/contractor relationships in British local authorities); Dr N...
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Appointments
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh James Petrie, professor of clinical pharmacology and head of the department of medicine and therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen, has been elected...