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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 tale of a maid of Marshalsea: "Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in...
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Banana sandwiches at gran's
Why poor means poorly and wealth buys health David Proctor, 13, Cleveden Secondary School "I live in Easterhouse (a peripheral estate on the east side of Glasgow) now, but I lived in Maryhill up to...
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The egolitarian
Worldly Wise:2. After a lifetime on the left, J. K. Galbraith is still loud in his championship of liberalism and just as strident about his own abilities. Tim Cornwell reports Most economists,...
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Friends of Blair
Who are they, how do you become one and does it help if you are at the London School of Economics? asks Brian Brivati Six months before last May's general election I wrote about how some academics...
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When a book is worth a sentence
Peter Knight explains why he is prepared to risk prosecution in defence of a homoerotic book he had never heard of until four weeks ago In December 1993 an event occurred that caused turmoil in the...
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Money man makes serial killings
Former academic Chris Evans is a hugely successful entrepreneur. Academics approach people like him to turn their ideas into gold. But, he tells Kam Patel, few are prepared for the ruthless, personal...
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What is the Third Way?
At the heart of the academic response to new Labour is the debate over the kind of politics the Blair government is developing. This has been described as the Third Way. But what is this Third Way?...
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Close-circuit cameras short-circuit justice
Courts place great weight on video identification evidence but, as Kate Worsley reports, research suggests that such confidence may well be misplaced I saw a woman mugged on her way to work last week...
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Why poor means poorly and wealth buys health
The west of Scotland is the unhealthiest part of Britain yet within it are small areas whose inhabitants are in the rudest of health. Two studies aim to pinpoint how social class affects our well-...
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Discrimination rife, say women scientists
A CHARTER to ensure a fair deal for women scientists was launched this week. Valerie Ellis, assistant general secretary of the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists (IPMS), one of...
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Women lecturers taking the Open University to an industrial tribunal
Six women lecturers are taking the Open University to an industrial tribunal accusing them of sex discrimination for including clauses in fixed-term contracts under which they waive their rights to...
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Eye-opening experience
(Photograph) - Visitors to the National Artificial Eye Centre, which this week opened its doors for the first time for National Science Week, might be forgiven for thinking someone or something was...
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Under-18s dilemma for Scottish Office
The Scottish Office is facing the unpalatable choice of treating young Scots less favourably than young English or underwriting an extra tranche of student support. One of the public funding...
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Surveys differ on student response to fees
ONLY 10 per cent of final-year students in top universities say paying tuition fees would have made it less likely for them to start university, according to High Fliers, an independent research...