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  1. Bustle at the library

    I WAS sorry to read Mr Obelkevich's letter (THES, December 19) complaining about noise in the British Library's new reading rooms. The reading rooms were indeed very busy during the opening period...

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  2. Passionate argument

    A BOOK review ought at least to outline the premise of the book under review and give a reasoned appraisal. Andrea Dworkin's distorted and polemical review of my book Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence...

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  3. The quality buck stops here

    GEOFFREY Alderman's amusing misrepresentation of the purposes and outcomes of the Quality Assurance Agency's "continuation" and overseas audit programmes (THES, December 26) cannot go unremarked. The...

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  4. Don's diary

    Monday Approval of my application for sabbatical. Sabbatical is now called study leave. We have not found a three-letter acronym (TLA) for it yet. By the miracle of peer review, that cornerstone of...

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  5. Date rape: are we going too far?

    A RECENT television drama has kept date rape a live issue for students, their universities and the public. Last year a 22-year-old Oxford University student was jailed for a year after he had...

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  6. Charge for the bright brigade

    AUSTRALIAN universities have been reeling from a series of shocks to the system over the past 18 months, most of which relate to changes in the method of financing higher education. Given the...

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  9. Speaking Volumes: Games People Play

    Michael Webster on Eric Berne's Games People Play . Just as there are tunes that can never be driven permanently out of the head, there are ideas that survive in the memory long after their...

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  13. Beware cul-de-sac concepts

    Britain's Cities - Planning for Urban Quality - The New Urban Frontier - Planning Europe's Capital Cities

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