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The Soviets' other class struggle
Soviet Schooling in the Second World War
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Kremlin hotline fails to sizzle
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze
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Forever young, forever revolting
Generations in Conflict
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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 chemist whose knowledge of chemistry saved his life: "There are the so-...
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Postcard from Cannes
Dear Maureen As you can see from this rather glamorous card, I'm spending a few days at the Martinez Hotel in Cannes, a wonderful art deco building on La Croisette. There's a fine swimming pool, an...
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Complete cure for joblessness
In the second of our series, we look at what students can expect from some fast-growing and fast-changing subjects When it comes to jobs, few students are more certain of instant employment than...
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Appointments
Napier University Michael Thorne, pro vice chancellor at the University of Sunderland, has been appointed vice chancellor of the university with effect from January 1998. University of Greenwich John...
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Chairs
University of Edinburgh Keith Smith, former head of department of the Scottish Agricultural College and latterly at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management has been appointed professorial...
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The trouble with getting a real job
Poverty wages, contract posts, overt sexism. Scientists share their 'horror stories' with Martin Ince Earlier this year Alan Hale had his name publicised on a global billboard. Stunningly visible to...
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Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Is anyone interested in the sex life of composers?
Biographers of Schubert have speculated about both the state of his mental health and his sexual orientation. He is thought to have died of syphillis, which would explain some evidence of mental...
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Orchestral manoeuvres
Discord reigns among scholars over whether a composer's life is relevant to his music. In North America, meanwhile, new musicologists argue that context is the key to musical meaning. Harriet Swain...
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Messages resonant in the midst of a score
Can music be moral, or fascist, racist and sexist? Current thinking in the United States is that it can. The "new musicology" makes context king. How music is created, performed and heard and by what...
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Theory amid chaos
Continuing The THES series on academics' rooms, astronomer David Hughes guides Kate Worsley around his office space A life spent looking at the skies through a telescope provides more than its share...