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Team players, home and away
The Shakespearean Playing Companies
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Broken tongue
Languages and Jargons
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Droplets from the springs of Vichy
French Cultural Studies
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an emigre historian: "When seeking for a partner worthy of the delectable Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset, an aristocratic paragon,...
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Chairs
University of Sussex The following have been promoted to professorships: Vivien Hart, reader in American studies, former librarian at Hamilton College in New York; Ladislaus Lob, reader in German,...
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Grants
University of Glasgow Research grants Professor P. Kemp, Pounds 45,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (additional funding to core grant on urban studies); Dr D. Diver, Pounds 86,483...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford DCL: Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Martin Jacomb, chairman of the British Council; Peter Taylor, former Lord Chief Justice of England. DLitt:...
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Awards
City University, London C. Henderson, professor of petrology, has been awarded the Schlumberger Medal for 1996 by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. The award recognises scientific...
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Fellowships
Royal Society of Edinburgh The following were elected as ordinary fellows of the society: Ian Alexander, regius professor and head of department of plant and soil science, University of Aberdeen;...
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Greenblatt: Act 2, Scene 1
Stephen Greenblatt is an exponent of new historicism, a rather trendy theory that has divided academics. Now he has been asked by publisher Norton to help edit its Shakespeare. Jennifer Wallace talks...
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Aunt Deirdre says 'Economists, get out of the sandpit.' Now!
Deirdre McCloskey changed gender a few years ago. She was professor of economics at the University of Iowa at the time and known as Donald McCloskey. She argues that economics must reject the three...
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Flag of convenience
Labour and the Conservatives both claim to stand for national pride. Harriet Swain hears from a historian who is unconvinced A recent party political broadcast by the Conservative party featured a...
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Digging for victory
Donald Johanson, the flamboyant fossil-hunter who shot to fame after his discovery of a three million-year-old skeleton in 1974, tells Lucy Hodges about his plans to excavate in Eritrea Why does...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley takes the lid off the Fabian Society in the latest in our series on intelligence units The Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour party, is the oldest socialist society in...