Caught in the act of balancing
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Churchill lessons
Unhappy the land that has no heroes . . . Unhappy the land that has need of them." Brecht's dialogue over the role of the hero will have deep resonance this weekend as Britain commemorates the 50th...
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Rangoon rap
Burmese
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A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
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The worth of nations
Rob Brown reports on the career of Tom Nairn, the Scottish writer and academic who believes that resurgent nationalism does not need to be nasty Those who check the planet's pulse by tuning into TV...
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American gripes about grades
Murray Lee Eiland looks at a case of campus consumer fraud with grade A and B rewards given for C and D work One of the explanations offered for the United States's remarkably durable economic...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. I'm sitting in the comfort of an Amtrak coach up the Hudson river to Albany, thinking: Why am I doing this? I've been in New York state since Friday evening and already my stomach aches from...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER. Charities. Dr D. Twell, Pounds 79,256 from the Royal Society (research fellowship); Professor G. Dover, Pounds 128,391 from the Wellcome Trust (an experimental analysis of...
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Events
Primates and Man The Royal Society and The British Academy are holding a discussion meeting on "Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man" on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4 and 5 (...
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A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
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Code makers on the ether enigma
Andrew Charlesworth cuts a path through the legal jungle on the World-Wide Web, in the first of a series of articles on Net law . It is apparent, from even a cursory survey of the Internet, that the...
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Patent truths in the stories of invention
Inventions and Official Secrecy
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Martyrs to Mickey
Researching Children's Literature - Children's Literature
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Dominoes and death tolls
In Retrospect
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Lessons in intertwingling
Mike Holderness finds a deeper message in the fun of electronic learning. You might say (OK, I will say) that the new playful semi-irreverent banter found on this Internet discussion list will save...