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New definition of ‘legal battle’
Fights break out as Brunel law students queue overnight to avoid unpopular supervisors in first-come, first-served system. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: The Idea of Justice
Alex Danchev is bowled over by an impassioned discussion of reason and humanity
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Saving Kyoto - An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol
Anthony Giddens feels the authors have looked at carbon trading through rose-tinted glasses
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The Communal Gadfly - Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions
Some things live to be ephemeral: morning glories, cabbage white butterflies and newspaper columns. So it was with apprehension that I faced this collection of op-ed columns from The Jewish Chronicle...
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The Canon. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In stark stylistic contrast to almost any work of philosophy you care to name, Thus Spoke Zarathustra dances from the pages with a florid exuberance that can border on the embarrassing. Its scope, as...
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'History goes on; human beings don't change very much'
John Gray says he is no despairing grump, just trying to help us by injecting realism into political thinking. To that end, he tells Matthew Reisz, his essays do not skirt the nasty, shabby sides of...
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ART AND DESIGN- Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial LandscapeBy Kirk Savage, associate professor and chair of the department of art and...
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Manchester Metropolitan University - Where boot-heels wander
The birthplace of Bob Dylan is being turned into something of a tourist Mecca thanks to research by a Manchester Metropolitan University academic. David Leaver, senior lecturer in the business school...
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London Metropolitan University - Hawaii BO
A professor has leapt to the defence of smelly people everywhere. Robert McKeever, head of London Metropolitan University's department of law, governance and international relations, was reacting to...
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Bangor University - Wonder twins, activate
Academics from Wales and Tanzania are to be united under a new twinning agreement. Bangor University is the first UK institution to lead a pairing under the University Twinning and Networking Scheme...
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University of Stirling - Off the court, on to the campus
Britain's top wheelchair tennis player has put down his racket and picked up a pen, enrolling for a degree in sports studies and psychology at the University of Stirling. Gordon Reid arrived on...
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University of Southampton - Just say 'no' to oil, group tells v-c
A group of academics is calling on the University of Southampton's new vice-chancellor to transform the institution into the country's first "transition" university. The transition movement aims to...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - The secret is out
Four hundred years of intimate English secrets are being revealed thanks to a professor of history. Amanda Vickery, from the department of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, has...
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School of Hygiene/Tropical Medicine - Birth of hope
A new centre is to bring together experts on the health of pregnant women and their babies. Poor maternal, reproductive and child health are major contributors to ill-health worldwide, leading to...