Waugh-ha ha
Laurie Taylor in his review of Evocative Objects (Books, September 28) says that one of the jokes at Forest Hill Comprehensive School was the story of the English teacher who, unable to control his...
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Reality check
From the choice of a child's name to the widespread difficulty in understanding the laws of physics, human beings are governed, Steven Pinker says, by innate and often fallacious conceptual...
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Conflicts of interest
Diaspora communities worldwide look back to, and sometimes frustrate peace plans in, the countries from which they have fled. How best, asks Hazel Smith, to make these far-flung peoples a force for...
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War by other means
While the conflict in Iraq grinds on, a parallel 'soft' war is being pursued by a host of new indigenous and Western-backed Arabic television, radio and internet services. Annabelle Sreberny says...
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God dead? Not quite
A Secular Age
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Monkey business all about winning
Macachiavellian Intelligence
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a jazzy stream-of-consciousness riff on postwar America: "I first met Dean not long after my wife and...
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Shoddy and trite - or is that the pesky hormones talking?
The Female Thing
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The eight deadly sins of modern democracy
From Anger to Apathy
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Calculated to inspire delight
One to Nine
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Still potent force in the art of darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Warrior king of the post-classical age
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
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Labouring under a misconception
Who are these academics who claim to work round the clock, asks Susan Bassnett. And if they do exist, why don't they get a life? There is a certain kind of infuriating academic you meet occasionally...
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A textbook case for writing one
If you are passionate about your subject, know your market and don't mind hard work, writing a textbook could bring you a tidy profit as well as satisfaction in a job well done, advises Harriet Swain...
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Rousing troops to get voices heard
Name: Sarah Beattie-Smith Age : 22 Job: President of Edinburgh College of Art students union Salary: £11,400 Practical training/education: BA (Hons) Sculpture Working hours: Officially 10 to 5.30;...