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  1. Mind your language 2

    I have lived in Spain for 26 years and, like Michael Bulley in France (Letters, September 14), have no desire to hear my family and friends talking to me in "English Spanish". But in criticising...

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  2. Mind your language 3

    Instead of engaging with my argument about the implications of English having become the international academic lingua franca, Roy Harris distorts my points and resorts to insults about my...

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  3. Mind your language 4

    Roy Harris feels that it is time someone asked what universities are doing by admitting foreign students who are not linguistically equipped to follow the courses offered. Everyone knows that the...

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  4. Still intact: the lure and the lore of the virgin

    From blushing medieval maidens to Bush-era abstinence campaigns, Western views about the importance of virginity reflect a continuing anxiety about innocence, experience and control, writes Anke...

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  5. Salad days and salmon replace the pie and pint

    Lighter lunches, Fairtrade products and sandwiches on the run are winning fans among time-poor, waistline-conscious lecturers, reports Olga Wojtas Amid the Government's concern about rising levels of...

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  6. Invaluable resource or stolen property?

    The repatriation of the remains of 17 Tasmanian Aborigines by the Natural History Museum highlights an unresolved conflict between scientific and cultural obligations. Julia Hinde reports In May this...

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  7. A subtler take on the clash of civilisations

    Akbar Ahmed, long a critic of US foreign policy, has now been invited to the White House. So what, asks Huw Richards, will he tell the President? Akbar Ahmed should have been in the Oval Office....

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  13. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is drawn from the tale of an unconventional union: "Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the...

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