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  1. The high-brow just don't know how to love him

    Puccini faced it, so did Rodgers and Hammerstein, and today Andrew Lloyd Webber is a victim. Why can't academics help but sneer at popular composers, asks Adrian Mourby Andrew Lloyd Webber is a...

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  2. A serial killer still lurking in shadows

    Luckily, last year's Sars epidemic was brought under control quickly and efficiently. But, warns Roy Anderson, we may not be so fortunate next time round. On December 26 the Chinese ministry of...

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  3. 'Open access' for the rich only

    The claim that "open-access" journals will replace the traditional subscription model and open up access to research is wrong ("Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas", THES , January 2). Despite...

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  4. 'Open access' for the rich only

    The article "Call to put research free on websites" ( THES , Dec 19/26) is welcome, but it repeated the most frequent misunderstanding of open-access self-archiving - a persistent error that keeps...

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  5. Patronising the public

    While I agree with Lord Winston's message to open an informed dialogue between scientists and the public ("The public pay, so give them their say", THES , January 2), the examples he chooses to...

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  6. Patronising the public

    Bill Durodié is right to say there is little scientific evidence to indicate that the MMR vaccine causes autism (Letters, THES , January 2). But most parents are not scientists with specialist...

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  7. Trouble at the top?

    So the University of Luton plans to make a further 50 lecturers redundant ("Redundancy drive aims to free up cash at Luton", THES , January 2). This means that it will have shed a total of nearly 200...

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  8. Burning not borscht

    Brendan Simms writes in his review of A Century of Genocide that genocide "is as authentically European as croissants, borscht or dumplings" (Books, THES , January 2). He cannot be accused of...

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  9. World-class snobs

    Many of us across the university sector feel that the recent extensive exposure given to the Russell Group is misguided and, frankly, boring. This self-selecting lobby of so-called "top" universities...

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  10. (Dis)honour 1

    I note the list of those in higher education who received New Year gongs, and your shortlist of those who perhaps should have but did not (News, THES , January 2). Where, however, was the list of...

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  11. (Dis)honour 2

    Can you please reassure your readers that the only reason for the omission of my name and photograph from the list you published last week of those in higher education whose names were omitted from...

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  12. Sexual anxieties

    Angela McRobbie (Features, THES , January 2) asks what kind of politics feminism can offer to pre-teens and young women in a culture awash with pornography. As sexual identities proliferate and we...

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  13. Fair play over pay

    Peter Elford gives a negative view of the pay and reward structure at the University of Nottingham (Letters, THES , December 12). The university is implementing a reward strategy, that, in line with...

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  14. A misuse of data

    Lee Harvey's polemic against the National Student Survey ("Scrap that student survey now", THES , December 12) is an excellent example of what most concerns the steering committee for the project -...

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