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  1. Keeping watch on the seats of power

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropologists are more committed...

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  2. Seeds of real relief

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropological research on famine...

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  3. A cancer among the body social

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Those poor and desperate enough to...

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  4. Do we need to address our stress?

    As the working week gets shorter, work-related stress appears to be on the rise. David Wainwright and Michael Calnan ask why. In February, an appeal court ruling overturned compensation payments of...

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  6. Lit critters need selling

    English is as relevant as any subject. The world just needs to be told, says Bob Eaglestone. Something is rotten in the state of English. The study of literature and language is flourishing. It has...

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  7. The real cost of free speech

    The UK legal system found that writer David Irving had manipulated and falsified historical documents, but it also nearly scuppered an attempt by historian Richard Evans to publish his account of...

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  8. Career conundrums 2

    I was sorry to read about Alice Smyth's plight, but some of the problem is reflected in her references to her contact with careers advisers "before or since university". Didn't she use her careers...

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  9. Biology in rude health

    Robin Dunbar has a narrow view of what biology is all about ("Biology in terminal condition", THES , June 14). Although it may be true that applications for straight biology are decreasing, the...

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  10. In brief 1

    In response to claims that the University of Leeds is "set to follow" other medical schools in making redundancies ("RAE plunges Bristol medics into crisis", THES , June 14), we would like to...

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  11. In brief 2

    The illustration of a naked woman set against fragments of a poem ("Make poetry a friend not a foe", THES , June 7) reflected the tired, cliched attitude to poetry that Ruth Padel was arguing against...

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  12. Damned statistics 1

    Your editorial ( THES , June 7) rightly calls for extra resources to achieve a 50 per cent participation rate, but your analysis of postcode premiums elsewhere demonstrates the inadequacy of this...

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  13. Damned statistics 2

    The finding that 28 per cent of UK university lecturers are over 50 is used to imply that we are an ageing profession ("No way to treat valuable citizens", THES , June 7). But if the standard...

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  14. Damned statistics 3

    Pay discrimination between ethnic-minority and other staff is impossible to verify if variables such as qualifications, age and experience are not taken into account ("St Andrews attacked on ethnic...

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  15. Ins and outs of race 1

    Ian McDonald identifies with Sussex University students and their claimed fear of being taught by someone who "deems them genetically inferior" ("No refuge for racists within the academy", THES ,...

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