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  3. A guide to that flaming inbox

    John Naughton downloads the first expert analysis of Netspeak. When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules; wherever I...

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  5. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist, essayist, journalist and dramatist who was born in Algeria: "Mother died today...

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  7. Laurie Taylor column

    Prominent academic resigns because of intolerable bureaucratic demands including the need to "justify every lecture on the basis of aims and outcomes rather than having the freedom to occasionally...

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  8. Letter: Reason, ridicule and religion (1)

    Peter Atkins's incitement to "Pure religious hatred" (Letters, THES, October 19) one might think him an agent provocateur for the religious, so effectively does he discredit his cause by fallacious...

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  9. Letter: Reason, ridicule and religion (2)

    There are things that are truly hateful and that are carried out in the name of religion. We have to speak about these things and criticise them as we would criticise anything that harms society or...

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  10. Letter: Reason, ridicule and religion (3)

    Peter Atkins makes a number of valid observations in his academic opposition to religion. Such expressions of the indefensibility of religion are too often seen as being insensitive and best left...

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  11. Letter: Reason, ridicule and religion (4)

    As an Anglican, I find Peter Atkins's complaints to be without foundation. First, the Bible shows that Jesus amazed the intellectuals of his day - no lack of reason or understanding there. And Jesus...

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  12. Letter: Reason, ridicule and religion (5)

    The difficulty will be for the law to allow the expression of opinion that some religious beliefs are false and unworthy of being believed while barring expression of hatred for those who hold those...

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  13. Letter: Economic follies (1)

    As a business person, I am deeply concerned about the directive given to universities on October 22 by the secretary of state for education. Estelle Morris told universities to work more closely with...

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  14. Letter: Economic follies (2)

    If it means recruiting the brightest 50 per cent of "poor kids" to join the brightest 50 per cent of "rich kids" at university, then Estelle Morris is right that expansion should not threaten...

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  15. Letter: Justifiable exclusion

    Auriol Stevens's assessment of higher education and the supposed gains made over the past 30 years ("A challenge for the next 30 yearsI", THES, October 19) was insulting. It trades on the view that...

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