Living by numbers and counting on testicles
The Mathematical Brain
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Playing on grass (and smoking it)
English Cricket
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Trust me, I'm a scientist
Prometheus Bedeviled
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Private acts in a public theatre
Lord Goodman
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Two cheers for Latin democracy
The Heart of the War in Colombia - Pinochet - Cuba's Repressive Machinery
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Politics: the isms and isn'ts
Political Thought - Political Theory
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Verbal tiptoe on the margin
On Racial Frontiers - Autobiography and Black Identity Politics
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Egypt's force to be reckoned with
Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and their Impact on the State, 1962-1992
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The war baby grows up
Modern Strategy - The Politics of British Defence 1979-98
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The Edward Said of the ancient world
Heresy in the University - Afrocentrism
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an ever-changing work, published in 1886: " Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance,...
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Pisa
Italy's students claim private tutoring associations are taking increasing advantage of inadequate teaching at universities to exploit students, with the general approval of their own university...
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Mexico City
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, entered his office last week, nearly three months after he was appointed during a student strike over increased...
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Banned by Straw poll
If home secretary Jack Straw is feeling beleagured he will find no sanctuary at his alma mater. Leeds University Union, of which Mr Straw was president in 1968, has banned him from the union building...
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Copenhagen
Danish officials are taking a relaxed view of economics students who use state-guaranteed educational loans, which carry a 4.25 per cent interest rate, to speculate in high-risk, high-gain technology...