Don's Diary
Monday. An early meeting with our printers to rearrange the layout for the vice chancellor's annual report. This is due to the impending visit of United States President Bill Clinton to the Queen's...
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Balancing act is hard to follow
Far from a feel good factor, the expenditure cuts announced in the budget have in higher education provoked universal concern and despondency. Those affected - staff and students - are unlikely to be...
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Baroque and roll
What is in the musical canon - and what should be? John Davies asks music academics to nominate their noteworthy top ten. "Is there, or should there be, a canon of great works or great composers that...
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Bombers and bunglers
After 20 years of spectacular failure, Greece is at last starting to get to grips with its terrorism problems. George Kassimeris reports. Twenty years ago this month the history of Greek terrorism...
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Object lesson
For Chinese art scholar Jessica Rawson, now warden of Merton College Oxford, object and text tell different tales. But in order to get the whole story we need both, as she explains to Simon Targett...
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Stars in their ancient eyes
Celestial bodies dictate the calendar and once stopped a war. John Barrow ponders their effect on the human race The Christmas story follows a star - or at least a triple conjunction of Saturn and...
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Thesis
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service...
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Blunder and enlightening
The Illustrated Guide to the Bible - A History of Christianity
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Diabolical liveries
The Devil
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Halo, goodbye?
Mother Teresa - The Missionary Position
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No sects please, we're British
A History of Religion in Britain - Faith and Criticism - The Christian God - Religion in Modern Britain
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Psychic shock
The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist - The Memory of Water - Soul Searching
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The mystic and the rustic
Kali's Child
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Final Word
This Final Word comes from the epilogue of a book by an author who remains unconvinced by the terminally ambitious: "'FEEL LIKE? Oh, I a most interesting question, my lad I er I rather like to know...