Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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Emperor to caliph
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
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The empire strikes back
The West insists on seeing the war in Chechenia as an internal Russian affair. But as Richard Clogg points out, it is only the latest episode in an old struggle by an independent people against their...
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A blood-soaked land between two rivers
Iraq since the Gulf War - Inside the Arab World - The Shi'as of Iraq
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Applied medicine without frontiers
The UK stands out in the clinical, pre-clinical and health table - the only subject ranking headed by a non-American institution. The table is led by the University of Oxford, which has maintained...
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Life Sciences Rankings: Biological interfaces yield strong readings
The top of the life sciences table has been shaken up this year, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reclaiming top spot and Harvard University falling to third. The University of...
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The rational anthem
What makes people buy expensive freshly squeezed orange juice at Marks & Spencer? David Walker asks if the idea of rational choice - that people behave consistently selfishly - has passed its...
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This sceptical isle
Britain is dead, long live. . . what exactly? David Cannadine on the making of the "new British history" and its future During the election campaign for the European Parliament which was fought out...
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World saviours goof off at home
Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World - Joe Alsop's Cold War - Self-Rule - America's Mission
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University rankings most important factor for international students
International students choosing where to study are most likely to be swayed by a university鈥檚 league table position or its ranking in a particular subject, a new survey suggests. According to the...
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Arts and Humanities Ranking: Anglo-US ascendant as Europe retreats
Stanford University, which counts former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky and authors Ken Kesey and Jeffrey Eugenides among its alumni, has retained its position at the top of the arts and humanities...
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Said returns to singe his critics
Orientalism
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Genial hosts and unwanted guests
Encyclopaedia of Virology
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Beyond the 'super-brands' universities are strengthening their positions
Outside the legion of 鈥榮uper-brands鈥 that occupies the top of the table, a number of players are strengthening their positions, Phil Baty discovers An elite group of six global 鈥渟uper-brands鈥 has...
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Symbolic victory
Andrew Robinson reveals how the secrets of the ancient Maya are being uncovered as Linda Schele and her colleagues learn to decipher the first American writing system. "The American chronicle does...