First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who died in 1991: "Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistent depressive...
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Appointments
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The president of the board of trade has appointed the following to serve on the council: Wendy Hall, professor of computer science in the department...
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Chairs
University of Aberdeen Graeme Simpson, formerly business analyst and business opportunities group manager with Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. has been appointed to the first Schlumberger...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DLitt: Anthony Conran, poet, translator and literary critic; Geraint Gruffydd, emeritus professor, director of the University of Wales centre for advanced Welsh and Celtic studies...
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Jag man sees the green light
Car design guru James Randle tells Kam Patel how his taste for speed has been overtaken by concerns about pollution of the planet James Neville Randle leans back in his chair and laughs as he...
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Necessary coupling
The Origin of Language - The Language Connection
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Errant might
Trial of Strength
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Prompted response?
Bosnia by Television
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Why crystal Ball failed to shine
George Ball
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The land of the glum and free
The State of the Nation
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Speaking Volumes: Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language
On Frederick Bodmer's The Loom of Language I have always had a thing about collecting books, encouraged no doubt by my father who, from an early age, would take me around junk shops and second-hand...
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Chains that bind
The Making of New World Slavery
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Out of grief's long shadow
Kennedy
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PC pundits and the Pax Americana
Encyclopaedia of US Foreign Relations
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Pennsylvania's polymath
Benjamin Franklin