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Some gutter snippets
John Davidson, First of the Moderns - Selected Poems and Prose of John Davidson
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Speaking Volumes: The Anxiety Of Influence
Richard Cockett on Harold Bloom's The Anxiety Of Influence . My bookshelves are my intellectual odyssey. In the proper Oxford schools manner, Gibbon and Macaulay now gather dust near the floor, and...
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The erotic red sock
Believing in Opera
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The ruthless revolutionary
The Unknown Lenin
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Why it pays to be global
The Evolution of International Business
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First Impressions
The words of this week's First Impressions, our newcompetition in which you have to identify the opening sentenceof a well-known book, were penned by a novelist regarded as one of the greatest...
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Twirls with moustache
Ford Madox Ford - Ford Madox Ford
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Built-up
(Photograph) - Built-up:the Centenary Building, University of Salford, by Hodder Associates this week won the Architecture in Education Award, one of the categories in the annual competition held by...
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Noticeboard: College Performance 1996
The FE league tables appeared in The ̽»¨ÊÓƵ Supplement today under the heading "Noticeboard: College Performance 1996". This listing for England and Wales is NOT available on this...
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Minister rubbishes media courses
MEDIA studies and other "in-vogue" courses are turning out students unfit for the labour market, education minister James Paice told college principals this week. Speaking at the annual conference of...
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Laurels for the hardy
Plaudits are being heaped on Harry Kroto as Britain's first science Nobel laureate in a decade. He just hopes that his new-found prominence will help heap better funds on the UK's basic science too....
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Geologists dig far too deep
University geology courses are largely irrelevant to modern living and should shift their focus from the earth's core and mantle to the inhabited crust, the director of the British Geological Survey...
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Sale time nears for royal star chambers
The government looks set to give the final go-ahead to the sale of the two royal observatories. The Royal Greenwich Observatory works closely with Cambridge University and the Royal Observatory...
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Treasury looks at PFI tax
The Treasury is considering removing VAT on university projects funded under the Private Finance Initiative in an effort to inject life into the flagging scheme. While there are still hurdles to...