Republican Lite?
Bill Clinton looks set to bury Bob Dole in a landslide in next Tuesday's US elections. Not bad for a president who was hugely unpopular only two years ago. How has the Comeback Kid managed this...
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Russians admit decision to dissolve federation was a big mistake
It was, in the words of its national anthem, a "union of free and indivisible republics". It lasted more than 70 years. It pioneered the exploration of outer space, and bored the world's deepest oil...
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Illuminating our hardware
Sara Abdulla explores the burgeoning subject of evolutionary psychology. In human behaviour heredity furnishes the warp and cultural habits the woof; the warp remains everywhere much the same", said...
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Menu masters
This week The THES begins a series on a little-mentioned but crucial ingredient in academic life - food. Here, Lisa Jardine reveals her culinary passions, what the Tudors put in their blancmange and...
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He could handle cyborgs
Jon Turney resurrects the work of a neglected French thinker whose original ideas on the usefulness and limits of rationality in the life sciences are becoming increasingly relevant. Odd how...
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BSE crisis cripples research
Programmes at institutes allied to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will be shelved and projects up for renewal will be cut by up to 25 per cent under Ministry of...
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LSE hopes to decide on a new director by December
THE London School of Economics has agreed a shortlist of five for the post of director and hopes to reach a decision within a month. Possible candidates are Baroness Blackstone, master of Birkbeck...
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Rugby death was not the first
Ian Tucker, the Oxford University rugby player who died this week after being injured during a game, is not the first top-class student player to have been killed in this way. Charles McIvor, who was...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
(Photograph) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was in Oxford earlier this week as a guest of St Anthony's College. He was welcomed by Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the university, to the...
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Moral lessons for teachers
Teacher trainers should pay much more attention to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of young people, according to an unpublished report which forms the basis for a consultation...
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Bullying claims may lead to dismissal
Governors at a further education college hit by allegations of bullying have taken the first steps towards instituting dismissal proceedings. The corporation of Stoke on Trent College has set up a...
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Campus take-off for yogic fliers
The yogic fliers of the Natural Law Party are hoping to see support take off in universities as they bid to establish a national network of campus groups. The NLP is already established in Manchester...
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BMA targets low-paying colleges
THE British Medical Association has threatened to "blacklist" universities as anger comes to a head over pay disparities between university and NHS doctors. BMA chiefs agreed on October 16 to invoke...
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Selection of prints has been donated to De Montfort University
(Photograph) - Some day my prints will come: an impressive selection of prints showing large-scale verse by Swiss concrete poet Eugen Gomringer and American visual poet Robert Lax (left) has been...
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Cybercafe imbues taste for learning
De Montfort, once the country's fastest growing university, is planning to build an ambitious cybercafe-cum-tutorial complex which could prompt a new escalation in student numbers via a multi-million...