SS officer keeps degree
A German university has decided to allow a former Nazi SS member to keep the doctorate he earned under a pseudonym to conceal his wartime activities. The University of Erlangen-Nurnberg found no...
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Mobility of Irish and Jewish immigrants
This month's prize for Sheer Academic Shamelessness goes to Ceri Peach ("A Question of Collar", THES, August 23). He calmly admits that there is no evidence for a central part of his highly...
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Warrior on want
Blessed are the poor ... for they have Peter Townsend fighting their corner. Which is just as well because, as he argues, the Tories have systematically unpicked the British welfare safety net. Huw...
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BSE on the run
The Wellcome Trust says the BSE epidemic in Britain is in rapid decline and predicts that even if culling does not take place, the epidemic will fade towards extinction by 2001. The trust adds,...
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Painted wagon-trail
The Duke of Edinburgh, opening an Edinburgh university building recently in his role as chancellor, evoked memories of his visit to the nearby Ashworth Laboratories last year. Those preparations had...
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Dying for a fag? Yes, says critic
Cigarette advertisers are capitalising on images of entrapment and oblivion, a Scottish academic claims. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's Centre for Human Ecology argues +that the health...
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Skull's odyssey tracked
The 400th anniversary of Descartes' birth near Tours has seen the traditional commemorative publications. But one biographer, retired medical professor Emile Aron, found that he spent much of his two...
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Academic sympathy for transsexuals
Deirdre McCloskey's excellent piece on gender transitions in academia (THES, August 23) implies that transsexuals face a particularly tough time in Britain. While she is correct that the position of...
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Bard-mouthing the Scots
Jennifer Wallace reports on the 'new' Shakespeare play. They were all distinctly underwhelmed at the International Shakespeare conference at Stratford. Radio 4's Today programme ran a story on the...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the work of an author and poet who was the first English writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature in 1907: "He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a...
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Speaking Volumes: The Unity of Law and Morality
Zenon Bankowski on Michael Detmold's The Unity of Law and Morality . It was a long journey. I couldn't concentrate. The train was hot and the book was weighing me down with its complexities. Why had...
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A lapidary lyricist
Wordsworth and the Geologists
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Distant sounds of crashing banks
Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars
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Making sure of one's ventifacts
The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology
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