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  1. All quiet on the home front

    David Walker looks in vain for meaningful messages from Britain's silent sociologists. Fond as they are of the word, British sociologists do not discourse much. Indeed at the midpoint of this decade...

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  2. Barbie invites dry up for Liz

    We shouldn't be surprised by Australian republicanism, argues David Corson, it is what you would expect from a country with such a strong egalitarian culture. In a 1978 poll, Australians were asked...

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  3. Parting political shots

    The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...

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  4. Running on a losing FE ticket

    Fawzi Ibrahim does his colleagues in further education no favours by referring to slave contracts and slave-owning employers (THES, March 3). He insults the suffering of millions of people worldwide...

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  5. Beware sloppy sloganeering

    Poorly understood free market principles applied to science funding pose a threat to long-term research, says Derek Roberts. I am disappointed, but not surprised to see (THES, March 10) that the...

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  6. Boy's own revisited

    Laurie Taylor (THES, March 10) was clearly unimpressed with the article by John Davies on the increasing use of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in student assessment (THES, March 3). I was intrigued...

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  7. Micky Mouse mistakes

    John Sutherland's review of a new book on copyright (THES, March 3) has a number of errors: for example, in July 1995 United Kingdom copyright term extends to 70 years post mortem. Contrary to what...

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  8. Final Word

    This week's Final Word comes from a story about explosions and Manhattan: "The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the first half of...

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  9. Speaking Volumes: The Singer of Tales

    Ruth Finnegan on Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales . When I arrived in Oxford my tutor told me to read my classical texts aloud. Being literal-minded, I took her advice. And having read out all those...

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