Salvage from a wreck
Georg Lukacs
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Speaking Volumes
LINDA McDOWELL on Mike Davis's City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles It is incongruous, I know, but I always wanted to be Philip Marlowe, striding down those mean streets, unattached,...
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The Balkan backlash
The New Great Transformation: - The Balkanization of the West:
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The petulant, the devious and the truly awful
Uncertain Partners
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True blue response to a red threat
Recasting Conservatism
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Over the hill at 50?
Our Global Neighbourhood: - Utopia Lost:
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Search
Rainy days' CASH A team of environmental scientists from the University of Hertfordshire is seeking sponsorship for an eight-week expedition to the rain forest of Guyana in South America. They aim to...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA DCL: Claus Moser, chairman of the British Museum Development Trust, chancellor of Keele University and former chairman of the Research Committee of the National Commission...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Research contracts Professor P. York, Pounds 98,433 from Roche, Pfizer and Smith Kline Beecham (investigative studies into particle formation processes and crystal engineering...
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Events
KUBA TEXTILES The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is presenting an exhibition of Kuba textiles which will feature early and recent examples, as well as a collection made by Wilfred Thesiger's father when...
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Ulster's restrained guardians
Paul Wilkinson praises the army and RUC's role in countering terrorism. The United Kingdom has experienced the most protracted and lethal of all indigenous terrorist campaigns in western Europe, the...
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How to pamper professors
Igor Aleksander was invited to a Californian multidisciplinary conference, or was it a three-day dinner party? My invitation to speak arrived last July and, somewhat flattered by the promise of "big...
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Redrawing the map by numbers
In the 1980s Britain went indicator mad. Every institution was subjected to the attentions of managers and auditors compiling new performance indicators to set budgets, measure progress and turn the...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Super-vision
St Antony's College was singled out in an article about the Graduate Student Charter (THES, March 3) as an example of a graduate college where some dissatisfaction exists regarding university...