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Boxing Clever In Academe

Michael Carlson HUSH MONEY by Robert B. Parker John Murray, £16.99, pp. 309 T here's an old saying, repeated with increasing frequency, that academic politics are so vicious......

A Guided Tour Round Wisdom

Paul Ferris THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY by Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 265 T his stroll through the lives and works of half a dozen philosophers is......

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