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Quiet Goes The Don

Terence Kealey on a university principal who cut out the dead wood among his teaching staff UNIVERSITY lecturers are paid both to teach and to do research — but there are some......

Sinking Funds

As the Channel tunnel prospectus is the fate of the Panama canal. THE financial euphoria over the launch of the Channel tunnel brings to mind the excitement over another great......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE attack on Trafalgar Square threatened for Sunday was actually made. Although processions had been strictly forbidden, and were, after se- vere fighting, broken up by the......