A cat among the pidgins

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Steven Pinker is a specialist in psycholinguistics who has developed ideas proposed by Noam Chomsky. Pinker has also sees language development as important in natural selection, in contrast to Chomsky. Pinker writes in a way designed to appeal to a non-specialist audience. His theories are controversial in some academic circles, with a debat on the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and his views on natural selection, among the controversial issues.

author: Targett, Simon
Analysis, Works, Linguistics, Pinker, Steven

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Refounding father: Pakistan, described as the third most corrupt country in the world, needs a saviour. Can Imran Khan and a Gandhiesque film of the country's founder, produced by a Cambridge academic, do the trick?

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The people of Pakistan are seeking a saviour to restore the corrupted country to a 'land of the pure'. Some Pakistanis see Imran Khan, cricketing hero and aspiring politician, as a potential leader with his soft revolution to overthrow the lords of corruption. A Cambridge University based Pakistani scholar Akbar Ahmed, believes that the model of leadership epitomised by Mohammed Ali Jinnah could offer hope to other Islamic nations.

author: Targett, Simon
Pakistan, Leadership

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Psst ... need a new campus, mate?

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A growing number of UK higher education institutions are expected to try and tap the UK government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to fund capital projects. This is a potentially large market for professional consultants, and educational institutions are now being targeted by a growing number of professionals in areas such as legal consulting, design consulting, financial consulting, management consulting and construction.

author: Targett, Simon
Finance, Universities and colleges, Contracts, Consultants, Consultants (Persons), College facilities

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