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Feature: Every picture tells a history

Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum

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Bleak prognosis for health funding budget transfer Subscription

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Feature: Every picture tells a history

Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum

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Geza Vermes, 1924-2013 Subscription

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A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish background to the New Testament has died

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Over my dead body! Subscription

23 May 2013

“I’ll murder you!” she screamed, stabbing at his heart with the blackboard pointer. “How dare you interfere with my 59!”

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