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Out of the mouths of academics...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Professor M.L. Gupta of Punjab Engineering College, quoted at the Commonwealth Secretariat site:

"Most people are poor because they do not have money".

I bet his lectures and tutorials are popular.

I have a large collection of obvious lurking in a cupboard, and I am hoping the professor will come round and point it out for me.

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Some important research from Canada

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Those good people at the Globe & Mail have been evaluating Canadian universities according to various criteria, and rather amusingly have rated them for 'on-campus pubs and bars'.

Of large institutions, Université Laval scores the highest with a rather impressive A-, whereas McGill (of which I have actually heard) rates a C. Laval is the alma mater of Conrad Black and Jean Chrétien, and McGill that of Zbigniew Brzezinski

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