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The saying goes: ‘Be careful what you wish for’. The literal meaning is that if you wish for a state of being or an event, your wish may be granted, only to find out that the wish brought with it…
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It is almost a cliché to say that everyone had a favourite teacher who left a positive impression on them. Cliché or not, I can boast no less than three such teachers who did just that and to this day,…
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Early evening on Tuesday 5th January 1971, a young man who had just finished school in his home country, arrived at Heathrow Airport to prepare for university the following year. At school, he had studied English as a foreign language…
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