about the influence of foreign money on the ethos of English public schools prompted a reader to send me an interesting snippet of gossip about Eton. There's one housemaster, he said, who has an unofficial ban on three types of boys: the sons of Russian oligarchs, which is self-explanatory; musical boys, who are too highly strung; and the sons of divorced American mothers. Apparently the latter's offspring "require just too much pastoral care", says my source. Which is no doubt true, particularly if the mothers are of the Jacqueline Susann, Valium-popping variety. But isn't there a law against this sort of discrimination?

Yet Jones, sensing he might be down a round, landed hard right hands, and then, in an instant, changed the momentum of the fight, a spinning elbow to the hairline doubling Gustafsson up. Claret poured from Joness face like hed been sliced open with a butchers knife. But he was fixed on his prey.

She seems to have reached a level of reconciliation with the world that was perhaps not in her grasp before, when she appeared more ambitious, but less happy.

The prices charged for solar-grade polysilicon and wafers continued to increase in March 2011. Cuts in subsidy support on January 1 across major European markets, in the form of lower feed-in tariffs for solar electricity, are putting downward pressure on the prices of finished photovoltaic modules. Because of limited supply, the price of silicon is not falling--in fact it is rising.

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