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...Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker, London; Sebastian MacKay, Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152: Roger Clews, London; Vivienne Blackwell, Kent; Jenni Humphreys...
...Ebay founder and chairman Pierre Omidyar, PayPal and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen all backed him....
...Anne Reid, actress. Elma Rendall, customer service officer, Royal Bank of Scotland. Gary Speed, footballer. Raymond Spencer, executive director, Customs House....
...A number of present permanent secretaries, in different ways, attested to this in the course of an illuminating programme, Shape Up, Sir Humphrey, broadcast last month on BBC Radio 4....
...The worst offender turns out to be straight-talking, no-nonsense, not fit for purpose John Reid....
...John Reid, UK home secretary, may not have bothered to work out costings for splitting the Home Office and creating a new Ministry of Justice, yet Whitehall was right on cue when it came to rebranding....
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