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...From this memorable nugget of American history, writer Jimmy Warden and director Elizabeth Banks whip up a raucous gonzo horror comedy of what might have happened in the interim....
...If I’m on duty come moving-in day, I’d love to chat with the freshers and tell them that, despite us looking like armour-plated traffic wardens, we are here to look after them....
...BarristersBrief Skype encounter In his book Confessions of a Barrister, the pseudonymous Russell Winnock describes a typical silk as “uber-confident and prone to pomposity”....
...Alec Russell is the editor of FT Weekend Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Mr Russell notes: “Each year, a handful of graduates take the three-hour scholarship exam.” I took the All Souls Prize Fellowship examination in 1984....
...Alec Russell is the FT’s news editor and former southern Africa bureau chief. @AlecuRussell....
...… The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, by Dan Washburn, Oneworld, RRP£12.99/$18.99 US journalist Washburn weaves colourful narratives to document the rising popularity of golf in China....
...… New College Lane “My favourite spot in Oxford is the bend of New College Lane, just under the windows of the Warden’s Lodgings....
...And in 2010 Alec Russell flew out to meet Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister. The menu read as follows: “Coke: US$1; Sprite: US$1; Return flight to Harare: £950.” Interview: priceless....
...There wasn’t even much to read until Lord Russell of Liverpool, a lawyer at the Nuremberg trials, published his Scourge of the Swastika (1954), which we devoured in the upstairs synagogue library, aghast...
...Or how about telling the traffic warden who has just ticketed your Volvo that she resembles President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan?...
...You have to go to Versailles, Richardson says, where the statues “direct you like traffic wardens through the garden”, to sense how crowded these exclusive spaces would have been....
...Favourites include a dish by Toby Russell, a jug by Stuart Devlin and a wine bottle coaster by Rod Kelly....
...When I walked through Oxford with Alan Ryan, warden of New College, he recited a list of star academics who had left the university and said: “We are in danger of turning into an incubator for the likes...
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