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The Exquisite Adonis Blue

The Adonis Blue, loveliest of all the blue butterflies and rivalled only, perhaps, by the White Admiral as a thing of delicate wonder in flight, lending its  grace to the beauty of the chalk uplands of southern England. This is the butterfly of our joyous childhood excursions to Hod Hill, where, I hope, it will continue to flourish long after the footprints of rapacious men fade from view. LJ 

 

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Christ Church announces new measures to broaden diversity and support less advantaged students | Christ Church, Oxford University

Some promising initiatives here, though it seems likely that these will be insufficient to placate the swelling mob, whose purpose is rather to level than to build on what has gone before. LJ

Christ Church announces new measures to broaden diversity and support less advantaged students | Christ Church, Oxford University
— Read on www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/admissions/christ-church-measures-broaden-diversity-support-students

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Montaigne, la santé est-elle le bien suprême ? – Ép. 1/4 – Les philosophes face à la maladie

Comment Michel de Montaigne aurait-il vécu et pensé la crise du covid ? Lui pour qui la santé est un bien, peut-être suprême, mais non une valeur devant régir nos sociétés, nos décisions politiques. Lui qui ne cessa de répéter que le but de la vie n’est pas de ne pas souffrir, mais[…]
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Close, but no cigar

I couldn’t get 14 across, though I was nearly there. The definition is quite obscure, but the clue was valid. Very frustrating, since I raced through the rest of it! LJ