The Admissions Committee then starts to offer admission to the best candidates, and by the time you reach the round two deadline in January (my dates and figures are purely illustrative), there may be 250 or so places left.

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Those figures found a ready place in almost every news report about the Doha round that autumn.

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The round-table deal was a canny fix, in which weak-willed opposition figures allowed the cronies of the old regime to maintain their power.

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