"The Maule earthquake will arguably become one of the, if not the most important, great earthquakes yet studied, " said Ben Brooks of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.

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Even more strangely, in a very compelling section on learning, Brooks has high-school Harry develop a fascination with the impressive explanatory power of thumos, the ancient Greek notion of, among other things, status motivation.

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Mr Cameron's friendship with Rebekah Brooks and other members of the Murdoch inner circle - he was at school with her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, and the couple socialise with the Camerons - is well-documented.

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Brooks was a strong supporter of the school, located in Beaumont.

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Mrs Brooks and her husband Charlie - who went to school with Mr Cameron - have both been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in relation to the phone-hacking scandal surrounding News of the World.

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Charlie Brooks, a horse trainer who studied at the elite private school Eton, is a friend of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who throughout the phone-hacking scandal has been criticized for being too close to both News Corp. officials and the Brookses specifically.

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Probably not, said Brooks Holtom, associate professor of management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

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