WMU's Dr. Dunn said the need for a medical school is reflected in the high percentage of high-caliber applicants failing to win a slot each year in a U.S. medical school.

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Similar patterns affected the school board makeup in Lawrence, on Long Island, but Dunn said Lawrence did not descend into similar problems.

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The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.

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