Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.

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Alex is my family, my other half, the love of my life.

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As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

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Role-playing-games, and particularly action-RPGs, are my genre of choice, but a game like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Bioshock are loads of fun.

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Jahan, one of the most important children in my life, is half Indian and half Caucasian, living part time in Goa, India and part time in the US, as his parents run their NGO.

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The only other option was to claim nothing at all but then I would have had to resign because I could not afford to live half my life in London or Cumbria without an allowance for one of them.

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Working in the computer industry, my work is focused on technology that has the half-life of sushi.

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In my own brief life as a serial writer, I found that the last half of the novel was not as difficult as the first.

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