After lobbying a visitor to his Oxford college too brusquely, he was eased out and took a job at another university which he despised.

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"It's nice to get through your first few balls and then start hitting a few in the middle of the bat, " he said after his 39 not out eased his side to victory over Hampshire.

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Vioxx, he pointed out, was the only medicine that eased some patients' pain.

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