"They will spend half their time at Imperial and half their time in schools, " a spokeswoman said.
But the issue has refused to go away, with the so-called Russell Group of 19 top research-based institutions - including Imperial and UCL - consistently in favour.
The picture they reveal of failing ambitions, both imperial and economic, throws light upon themes and impulses that are still with us today, from financial bubbles to the aftermath of empire.
Where, for that matter, is Mr. Krugman's outrage about the fact that MSNBC has made a cottage industry of hiring virulent Bush-haters and promoting their conspiracy theories about Mr. Bush's imperial and unconstitutional ambitions?
Johnson Library, a midcentury futuristic cube at the University of Texas at Austin, the imperial and the folksy are at odds: Sweeping travertine stairs and a monumental display of scarlet storage boxes emblazoned with gold presidential seals contrast with an animatronic, Stetson-wearing Johnson posed at a split-rail fence.
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Marcus Aurelius' foolish son Commodus squandered the imperial treasury, and expenses skyrocketed as later emperors launched expensive wars of choice against family enemies, greatly enlarged their imperial armies and raised military salaries.
"This shows that the commission has listened to our views and recognised the strong arguments that we've made for maintaining dual metric and imperial labelling and the right for the UK to decide on the future use of pints and miles, " he said.
Of course, the irony is that all the new wave Belgian breweries are making American-style imperial IPAs and barrel-aged imperial stouts.
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Dr Alan Watkins is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine at Imperial College and runs a training and coaching company.
It's a city whose brilliance is strangely provincial, and whose fussy introspection is set in a landscape of matchless imperial openness and grandeur.
The Guggenheim and the Hermitage have a small joint museum in Las Vegas which will house an exhibition of Russian imperial clothing and jewellery as a complement to the New York show.
"These studies show that RSV is a 'hit and hide' virus, rather like HIV or some hepatitis viruses, " said Professor Peter Openshaw of Imperial College and one of those involved in the study.
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The only non-U.S. names likely to appear in any of the top 10 lists are Swiss-based IMD, INSEAD of Paris, Spain's IESE, ESADE and Instituto de Empresa, the London Business School and Imperial College (UK) and Belgium's Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.
In 1939, Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to form the British Overseas Airways Corporation.
The trappings of the imperial era and even of the Romanov dynasty are increasingly in evidence.
This is hardly Labour's doing: Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College and a handful of others have long been world-famous.
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There's also a Confederate national flag and various Imperial Russian, Prussian and German parade helmets, rank caps, medals, insignia and uniforms.
Emmott points out that things are very different from the days when imperial Germany and Japan started throwing their weight around.
The deed represents a history of imperial Britain and colonial South Australia.
The two World Wars saw the fall of old imperial powers and the rise of new nation states, usually now as republics, with new currencies.
Belgium's Karin Donckers on Rose's Merlin, Mary King with Imperial Cavalier and Australian Andrew Hoy on Moonfleet complete a tight group for the top six places.
In common only with Boston, London has two universities (Imperial College and University College) in the world's leading 20, so its universities are a draw too.
Only the very rich--Roman senators, imperial generals and the like--had the diversified investments that allowed them to escape the poverty and dangers that engulfed virtually everyone else.
The US nuclear monopoly at the end of World War II allowed it to defeat Imperial Japan and bring the war to an end in allied victory.
Held in the evening, outside of the Coliseum, pilgrims huddle together, holding candles as clergymen make their way around the imperial amphitheatre and up to Palatine Hill, where the service concludes.
Napoleon, ruler of France from 1803 to 1815, rose to power by conquering most of Europe, creating an imperial monarchy and fashioning a set of laws that for the most part still stands in force today.
Under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and later under a succession of presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, these experiences convinced Americans to change their attitude toward imperial conquest and toward nationalism in countries like the Philippines and Iraq.
Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
Among other British names, Mary King and Imperial Cavalier are seventh while world number one William Fox-Pitt is back in 13th and 17th aboard Navigator and Cool Mountain respectively.
There are currently only two FTSE 100 companies - Burberry and Imperial Tobacco - with female chief executives, after Cynthia Carroll left mining giant Anglo-American and Dame Marjorie Scardino retired from the top job at media firm Pearson last year.
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