Great chess players, as Mr Arthur Koestler explained in a scholarly article in the Sunday Times on July 2nd, are seldom nice or happy.

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Arthur Koestler argued that the creative act involved juxtaposing ideas that were not normally associated with each other, and that is where I would seek for similarities between writing and science.

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Mark Koestler, co-chairman of the business-immigration practice at Kramer Levin in New York, said the firm is handling three times as many H-1B submissions as a year ago and more than even before the recession.

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Schering-Plough research head Thomas Koestler says his company is "pretty excited" by the trial results so far for its hepatitis C protease inhibitor drug boceprevir and plans to share data with regulators soon to discuss next steps.

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The son of Britain's first woman MP Nancy Astor, he was only 29 when he took over the editorship of the Sunday paper but went on to recruit writers such as George Orwell, Arthur Koestler and Kenneth Tynan during his 27-year tenure.

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