Something far more ludicrous than anything at all in the official theology.

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The notion that Tony Blair is content to make Oxford and Cambridge the preserve of the wealthy by frightening away able students of modest means is even more ludicrous.

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All the rest of that week I tried to think through my decision carefully, but the more I tried to organize my thoughts the more ludicrous I felt for thinking them at all.

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To believe that the Ethiopian government will be able to use the nationalised assets in a more efficient way than Nestle is ludicrous: it almost certainly will drive down the business to zero by diverting its profit from reinvestment in the business to the purchase of arms.

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Those holding their noses and averting their gaze from the ludicrous situation that the Corrib Project have become are little more than collaborators in the greatest robbery of the Irish state.

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Yet the ostentatiously ludicrous Mr West has undoubtedly helped to attract bright students to Harvard in the same way that the rather more serious Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith once did.

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