With 1.5m students, campuses all over the country and tens of billions of dollars in assets, Azad University, a semi-private institution, is a rich prize.

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They disliked semi-independent foundation hospitals, differential university-tuition fees and freer trust schools for much the same reasons.

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Meredith Kercher, from Coulsdon, south London, had been on a year abroad from Leeds University when she was found semi-naked in her bedroom and with her throat cut in the cottage she shared with Miss Knox in November 2007.

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Mr Graglia, who has taught at the university for 30 years, issued a semi-retraction, emphasising the importance of equal opportunity but standing by his opposition to racial preferment.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT may have found a semi-sweet solution -- dissolving a sugar lattice in a batch of living Jell-O.

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Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia's university for foreign students, when Kercher's semi-naked body was found in the house they shared.

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Sunday's Trophy semi-final tips off 1300 GMT at the Science Centre, London Metropolitan University.

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