The piece also details a conversion experience: Veteran auto correspondent Stephan Wilkinson confesses that when the Veyron was introduced, he considered it an arrogant status symbol and refused to test-drive it on principle.

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If the Ulster Unionists withdraw their backing, it could make for another lively and lengthy debate in April which will test the willingness of all the Stormont parties to breach the principle of parity with Great Britain when it comes to welfare payments.

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Durham County Council has agreed the deal in principle with the club, which will host an Ashes Test for the first time this summer.

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Having established the principle, Dr Huang and Dr Galinsky went on to test the effect of posture on other power-related decisions: whether to speak first in a debate, whether to leave the site of a plane crash to find help and whether to join a movement to free a prisoner who was wrongfully locked up.

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