Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, whose offices were attacked, is the university's ultimate authority.

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In the late 1990s, Bill Gibbs, the former president of the University of Phoenix, began building the ultimate play house.

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Earlier this year I wrote in detail about the ultimate fantasy experience for the outdoor cook, BBQ University with Steven Raichlen at the Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs.

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The ultimate ambition, according to Professor Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey, is to produce a type of universal memory "that you can take from one computing device to another".

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Many start with various pre-pre-school training schemes that will, with luck, lead to the ultimate goal: a post-graduate degree from a prestigious foreign or domestic university.

CNN: LITTLE EMPERORS

With the exception of a team working at Pennsylvania State University, he stands alone in the pursuit of what may be the ultimate feat of bioengineering, (see table).

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