When Tony Tan Caktiong looks back at his childhood, he remembers tasting things.

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Like many other principals, he looks back less than fondly on the days when councils' involvement in colleges meant that political considerations often counted for more than educational ones.

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He looks back now at the seasons he had when he was younger hitting .280 to .300, averaging more than 40 doubles, 35 homers, and 120 RBI, like clockwork and what sticks out the most is how simple, how easy it felt.

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Gero said he looks for investors to start coming back to gold when they are finished raising cash.

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Mr Cerf looks back to the seventies when, with another computer scientist Bob Kahn, he was developing some of the key technologies that led to the birth of the Internet.

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