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I was thrilled last Tuesday when Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, ...

This bilingual dictionary will initially be piloted in 100 government schools across Karnataka and aims to expand to 400 ...

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A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.