Job: Academic Director (ESL school) Qualifications: Ph.D (African Economic History, LSE), DipTESOL (Trinity College). Interests: History (ancient Greece, Persia & Rome, early medieval Europe), cricket, football, (old) films & film history + half a dozen others. Current time zone: GMT +8 Voting policy: I`ll upvote any answer which is well-researched and has sources, appropriately used of course (even if the topic doesn`t interest me much) A few choice quotations: `Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.` (Walter Lippman) `I used to be snow white but I drifted.` (Mae West) `Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it or who does it.` (Malcolm X) `Je suis Marxist, tendence Groucho.` (anon., Paris graffiti) `I`ll give you a definite maybe.` (Samuel Goldwyn, attrib.) ©