This is not some hot- bed of revolutionary socialism.'Alan Fowlie, the university's administrative secretary, who acts as the chief link between university and union, agrees: 'There's been a recognition that attrition and abrasion are unproductive. After touching 763p the shares are now trading more cheaply at around 640p which, according to Juliet Bakkar at Banque Paribas Capital Markets, makes them a long-term buy. It was a courageous and supremely dignified curtain call. But then John Bute was courageous and dignified. Letters from people such as Rosamond Cossins of Bournemouth who thought nothing of waiting up all night with friends in shifts to see off an unwanted tom.Water was the favoured weapon and lots of readers suggested how to use it.

The other half - Mr Yeltsin's backers - sat in stony silence.'It's a marvellous result,' said the former Soviet parliament speaker Anatoly Lukyanov, a Communist who was elected to the Duma last month, even though he is on trial for treason during the August 1991 Communist coup attempt.The vote-counting commission announced that 222 ballots were clearly marked for Mr Rybkin and that the election came down to a single, disputed ballot on which the name of Yuri Vlasov - a former Olympic weightlifting champion - was crossed out and Mr Rybkin's underlined.With six of the Duma's seats vacant Mr Rybkin needed a simple majority, 223 votes, to be elected. The number of women now at work makes that an outdated concept but something else has happened to golf - almost every club in the country has crammed in as many members as it can hold and have long waiting lists.To grant women equal rights would be tantamount to letting in more than 100 new members at the prime weekend times. A second step would be to open the airport in the northern city of Tuzla to UN humanitarian aid flights so that more than 1 million civilians trapped in central Bosnia can receive food, medicine and shelter. For the organisers the lesson must be that a show at an institution takes on the ethos of its venue.

'Heavy BSA (Bosnian Serb Army) artillery and infantry attacks on Bosnian positions at Gradacac and Brcko,' announced the British military assessment at the bottom right-hand corner.'Heavy BSA attacks against Tesanj and Duboj. In Southborne, Bournemouth, Steven Kiely, 22, died on Christmas morning in a blaze at his bedsit.In Coventry, about 300 youths went on the rampage shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve, hurling bottles at police, smashing windows and looting stores. At 5.30am I looked at my watch and thought to myself: this place is going to be full of people soon. Do you know the difference between the come-hither, let's get intimate 'you fascinate me with your vibrant word-play' laugh of love and the laugh that says 'buzz off, no-hoper'?What does it mean when her pupils dilate when she looks at you? What does it mean if she says: 'Make love to me right now, you fascinating man]' What does it mean if she goes to bed with you and suddenly says: 'Don't touch me] What sort of girl you take me for?'Hey] Did you know that if she crosses her legs away from you it means that she is either genuinely uninterested in your approaches so far, or she is playing hard to get.