We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing so much in this supposedly essential good.
What is good politics may be bad morals, and in fact, by a strange fatality, where morals and politics clash, the latter generally gets the upper hand.
He said: 'a strange defeat coming after a strange match, the goal we conceded, the penalties... we immediately understood that there was something which was going badly.
In the week that a divided jury awarded the 2006 prize to Kiran Desai's "the Inheritance of Loss", what is astonishing is that Mr Amis's publishers did not even submit his book for consideration.