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"Last night your team performed for only 20 minutes," he began before launching a barrage of questions about formations, tactics and personnel all designed to demonstrate beyond all doubt that Rijkaard should in future be forced to sit in the dugout wearing a horse collar and a dunce's cap.
The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson 2012
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Anyone who has not yet grasped this fact deserves to wear the dunce's cap - Valéry Giscard, President of the EU Convention, speech in Aachen accepting the Charlemagne Prize for European integration, 29th May 2003.
The EU project explained Not a sheep 2008
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Anyone who has not yet grasped this fact deserves to wear the dunce's cap
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Anyone who has not yet grasped this fact deserves to wear the dunce's cap - Valéry Giscard, President of the EU Convention, speech in Aachen accepting the Charlemagne Prize for European integration, 29th May 2003.
Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008
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MORI poll shows 37% of teachers once wore dunce's ...
Davis fall(s)out 2008
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MORI poll shows 37% of teachers once wore dunce's ...
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During Mao's 'Great Cultural Revolution' which gripped China forty years ago like a collective dementia, one of the most demented of its images was film of an emminent and frail Chinese professor being paraded through the streets in a rubbish cart wearing a dunce's hat and a placard which apparently proclaimed he had 'erred' in some academic opinion.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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MORI poll shows 37% of teachers once wore dunce's ...
Davis quits! 2008
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MORI poll shows 37% of teachers once wore dunce's ...
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MORI poll shows 37% of teachers once wore dunce's ...
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