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American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

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At one end of the Parkway is the work of Calder’s grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, whose figure of William Penn crowns City Hall.

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We hope it will appreciate that biopharma is a crown jewel for the country in generating lifesaving medicines and vaccines, and innovation and jobs.

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Phil Baty, THE's chief global affairs officer, said there were "clear warning signals of serious decline for the UK's 'jewel in the crown' university sector".

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To some, the opportunity to be so close to some of the crowning achievements in aeronautics was personal.

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