On February 27th he took the one-hour hydrofoil ride to give a lecture at a university.

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Swedish authorities want to question him over claims that he raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August that year, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.

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When Wang Shu won the prize this past February, he was in Los Angeles, about to give a lecture at UCLA. Architect Neil Denari, a professor at the school and Wang's host, was with him that afternoon.

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When Boyden arrived at Georgia Tech in February to give a lecture in the "Young Innovators" series, his puffy North Face jacket, slightly tousled curly locks and frizzy beard contrasted with Forest's pressed suit, lilac collared shirt and short salt-and-pepper hair -- almost like an Apple vs.

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And so I sent him an email inviting him to give a guest lecture this spring.

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Sir Vincent had gone to the university near Ramallah to meet students and give a lecture.

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He seemed bemused by his transformation from loner to the man everyone wanted to speak to, and perhaps as a defence, he was absent-minded: he had only one lecture a year to give at Oxford, but sometimes he forgot to turn up.

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On one such morning the attendees were a bit tardy returning after the coffee break which led him to give an impromptu lecture on productivity and efficiency.

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