When he came to give a talk at the college, the room was packed with business students of many nationalities who lapped up his observations on design and branding and bathed him in admiration and affection.
On these pages last week, Professor John Sutherland made some eccentric observations, including some about the government's plans for higher education, but he misrepresents what we value and how we will support that.
A number of studies have analyzed the observations, and recent changes in Earth's temperature, to say something about climate sensitivity.
They wrote: "The comparison between observation based estimates of [warming] … and model-based estimates is comparing apples and pears, as the models are calculating true global means, whereas the observations have limited coverage".
I was struck by the similarity between my grandfather's embassy-influenced observations from Mexico 85 years ago and those in the secret state department cables about Haiti, spanning April 2003 to February 2010, that Haïti Liberté has begun to analyse, thanks to WikiLeaks.
Krygier's observations were a bolt of lightning for me.
As a result, it declined to comment on his specific observations.
Carr has not backed away from the observations in Bob Carr: Diary of a Foreign Minister where he describes a bitter dispute with the then prime minister, Julia Gillard, in late 2012 over her insistence Australia should support Israel and vote against Palestinian observer status in the United Nations.
Before I inflict my various observations and prejudices on you this evening (yes, we will be Team Conchita all the way, I'm terribly sorry, in this time-delayed global celebration of ululation, impartiality really is for wimps) I thought I'd come to terms with why I'm a Eurovision tragic.
"These observations together with the documented incidents, very clearly and comprehensively demonstrate how prolonged immigration detention threatens the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of asylum seekers, particularly children".
But Kuznetsov told Icac he would often chat to Phillips and had drawn the conclusion from his observations in the office and in the media, not from any specific inside information.
