Even the courteous elaborations of Robert Allcock, Hong Kong's meticulous solicitor-general, and the grandmotherly assurances of Elsie Leung, the justice secretary, could not dispel the impression that the government was not, as it claimed, consulting the public, but preparing it for the inevitable.On January 28th, however, the government brightened up.
Neither Philippa Fawcett, who in 1890 scored higher than any man in the mathematics tripos, nor Elsie Phare, who gained a starred first in English in the 1920s, gained degrees.
The secretary for justice, Elsie Leung Oi-sie, told legislators that she had sought mainland guidance over the case.
When private interests set public policy, democracy is very much at risk.MICHAEL CHAMBERSNew YorkRationing expectationSIR In your obituary of Elsie Widdowson (July 1st) you say: "The United States never had food rationing".
But the death on October 7th of Elsie Vaalbooi, aged about 100, saddened linguists.
Elsie Clews attended private schools and graduated from Barnard College (1896).
November 27, 1875 New York City, New York December 19 , 1941New York City, New York Elsie Clews Parsons, née Elsie Worthington Clews (born November 27, 1875, New York, New York, U.S. died December 19 , 1941 New York City) American sociologist and anthropologist whose studies of the Pueblo and other Native American peoples of the southwestern United States remain standard references.
The definitions are tight enough, the government says, that most journalists and dissidents should have nothing to fear.Ask, for instance, Elsie Leung, Hong Kong's justice secretary, about Falun Gong.
So it came as a small relief this week that the secretary for justice, Elsie Leung Oi-sie, who is usually considered well attuned to views in Beijing, said she had received no instructions to bring in anti-subversion laws.
Even spiritualists joined in criticizing Conan Doyle's article "The Evidence for Fairies," published in The Strand Magazine in 1921, and his subsequent book The Coming of the Fairies (1922), in which he voiced support for the claim that two young girls, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, had photographed actual fairies that they had seen in the Yorkshire village of Cottingley.
For me, it's Shearsmith who steals the show on this occasion, ahead of some excellent guest appearances from Skinner, Lorraine Ashbourne and Elsie Kelly as the dotty 'Nana' (whose travails with a tablet computer are wondrous).
