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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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Alan Clark
Age: 71 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 13
Died: 1999
Died: September 5
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Alan Kenneth MacKenzie Clark
Rt. Hon. Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark
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