Part of the elite training of Oxford undergraduates involves learning to ignore the eccentricities of their tutors. Hence Mary Archer's ability - cited this week as an example of her extreme rationality under pressure - to continue giving an Oxford tutorial despite her waters breaking as she went into labour with her first child.
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