Dead heat

This week's award for timing goes to the University of Essex, whose press release about its involvement in the Alfa Latin American student exchange network (see above) coincided with a story in its Wyvern newsletter illustrating the career opportunities this opens. "Essex graduate assassinated," was the headline on a story that Fransisco Ruiz Massieu, murdered secretary general of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, spent the years from 1969 to 1971 studying politics at Essex.