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"It was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one, which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth, as far as I'm concerned," he said.