Oliver has an acne problem.

Just remember that single acne spot that crippled you for several days.

Many people visited my grandmother, people with severe acne on their faces or warts on their hands.

We changed it to social diseases and people came along with acne and spots, but nobody came with VD any more.

That cancer recurred, and she passed away three years later from lung cancer, but she got three years from a drug whose symptoms predominately were acne.

From her, I learned, amongst many other things, one very precious lesson that if you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls.

To add to India s woes, Salman Khurshid, the country s bungling foreign minister, initially made light of the deepest Chinese incursion in more than a quarter century. The garrulous minister called the intrusion just one little spot of acne on the otherwise beautiful face of the bilateral relationship a mere blemish that could be treated with an ointment.