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...OXFORD, England??“Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but are you an American?” a young woman right behind me in line asked in a McDonald’s here in Oxford a few months ago, detecting my unmistakable American accent as I was ordering a large French fries. “Because I’m really so sorry about what happened on Sept. 11,” she continued, “and I want you to know that all of us here in Britain were absolutely...
Fitzpatrick received the Gold Helmet Award as New England??s Division I Player of the Week for his gritty display and is The Crimson’s Athlete of the Week...
...many Americans will not be familiar with the Commonwealth Games. How they could have missed out on the apparently premier sporting contest that pits, say, England??s international rugby sevens team against the mighty sides from Togo or the Cook Islands, is beyond...
...Commonwealth Games were an international irrelevance, yet they were viewed in Britain as a triumph. Never mind that England??s true national stadium in London remains an abandoned construction site as myriad committees blame each other for the project’s stagnation. The F.A. Cup, England??s main soccer competition, is forced to hold its final in a hastily converted rugby stadium—in Wales. (It is as if the Super Bowl always had to take place in the Skydome in Toronto.) But in a culture where mediocrity is expected?...
...year tenure as president transformed Harvard from a backwater seminary to an academy on par with England??s great universities at Oxford and Cambridge...