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...student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that some people have been surprised that he “chose to study philosophy and not something more ‘practical...
...start yelling “Yankees Suck.” As one case in point, if one were to judge by student attendance at the wild rally after the Red Sox World Series victory, one would guess that something like 99.9 per cent of Harvard students hail from New England and, more than that, actually care about baseball...
...Beckham today is still a marquee name, but he's no longer a marquee player. Even at age 31, he's lost his place in the Real Madrid starting lineup and in England's national squad, and Real had announced they would not renew his contract in the summer. Indeed, skeptics have long suggested that Real had signed Beckham from Manchester in the first place less for his on-field ability than for his global glamour-icon status, which would help the team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather...
...short drive away is Mogadishu's only public library, a privately funded institution set up eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First...
...could not stop reading it," says Ali. "Even if there is no electricity, I read it with a torch. Dan Brown, he takes you to the Vatican, then to Egypt, then to England. When I finished, I phoned Ibrahim and I told him, 'Come now! I have something great...