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Chris Patten's always been a busy man: former chairman of Britain's Conservative Party, Governor of Hong Kong, Europe's External Relations Commissioner. At 61, he's in the House of Lords and chancellor of Oxford University. Now he's published Not Quite the Diplomat, a learned romp through...
Kanaan Jamil Ibrahim, supervising officer at a polling station in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Jadhriyah district said that "the day began quietly, because people are cautious about coming out. They are waiting and watching their TVs, for news of any violence or disturbance. Once they hear that voting is...
A professor at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has been awarded the George Eastman Professorship at the University of Oxford, a prestigious visiting professorship that allows “American scholars of the highest distinction” to lecture at Oxford for one year. Frederick Schauer, Stanton Professor of...
Through my addiction to perusing the entertainment blogosphere, I soon learned that “My Name is Earl” star Jason Lee was also sneaking into homes, ready to make pronouncements from under a glossy page. NBC, so worried that the whole network will shrivel up and die...
“I haven’t been using Lincoln to understand myself,” he says. “I’ve learned many things that are helpful to me, but they’ve all come from setting myself aside and looking at Lincoln on...