Word: oxford
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...Harvard Summer School, in collaboration with the Office of International Programs (OIP), has branched out far and wide across the globe with its summer study abroad offerings. Fourteen programs, all of which are taught by the Harvard faculty, are being offered this year in locations such as Paris, Beijing, Oxford, and Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Venice will be the home of program offerings in economics and environmental science, while previously neglected science concentrators can head to Bonn to conduct life sciences research under the tutelage of Harvard faculty. We applaud the College for making progress in increasing not only the number...
...frustrated students everywhere waiting for that all-important Facebook message to load, the University is offering a helping hand. Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has joined with a group at Oxford University to launch StopBadware.org, a site that aims to eliminate spyware and other performance-inhibiting programs. “Badware,” according to the website, is a broad category that encompasses adware, spyware, and other malicious programs. The site will collect individuals’ stories of their battles with the electronic nemesis. “We hope this will...
...government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States. “He is one of the foremost thinkers and interpreters of Islam and the West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices...
...dress differ from the items you wear to class? Do you give equal consideration to both?GT: It’s about equal, yes. THC: So then, do you incorporate the stereotypical American Ivy League Professor uniform into your wardrobe? The tweed blazer with the suede elbow pads, the oxford open at the neck, the ill-fitting brown corduroys? Do you embrace this archetype or do you rebel against it?GT: I don’t own any of the items you just said.THC: So you’re rebelling! I mean, do you feel like it?...
...DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green...