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Parietal rules had existed at Harvard and Radcliffe since time immemorial. In fact, the first listing for “parietal” in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from the 1837 Harvard College handbook. Not only were Harvard administrators the instigators behind this kind of thing, they of course had to design a fancy name for it. Only 30-some years ago, members of the opposite sex often were not allowed to be alone together inside a closed room, and gendered curfew was imposed at night. Radcliffe was stricter than Harvard—some dorms enforced a three-feet...
...like his hero, John Coltrane, but he believes that neither Big Boi nor his audience will tolerate it. There are other rifts as well. After his role in Hollywood Homicide, Andre wants to develop an acting career. And he refuses to tour. Instead, he would like to enroll at Oxford University. "I want to grow in ways I can't here," he says...
...RECOVERING. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, detained Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from major surgery; in a private hospital in Rangoon. The Oxford-educated Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado by Burma's military government since a mob attacked her and a group of supporters four months...
...daughter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan ... Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before. The prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player ... The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they...
Zewinski said LISE would fall under the same regulations for construction mitigation. He added that the project would not disrupt the traffic on Oxford Street...