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Cambridge has more in common with Harvard than the house system and prefects. It also carries on a legendary rivalry with Oxford. Hundreds of thousands attended The Boat Race between the two nemeses, and the BBC estimated that 7.7 million people watched as Oxford won the closest Boat Race in history by just a foot...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crew Alums Compete In Wild England Boat Race | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...Tabitha G. Filney ’02 recently rolled into town for the first time since she left last fall for Oxford. “I don’t want to go anywhere where I might run into one of my exes,” she said. As such, Filney has been avoiding Adams House, Dunster House, Leverett House, Pforzheimer House, Mather House, the Spee, the Fly, the Owl, the Fox, Tommy’s Value, Redline, Daedalus, Charlie’s, Whitney’s, Darwin’s, Out-of-Town News, Grays East, the Lowell master?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

NAME Rageh Omaar (BBC) CALL HIM "Desert Fox" CREDENTIALS Oxford educated. Skin stays dewy fresh even under harsh desert conditions RATING: [4 microphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 2003 | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins writes: “It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who does not believe in evolution, that person is either ignorant, stupid, or insane...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: Confessions of a Skeptic | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Despite working as a humanities editor at Johns Hopkins University Press and Oxford University Press before taking over HUP, Sisler pushed the press to expand in the sciences. Regardless of field, Sisler says he is uncompromising in his dedication to publishing top-tier scholarship. “The number one thing is quality,” he says. “If you make $5 million a year and publish junk, that’s not fulfilling our mission. If we publish the best stuff we can find and come close to breaking even, that should be of value...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Kingmaker | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

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