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...turns out to have writing talent. He contributes scripts to the BBC and eventually publishes a collection of stories about India. Up to this point, aspects of Willie's life and early career are similar to those of Naipaul, a Trinidadian of Indian descent who took a degree at Oxford, worked for the BBC and wrote fiction. Unlike his protagonist, Naipaul learned everything about London and its ways...
...Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is no place for children, especially young girls. That's why Parvana, the 11-year-old heroine of Deborah Ellis' children's novel The Breadwinner (Oxford University Press; 170 pages), has to make a choice: remain a girl, a virtual prisoner like all the women of Afghanistan, or cut her hair and try to pass as a boy. Parvana becomes "Kaseem...
...resident of the small town of Oxford, in southwestern Connecticut, Lundgren was virtually housebound, a fact that has authorities extremely puzzled as to how she might have come in contact with the bacteria. Lundgren's local post office has tested negative for the spores, and relatives report the elderly woman rarely left her home except occasionally when her niece would drive her to church...
...religious hatred, the new “enlightened,” “scientific” anti-Semitism was a hatred of the Jews as a race. The old anti-Judaism was outdated; anti-Semitism allowed its adherents to hate the Jews in a modern way. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, anti-Semitism is “theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews...
...under a different category at Harvard than lecturer. Preceptors teach skill-based subjects such as math, music and language. They, according to Harvey, are in a slightly differently category than people who teach content-based curriculum, such as lecturers in History and Literature. The worlds authority on words, the Oxford English Dictionary, states in its infinite wisdom that a preceptor is one who instructs; a teacher, instructor, tutor. The question, then, is where to draw the line between skill and content. Harvey leaves that decision to the Dean...