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...virulent, notions of identity and nationhood. But for just as many, such boundaries no longer signify anything. Sascha Pichler, 27, was born in Salzburg, Austria to parents of Austrian, Czech, Russian and Serb descent. She spent her childhood in Malaysia, the U.S., Portugal and Germany. After earning degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, she moved to Brussels. She rarely sits still: since January she has been to Paris, London, Nice, Milan and Vienna. "It's so automatic. You forget you're abroad and have to pay in a different currency," she says. "Your identity is constantly...
More than Boston, however, I am constantly surprised by Cambridge. When you walk away from the River, up one of the familiar signposts streets--Oxford, Garden, Cambridge--you enter into another world. One where real families live, where there are markets and laundromats, corner cafs and bars for locals, church services not overrun by Harvard sorts of concerns. There is character to this city of ours, and almost none of it mirrors the concerns of the Square...
Fans of irony circled March 6 on their calendars months ago. That was the day MICHAEL JACKSON lectured at Oxford University about the state of global childhood. During his half-hour talk, for which he arrived three hours late, the singer made reference to what he termed Generation O--"a generation that has everything on the outside...but an aching emptiness on the inside." Mostly Jackson used his time to paint a Hallmark Hall of Fame-style narrative of the emotional abuse heaped upon him by his father Joe. "I wanted a father who showed me love, and my father...
...Doors in concert. In 1994 my 17- and 21-year-old sons were playing my Doors tape all the time. Your illustration of the baby wearing Kiss-style makeup, holding up a cigarette lighter (nice touch), looks just like my granddaughter. What goes around comes around. DAVE CONWAY Oxford, Conn...
Born in Paris in 1929, Steiner emigrated to the United States with his family in 1940. Steiner, who went on to earn degrees from the University of Chicago, where he received his B.A. in 1948, Harvard University (M.A. 1950) and Oxford University (Ph.D. 1955), is currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge...