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With Supreme Injustice, scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this spring, Dershowitz said he is trying to reach not just an academic audience, but the common voter as well...
...Nonetheless, Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press; 298 pages), an oral history by May Holdsworth, isn't all eulogy. Rather than confine herself to the classic expats?the "merchants, ministers and mandarins," in her own phrase?Holdsworth casts her net beyond the Peak and allows her subjects to tell how radically expatriate Hong Kong changed, especially in the last 20 years of British rule. That was when a new class of expat arrived?lawyers, bankers, restaurateurs?who helped transform a far-flung colony into a cosmopolitan business center...
...recently-released numbers from the past year's admissions show that, for the first time since Oxford began recording such statistics, the school admitted a larger percentage of students from state-sponsored schools than from private schools...
According to statistics expected to be released this week, Oxford accepted 42.2 percent of state-sponsored school graduates, compared to 41.7 percent of graduates of independent schools...
When Spence's story hit newspapers throughout Europe last spring, it spurred a wave of negative publicity about Oxford's admissions policy...