Word: oxford
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tastes the weirdest stuff Food Network producers can find. In his new book, he appears to be doing more of the same while looking as fashionably ratty as ever. He sits on what one can presume to be a third-world stoop, wearing dingy travel slouch pants, a dirty Oxford shirt, and sandals, dangling a cigarette from his forefingers. Never in his wildest dreams could Emeril hope to look this appealing. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...have other sorts of travelers: Robert Byron, after his time at Eton and Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point—randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...
Construction was finally completed earlier this month on the colossal Oxford Street building that houses the science of the very small. By attracting accomplished scientists like Yacoby and fostering collaboration between the sciences, administrators hope that LISE will bring Harvard to the forefront of nanotechnology research...
...world to boast a miniature department where students learn the painstaking techniques that Mughal miniaturists employed, the college has produced a string of artists who are reinvigorating old forms with post-9/11 themes. Imran Qureshi, a professor of miniature at the NCA, has a solo show in Oxford's Modern Art museum, which includes his delicate rendering of a bearded mullah blowing bubbles. In 2003, Qureshi and five other NCA graduates collaborated on Karkhana, a set of miniature postcards decorated with gorgeous shows of power: thrusting missiles, cloven-hoofed mullahs, and Musharraf and Bush cast as Mughal emperors...
...year, the College came back with a vengeance, boasting six awardees. This year, three winners gave the Crimson a happy medium. Clara L. Blattler ’08, Sammy K. Sambu ’08, and Shayak Sarkar ’07 were awarded the prestigious full scholarships to Oxford University, which include in their criteria “literary and scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler, a resident of Brookline, Mass., has a resume that includes a Harvard record...