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Judging from his résumé, Tullman has had a ton of fun. A bureaucrat turned serial entrepreneur, Tullman began his career in the Office of Management and Budget of the Carter and Reagan administrations, then earned an advanced degree in social anthropology at Oxford. "Working in Washington was a great experience," he says. "But it also helped me understand that the problems we face in the country won't be solved there. They'll be solved locally, and business will have to play a critical role...
With his curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...
...recent article by Daniel Wenger (“The Rhodes and Harvard: Opportunity, Not Obligation,” op-ed, Mar. 16) discussed the complaints of two Harvard Rhodes Scholars. As someone who has taught at Oxford as a visiting professor twice in the past three years (and will again next year), I have to admit that some of the criticisms the students make about Oxford are accurate. If one is in a hurry to advance to a graduate degree, Oxford may not be the best choice. But that is not what the Rhodes experience should be about. Oxford, however...
...Oxford is a fascinating cosmopolitan intellectual location to search for answers. Speaking personally, I made friends from many continents, and the Rhodes experience profoundly shaped my life. There is always time to climb the ladder of professional success, but a chance to explore the important questions of life in a foreign setting is a rare opportunity. This controversy should not discourage Harvard students from applying...
...Harvard students are daily dazed by the unforgiving neon glow of modernity, and we need our reactionary refuge. And if we can’t recline in the storied pubs of Oxford or Cambridge, our coming college tavern mockup is as close as we?...